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tion between the Federal Survey and the state 

 of California. 



We learn from Nature that it is proposed to 

 celebrate the centenary of the foundation of 

 the Indian Museum in Calcutta next Febru- 

 ary. Originally founded as a branch of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal at the suggestion of 

 Wallich, the botanist, on February 2, 1814, 

 the Indian Museum became a government in- 

 stitution in 1867, after prolonged negotiations 

 with the government of India, which accepted 

 the society's collections to form the nucleus 

 of an imperial museum in Calcutta. A cen- 

 tenary committee has been formed with Lord 

 Carmichael, the governor of Bengal, as chair- 

 man, and Sir Asutosh, Mookerjee, vice-chan- 

 cellor of the Calcutta University, as vice- 

 chairman. The committee has decided to 

 publish an official history of the museum, to 

 raise a special fund for the improvement of 

 the public galleries, and to hold a reception 

 in the museum on the anniversary of its 

 foundation. 



UNIVEESITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The General Education Board at its May 

 meeting made appropriations of $837,600. 

 Conditional appropriations for colleges are as 

 follows : 



John B. Stetson University, Deland, Fla. $ 50,000 

 Northwestern University, Evanston, 111. . 100,000 



Pomona College, Claremont, Cal 150,000 



Union College, Schenectady, N. Y 75,000 



Williams College, Williamstown, Mass . . 100,000 

 Appropriations for special purposes are as fol- 

 lows: 



For demonstration work in agriculture in 

 the southern states, which include the 

 boys ' corn club work 180,050 



For the promotion of girls ' canning and 



poultry clubs throughout the south . . . 75,000 



For agricultural demonstration work in 



five counties of Maine 14,500 



For the beginning of agricultural demon- 

 stration work in New Hampshire .... 7,500 



For professors of secondary education in 

 the several state universities of the 

 southern states 30,550 



For state supervisors of negro schools in 



several southern states 20,000 



Schools for negro students in the south . 35,000 



A NEW chair of bacteriology is to be 

 founded in Edinburgh University under a be- 

 quest from Mr. Robert Irvine, of Eoyston, 

 Granton. Nature states that at his death, 

 eleven years ago, Mr. Irvine bequeathed 2-30 

 shares of £10 each in a company for develop- 

 ing the resources of Christmas Island for the 

 purpose of establishing the chair when the in- 

 terest from the shares should reach £25,000 or 

 £30,000. The accumulated dividends on these 

 shares now reach more than £30,000. It is 

 understood that £25,000 will go towards the 

 maintenance of the professorship, and that the 

 remaining £5,000 will be used in providing the 

 class-rooms, laboratories and the necessary 

 equipment. 



Dr. p. M. Dawson, a graduate of Johns 

 Hopkins University, and of its medical school, 

 and for eleven years a member of its physi- 

 ological staff, has been appointed instructor in 

 physiology at the University of Wisconsin 

 Medical School. 



The following promotions and new appoint- 

 ments have been made in the Stanford Uni- 

 versity Medical Department: Dr. Thomas 

 Addis has been promoted to associate pro- 

 fessor of medicine. Dr. E. C. Dickson and 

 Dr. W. W. Boardman have been made as- 

 sistant professors of medicine; Dr. Leo Eloes- 

 ser and Dr. F. E. Blaisdell have been made 

 assistant professors of surgery. Dr. E. G. 

 Brodrick, of the San Francisco Board of 

 Health, has been appointed assistant clinical 

 professor of hygiene and public health. In 

 the division of medicine Dr. W. F. Schaller 

 has been made assistant clinical professor, 

 assigned to neurology, and Dr. J. M. Wolf- 

 sohn, clinical instructor, assigned to neurol- 

 ogy. Dr. A. A. O'lSTeill has been promoted to 

 clinical instructor in medicine and Dr. G. A. 

 Eothganger has been appointed instructor in 

 surgery. 



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