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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVIII. No. 706 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 An arrangement has recently been efFeetfid 

 by means of which the University of Buffalo 

 has acquired from Erie County, N. T., one 

 hundred and four acres of land to be used 

 for university purposes. The tract is at the 

 summit of the limestone ridge at the northern 

 edge of the city, adjacent to the country club. 

 The Medical Department of the University 

 of Buffalo was founded in 1846 and three 

 other professional schools have been organ- 

 ized since that time. The need for an aca- 

 demic department has long been felt and its 

 organization now seems in a fair way to be 

 accomplished. The land above mentioned will 

 be devoted to that purpose. 



Dr. William Edwaed Wilson, F.E.S., of 

 Daramonahouse, county Westmeath, who died 

 on March 6, leaving personalty valued at 

 £50,121, bequeathed his philosophical and sci- 

 entific instruments to Trinity College, Dublin, 

 for use in the physical laboratory, and his 

 telescope and its machinery to the Eadcliffe 

 Observatory at Osford. 



Me. Charles Edwin Layton, of London, has 

 made a large niunber of public bequests, in- 

 eluding $30,000 to King's College, London, for 

 scholarships to be awarded to those who show 

 the best promise of genius and aptitude in 

 original scientific work. 



The trustees of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College have recently established a new 

 department of hygiene and physical culture. 

 Percy L. Reynolds, M.D., has been placed in 

 charge of the department. Dr. R. D. Mac- 

 Laurin, research chemist at the esperiment 

 station, has been elected lecturer of organic 

 chemistry in the college. 



De. H. J. Davenpoet, assistant professor 

 of economics in the University of Chicago, 

 has been appointed professor of economics in 

 the University of Missouri. 



Dr. Harvey Care, professor of psychology 

 in the Pratt Institute, will succeed Dr. J. B. 

 Watson (professor-elect in Johns Hopkins 

 University) as assistant professor of psychol- 

 ogy in the University of Chicago. Dr. Carr 

 will have charge of the work in comparative 



psychology and will share in the conduct of 

 the general experimental courses. 



De. Claeence S. Yoakum, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has been appointed in- 

 structor in psychology at the University of 

 Texas. 



De. Victor E. Emmel, Austin teaching fel- 

 low in embryology and histology. Harvard 

 Medical School, has accepted the appointment 

 of instructor in histology and embryology in 

 the Medical Department of Washington Uni- 

 versity, St. Louis, Mo. 



At the Indiana University the following 

 promotions have been made : Erom junior pro- 

 fessor to professor, Wm. A. Rawles, Ph.D. 

 (Columbia), economics and political science; 

 S. C. Davisson, Se.D. (Tiibingen), and D. A. 

 Rothrock, Ph.D. (Leipzig), mathematics; W. 

 G. Moenkhaus, Ph.D. (Chicago), physiology; 

 L. S. Davis, Ph.D. (Marburg), chemistry; A. 

 G. Pohlman, M.D. (Buffalo Med. Col.), 

 anatomy; W. R. Alburger, M.D. (Pennsyl- 

 vania), pathology. W. A. Cogshall was pro- 

 moted from assistant professor to associate 

 professor of astronomy, and Dr. Charles 

 Heseman from instructor to assistant pro- 

 fessor of mathematics. 



Dr. Wahrmund, professor of canon law 

 at Innsbruck University, whose pamphlets 

 criticizing Catholic dogmas led to a demand 

 from the Papal Nuncio for his removal, and 

 whose recent attempt to resume his lectures 

 caused the closing of the university, has been 

 transferred in a similar capacity to the Ger- 

 man University at Prague. 



Professor P. Schiefferdecker has been 

 named the director of a new subdivision of the 

 Anatomical Institute in Bonn. 



At Cambridge Dr. Anderson has been ap- 

 pointed university lecturer in physiology; Mr. 

 F. H. A. Marshall, M.A., Christ's, university 

 lecturer in agricultural physiology; Mr. C. G. 

 Lamb, M.A., Clare, university lecturer in 

 electrical engineering, and Mr. C. E. Inglis, 

 M.A., King's, university lecturer in mechan- 

 ical engineering, all for five years. 



Mr. H. J. Mackindee, M.A., who has re- 

 signed the office of director of the London 



