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water communication with the Lake of 

 Geneva is impracticable. A Paris company 

 has made proposals to the French Government 

 for the construction of a barrage across the 

 Rhone below Bellegarde, forming above stream 

 a reach of 14 miles to the lake, and down- 

 stream a waterfall which it is estimated would 

 yield 100,000 horsepower for transmission to 

 Paris. The company further offers to con- 

 struct the necessary facilities to enable vessels 

 to pass through the dam. In this way naviga- 

 tion would be opened direct with Geneva. 

 Associated with this project is one for the 

 construction of a canal from Lyons to Aries. 

 This canal would be 170 miles long, and would 

 cost about $120,000,000, and it is understood 

 that the municipality of Marseilles is consid- 

 ering the advisability of connecting this canal 

 with that town by another canal to cost 

 $16,000,000. If this scheme were put into ex- 

 ecution Lyons, Marseilles and the Rhine would 

 be placed in direct communication by means 

 of the Rhone-Rhine Canal. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



By the will of the late Grace M. Kuhn, 

 widow of Hartman Kuhn, of Philadelphia, 

 recently filed for probate in the Berkshire 

 courts. Harvard University receives $175,000 

 to endow a department of biological chem- 

 istry in the memory of a son, Hartman Kuhn, 

 who died several years ago. 



The general council of Louisville has passed 

 an ordinance which has been signed by the 

 mayor, appropriating $25,000 from the general 

 purpose fund for 1908, for the use of the 

 MecKcal Department of the University of 

 Louisville. The money is to be expended for 

 laboratory equipment for the consolidated 

 medical schools. 



Mk. Jacob Sassoon has given about $330,000 

 to establish a central college of science in 

 Bombay. 



Dr. Henry Julian Hunter has left $70,000 

 to Sheffield University. 



Statistics just compiled at the University 

 of Wisconsin show that 417 graduates and 

 former students have this year received ap- 

 pointments to the faculties of universities, 



colleges, normal schools, academies and high 

 schools, or as superintendents of schools in 

 29 states and 7 foreign countries. Of the 

 total number, 116 received appointments to 

 the faculties of colleges and universities; 250 

 were appointed high school principals or 

 teachers and superintendents of schools; 14 

 were appointed as instructors in normal 

 schools; and 7 were appointed to college and 

 normal schools in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philip- 

 pines, Japan, Argentine Republic and Canada. 

 Among the colleges and universities to the 

 faculties of which university graduates were 

 appointed this year are: Cornell, the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, 

 Amherst, Dartmouth, Stanford University, the 

 University of California, Northwestern Uni- 

 versity, the state universities of Michigan, 

 Georgia, Nebraska, Utah, Hlinois, Idaho, 

 Indiana, South Carolina, Oregon, Iowa, Ken- 

 tucky, Minnesota, Kansas, Washington, Ten- 

 nessee and Missouri, and the state agricul- 

 tural colleges of Massachusetts, Georgia, 

 Kansas, Oregon, Minnesota, Michigan, Mis- 

 souri and Iowa. 



It is understood that Dr. James R. AngeH, 

 professor of psychology in the University of 

 Chicago, has declined the presidency of Dart- 

 mouth College. 



Henry Asbury Christian, A.B. (Randolph- 

 Macon '95), M.D. (Johns Hopkins '00), 

 Hersey professor of the theory and practise 

 of physic at Harvard University, has been ap- 

 pointed dean of the medical school. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd wiU fill the 

 chair of botany in the Alabama Polytechnic 

 Institute after November first. During the 

 past year he has been engaged with the Con- 

 tinental Mexican Rubber Company in the in- 

 vestigation of possible methods for the growth 

 of the Mexican desert rubber plant, Par- 

 ihenium argentatum A. Gray, under condi- 

 tions of cultivation. 



At Cornell College, Iowa, Mr. Layton 

 ..Gouldin has been appointed assistant in chem- 

 istry, C. W. Lounsberry in engineering, and 

 E. K. Mapes, in physics. -> 



At Bryn Mawr College Mr. Chester A. 

 Reeds who, until recently, has held a position 



