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nebulae discovered on the negatives, and new 

 determinations of the positions of the nebulse 

 previously known in the regions of the sky 

 covered. It is hoped that the regular corre- 

 spondents of the Lick Observatory can be sup- 

 plied promptly with copies. The cost of the 

 volume has been unusually high on account of 

 the expensive processes and materials em- 

 ployed. There are 71 full-page heliogravure 

 reproductions, printed by hand press on suit- 

 able paper. 



The Cleveland Chemical Society has organ- 

 ized itself into a local section of the Amer- 

 ican Chemical Society with the following 

 officers: President, Franklin T. Jones; Secre- 

 tary, Sherley P. Nevrton; Board of Managers, 

 H. V. Amy, W. E. Veazey, president and 

 secretary ex-officio; Councilor, C. T. Mabery. 

 A charter has also been granted for the forma- 

 tion of a section of the American Chemical 

 Society comprising the western portion of the 

 state of Washington with headquarters at 

 Seattle. 



At the recent meeting of the Southern So- 

 ciety for Philosophy and Psychology, held at 

 the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 

 Md., the following officers were elected for 

 1909: President, Professor Albert Lefevre, 

 University of Virginia; Vice-president, Dr. 

 Shepherd Ivory Pranz, Government Hospital 

 for the Insane, Washington, D. C. ; Secretary- 

 treasurer, Professor Edward Franklin Buch- 

 ner, Johns Hopkins University. To serve 

 three years as members of the council: Pro- 

 fessor James Franklin Messenger, State Nor- 

 mal School, FarmviUe, Va. ; Professor Robert 

 Morris Ogden, University of Tennessee. 

 Other members of the council are: Dr. Wil- 

 liam Torrey Harris, Washington, D. C. ; Pres- 

 ident D. B. Purinton, West Virginia Univer- 

 sity; Professor James Mark Baldwin, Johns 

 Hopkins University; Principal Reuben Post 

 Halleck, Louisville, Ky. 



UNIVEB8ITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Mrs. Esther Gowen Hood has given the 

 University of Pennsylvania $100,000 to estab- 



lish graduate fellowships in the law depart- 

 ment. The gift is a memorial to her father, 

 the late Franklin B. Gowen. 



Mr. Adolphus Busch, who last August 

 promised to contribute $50,000 towards the 

 $300,000 necessary for the erection of the new 

 building for the Germanic Museum at Har- 

 vard University, has increased his gift to 

 $100,000. 



The General Education Board has offered 

 to give Bryn Mawr College $250,000 on con- 

 dition that friends of the college subscribe 

 $280,000 by June, 1910. This is in addition 

 to the $100,000 recently given by the alumnse. 

 Of this sum $130,000 is to be used to pay the 

 debt of the college, and the balance is to be 

 reserved as an endowment fund. 



The building for the new California Mu- 

 seum of Vertebrate Zoology, at the University 

 of California, is now under construction. Its 

 cost, which is to be about $14,000, is to be 

 met in part by the regents' appropriation of 

 $7,000, and in part by an arrangement with 

 Miss Annie Alexander, the patron of this new 

 department, whereby she adds $7,000 with the 

 provision that her annual grant for mainten- 

 ance for the next seven years shall be $6,000 

 instead of $7,000, as at first proposed by her. 



The regents of the University of Colorado 

 have authorized the establishment of a sum- 

 mer laboratory for botany and zoology at 

 ToUand, Colo., altitude 8,889 feet. The labo- 

 ratory will be in charge of the regular in- 

 structing staff of the university, and there will 

 be courses in elementary biology, plant anat- 

 omy, plant taxonomy and ecology. The loca- 

 tion of the laboratory is such that students can 

 study the plants and animals of all the dif- 

 ferent life zones from plains to alpine heights. 

 Work done at the laboratory will count toward 

 a degree in the university. 



Dr. Fairbairn, who will retire from the 

 principalship of Mansfield College, Oxford, at 

 Easter, has given to the college his valuable 

 theological and philosophical library. 



Dr. E. a. Noble was installed as president 

 of the Woman's College of Baltimore on Feb- 

 ruary 2, when addresses were delivered by 



