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The final settlement of tlie estate of AicLi- 

 bald Henry Blount, of England, who some- 

 time ago made Yale University his residuary 

 legatee, shows that the university will receive 

 net from the estate the sum of $328,752. In 

 the settlement of the estate there has been 

 paid out $8,539 for the university's legal ex- 

 penses in the matter, and about $70,000 as an 

 inheritance tax to the English Government. 



The Ontario legislature has passed a reso- 

 lution permitting Toronto University to take 

 advantage of the Carnegie Foundation's pen- 

 sion fund. The legislature of Nebraska has 

 refused permission to the state university. 



It is announced that Columbia University 

 will establish a course in forestry leading to 

 the degree of forest engineer. The plan will 

 probably be put into effect next year though 

 the special work would not begin for two more 

 years. 



A BILL has been introduced in the New 

 York legislature amending the educational 

 law by providing for the establishment of a 

 State School of Sanitary Science and Public 

 Health at Cornell University. 



Three departments of Sibley College, Cor- 

 nell University — those of marine engineering, 

 naval architecture and railway mechanical 

 engineering — have been discontinued. This 

 action has been nearly coincident with the de- 

 parture from Cornell of the heads of two of 

 the departments. Professors C. C. Thomas 

 and H. Wade Hibbard. But these professors 

 did not go because their departments had been 

 or were to be abolished, nor was their depar- 

 ture the cause of the termination. 



The academy in Neuenburg, Switzerland, 

 is to become a university. 



The Egyptian government has in view the 

 establishment of a national university. The 

 theological students at Cairo have recently 

 petitioned for competent teachers of modem 

 science. 



At a recent meeting of the faculty of Wes- 

 leyan University, two committees were ap- 

 pointed to act with those of the trustees. One 

 in regard to the establishment of a separate 

 college for women has Professors Rice, Win- 



chester, Harrington, Nicolson and Bradley as 

 members; the other, which will help fix the 

 date of the inauguration of President Shank- 

 lin, consists of Professors Eice, Winchester 

 and Crawford. 



According to the UmscJiau there are this 

 semester 1077 regularly matriculated women 

 students in the German universities as com- 

 pared with 140 three years ago. 



At the meeting of the board of trustees of 

 Stanford University, on March 5, the follow- 

 ing promotions in rank to take effect with the 

 beginning of the academic year 1909-10 were 

 made: To the rank of professor: Frank Mace 

 McFarland, in histology; John Flesher New- 

 som, in mining; Harold Heath, in zoology; 

 Arthur Martin Cathcart and Wesley New- 

 comb Hohfeld, in law; James Farley McClel- 

 land, in mining engineering; Guido Hugo 

 Marx, in machine design; Henry Waldgrave 

 Stuart, in philosophy. To the rank of as- 

 sociate professor: Karl G. Eendtorff and Wil- 

 liam Alpha Cooper, in German; Lillian Jane 

 Martin, in psychology; Eaymond Macdonald 

 Alden, in English; William Eankine Eckart, 

 in mechanical engineering; Halcott Cad- 

 walader Moreno and Sidney Dean Townley, in 

 applied mathematics; Charles Andrews Hus- 

 ton and Joseph Walter Bingham, in law. 

 To the rank of assistant professor: Payson 

 Jackson Treat, in history; Mary Isabel Mc- 

 Cracken and Eennie Wilbur Doane, in ento- 

 mology; Walter Kenrick Fisher, in zoology; 

 James Pearce Mitchell, in chemistry; Leonas 

 Lancelot Burlingame, in botany. 



De. E. S. Woodworth, adjunct professor of 

 psychology in Columbia University, has been 

 promoted to a professorship of psychology. 

 Mr. H. H. Woodrow has been appointed tutor 

 in psychology at Barnard CoUege. 



Dr. Ludwig Messer, associate professor of 

 philosophy at Giessen, has accepted a call to 

 the University at Buenos Ayres. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 

 adulteration and the condition op analyt- 

 ical chemistry among the ancients 

 In an address of Mr. W. D. Eichardson pub- 

 lished in Science last year, attention is called 



