Mat 7, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



735 



lected by Mr. Gregory nearly fifty years ago, 

 when he was a student at a theological sem- 

 inary in South Carolina. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The University of Washington, Seattle, 

 will receive by appropriation of the state leg- 

 islature the sum of $673,000 for maintenance, 

 for the biennium, 1909-11. Four permanent 

 brick structures : an auditorium, a chemical 

 laboratory, an engineering building, a power 

 plant ; and two semi-permanent structures : a 

 library and forestry building will lapse to the 

 university after being used by the Alaska- 

 Yukon-Pacifie Exposition, this summer. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie, in commemoration 

 of twenty-five years' work in bacteriology and 

 pathology done by the Carnegie Medical Lab- 

 oratory of New York University, has given 

 $75,000 to the school. The money will be 

 applied to the extension of the present Car- 

 negie Laboratory building by an addition to 

 it, which will face on First Avenue, the pres- 

 ent building fronting on East Twenty-sixth 

 street. 



The legislature of Nebraska in its recent 

 session appropriated $20,000 for the purchase 

 of a new site in Omaha for the college of 

 medicine of the University of Nebraska. The 

 citizens of Omaha are to erect the build- 

 ings on the site thus obtained. The hall 

 of mechanical engineering of the univer- 

 sity is approaching completion and will be 

 ready for occupancy in September. At a 

 recent meeting of the regents the sum of $50,- 

 000 was set aside for equipment. The regents 

 are taking steps to locate two additional ex- 

 periment sub-stations, as provided by the 

 recent legislature. One of these is to be in 

 the " Sandhill Eegion " of central Nebraska, 

 and the other in the " Irrigation Eegion " of 

 the western part of the state. They are con- 

 templating considerable additions to the cam- 

 pus by the purchase of adjacent property. 

 This has been made necessary by the present 

 overcrowded condition of the campus. The 

 tuition fees hitherto required of graduate stu- 

 dents who are not residents of the state have 

 been abolished. 



The Boston Evening Transcript states that 

 plans are maturing for the establishment of a 

 medical school in China. The promoters are 

 Harvard men who intend to go to China at 

 the expiration of their hospital appointments, 

 having definite invitations from his excel- 

 lency the viceroy of the Kiang Soo province. 

 An endowment fund will be raised to be held 

 by a board of trustees in this country, incor- 

 porated to direct the financial afFairs of the 

 institution. President Charles W. Eliot, of 

 Harvard, has consented to serve as chairman 

 of this board, and his associate trustees will 

 be Dr. H. P. Walcott, Dr. A. T. Cabot, Dr. 

 W. T. Councilman, Dr. W. B. Cannon, Dean 

 H. A. Christian and Professor E. C. Moore. 

 These are the men who intend to go: Drs. J. 

 P. Leake, W. S. Whittemore, W. H. Hitlner,. 

 L Hartshorn, C. C. Haskell, M. R. Edwards, 

 A. L. Patch, A. M. Dunlap, G. P. Gaunt and 

 C. A. Hedblom. 



A DESPATCH from Denver to the daily papers 

 says : " DifiFerences between the members of the 

 faculty and the board of trustees of West- 

 minster University, Denver, Col., a Presby- 

 terian institution, arising out of a general 

 reduction of instructors' salaries, have re- 

 sulted in the dismissal of President Joseph L. 

 Weaver and the entire faculty. The reduc- 

 tion caused President Weaver and the faculty 

 to bring suit for back pay, and the dismissal 

 followed." 



Dr. William A. Shanklin will be inaugu- 

 rated as president of Wesleyan University on 

 October 29. He will, however, assume the 

 duties of the ofiice after the close of the pres- 

 ent academic year. 



Dr. Charles E. Bessey, who has been for 

 many years the dean of the industrial college 

 of the University of Nebraska, has been pro- 

 moted to be head dean of the university. He 

 is chairman of the board of deans, and be- 

 comes the acting chancellor whenever the 

 chancellor is absent or indisposed. 



Mr. C. T. Brues, curator of invertebrate 

 zoology in the Milwaukee Public Museum, 

 Milwaukee, Wis., has been appointed instruc- 

 tor in economic entomology at the Bussey In- 

 stitution of Harvard University. 



