December 15, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



851 



and the American Museum of Natural History 

 by the late James Gaunt, American representa- 

 tive of A. & F. Pears, of London. The be- 

 quests are to be paid upon the death of Mr. 

 Gaunt's brother. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The Carnegie Corporation of New York has 

 appropriated $1,038,500 for the use of the 

 Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, according to 

 an announcement made at a meeting of the 

 board of trustees by Mr. Samuel H. Church, 

 the president. The Carnegie Institute of 

 Technology will receive $956,000, while $52,500 

 will be used for the improvement of the Mu- 

 seum of Pine Arts department and the Car- 

 negie Library School, and $30,000 for contin- 

 gent expenses. The appropriation makes the 

 total benefaction of Mr. Andrew Carnegie in 

 this connection $28,000,000. 



Mr. James A. Patten, vice-president of the 

 board of trustees of Northwestern University, 

 has made a gift of $134,000 to the university. 

 Of this sum $74,000 will be used as an endow- 

 ment for the gymnasium, of which Mr. Patten 

 is the donor, and $60,000 as a loan fund for 

 students. . 



It is announced from Swansea that Messrs. 

 Baldwins (limited) have given £10,000 to the 

 Technical College there for the endowment of 

 a chair of metallurgy. 



The Chemical Institute of the University of 

 Munster has recently been enlarged and has 

 received an endowment for research. The 

 Prussian parliament voted an appropriation 

 for the purchase of machinery, books and other 

 equipment and a number of metal and dynamic 

 firms have raised additional sums. 



The research departments of Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School are being transferred to the 

 new Hunterian Laboratory Building, located 

 at the corner of "Wolfe and Madison Streets. 

 The building is five stories in height, con- 

 structed of red brick with sandstone trimmings, 

 and will house the school library and all re- 

 search laboratories. 



The Case School of Applied Science has 

 arranged an extended course in illuminating 

 engineering with the cooperation of the Na- 

 tional Lamp Association, a branch of the Gen- 

 eral Electric Company, with its headquarters 

 in Cleveland. 



The building of the Indiana University 

 School of Medicine at Indianapolis was dam- 

 aged by fire on December 7, to the extent of 

 $50,000. A meeting of the trustees has been 

 called to decide whether it is advisable to re- 

 store the building or to erect a new building 

 on the grounds of the Bobert W. Long Hos- 

 pital, which is under the control of the uni- 

 versity. 



Additions to the instructing staff at the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology made 

 by the corporation at its last meeting con- 

 cerned very largely the new stations for the 

 course in chemical engineering practise. The 

 assistant professors and directors have already 

 been announced; their assistants, who have 

 the grade of instructors are: At Bangor, 

 Wilfred Arthur Wylde; at Everett, William 

 Butler Leach, Jr.; at Niagara Palls, Winthrop 

 Earle Caldwell; at Stamford, Edwin Shella- 

 barger Wallace, and at Allentown, Penna., 

 John Shirley Little. Other appointments are: 

 Prank C. Sheperd, lecturer on valuation of 

 public service and other corporations in the 

 department of civil engineering; Claire W. 

 Bicker and Budolph F. Zecha, instructors in 

 electrical engineering; Edmond W. Bowler, 

 research assistant in electrical engineering; 

 Azel W. Mack, research assistant in applied 

 chemistry, and Murray P. Horowitz, assistant 

 in biology. 



Dr. H. H. Lloyd is lecturing on physical 

 chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University, 

 temporarily filling the vacancy caused by the 

 death of Dr. Harry C. Jones. 



J. P. Wilson, formerly instructor in elec- 

 trical engineering at the University of Michi- 

 gan, has been appointed professor of electrical 

 engineering at Queen's University to take the 

 work of Professor L. W. Gill while the latter 

 is in active military service. 



