May 31, 1912] 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
Mr. Crarence H. Mackay and his mother, 
Mrs. John W. Mackay, have given $150,000 to 
the University of Nevada, making their total 
gifts $400,000. 
ALLEGHENY CoLLecE has completed the rais- 
ing of $400,000 thereby securing the $100,000 
conditional gift of the General Education 
Board. This makes the total productive en- 
dowment of the college $1,025,000. At the 
same time $20,000 has been given for a new 
athletic field, $20,000 to pay a deficit in run- 
ning expenses and $60,000 as an endowment 
fund which is not immediately productive. 
President Crawford stated in his announce- 
ment on the completion of the fund, that the 
immediate results would be the addition of 
two new assistant professors and several new 
instructors to the faculty and the giving of 
an additional income to the library. 
THE corner-stone of the new $125,000 
School of Commerce building of the Univer- 
sity of Illinois, was laid on Tuesday, May 21. 
A special university convocation was held in 
the auditorium at 4 p.m. Addresses were 
given by Governor Charles S. Deneen, of 
Illinois; President E. J. James, of the Uni- 
versity; Dean David Kinley, director of the 
Course of Commerce; President W. L. Abbott, 
of the board of trustees, and others.. In ad- 
dition to the usual subjects taught, such as 
insurance, public finance, business organiza- 
tion and economics, ete., the school will give 
courses in shop and factory organization and 
management. 
Dr. C. A. Duntway, whose term of office as 
president in the University of Montana, was, 
as readers of ScimNce will remember, termi- 
nated by the regents, has been elected presi- 
dent of the University of Wyoming. The 
University of Wyoming has about twice the 
income of the University of Montana. 
Dr. ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN, professor of 
philosophy and dean of the faculty of Brown 
University; has been elected president of Am- 
herst College. 
Proressor B. M. Ducear, of Cornell Uni- 
versity, has been elected to fill the professor- 
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ship of plant physiology and applied botany in 
Washington University, vacated by Dr. 
George T. Moore in accepting the director- 
ship of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 
Mr. Reynotp K. Youne (A.B., Toronto, 
09), for the past three years fellow in Lick 
Observatory, has been appointed instructor in 
astronomy and physics in the University of 
Kansas. Mr. Young takes his doctor’s degree 
from the University of California in June. 
Mr. AnsEL F. Hemenway, of the Univer- 
sity of Chicago, has been appointed pro- 
fessor of biology and geology in Transylvania 
University, Lexington, Ky., to succeed Pro- 
fessor Charles A. Shull who has recently re- 
signed. 
Proressor J. K. H. Ineuis, of University 
College, Reading, has been elected professor 
of chemistry at Dunedin University College, 
New Zealand. 
Dr. Ricuarp Gans, docent for physics at 
Strasburg, has been elected professor of ex- 
perimental physics at the University of La 
Plata. 
Mr. James Henprtor, lecturer in chemistry 
at Aberdeen Agricultural College, has been 
appointed professor of agriculture in the uni- 
versity. 
Dr. Hermann Bravus has been promoted 
to be full professor and director of the ana- 
tomical laboratory at Heidelberg. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
THE WHITE-TAILED DEER OF MICHIGAN 
Two white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virgin- 
janus Bodd. and O. v. borealis Miller, are 
said to occur in Michigan. The northern 
form (variety borealis) is still abundant in 
the northern peninsula, and numerous speci- 
mens from that region are in the University 
of Michigan Museum of Natural History. 
But unfortunately in the southern peninsula 
the deer have become nearly exterminated, 
and as apparently but very few specimens or 
sufficiently careful descriptions of specimens 
