October 19, :917] 



SCIENCE 



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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



By the will of Mrs. E. D. Denning, of ISTor- 

 wood, London, who left an estate of the gross 

 value of £167,719, there is bequeathed " to the 

 Public Trustee all her freehold property in 

 trust for a ' Frank Denning Memorial ' for the 

 advancement and propagation of education in 

 mechanical science in any part of the United 

 Kingdom, with preference to those persons 

 who reside in the Borough of Croydon." 



English exchanges report that Lord Lovat, 

 Mr. Otto Beit and Mr. Eudyard Kipling have 

 accepted the positions of trustees under the 

 will of the late Mr. Cecil Rhodes in succession 

 to Lord Rosebery and Sir Lewis Mitchell, who 

 resigned recently, and of the late Earl Grey, 

 who had resigned shortly before his death. 

 The trustees have decided to allot the four new 

 scholarships created in substitution for the 

 scholarships formerly held by Germans to the 

 provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, to the 

 Transvaal, to the Orange Eree State and alter- 

 nately to the towns of Kimberley and Port 

 Elizabeth in the Cape Province. As Alberta 

 and Saskatchewan have hitherto had one schol- 

 arship between them, the effect of this decision 

 will be that each of these provinces will now 

 have a scholarship. The trustees have decided 

 not to make any appointments to any scholar- 

 ships this year, either in the United States or 

 in any part of the British empire, although the 

 qualifying examinations in the United States 

 will be held as already arranged. This de- 

 cision is based upon the fact that as all candi- 

 dates must be men of military age it would 

 not be in accordance with the spirit of the 

 testator's design if young men who first re- 

 sponded to the call of patriotism were to be 

 penalized for having done so. Any candidate 

 who is eligible this year will be equally quali- 

 fied for election next year. 



iN'o successor to the late Professor "Wm. Bul- 

 lock Clark will be appointed at the Johns Hop- 

 kins University. The geological department 

 has been reorganized on a committee basis with 

 Professor Edward Bennett Mathews as chair- 

 man and Associate Professor J. T. Singewald, 

 Jr., as secretary. The instruction formerly 

 given by Professor Clark has been divided 



among the geological faculty. Professor Ed- 

 ward W. Berry taking his work in paleontol- 

 ogy and historical geology. 



At Pennsylvania State College, David Allen 

 Anderson has been chosen professor of educa- 

 tion and head of the department of education 

 and psychology. Dr. Anderson was previously 

 associate professor of education in the Univer- 

 sity of Washington. 



Professor George B. McNair is acting head 

 of the department of electrical engineering of 

 Colorado College during the absence of Pro- 

 fessor George B. Thomas. 



Dr. William Shiner, superintendent of the 

 pathological laboratory of the Indiana State 

 Board of Health, has been offered the pro- 

 fessorship of pathology in the University of 

 Texas. 



Dr. Samuel A. Matthews, professor of 

 physiology and experimental pharmacology in 

 the University of Kansas, Topeka and Law- 

 rence, has accepted the similar chair in the 

 University of Alabama, Mobile. 



Dr. Francis M. Van Tuyl, formerly in- 

 structor of geology in the University of Illi- 

 nois, has recently been appointed an assistant 

 professor in the Colorado School of Mines, at 

 Golden. 



Bernard A. Chandler, of the Vermont Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant professor of forest utilization 

 in the department of forestry of Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 



W. G. Brierley, chairman of the division of 

 horticulture, department of agriculture. Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, has been promoted to the 

 rank of associate professor. 



Dr. Florence Peebles, professor of biology 

 at Newcomb College, Tulane University, has 

 been appointed associate professor of physiol- 

 ogy at Bryn Mawr College. 



Dr. J. LuciEN Morris, formerly associate 

 in biological chemistry at the Washington Uni- 

 versity Medical School, has accepted the posi- 

 tion of associate in physiological chemistry at 

 the college of medicine, University of Hlinois. 



A chair of tuberculosis has been instituted 

 by the Edinburgh University Court, and Sir 



