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SCIENCE 



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A VALUABLE collection of 117 Hawaiian birds 

 has been presented to the University of Cali- 

 fornia by Miss Annie M. Alexander, for in- 

 clusion in the California Museum of Verte- 

 brate Zoology. The clearing of forest lands 

 for cultivation in the Hawaiian Islands has 

 resulted in the entire extinction of some of the 

 species represented, so the collection is espe- 

 cially important. 



UmVEBSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The late Mr. C. D. Borden, of New York 

 City, has bequeathed $250,000 to Tale Univer- 

 sity, from which he graduated in 1864. The 

 clause in his will reads : " I make this bequest 

 without any restrictions, as I have long been 

 of the opinion that the said corporation did 

 not have sufficient funds to provide adequately 

 for its general expenses and especially for 

 proper payment of its instructors." 



Mr. John Armstrong Challoner has con- 

 veyed his property in trust, making the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia and the University of 

 Carolina his residuary legatees, and giving 

 $10,000 to each of nine other educational 

 institutions. 



Lord Haldane has opened the new Harri- 

 son-Hughes Engineering Laboratories at Liv- 

 erpool University, erected by a gift of about 

 £40,000 from Mr. T. F. Harrison, Mr. J. W. 

 Hughes and Mr. Heath Harrison, the Liver- 

 pool shipowners. 



It has been decided to establish a chair of 

 agriculture in the University of Queensland, 

 toward which Mr. Eobert Philp has offered to 

 give £1,400 and Mr. E. M. Christison £1,000. 



Mr. Walter Morrison, of Baliol College, 

 has given £10,000 to Oxford University for the 

 promotion of the study of agriculture. 



The late Dr. A. "W. Verrall, King Edward 

 VII. professor of English literature at Cam- 

 bridge, left, subject to the life interest of his 

 wife, £1,000 to the university absolutely, and 

 £1,000 to Trinity College absolutely. 



An addition is being made to the Agricul- 

 tural Building of the University of Illinois by 

 enclosing the court. The structure will be 

 only one story high and will have cement 



floors. It will provide reading room, class 

 rooms, museum, etc. 



The Medical School of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, celebrated the bicentennial of its 

 foundation on July 5. Seventy-eight ad- 

 dresses were presented by delegates from other 

 institutions. 



Dr. Egbert Sharp, dean of the graduate 

 department of Tulane University, has been 

 elected acting president of the university, suc- 

 ceeding Dr. Edwin B. Craighead, who recently 

 resigned to become president of the University 

 of Montana. 



Dr. William Pepper, professor of clinical 

 pathology at the University of Pennsylvania, 

 son of the former provost of the university, 

 has been appointed dean of the Medical De- 

 partment, to succeed Dr. Allen J. Smith, re- 

 signed. Dr. Smith will remain professor of 

 pathology, comparative pathology and tropical 

 medicine. 



Dr. Thomas F. Hunt, director of the School 

 of Agriculture of the Pennsylvania State Col- 

 lege, has been appointed to succeed Dr. E. J. 

 Erickson, dean of the College of Agriculture 

 of the University of California. 



Dr. Arthur I. Kendall, Boston, has been 

 placed in charge of the research work on tu- 

 berculosis in Northwestern University, the 

 chair for which was recently endowed with 

 $250,000 by James A. Patten, Evanston, 111. 



E. N. Zern, recently professor of coal 

 mining at the University of Pittsburgh, has 

 been appointed professor of mining at West 

 Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va. 



Ansel E. Hemenway, of the University of 

 Chicago, has been appointed professor of biol- 

 ogy and geology at Transylvania University, 

 Lexington, Ky. 



Dr. Otto Glaser has been promoted from 

 an assistant professorship in zoology to the 

 rank of junior professor at the University of 

 Michigan, and has been granted $275 for 

 equipment for his studies on the energetics of 

 embryogenesis. 



The following appointments have recently 

 been made to the faculty of the College of 

 Agriculture, University of Porto Eico : Mr. C. 



