November 29, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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In place of the large rectangular annex 

 to the Kotunda, built in 1852 for the ac- 

 comodation of the growing classes of the 

 Universitj', a number of isolated structures 

 will be erected. They are to be a general 

 academical building costing $90,000, a 

 physical laboratory costing $30,000, a 

 building for mechanics and engineering 

 costing $30,000, and a building for the 

 law school costing $20,000. Governor 

 O'Ferrall has promised to recommend in 

 his message to the State Legislature a 

 prompt and liberal appropriation to repair 

 the losses of the school, and it is hoped 

 that $200,000 will be received from this 

 source. Friends of the University and of 

 Education are urged to contribute liber- 

 ally to the rebuilding and enlargement of 

 the University. 



David J. Hill, President of the Univer- 

 sity of Rochester, has resigned. The action 

 is said to be on account of the opposition to 

 him manifested bj^ conservative Baptists 

 who have not favored his liberal views and 

 management of the University. 



At its last biennial session the Legisla- 

 ture of Minnesota appropriated $10,000 for 

 the erection of a Students' Observatory at 

 the University of Minnesota. The building 

 is already under roof and is promised for 

 use by the first of January. The equip- 

 ment will include a ten-inch equatorial of 

 150 inches focal length. This instrument 

 is to have three objectives, one combination 

 of which forms the visual telescopic objec- 

 tive and another the photographic Objective. 

 There are also three eye pieces of different 

 magnifying powers, a filar micrometer and 

 a driving clock. Two reading microscopes 

 are provided for reading the declination 

 circles, and the guiding telescope is of four- 

 inch aperture. A spectroscope and p>hoto- 

 graph measuring machine are among the 

 instruments soon to be added Upon the 

 completion of this working observatoiy Prof. 



Leavenworth will offer courses in astronomy 

 in advance of those which are now in the 

 curriculum of the institution. 



De. H. p. Johnson, Harvard '90, Chicago 

 '94, succeeds Mr. J. J. Elvers as Curator of 

 the Museum of the University of California. 

 Dr. J. C. Merriam, Munich '93, has been 

 appointed instructor in paleontology. 



Prof. Jeeome H. Raymond, formerly of 

 the University of Chicago, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of sociology and secre- 

 tary of the University Extension Depart- 

 ment of the University of Wisconsin. 



The will of Rev. John H. Duggan of 

 Water bui'y, Conn., leaves his library to the 

 Catholic University of America at Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



De. Frederick H. Wines has been ap- 

 pointed lecturer on social classes and social 

 evils in Harvard University. 



The Agassiz professorship of Oriental 

 languages at the University of California 

 has been filled bj'^ the election of Dr. John 

 Fryer, who has been for many years and is 

 now a translator in the service of the Em- 

 peror of China. Dr. Fiyer assumes his new 

 duties the latter part of the present term or 

 early in the next. 



De. Harey Marshall Ward, Sc.D., F. 

 E.S., of Christ's College, professor of bot- 

 any at the Indian Engineering College, 

 Cooper's-hill, has been elected to the chair 

 of botany in the University of Cambridge, 

 vacated through the death of Prof. Babing- 

 ton. The following particulars concerning 

 Dr. Ward's work in botany are taken from 

 the London Times : 



Dr. Ward graduated B.A. as a member 

 of Christ's College, obtaining a first-class 

 in the ISTatural Sciences Tripos, 1879, with 

 distinction in botany. In 1883 he was 

 elected to a Fellowship, and in 1888 was 

 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. 

 After taking his degree at Cambridge he 

 devoted himself with ardour and success 



