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fined tte boundary in terms incapable of in- 

 terpretation on the ground. After the sepa- 

 ration of Panama from Colombia, the ques- 

 tion became more acute and threatened to lead 

 to war, when the matter was again submitted 

 to arbitration, before Chief Justice Wbite, of 

 the United States, with the proviso that an 

 accurate survey should be made. The com- 

 mission of engineers, two representing the 

 parties to the arbitration, two others ap- 

 pointed by the arbitrator, of whom Dr. Hay- 

 ford was one, accompanied by twenty-one 

 trained assistants and a large number of la- 

 borers and porters made the survey in 1911. 

 The survey was made under the greatest diffi- 

 culty on account of the dense tropical jungle; 

 absence of roads and trails making it neces- 

 sary to rely on negro and Indian porters for 

 transportation of supplies; and thickness of 

 forest interfering with seeing. Nevertheless 

 an extensive area was accurately covered, and 

 geographical knowledge secured that is of 

 permanent interest and value. A peak more 

 than 12,000 feet high, hitherto unknown, was 

 discovered, and numerous cartographical 

 errors, including- the direction of the drainage 

 of a great area, were rectified. The decision, 

 rendered in 1914, chooses the Sixaola Kiver, 

 its tributary the Yorkina, and the southern 

 watershed of the Sixaola as the boundary, in- 

 stead of the northern watershed of the Six- 

 aola as awarded by President Loubet, and 

 conforms to the status quo, since the customs 

 have been collected at that river, and the sub- 

 jects of the two countries have advanced to it 

 from each side. 



VNIVEESITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Dr. Frank J. Goodnow will be installed as 

 president of the Johns Hopkins University on 

 May 20. On the following day the new uni- 

 versity buildings at Homewood will be dedi- 

 cated. President "Wilson will make an ad- 

 dress; the engineering buildings will be dedi- 

 cated with an address by General G. W. 

 Goethals, and the academic buildings with an 

 address by Professor H. C. Adams. It is ex- 

 pected that there will be a full attendance of 

 alumni and former students. The committee 

 having charge of arrangements for the inau- 



guration and dedication is composed of Presi- 

 dent Goodnow (chairman). Dr. Ealph V. D. 

 Magoffin (secretary), Dr. Joseph S. Ames, Dr. 

 Murray Peabody Brush, Dr. William B. Clark, 

 Dr. William H. Howell, Dr. Basil L. Gilder- 

 sleeve, Dr. John H. Latane, Mr. George L. 

 Eadcliffe and Dr. C. J. Tilden. 



The Eensselaer Polytechnic Institute an- 

 nounces that Mrs. Russell Sage has given 

 $100,000 to the school, and Mr. Alfred T. 

 White, of Brooklyn, a graduate, $50,000. The 

 money is to be used in the erection of dormi- 

 tories and a dining hall. 



A TRUST fund of $5,000 to be known as the 

 " Edward Tuckerman Fund," designed to 

 increase the interest in the study of botany 

 among the students of Amherst College, has 

 been bequeathed to the college by the late Mrs. 

 S. E. S. Tuckerman, wife of the late Professor 

 Edward Tuckerman. Professor Tuckerman, 

 who was a well known lichenologist, was a 

 member of the Amherst faculty from 1858 

 until his death in 1886, holding a chair in 

 botany and a lectureship in history. 



Brown University has received $Y,000 from 

 Mrs. Jesse L. Eosenberger, of Chicago, to en- 

 dow a lectureship for visiting scholars. 



Professor H. H. Newman, of the depart- 

 ment of zoology. University of Chicago, has 

 been appointed dean in the colleges of science 

 of that institution. The duties involve a super- 

 vision of students in the biological sciences, 

 especially of those preparing for the study of 

 medicine. 



Dr. Stuart Weller, of the University of 

 Chicago, has been promoted from an associate 

 professorship to a full professorship in the de- 

 partment of geology. 



Marcus W. Lyon, Jr., formerly assistant 

 curator, division of mammals, U. S. National 

 Museum, and for the past six years professor 

 of bacteriology at Howard University, has 

 been appointed professor of bacteriology and 

 pathology in the George Washington Univer- 

 sity. 



At Harvard University Dr. Gregory P. 

 Baxter has been promoted to be professor of 

 chemistry, and Dr. John L. Morse to be pro- 

 fessor of pediatrics. 



