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Pittsburgh, on " Some Transient Electrical 

 Phenomena," and on the evening of the same 

 day, a paper before the Pittsburgh section of 

 the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers, a paper on " The Preparation and Quali. 

 fieations of a Teacher in Engineering." On 

 May 13, he addressed the students of the Uni- 

 versity of Pittsburgh on the " Electrification 

 of Steam Railroads." 



At the University of Glasgovc on commem- 

 oration day, June 23, an oration on Lord 

 Lister will be delivered by Sir Hector C. 

 Cameron. 



Professor Eudolf Tombo, Jr., of the de- 

 partment of Germanic languages, Columbia 

 University, known also to readers of this 

 journal for his articles on " University Regis- 

 tration Statistics," died on May 22. 



We regret also to record the death of Mr. 

 Herman Fraseh, the industrial chemist, at one 

 time chief chemist of the Standard Oil Com- 

 pany. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Lafayette College is a beneficiary in the 

 will of Mr. William Eunkle to the amount of 

 $100,000. 



The South Wales and Monmouthshire Uni- 

 versity College at Cardiff has received from an 

 anonymous donor funds for the erection of a 

 school of preventive medicine. The money 

 value of this gift, together with that of Sir 

 William James Thomas to erect a school for 

 other branches of medicine in connection with 

 the college, is estimated at £180,000. 



The cornerstone of the Julius Eosenwald 

 Hall at the University of Chicago will be laid 

 on the morning of Convocation Day, June 9. 

 The address will be given by Professor T. C. 

 Chamberlin, head of the department of geol- 

 ogy, who has been connected with the univer- 

 sity since its founding. 



The new building of the department of 

 forestry of the New York State College of 

 Agriculture was formally opened on May 15. 

 Among those who made addresses were Pro- 

 fessor James W. Toumey, director of the Tale 



Forest School; Dr. Henry S. Drinker, presi- 

 dent of Lehigh University, Mr. Gifford 

 Pinchot and Dr. L. H. Bailey. 



The fiftieth anniversary of the founding 

 of the School of Mines at Columbia Univer- 

 sity is being celebrated this week. On Thurs- 

 day night there is a reception in the gym- 

 nasium. On Friday morning there well be a 

 convocation at which honorary degrees will be 

 conferred upon a number of eminent graduates 

 of the School of Mines, and there will be 

 addresses by Professor H. S. Munroe, Mr. T. 

 W. Eiekard and Mr. Hennen Jennings. In 

 the afternoon the first lecture on the Chandler 

 Foundation will be given by Dr. Leo H. 

 Baekeland. The celebration will close with a 

 dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in the evening, 

 at which Professor J. F. Kemp will preside. 



The foundation stone of the new School of 

 Tropical Medicine at Calcutta, for the site 

 and laboratory of which the government of 

 India has appropriated $195,000, was laid 

 recently by the governor of Bengal. The 

 Journal of the American Medical Association 

 states that the institute will accept students 

 from all over the world, and it is hoped that stu- 

 dents of medical research institutions of the 

 United States may be sent to the school for 

 study. Communications regarding the school 

 should be addressed to Lieut.-Col. Leonard 

 Rogers, I. M. S., Medical School, Calcutta. 



A new department, that of hygiene and 

 bacteriology, has been created at the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago by the board of trustees. The 

 chairman of the department is Edwin Oakes 

 Jordan, professor of bacteriology, and asso- 

 ciated with him in the work of the department 

 are Assistant Professor Norman MacLeod 

 Harris and Dr. Paul Gustav Heinemann. 

 During the present quarter also Associate 

 Professor WiUiam Buchanan Wherry, of the 

 University of Cincinnati college of medicine, 

 is giving courses in advanced bacteriology and 

 parasitology. The work in bacteriology was 

 formerly included in the department of pathol- 

 ogy and bacteriology, which now becomes the 

 department of pathology, with Professor 

 Ludvig Hektoen as head. 



