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Messrs. Cope & Stewardson of Philadelphia 
were chosen as architects of the new buildings 
for Washington University. Mr. R. D. An- 
drews and Mr. R. Clipston Sturgis, of Boston, 
and Mr. Walter Cook, of New York, acted as 
advisers to the Board of Directors of the Uni- 
versity in the competition. Messrs. Cope & 
Stewardson expect to have the plans for the 
new buildings completed by the first of March 
next; the work will then begin on the con- 
struction. i 
THE family of the late John Simkins, who 
was congressman from Massachusetts and a 
graduate of Harvard University, have given 
$20,000 to the Lawrence Scientific School of the 
University. The fund will be used to equip 
the mining and metallurgical laboratories and 
a bronze memorial tablet will be placed in one 
of the rooms. 
THE will of the late Elizabeth Coles, leaving 
about $200,000 to found a Coles College in 
Newport, has been compromised, the City 
Council accepting $70,000 to endow a pro- 
fessorship of Natural Science in the Townsend 
Industrial School. 
WE are glad to learn that the decree of the 
United States Circuit Court dismissing the bill 
of review in the Garcelon case has been af- 
firmed. This should give Bowdoin College the 
property bequeathed to it valued at about 
$400,000. 
THE chair of chemistry in the University of 
Toronto is vacant and will be filled as the re- 
sult of applications addressed to the Minister 
of Education, Toronto, prior to January 1st, 
next. The salary is $2,500, rising by annual 
increments to $3,200. Further particulars may 
be obtained from the President of the Univer- 
sity. 
THE ‘Council of St. John’s College, Cam- 
bridge, has elected as fellows of the College, 
Mr. J. J. Lister, university demonstrator of ani- 
mal morphology, and Mr. A. C. Seward, F.R.S., 
university lecturer in botany, known for his 
publications on paleobotany. 
ALLEN S. WHITNEY has been appointed pro- 
fessor of the science and art of teaching in the 
University of Michigan. 
SCIENCE. 
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PAut I. Murritu, B.S. (State College of 
Kentucky), Ph.D. (Michigan), of Detroit, has 
been appointed to the Stearns fellowship in 
pharmaceutical research at the University of 
Michigan. 
CoLoneL J. W. OrriEy, formerly Inspector- 
General of Irrigation in India, has been ap- 
pointed president of the Royal Engineer’s Col- 
lege, at Cooper’s Hill, England. 
Dr. BERGER has been appointed professor of 
geography at Leipzig, and Professor M. y. Len- 
hossek, of Tubingen, has been called to the 
professorship of anatomy at Budapesth. 
Dr. W. Ficpor has qualified as docent in 
plant anatomy and physiology at Vienna, and 
Dr. Pregl as docent in physiology at Gratz. 
THE Ithaca correspondent of the New York 
Evening Post reports the appointment of non- 
resident lecturers in mechanical engineering at 
Cornell University as follows: November 3d, J. 
J. Swann, on ‘Liquid Air’; November 17th, W. 
B. Snow, on ‘Mechanical Ventilating and 
Heating’; December 1st, Professor Houston, on 
‘Evolution of Electric Energy ’; December 15th, 
William Kent, on ‘ Power Production’; January 
12th, H. E. Longwell, on ‘New Westinghouse 
Gas Engine’; January 19th, A. E. Kennelly, on 
‘Electrical Engineering Experiences’; Janu- 
ary 26th, C. J. Field, on ‘Safe Current Trans- 
mission’; February 23d, W. P. Potter, on 
“Three-Phase Railway Work’; March 9th, P. T. 
Dodge, on ‘ Mechanical Type-Setting’; April 
13th, Elihu Thomson, on ‘ Special Work in Elec- 
trical, Engineering’; April 27th, E. W. Rice, Jr., 
on ‘Dynamo and Engine Construction’; May 
4th, W. M. Macfarland, on ‘Recent Engineering 
Practice.’ 
THE new University of London Hall for the 
Science of Political Economy, for which a site 
has been provided in the new street being 
formed by the London County Council in 
Clare-market, Strand, is to be proceeded with 
atonce. The design by Mr. Maurice B. Adams, 
F.R.I.B.A., has been chosen by the trustees, of 
which body the Bishop of London and Mr. 
Sidney Webb, L.C.C., are active members. 
Mr. Passmore Edwards has given £10,000 to- 
wards the cost of the undertaking. 
