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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
A FRIEND of McGill University and of Sir 
William Dawson has communicated to the board 
of governors of the university his wish to en- 
dow a chair to be called the ‘ Dawson chair,’ in 
memory of the late emeritus principal and emi- 
nent geologist, and has contributed money for 
that purpose, with the condition that Lady 
Dawson shall enjoy the income during her life. 
THOMAS ARMSTRONG, of Plattsburgh, N. Y., 
who died in 1897, left his property amounting 
to $300,000 to Union College, Schenectady, 
N. Y. Suit was brought on behalf of his wife 
and children, and half of the estate has been 
awarded to them, while the remaining $150,000 
goes to Union College. 
VASSAR COLLEGE has recived a gift of $5,000 
toward the proposed biological laboratory, for 
which $25,000 has been promised on condition 
that an equal additional sum shall be raised. 
THE report of the treasurer of Yale Univer- 
sity shows that its invested funds have increased 
during President Dwight’s administration of 
thirteen years from a little over $2,000,000 to 
nearly $5,000,000. This does not include the 
endowment of the Sheffield Scientific School, 
which is about $600,000. The income from in- 
vested funds has increased from about $113,000 
to about $221,000, while students’ fees have in- 
creased still more rapidly, namely, from about 
$150,000 to about $500,000. The permanent 
funds of the University were increased last 
year by nearly $100,000 and the building fund 
by about the same amount. 
AN influential meeting was held in the Sen- 
ate house of Cambridge University on Novem- 
ber 4th for the purpose of forming an associ- 
ation the objects of which are—(1) To establish 
and distribute information respecting appoint- 
ments which can be appropriately filled by 
members of the association ; (2) toestablish and 
organize means of communication between can- 
didates for such appointments and the persons , 
or bodies making the appointments. Remarks 
were made by the Chancellor, by Lord Roths- 
child, and others. It was resolved ‘‘ that an 
association be formed for facilitating the employ- 
ment of graduates of the Uuiversity in the 
various professions and occupations for which 
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they are fitted by their university training,’’ and 
a board of management was appointed. There 
are similar committees at Oxford University and 
at Harvard and Columbia Universities. 
THE following past-list for the D.Sc., of the 
University of London, examination has been 
issued. 
Mathematics. — John G. Leathem 
Scholarship), St. John’s Coll., Cambridge. 
Experimental Physics. —George B. Bryan, St. 
John’s Coll., Cambridge, and Univ. Coll., Notting- 
ham ; Edgar W. Marchant (Granville Scholarship), 
Central Technical Coll., and pr. st. ; Samuel R. 
Milner, Univ. Coll., Bristol, Inst. fiir Physik-Chemie, 
Gottingen, and Owens Coll. ; Spencer W. Richardson, 
Trin. Coll., Cambridge, and Cavendish Laboratory. 
Chemistry.—Martin O. Forster (Granville Scholar- 
ship), Royal Coll. of Science ; Edwin C. Jee Central 
Technical Coll.; Thomas M. Lowry, Central Techni- 
cal Coll.; Gilbert T. Morgan, Royal Coll. of Science ; 
Robert H. Pickard, Mason Univ. Coll. 
Botany.—Albert H. Trow, private study. 
Employment of the Theory of Correlations in Bio- 
logical and other Investigations.—A lice E. Lee, B.A., 
Univ. Coll. 
Zoology.—James H. Ashworth, Owens Coll.; Ernest 
W. MacBride, Zoological Laboratory, Cambridge ; 
Arthur T. Masterman, Christ’s Coll., Cambridge, and 
St. And. Univ. 
Geology.—Charles(G. Cullis, Royal Coll. of Science. 
(Granville 
Dr. KARL W. GEUTHE has been appointed 
instructor in zoology in the University of Mich- 
igan. 
AT St. John’s College Cambridge, the follow- 
ing fellows have been elected: Mr. W. A. 
Houston, fifth wrangler, 1896, lecturer in math- 
ematics in University College, Liverpool, and 
Mr. Grafton Elliott-Smith, assistant demonstra- 
tor of anatomy in the University, who has 
made valuable contributions to the comparative 
anatomy of the brain. 
Dr. C. CorrENs has been made assistant 
professor of botany in the University at Tu- 
bingen. 
Tur following have qualified as docents in 
German universities: Dr. Bohumil Neusec in 
plant anatomy and physiology in the Bohemian 
University at Prague ; Dr. Wederkind in natural 
science in the University at Tubingen, and Dr. 
Dandler for anatomy in the University at Vi- 
enna. 
