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butter being washed in a solution of the preser- 
vative. The committee then adjourned. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
On December 20th, the University of Penn- 
sylvania’s free museum of science and art at 
Philadelphia, one of the late Dr. William Pep- 
per’s cherished hopes, was formally opened 
in the presence of several thousand people. 
Immediately following the presentation to 
the board of trustees of the museum, a 
bronze statue of the late Dr. Pepper, the gift 
of friends, was unveiled. The presentation 
speech was made by ex-Senator George F, Ed- 
munds, in behalf of the Dr. Pepper testimonial 
committee. In connection with his address, 
Mr. Edmunds was delegated by Mrs. Frances 
Sergeant Pepper, the widow of Dr. Pepper, to 
present to the university trustees, as her mem- 
orial to the memory of her husband, a gift of 
$50,000 as a fund to carry on the work started 
by Dr. Pepper. \ 
THE Presidents of Harvard University, Co- 
lumbia University, Johns Hopkins University, 
the University of Chicago, and the University 
of California have issued an invitation to sister 
institutions to a conference to be held in Wash- 
ington some time in February, 1900, for the con- 
sideration of problems connected with Gradu- 
ate work. The invitation says: ‘‘There is 
reason to believe that among other things the 
deliberations of such a conference as has been 
proposed will (1), result in a greater uniformity 
of the conditions under which students may be- 
come candidates for higher degrees in different 
American universities, thereby solving the 
question of migration, which has become an 
important issue with the Federation of Gradu- 
ate Clubs ; (2), raise the opinion entertained 
abroad of our own Doctor’s degree ; (3), raise 
the standard of our own weaker institutions. 
THE engineering laboratory for Stevens In- 
stitute, Hoboken, N. J., provided by a gift of 
$50,000 from Mr. Andrew Carnegie will be 
begun at once. The University of Wisconsin 
will also erect an engineering building, the 
Legislature haying provided $100,000 for the 
purpose. 
Ir is also announced that the Western Re- 
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serve University has received $12,000, from 
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Mather for the purchase 
of books ; Wabash College $5,000 from Mrs. W. 
R. Jones toward a residence for the president ; 
and New York University $2,500 from Miss 
Anna M. Sandham for prizes in public speaking. 
Ir is said that Mr. James M. Munyon will 
give $2,000,000 to found an industrial school 
for orphan girls in Philadelphia on the same 
general lines as Girard College. 
GIRTON COLLEGE, Cambridge, is being en- 
larged at a cost of £40,000. 
THE main building of Buchtel College, at 
Akron, O., including the laboratories, library 
and dormitories, was recently burned. The 
loss is $100,000, with $65,000 insurance. 
OxForD UNIVERSITY is planning the establish- 
ment of the degrees of Doctor of Letters and Doc- 
tor of Science, to be conferred for research work. 
THE Sheffield University College, England, 
has not succeeded in making arrangements for 
the occupation of the site of Wesley College, 
and it is now proposed to acquire a strip of land 
adjoining the Botanical Gardens on which to 
erect a new block of buildings. 
Dr. F. W. BANCROFT has been appointed 
instructor in physiology at the University of 
California. 
Mr. Love H. Miter, of the University of 
California, goes to Oahu College, Honolulu, 
H. J., as professor of chemistry and natural 
sciences. 
Mr. J. H. Ripeway, brother of the ornithol- 
ogist of the Smithsonian Institution, has been 
engaged as taxidermist at the University of 
Illinois and is now at work on the museum 
specimens. Mr. Ridgway has been connected 
with the National Museum, the University of 
Towa, the Iowa Agricultural College, and the 
University of Ohio. 
PROFESSOR RONTGEN has finally decided to 
accept the call to the University of Munich. 
Mr. A. W. W. Date, M.A., fellow in classics 
of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, has been appointed 
Principal of University College, Liverpool, in 
place of Mr. Glazebrook, who has retired on 
his appointment to the office of Director of the 
National Physical Laboratory. 
