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Upper Iowa University, at Fayette, Ia., to be 
used preferably for a library, and $50,000 to 
Aurora College, an Illinois institution ; Augus- 
tana College at Rock Island, Ill., has received 
about $30,000 from Messrs. E. C. and J. A. 
Ericsson, of Boone, Ia.; Mr. John D. Rocke- 
feller has offered to give $15,000 to Carson and 
Newman College, a Baptist institution in Ten- 
nessee, provided $50,000 in addition be raised ; 
Carleton College, at Northfield, Minn., has 
added $150,000 to its permanent endowment 
fund, $50,000 being the gift of Dr. D. K. Pear- 
sons, and the remaining $100,000 being raised 
from various sources. 
GirFts to educational institutions in Great Brit- 
ain include the following: Mr. Charles W. Mit- 
chell, £20,000 to the University of Aberdeen to 
pay the debt of the University ; Lord Durham, 
£1,000 towards the building fund of the Dur- 
ham College of Science, and the Misses Mercer, 
£1,000 to establish a scholarship, or scholar- 
ships, in chemistry at the Blackburn Technical 
School in memory of the late Mr. John Mercer, 
the discoverer of the process of Mercerized 
yarn. 
THE registration at Harvard University, as 
recorded in the issue of December 21st last of 
this journal, appears to need correction. Pro- 
' fessor Storer calls our attention to the fact that 
the figures for the Bussey Institute and for the 
veterinary school were not included. These 
should be 83 and 18 respectively. On the other 
hand, the registration of the Medical School is 
too large. Dean Richardson, of the Medical 
School has explained the matter as follows: 
“Mr, Cram must have misunderstood your ques- 
tion and gave you the number enrolled, which 
at that time was 600, and added to it the num- 
ber which were enrolled in the summer courses, 
149, making a total of 749.” 
THE President of the Board of Education, 
London, has appointed a committee, consisting 
of Sir William de W. Abney, K.C.B., F.R.S. 
(Chairman), Sir Philip Magnus, Sir Swire Smith, 
Mr. G. R. Redgrave, Mr. W. Bousfield, Mr. W. 
Vibart Dixon, with Mr. A. E. Cooper, Board 
of Education, South Kensington, as Secretary, 
to consider the best means for coordinating the 
technological work of the Board of Education 
SCIENCE. 
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with that at present carried on by other educa- 
tional organizations. 
A CABLE despatch from St. Petersburg reports 
that one hundred and fifty students, recently 
arrested at Kieff for engaging in political agita- 
tion, are to be expatriated to Port Arthur, 
where they will do military service. Thesame 
fate awaits scores of students arrested at the 
capital on a similar charge. The ferment con- 
tinues among students throughout the country, 
and disturbances are anticipated. The troubles 
at Kieff do not seem to have been due to polit- 
ical agitation but to the unwillingness of the 
students to attend the lectures of an unpopular 
professor. 
Mr. H. V. CARPENTER, assistant in physics 
at the University of Illinois, has accepted an 
assistant professorship in physics and electrical 
engineering in the Washington Agricultural 
College, at Pullman, Washington. Mr, Car- 
penter isa graduate of the University of Illinois. 
Mr. U. S. Hanna, Harrison fellow in math 
ematics and astronomy of the University of 
Pennsylvania, has resigned his fellowship to 
resume his duties as instructor in mathematics 
at the University of Indiana. 
Mr. S. W. REAVES, graduate scholar in Cor- 
nell university, has been appointed instructor 
of mathematics in Orchard Lake Military Acad- 
emy. 
Dr. F. MonrTreser has been promoted to a 
professorship of mathematics in the School of 
Pedagogy, New York University. 
Mr. C. T. R. Witson, F.R.S., fellow of Sid- 
ney Sussex College, Cambridge, has been ap- 
pointed university lecturer in experimental 
physics in succession to Professor Wilberforce, 
who, it will be remembered, recently accepted 
a call to Liverpool. 
Dr. P. Drups, professor of physics in the 
University at Giessen, has been called to Tubing- 
en. Dr. A. Voelzman, of Berlin, has been pro- 
moted to a pro/essorship of zoology. Dr. A. 
Steur has qualified as docent in geology in the 
Technical Institute at Darmstadt, and Dr. 
George Wetzel for anatomy in the University 
at Berlin. 
