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April 10—‘ Meteors and Meteorites,’ by Professor 
M. F. O’Reilly, D.Se., London. 
April 16—‘ Development of Artillery in the Nine- 
teenth Century,’ by Captain Edward L. Zalinski, 
U.S. A. 
April 22—‘Submarine Boats,’ by Mr. John P. 
Holland. 
April 25—‘The Steam Engine and its Rivals,’ by 
Professor R. H. Thurston, of Cornell. 
April 30—‘ Electric Wave Transmission,’ by Pro- 
fessor Michael I. Pupin, of Columbia. 
The lectures will be illustrated with stereopti- 
con views. Professor Pupin will further illus- 
trate his lecture by experiments with apparatus 
used by him in the researches which have led 
to his recently-announced discoveries in con- 
nection with the transmission of speech over 
long-distance telephones and submarine cables. 
Av the International Congress on Tubercu- 
losis to be held in London in July, addresses 
will be delivered by Professor Robert Koch, 
Professor Brouardel, dean of the medical faculty 
of the University of Paris, and by Professor 
McFadyean, principal of the Royal Veterinary 
College, London. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
Mr. Hiram SIBLEY, JR., has given Cornell 
University $85,000, for an addition to the Sibley 
College of Engineering. It will connect the 
two present buildings, and give them a frontage 
on the campus nearly 400 feet in length. 
Mr. Joun D. ROCKEFELLER has given $110,- 
000 to Vassar College for the erection of a resi- 
dence hall similar to the residence hall now be- 
ing built on the college grounds. 
Mrs. L. M. PALMER, widow of Dr. A. B. 
Palmer, for many years professor in the medical 
department in the University of Michigan, has 
by the terms of her will left $85,000 to the 
University, mostly, it is understood, for the 
benefit of the hospital. 
THE District Court at Denver has sustained 
the will of the late George W. Clayton, who be- 
queathed most of his estate, valued at more 
than $2,000,000, to the city of Denver for a col- 
lege for orphan boys, similar to Girard College, 
Philadelphia. 
SCIENCE. 
(N.S. Vou. XIII. No. 324. 
THE following statement has been issued in 
regard to the consolidation of the Chicago In- 
stitute with the University of Chicago: ‘‘The 
Chicago Institute is to become a professional 
school of the University of Chicago, and will 
include a school of pedagogy and an elemen- 
tary school and kindergarten. Associated 
with it will be a secondary or high school, 
for the present under the leadership of Dr. 
John Dewey of the university, ultimately, 
however, to become a part of the Chicago Insti- 
tute. Colonel Parker is to be the head of the - 
institute, and his successors are to be appointed 
by the university trustees upon the nomination 
of the Chicago Institute trustees. With the in- 
stitute the university receives $1,000,000. Part 
of this is to be used in furnishing a home and 
equipment for the institute, and the rest is to be” 
devoted, chiefly as an endowment fund, to the 
maintenance of the institute. The university 
expects to expend from its own funds between 
$10,000 and $20,000 a year for the support of 
the work.”’ 
Iv is expected that the Hall of Fame of New 
York University will be formally inaugurated 
on May 30th. 
OwiNneG to the increase in the number of 
Assembly districts in the State of New York, 
Cornell University will hereafter provide 150 
free scholarships each year in the place of 128. 
To educate the 600 students holding these 
scholarships costs, as President Shurman has 
pointed out, $180,000, whereas the University 
received in return a land grant from which the 
annual income is but $35,000. 
Dr. W. T. JoRDAN, of the University of . 
Tennessee, has been offered the presidency of 
the University of Alabama. 
At Columbia University the following promo- 
tions have been made: M. I. Pupin, professor 
of electro-mechanics ; Marston Taylor Bogert, 
adjunct professor of organic chemistry; Ed- 
mund H. Miller, adjunct professor of analytical 
chemistry and assaying; S. L. R. Morgan, ad- 
junct professor of physical chemistry ; Living- 
ston Farrand, adjunct professor of psychology, 
and Edward Thorndike, adjunct professor of 
genetic psychology. 
