720 
expended for additions to the library, including 
binding. Competitive plans for the natural 
history museum building, for which $75,000 has 
been appropriated, and the plans of Messrs. 
Root and Siemans of Kansas City were accepted. 
This building, which is to be constructed of 
native stone, will be of the Romanesque style 
of Southern France, and adapted especially for 
the display of the North American mammals 
and other extensive collections owned by the 
University. It will be practically fireproof in 
construction and will be three storiesin height. 
The regents will also provide for assistants in 
the departments of mathematics, English and 
history, and the men have been practically se- 
lected for these positions. 
OwING to the increased appropriation made 
by the Legislature, the University of California 
has been enabled to enlarge a number of depart- 
ments. The chair of mechanical engineering is 
to be divided, the present occupant of that 
chair, Professor Hesse, becoming professor of 
hydraulics, while the former associate, Profess- 
or Cory, returns to the department (after a 
year’s absence in industrial work) as professor 
of electrical engineering. The following new 
instructors were also authorized by the regents 
at their meeting on May 19th. Two instruct- 
ors in chemistry, an instructor in civil engi- 
neering, an instructor in steam engineering, an 
instructor in philosophy, an assistant in me- 
chanics and two assistants in physics. The es- 
timates for next year amount to about $550,000, 
of which $344,000 are for salaries and $60,000 
are for permanent improvements. 
THE arrangements for the celebration of the 
bi-centennial of the Yale University in October 
next have now been made public. The ad- 
dresses include one by President Gilman, of the 
Johns Hopkins University, on ‘ Yale in its Re- 
lation to Science and Letters’ and one by 
Professor W. H. Welch, of the same University, 
on ‘ Yale in its Relation to Medicine.’ 
THE freshman and sophomore classes of 
Rush Medical College will be transferred to the 
buildings in Hull court at the University of 
Chicago, and after July 1st the work of the 
two upper years only will be done in the Rush 
buildings on West Harrison and Wood streets. 
SCIENCE. 
[N.S. Vou. XIII. No. 331. 
More than $50,000 has been recently given to 
the University of Chicago for the additional 
equipment required. The new arrangement 
means that 300 medical students will be at 
work in the University of Chicago proper by 
next fall. The work of the two upper classes 
is clinical and must be done near the hospitals. 
They will have all the facilities of the old 
building and of a new $110,000 building on 
which work has already been commenced. 
AT aspecial meeting of the council of Univer- 
sity College, Liverpool, on April 16th, the fol- 
lowing resolutions were adopted : 
1. That, while gratefully acknowledging the ad- 
vantages which have accrued to University College, 
Liverpool, by its association with Victoria University, 
this council is of opinion that a university should be 
established in the city of Liverpool ; that this coun- 
cil will welcome a scheme with this object upon an 
adequate basis ; and that a committee be appointed 
to consider and report upon the whole question, with 
power to make inquiries and to communicate with 
other bodies. 
2. That the committee consist of all the members 
of council, with power to associate with them any 
other persons whom they may think fit. 
Dr. ARISTIDES AGRAMONTE, formerly chief 
of the bacteriological laboratory, has been ap- 
pointed to the chair of bacteriology and ex- 
perimental pathology in the medical faculty of 
the University of Havana, Cuba. 
Dr. H. S. JeEnnines has been promoted at 
the University of Michigan from an instructor- 
ship in zoology to an assistant professorship. 
Mr. H. W. Kuan, who is to receive his doc- 
torate from Cornell University in June, having 
been a scholar, fellow and assistant there dur- 
ing the last three years, respectively, has been 
appointed an assistant professor in- mathe- 
matics in the Ohio State University, from which 
institution he was graduated in 1897. After 
graduation, Mr. Kuhn was a fellow and assist- 
ant in his alma mater for one year. His in- 
vestigations thus far have been ‘chiefly in a 
theory of substitution groups—several papers 
by him in this line have been read before the 
American Mathematical Society. 
At Bryn Mawr College, Miss Harriet Brooks, 
A.B. (McGill University), has been awarded a 
fellowship in physics. 
