760 
hundred and fifty specimens, and representing 
some twenty-five species, of which quite a 
number proved new to science and others had 
been only recently described from specimens 
received at the British Museum. With this 
collection was also received a small collection 
of birds, which contained many species new to 
the Museum collection and several new to 
science. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
Mr. GeorGeE W. CARROLL, of Beaumont, 
Texas, has given $60,000 to Baylor University, 
at Waco, Texas, for a science building. 
By the will of Miss Mary Shannon, of New- 
ton, Mass., $125,000 is distributed among 
charitable and public institutions. Wellesley 
College receives $15,000 and several institu- 
tions for the education of negroes receive sums 
ranging from $5,000 to $10,000. 
A BUILDING to contain the bacteriological 
and pathological laboratories is to be erected 
at the University of Michigan at a cost of 
$100,000. 
As we have already announced the degree 
of Bachelor of Arts will hereafter be given 
at the University of Michigan without any 
requirement in the classical languages either 
at entrance or afterwards. It has now been 
decided that there will be no required subjects 
in the course, except English in the freshman 
year. In addition first-year students may 
select three subjects from the following: Greek, 
Latin, French, German, history, mathematics, 
physics, chemistry, biology. 
Ir is expected that Cornell University will 
this June grant 380 baccalaureate degrees and 
74 advanced degrees. They are apportioned 
as follows: 125 A.B. degrees; 1 B.S.; 44 
LL.B.; 16 B.S.A.; 9 D.V.M.; 5 B.S.F.; 6 
B.Arch.; 51 C.E.; 123 M.E. (including elec- 
trical, marine and railway M.E.); and 21 A.M. 
degrees ; 9 M.S. in Agr.; 4M.C.E.; 10 M.M.E.; 
1 DiSe:; 29 PhiD: 
THE forty-five graduate students of the New 
York University, with one exception, have 
signed the following resolution, and forwarded 
SCIENCE. 
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it to the chancellor of the University and to the 
president of the University Council : 
Resolved, that we, the undersigned members of the 
Graduate School of the New York University, sin- 
cerely regret the resignation of Professor Edward F. 
Buchner, Ph.D., Samuel Weir, Ph.D., and Professor 
Charles H. Judd, Ph.D., whose departure threatens 
the high standard and continuity of our courses, as 
well as the usefulness of the Graduate School, and 
respectfully request the authorities of the University 
to secure the continued services of those professors. 
Some of us also hold our Bachelor’s and Master’s de- 
grees from this and other universities, and we believe 
that we are competent judges of professional worth, 
and hereby desire to express our unqualified repudia- 
tion of the aspersions cast upon the professional effi- 
ciency of Dr. Edward F. Buchner. Many of us have 
been in his classes, and we have uniformly found Dr. 
Buchner to possess a rich and rare gift of insight, a 
profound grasp of philosophical problems, as well as 
felicitous power of expression and painstaking and 
sympathetic class-room methods. Believing that this 
rare gift as a teacher and a scholar makes him an orna- 
ment to his profession and a credit to the University, 
we trust that the University Council will give this 
resolution full weight in their deliberations, 
Proressor E. A. Ross, of the University of 
Nebraska, recently of Leland Stanford Junior 
University, has been appointed a visiting lec- 
turer at Harvard University for next year. 
OwING to the recent complications, Dr. Arthur 
O. Lovejoy, associate professor of philosophy 
at Stanford University, has resigned. 
Dr. MAx FARRAND, professor of history at 
Wesleyan University, has accepted the chair of 
history in Stanford University. 
Dr. EDMUND ARTHUR ENGLER, professor of 
mathematics at Washington University, St. 
Louis, and dean of the College of Engineering, 
has been elected president of the Worcester 
Polytechnic Institute. 
Mr. J. W. H. PowuArpD, Dartmouth 95, 
has been appointed physical director in Lehigh 
University. 
Dr. J. STAFFORD, lately of the University of 
Toronto, has been appointed lecturer in zo- 
ology at McGill University. 
Dr. J. A. GMEINER has been appointed as- 
sociate professor of mathematics at the German. 
University of Prague. 
