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of great service to the live stock interests, and 
therefore an important factor in the prosperity 
of the State. 
Mr. WILLIAM JOHNSON, a Liverpool ship- 
owner, has established two fellowships in phys- 
iology and pathology, in University College, 
Liverpool, one open to members of British 
colonial universities and medical colleges; 
the other to foreign students and intended es- 
pecially for students in the United States. The 
provisional regulation governing the latter fel- 
lowship are as follows: 
1. This fellowship has been founded to commem- 
orate the late John W. Garrett, of Baltimore, United 
States, and shall be called ‘The John W. Garrett In- 
ternational Fellowship in Pathology and Physiology.’ 
The value of the fellowship shall be £100 a year. 
2. The fellowship shall be open to members of 
universities and medical schools in the United States, 
without, however, absolutely precluding members of 
other foreign schools. 
3. The fellow shall be elected by the faculty, on 
the nomination of the professors of pathology and 
physiology. 
4. The fellow shall be elected for one year and shall 
be eligible for re-election. 
5. The fellow shall devote himself to research in 
physiology or pathology and bacteriology under the 
direction of the professors of physiology and pathol- 
ogy. He shall undertake no work which shall in 
any way interfere with these duties. 
6. The work shall be done in the Thompson- Yates 
laboratories of University College, Liverpool, but, by 
special permission from the. faculty, the fellow may 
be allowed to follow his investigations elsewhere. 
7. The expenses of the research shall be met out of 
the funds of the laboratory under the direction of the 
professors of physiology and pathology. 
THE committee of the National Educational 
Association on a National University met at 
Columbia University May 28rd. It was ex- 
pected that the committee would then adopt its 
final report. This will doubtless be on the 
lines of the preliminary report that we pub- 
lished some time ago. A national university 
will not be approved, but plans for utilizing the 
scientific opportunities at Washington will 
doubtless be proposed. 
Dr. JouN E. CLARK, James E. English pro- 
fessor of mathematics at Yale University, has 
retired on account of ill health. He has been 
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made professor emeritus, and Dr. Percy F. 
Smith, associate professor of mathematics, has 
been appointed as his successor. In the Shef- 
field Scientific School of the same university, 
Dr. Earle Raymond Hendrick, of Ann Arbor, 
has been appointed instructor in mathematics, 
and Mr. Edwin Hoyt Lockwood has been pro- 
moted to an assistant professorship of mechan- 
ical engineering. 
Dr. TRUMAN H. SAFFORD, professor of as- 
tronomy at Williams College, has retired from 
the active duties of his professorship. 
AT Harvard University Dr. Jay Backus 
Woodworth has been promoted to an assistant 
professorship of geology, and James K. Whit- 
temore has been made instructor in mathemat- 
ics. 
Dr. JosHUA W. BEEDE, B. 8S. (Washburn 
College) and Ph.D. (Kansas) has been elected 
instructor in geology in Indiana University. 
THE following fellowships in the sciences 
have been awarded at Cornell University : The 
McGraw fellowship, Augustus Valentine Saph, 
B.S., M.S. (California), in civil engineering ; 
the Schuyler fellowship, Kichi Miyake, Im- 
perial University of Tokyo, in botany; the 
Goldwin Smith fellowship, Lee Barker Walton, 
Ph.B. (Cornell), A.M. (Brown), in entomology ; 
the President White fellowship, Floyd Roe 
Watson, B.S. (California), in physics; the 
Erastus Brooks fellowship, John Wesley Young, 
Ph.B. (Ohio State University), in mathematics ; 
Susan Linn Sage fellowships in philosophy and 
ethics, John Wallace Baird, A.B. (Toronto), 
Georgia Benedict, A.B. (Wells), and Henry 
Wilkes Wright, Ph.B. (Cornell). 
Dr. J. N. LANGLEY, reader in histology at 
Cambridge University, has been appointed, for 
a period of two years, as deputy for Sir Michael 
Foster, M.P. 
Mr. W. E. TuHriFt, fellow of Trinity College, 
Dublin, has been elected Erasmus Smith pro- 
fessor of natural and experimental philosophy, 
in succession to the late Professor Fitzgerald. 
Dr. B. NEMEC, docent in botany at the 
Bohemian University at Prague, has been 
appointed director of the Institute for Plant 
Physiology. 
