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the subjects brought before the meeting related 
to the scientific study of lands and native races 
of German colonies. The speakers include 
Professor F. v. Richthofen, Professor G. 
Volkens, Dr. E. Kohlschiitter, Professor K. 
Dove and Professor Schenck. The methods 
of geographical instruction were discussed 
in the afternoon of the same day by Mr. 
A. Becker, Professor A. Fischer, Professor 
A. Kirchhoff, Professor Langenbeck and Pro- 
fessor A. Bludau; demonstrations will also be 
planned by Professor K. Dove and Dr. M. Kbe- 
ling. In the evening an illustrated lecture was 
announced on glacier markings in Montenegro, 
by Professor K. Hassert, and one on the 
voleanoes of central France, by Dr. M. Frieder- 
ichsen. At the fifth sitting, on May 30th, the 
papers dealt with various aspects of glaciers 
and glaciation, and the speakers included Pro- 
fessors Finsterwalder, H. Meyer, S. Gunther, 
A. Penck, W. Goetz and Dr. W. Halbfass. On 
the afternoon of the same day, reports and 
papers were received from Professor A. Kirch- 
hoff and C. M. Kan, and Dr. K. Sapper; and 
the general business of the association was 
transacted. Excursions have been arranged for 
a few days at the end of the meeting, and ex- 
hibits of geographical interest are on view in 
two museums in Breslau. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
THE Wisconsin Legislature has appropriated 
for the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, 
$210,000, in addition to the regular income 
previously derived from the State. Of this 
sum $150,000 is for a new building for the Col- 
lege of Agriculture, which is to house the ad- 
ministration offices of this department and the 
experiment station as well as the departments 
of bacteriology and chemistry. This College 
also receives $10,000 annual increase to its 
present income. The College of Engineering 
receives $30,000 for equipment of its new 
building which was provided by the last Legis- 
lature; also $7,500 annual increase in income. 
The newly organized School of Commerce se- 
cures $3,500 annual increase in its appropria- 
tions. 
Mr. Epwarp Tuck has given Dartmouth 
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College $100,000 for a building for the Amos 
Tuck School of Administration and Finance. 
The College has also received a bequest of $10,- 
000 from Mrs. Susan A. Brown as a library 
fund for the Department of Philosophy. 
THE trustees of the John Carter Brown Li- 
brary, acting under the provisions of the will of 
the late Mr. John Nicholas Brown, have de- 
cided to present the library with its $650,000 
endowment to Brown University. This is the 
finest collection of Americana in existence. In 
addition to the books, whose value it is difficult 
to estimate, there will come to the university 
$150,000 for a library building and $500,000 of 
permanent endowment. 
Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE has, as our readers 
doubtless know, offered to give £2,000,000 to 
the four Scottish Universities, Edinburgh, Glas- 
gow, Aberdeen and St. Andrews, for the free 
education of Scottish students. He estimates 
that this income will pay the fees of all the 
students in the universities, including, we under- 
stand, the professional schools. 
Tue Council of Columbia University has re- 
solved that all candidates for degrees at com- 
mencement shall be presented in English and 
that all degrees shall be conferred in English. 
Hitherto Latin has been used in part. 
Proressor R. W. Woop, of the University 
of Wisconsin, has been appointed professor of 
physics in the Johns Hopkins University. 
Proressor H. B. LATHROP, who holds the 
chair of rhetoric at Stanford University, has. 
resigned and has accepted the position of as- 
sistant professor of English in the University of 
Wisconsin. 
ALBERT PREscoTT MATHEWS, PH.D. (Colum- 
bia), has been elected assistant professor of 
physiological chemistry in the University of 
Chicago, and will be head of the department. 
Dr. O. M. STEWART, instructor in physics in 
Cornell University, has been appointed assistant 
professor of physics in the University of Mis- 
souri. 
Dr. E. SCHELLWEIN has been promoted to 
an assistant professorship of geology and pale- 
ontology at the University at Konigsberg. 
