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shire has appropriated $30,000 for an agricul- 
tural building. 
AmoNnG other recent bequests and gifts we 
note the following: By the will of the late John 
Sweetser, of Boston, Radcliffe College will ulti- 
mately receive $25,000. Mr. George A. Gard- 
ner has given $10,000 towards building a 
laboratory of electrical engineering for the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mrs. 
Maule, of Philadelphia, has given $10,000 to 
Princeton University to endow a fellow- 
ship in biology in memory of her son, F. 
Hinton Maule. Mr. Irwin Rew, a graduate of 
the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Univer- 
sity, has made a gift of $10,000 to the school. 
Mr. G. F. Peabody, of New York, has given to 
the Georgia State Normal School $3,000 to 
maintain a department of physiology for two 
years; he has also made a conditional dona- 
tion of $10,000 to the school. Dr. Alexander 
Agassiz has given the School Department of 
Newport, R. I., $5,000, to be used to equip the 
biological, chemical and physical laboratories 
of the Cole School of Science. The trustees of 
the Mary Hemenway estate have appropriated 
$500 for an anthropological fellowship in Colum- 
bia University. 
Two of the three positions offered by the 
Harvard Medical School to properly qualified 
men desirous of training in physiological re- 
search and in the management of large labora- 
tory classes in experimental physiology are not 
yet filled for the next collegiate year. Holders 
of these positions give more than half the day 
to research. The remaining time is spent dur- 
ing the first four months of the collegiate year 
in learning laboratory methods and during the 
last four months in directing the laboratory 
work of the medical students, about two hun- 
dred of whom work from two to three hours 
daily for sixteen weeks in experimental physi- 
ology. The fundamental experiments in physi- 
ology done by so many men working at one 
time present every variety of results and im- 
part a training not to be acquired in other 
ways. Much too may be learned by associa- 
tion with the large staff engaged in research in 
the laboratories of anatomy, histology, pathol- 
ogy, pharmacology, hygiene, physiology and 
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physiological chemistry, all of which have their 
laboratories in the Medical School building. 
No charge of any kind is made either for the 
training in physiological research and in teach- 
ing or for the use of animals and other ma- 
terial. In addition to these opportunities each 
assistant receives four hundred dollars. Ap- 
plications for these positions should be sent to 
Professor W. T. Porter, Harvard Medical 
School, 688 Boylston Street, Boston, Massa- 
chusetts. 
PROFESSOR WINSLOW Upton, director of the 
Ladd Observatory, of Brown University, has 
tendered his resignation as dean, owing to ill- 
health. 
W. D. TAytor, formerly head of the depart- 
ment of physics and engineering at the Louisiana 
State University, has been elected professor of 
engineering at the University of Wisconsin to 
succeed the late Professor N. O. Whitney. 
Dr. CHARLES H. JupD will have charge of 
the department of psychology and pedagogy in 
the summer school of the University of Cincin- 
nati. 
PROFESSOR BRUCE FINK, of Upper Iowa Uni- 
versity, has been elected professor of geology 
and botany at Drake University, Iowa. 
FELLOWSHIPS in the sciences at Princeton 
University have been awarded as follows: 
Mathematics, Oliver D. Kellogg, James C. 
Moorhead and Adam M. Hiltebeitl; biology, 
Earl Douglass, Adam M. Miller; astronomy, 
John M. Poor; mental science, John K. Mackie ; 
experimental science, Claude S. Hudson. 
AT the University of Wisconsin the follow- 
ing fellowship appointments have been made: 
Physics, E. R. Walcott; chemistry, H. E. Pat- 
ten ; pharmaceutical chemistry, I. W. Brandell; 
civil engineering, A. H. Blanchard. 
Proressor J. G. MacGruaor, last year 
elected professor of physics in the University 
College, Liverpool, and prior to that professor 
of Dalhousie College, Halifax, has been ap- 
pointed professor of natural philosophy at Edin- 
burgh. 
Dr. C. vy. KUPFFER, professor of anatomy 
and director of the Anatomical Institute of the 
University at Munich, has retired. 
