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Cornell University. Dr. James G. Needham, 

 of Lake Forest College, has been appointed 

 assistant professor of limnology to take 

 charge of that work. He will enter upon his 

 duties at Ithaca in February, 1907. A site 

 for a biological field station has just been 

 selected on the Renwick Lagoon at the head 

 of Cayuga Lake. It is accessibly located at 

 the end of a street-car line a mile from the 

 university; it is surrounded by a rich fauna 

 and flora, and is well adapted to the investiga- 

 tions to be undertaken there. The necessary 

 station building and equipment will be pro- 

 vided in the spring. In the future a general 

 course in limnology will be offered in the 

 university, and provision will be made for 

 research students from the beginning. 



The council of the Medical Alumni Asso- 

 ciation of the Harvard Medical School has is- 

 sued an appeal to the twenty-nine hundred 

 living graduates for subscriptions to increase 

 the salaries of instructors and assistants. 



Mr. S. F. Leib, president of the Board of 

 Trustees of Stanford University, and Dr. 

 David Starr Jordan, president of the univer- 

 sity, have made public the following notice, 

 under date of July 12 : " We desire to inform 

 the students, alumni and friends of Stanford 

 University that the work of the university will 

 continue as usual in all departments for the 

 coming term. The buildings of the inner 

 quadrangle were scarcely injured by the dis- 

 aster of April. The work of restoration of the 

 outer quadrangle is being pushed as rapidly as 

 possible, and we feel certain that the buildings 

 necessary for the actual work of the univer- 

 sity, such as class-rooms, libraries, laboratories 

 and dormitories, will be ready for use by 

 August 23, the date of the entrance examina- 

 tions for the new term, the registration of 

 students beginning on August 28, and instruc- 

 tion on August 30." 



Further, details are now announced of the 

 visit of English school teachers to the United 

 States, arranged by Mr. Alfred Mosely. Five 

 parties, each containing one hundred teachers, 

 will come to this country, beginning in No- 

 vember next. They will be given leave of 

 absence with salary by the school, and the 



steamship companies will give them return 

 transportation for $25. It is expected that 

 reduced rates will also be secured from Amer- 

 ican railways and hotels. Each party will 

 visit the schools of New York City, and of 

 some section of the country. The parties 

 will be only twelve days each in the United 

 States. 



Dr. G. D. Harris, of Cornell University, 

 has been elected to the chair of geology in the 

 Louisiana State University, and will divide 

 his time between university duties and the 

 direction of the geological survey of Louisi- 

 ana. 



Raymond Longley, Ph.D. (Chicago), has 

 been appointed instructor in mathematics and 

 astronomy at Yale University. 



At Tulane University, Professor Henry F. 

 Rugan has been advanced to be associate pro- 

 fessor of mechanic arts and Dr. Joseph Ivey 

 to be associate professor of mathematics and 

 astronomy. 



Professor W. A. Stocking, Jr., has been 

 appointed assistant professor of dairy bac- 

 teriology in the State College of Agi'iculture 

 at Cornell University. Professor Stocking 

 has been connected with the Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural College and Experiment Station the 

 past few years. 



At New Hampshire College, Instructor 

 Charles Brooks has been made associate pro- 

 fessor of botany. Mr. F. W. Putnam (Wor- 

 cester, '99) has been made assistant professor 

 of drawing and T. J. Headlee, Ph.D. (Indiana, 

 '06), assistant entomologist. In the chemical 

 department Mr. Charles James, who obtained 

 liis training with Sir William Ramsay, has 

 been appointed instructor. 



Mr. Paul Langer, of Milwaukee, has been 

 elected acting professor in the technical insti- 

 tute at Aachen. 



The Experiment Station Record states that 

 a chair of fishery and fish breeding has been 

 established at the Agricultural High School 

 of Berlin and will be occupied by Dr. P. 

 Schiemenz, director of the Mliggelsee Biolog- 

 ical Station, which now becomes a department 

 of the Agricultural High School. 



