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known. For the full year from September 

 1, 1906, to September 1, 1907, the university 

 offers a fellowship to the value of $500 to a 

 graduate student desiring and able to conduct 

 research work with cave animals. He must 

 reside on the farm. The university has erect- 

 ed a two-roomed shack, 15 x 30 feet, which 

 serves temporarily as sleeping quarters and 

 laboratory. The place is equipped with beds, 

 kitchen and dining-room furniture, aquaria, 

 microscope, etc. Applications and letters of 

 enquiry should be addressed to C. H. Eigen- 

 mann, Winona Lake, Indiana. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The sum of $50,000 has been given to Yale 

 University by Mr. Edwin Milner, of Plain- 

 field, Conn. The interest on the money is to 

 be used to educate some resident of Plainfield. 



The State College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons of Indianapolis, Indiana, has entered 

 into an affiliation for educational purposes 

 with Indiana University. By terms of the 

 afiiliation the first two years of the state col- 

 lege will be given in the laboratories of Indi- 

 ana University, in the medical department of 

 which the first two years of medicine have 

 been given for several years. The last two 

 years of the course will be given at Indian- 

 apolis, where a new hospital with a capacity 

 of one hundred beds has been organized under 

 the direct control of the state college, which 

 will be used for clinical teaching. This will 

 make it possible for students to follow cases 

 throughout the entire course of the disease 

 and assist in after-treatment of surgical cases. 

 Graduates of the school will receive their 

 medical degree and diploma from Indiana 

 University. 



King Edward has approved the appointment 

 of a Royal Commission for the purpose of 

 holding an enquiry into Trinity College, Dub- 

 lin, and the University of Dublin. The com- 

 mission will consist of Sir Edward Fry (chair- 

 man), the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 

 Ireland, Sir T. Raleigh, Sir A. W. Riicker, 

 Dr. H. Jackson, Dr. Douglas Hyde, Professor 

 D. J. Coffey and Mr. S. B. Kelleher. 



The following promotions and appointments 

 have been made at Brown University: Asso- 

 ciate Professor Alexander Meiklejohn, dean of 

 the university, to become professor of logic 

 and metaphysics; Assistant Professor W. H. 

 Kenerson, to become associate professor of 

 mechanical engineering; Assistant Professor 

 A. H. Blanchard, to become associate professor 

 of civil engineering; Assistant Professor H. 

 P. Manning, to become associate professor of 

 mathematics; T. M. Phetteplace, to become 

 assistant professor of mechanical engineering; 

 C. W. Brown, to become assistant professor 

 of geology; F. S. Beattie, to become assistant 

 in chemistry; M. L. Dolt, to become assistant 

 in chemistry; H. E. Chandler, to become as- 

 sistant in civil engineering; and Miss Alice 

 W. Wilcox, to become instructor in biology 

 and household economics at the Women's 

 College. 



At Lehigh University the following nomina- 

 tions and appointments have been announced : 

 P. A. Lambert and Arthur E. Meake have 

 been advanced from assistant professorships 

 to full professorships in mathematics ; John H. 

 Ogburn from an instructorship to an assistant 

 professorship in mathematics and astronomy; 

 John Duer Irving from an assistant professor- 

 ship to a full professorship in geology; Barry 

 MacNutt from an instructorship to an as- 

 sistant professorship in physics. 



Mr. E. B. Hart, associate chemist of the 

 New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 has been chosen professor of agricultural 

 chemistry and chemist of the Experiment Sta- 

 tion of the University of Wisconsin. 



Mr. Chas T. Kirk, A.M. (Oklahoma, '05), 

 was recently elected assistant professor of geol- 

 ogy at the Montana School of Mines, Butte, 

 Montana. 



The Alice Freeman Palmer fellowship at 

 Wellesley College has been awarded to Miss 

 Anna Johnson, B.A. (South Dakota), M.S._ 

 (Iowa), A.M. and Ph.D. (Radcliffe), a student 

 in mathematics. 



Dr. Max Le Blanc, professor of physical 

 chemistry at Karlsruhe, has been called to 

 the chair at Leipzig, vacant by the retirement 

 of Professor Wilhelm Ostwald. 



