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v?as assisted by Messrs. E. C. Harder, F. J. 

 Katz and Freeman Ward. On July 1, this 

 same party took up the detailed mapping of 

 the iron ores at Ashcroft in Pitkin and Gun- 

 nison counties and at White Pine in Gunnison 

 County, Colo. These deposits are similar in 

 character and geologic relationships to those 

 already mapped in southern Utah. Study of 

 them will aid in solving the general problem 

 of the origin of the western iron ores. These 

 deposits are also especially interesting, because 

 they are likely to be of considerable commer- 

 cial importance. It is hoped that during the 

 year the final general monograph on Lake 

 Superior geology, which Messrs. Van Hise and 

 Leith have in hand, will be completed. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The General Education Board, endowed by 

 Mr. John D. Eockefeller with $10,000,000, has 

 made appropriations to nine institutions on 

 condition that three times the sunl be appro- 

 priated from other sources. The appropria- 

 tions, which amount to $312,500, are as fol- 

 lows : Coe College, Cedar Rapids, la., $50,000 ; 

 Washburn College, Topeka, Kan., $25,000; 

 Tulane University, New Orleans, $75,000; 

 Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C, $25,000; 

 Eurman University, Greenville, S. C, $25,000; 

 Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. C, 

 $37,600; Howard College, Birmingham, Ala., 

 $25,000; Southwestern University, Jackson, 

 Tenn., $25,000, and Mississippi College, Clin- 

 ton, Miss., $25,000. 



The late Dr. James Stewart, of Herts, has 

 bequeathed about $135,000 to the University 

 of Melbourne for a scholarship in anatomy, 

 medicine and surgery, and an equal sum to 

 other educational institutions in Melbourne. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the new laboratory 

 building for the use of the College of Medi- 

 cine and Surgery, University of Minnesota, 

 and the State Board of Health, will be ready 

 for work at the beginning of the school year 

 in September. The building is fireproof, and 

 60 by 213 feet. Plans are also being prepared 

 for a building for operative surgery and ex- 

 perimental pharmacy, and for the new uni- 



versity hospital, made possible by the recent 

 bequest of $150,000 by the late Dr. A. F. 

 Elliott. Beginning with the college year 

 1907-08, the entrance requirement to the med- 

 ical department will be two full years of col- 

 lege work. For several years the requirement 

 for entrance has been one year of college work, 

 but in view of the fact that nearly 60 per cent, 

 of the present student body have had two or 

 more years' college preparation, the regents 

 felt justified in thus raising the standard for 

 entrance. 



Professor Norman Smith, of Glasgow Uni- 

 versity, has accepted a call to the Stuart pro- 

 fessorship of psychology, Princeton University. 



Dr. Warner Fite, adjunct professor of 

 philosophy at the University of Texas, has 

 been appointed junior professor of philosophy 

 at Indiana University. 



Professor R. B. Wylie, of Sioux City, la., 

 resigns his position as professor of biology in 

 Morningside College to become assistant pro- 

 fessor of botany, in charge of morphology, at 

 the State University of Iowa. 



Miss Alice Robertson, Ph,D. (California), 

 for the last two years assistant in zoology at 

 the University of California, has accepted an 

 instructorship in zoology at Wellesley College. 



Dr. H. W. Marett Tims, demonstrator of 

 anatomy in Cambridge University, has been 

 appointed professor of biology at the Royal 

 Veterinary CoUege, London. 



The Edinburgh University Court has ap- 

 pointed Dr. W. G. Smith, of Liverpool Uni- 

 versity, to the recently instituted George 

 Combe lectureship in general and experimental 

 psychology. 



Professor F. S. Boulger has accepted the 

 post of honorary professor of natural history 

 and external examiner for the diploma at the 

 Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, in 

 succession to the late Dr. Fream. 



The electors to the Linacre professorship of 

 comparative anatomy at Oxford University, 

 vacant by the death of Professor Weldon, have 

 elected to the chair Dr. Gilbert C. Bourne, 

 fellow and tutor of New College, and uni- 

 versity lecturer in comparative anatomy. 



