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the Koyal Scottish Geographical Society, who 

 asked for representation on the board of trus- 

 tees for the National Gallery and a grant from 

 the government, Mr. Sinclair said the bill was 

 wholly concerned with national galleriee, and 

 had no reference to scientific bodies. Apart 

 from the question whether government assist- 

 ance was possible or probable, he stated that 

 government assistance carried with it the dis- 

 advantage of government control. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The will of the late Horace M. Potts be- 

 queathes $5,000 to the Hospital of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania for the endowment of a 

 free bed, and $10,000 to the Orphans' Home 

 and Asylum for the Aged Insane of the 

 Lutheran Church. Most of the remainder of 

 his estate, valued at $75,000, is divided be- 

 tween the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

 Sciences and the University of Pennsylvania. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has promised $30,000 

 to Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn., for 

 a library building, on condition that the same 

 amount be raised for its maintenance, which 

 amount is at the present time nearly in hand. 

 The building will probably be begun in the 

 course of the next month or two. 



Suit has been instituted in the Supreme 

 Court of the District of Columbia to compel 

 the Catholic University of America to relin- 

 quish securities aggregating $876,168 said to 

 have been given the imiversity by the late 

 Thomas E. Waggaman a short time before 

 proceedings in bankruptcy were begun against 

 him. The plaintiffs declare that Waggaman 

 permitted the attorneys for the Catholic Uni- 

 versity, to which he was indebted to the extent 

 of about $900,000, to select choice securities to 

 cover his indebtedness to the institution, al- 

 though it was his duty to keep all securities 

 intact so that the complainants, as well as the 

 university and other creditors, might have an 

 equitable lien without priority discrimination. 



Towards the cost of extending the Union 

 buildings and the furnishing and equipment 

 of the library of Edinburgh University Sir 

 Donald Currie and Mr. Andrew Carnegie have 



each offered to contribute £6,000, provided 

 £6,000 more is raised locally. 



The senate of London University has re- 

 ceived from Mr. Martin White two further 

 donations — one to provide a salary of £200 a 

 year for Dr. Edward Westermarck, university 

 lecturer in sociology, for a further period of 

 five years, the other an additional sum of £700 

 for the establishment for five years of two 

 scholarships a year each of the annual value 

 of £35 and tenable for two years. In connec- 

 tion with Mr. White's benefaction, special 

 courses will be delivered during the session 

 1906-7 on ethnology by Dr. A. C. Haddon, 

 F.E.S., and on psychology by Dr. J. W. 

 Slaughter, Ph.D. (Clark). 



The Medical College of Indiana, the Cen- 

 tral College of Physicians and Surgeons and 

 the Fort Wayne College of Medicine have 

 become one, and as such have become a part 

 of Purdue University under the name, ' Indi- 

 ana Medical College, the School of Medicine 

 of Purdue University.' 



It is proposed to establish a chair of geog- 

 raphy in the University of Edinburgh. 



A readership in meteorology has been insti- 

 tuted in London University. 



The council of Nottingham University Col- 

 lege has decided to apply for a university 

 charter. The college, which is now in its 

 twenty-fifth year, has over 2,000 students. 



The new science buildings of Glasgow Uni- 

 versity will be opened in the spring of next 

 year by the Prince of Wales. 



Mr. Alexander Mackie, M.A., assistant lec- 

 turer in education and in philosophy, Bangor 

 University College, has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of education in Edinburgh Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. James P. Hill, late demonstrator in 

 biology and lecturer on embryology in the 

 University of Sydney, has been appointed to 

 the Jodrell chair of zoology in University 

 College, London. 



Dr. R. a. Raiss has been appointed asso- 

 ciate professor of scientific photography at 

 Laiisanne. 



