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a series of demonstrations at 20 Hanover 

 Square, W., on ' The Practical Use of the 

 Microscope and its Accessories,' to be given 

 from 7 to 8 p.m. on the third Friday in each 

 month during the ensuing session. The first 

 will be on November 16, when Mr. II. !F. 

 Angus will deal with axial substage illumina- 

 tion, including the use of the plane and con- 

 cave mirrors, substage condensers and meth- 

 ods of centering the illuminant and of obtain- 

 ing critical illumination. At other demon- 

 strations, the order of which is not yet finally 

 settled, the following subjects, among others, 

 will be considered : substage non-axial illu- 

 mination, including oblique and dark ground 

 illumination; the use of the micropolariscope ; 

 various methods of illuminating opaque ob- 

 jects; the testing and comparison of object- 

 ives; and the employment of micrometers and 

 finders. These demonstrations will be in ad- 

 dition to the ' Gossip ' meetings of the club, 

 which are held on the first Friday, and to the 

 ordinary meetings, held also on the third Fri- 

 day of the month at 8 p.m. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. Alfred C. Chapin has given Williams 

 College, of which he is an alumnus, an addi- 

 tional gift of $50,000, to be used by the trus- 

 tees without restriction. Another New York 

 alumnus, Mr. Charles T, Barney, has given 

 $10,000 to the college. 



The Oberlin correspondent of the New York 

 Evening Post states that the half -million fund 

 for Oberlin College, as completed, amounts to 

 $501,608. This is divided under the follow- 

 ing funds : $125,000 for a new library building 

 given by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, $100,000 for 

 library endowment, $100,000 from an anony- 

 mous donor in Boston for the increase of 

 salaries of teachers in the college and semi- 

 nary, $25,000 for an art building and its en- 

 dowment, $5,000 for the Barrows' Memorial 

 Building for Men, and $146,608 for miscel- 

 laneous purposes. The gift of the Boston 

 donor enables the trustees to increase by $200 

 the salaries of twenty-four full professors. 

 The amount of the $146,608 is devoted to the 

 following objects : $85,000 given by Miss Anne 



Walworth for the endowment of the Slavic 

 department, $15,000 given by Mr. F. Norton 

 Finnery as an addition to the Finney Me- 

 morial Chapel fund, $21,558 for equipment 

 and endowment in various departments, and 

 $25,000 for new scholarships and loan funds. 

 Of this, $10,000 is in scholarships for self- 

 supporting women, and $10,000 is in the Gil- 

 christ banking fund, the income of which may 

 be used as temporary loans to students. This 

 fund was a bequest from Ella Gilchrist Potter, 

 of Alpena, Mich. The largest single gift 

 toward the library endowment was that of 

 Dr. C. N. Lyman, of Wadsworth. This 

 amounted to $34,000. The remaining $66,000 

 was given by fifty-five donors in sums ranging 

 from $10,000 to $25. 



The facilities of the engineering depart- 

 ment of Purdue University have been in- 

 creased by the completion of a building con- 

 taining three floors, each 75 x 130 feet, for 

 the department of civil engineering, and by 

 an addition to the electrical laboratory 68 x 

 90 feet to give room for additional equipment. 

 This room is to be served by a traveling crane 

 which may be utilized in transferring heavy 

 equipment from the laboratory to a new lec- 

 ture room which adjoins. There have been 

 added to the materials testing laboratory and 

 to the steam engine laboratory a number of 

 machines, including a 100,000-pound Olsen 

 testing machine, a Fairbanks-Morse 50 horse- 

 power gas producer and gas engine, a 20 horse- 

 power DeLava steam turbine with direct-con- 

 nected centrifugal pump, a steam IngersoU- 

 Rand air compressor, a Foster super-heater of 

 the type supplied by the Power Specialty 

 Company, a Gerry-Emmons gasoline engine, 

 an Abner Doble water motor, and an Allis- 

 Chalmers 8 x 24 Corliss engine, direct-con- 

 nected with a centrifugal pump of 4,000 gal- 

 lons capacity. 



Professor W. C. Sabine, who holds a chair 

 of physics at Harvard University and is known 

 for his researches in acoustics and optics, has 

 been appointed dean of the Lawrence Scientific 

 School to succeed the late Professor Shaler. 



Dr. W. B. Cannon, assistant professor of 

 physiology in the Harvard Medical School, 



