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has been promoted to the George Higginson 

 professorship in succession to Professor H, P. 

 Bowditch, who has become professor emeritus. 

 Dr. Wm. T, Porter has been promoted from 

 an associate professorship of physiology to a 

 chair of comparative physiology. 



The administrative board for the Graduate 

 School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard Uni- 

 versity for 1906-7 is as follows: Professors 

 W. M. Davis, acting dean, E. L. Mark, G. F. 

 Moore, H, W. Smyth, G. L. Kittredge, Hugo 

 Miinsterberg, W. C. Sabine, Maxime Bocher, 



E. F. Gay, J. A. Walz. 



Mr. W. L. Puffer, associate professor of 

 electrical engineering at the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, has resigned and is 

 succeeded by Professor George 0. Shaad, of 

 the University of Wisconsin. 



Professor E. H. Sneath has been granted 

 a second year's leave of absence from Yale 

 University. Dr. Paul Monroe, professor of 

 the history of education at Teachers College, 

 Columbia University, will have charge of one 

 of his courses. 



Dr. Ira D. Cardiff, assistant in botany at 

 Columbia University for the past two years, 

 has resigned to accept the professorship of 

 botany in the University of Utah, Salt Lake 

 City, Utah. 



Mr. Chester A. Darling, A.B. and A.M., 

 now of Defiance College, Ohio, has become 

 assistant of botany at Columbia University. 



The following appointments are announced 

 at Cornell University: J. 0. Peebles, H. W. 

 Riley, M. E. Thomas, George Carpenter and 

 W. H. Van Winkle, instructors in experi- 

 mental engineering; F. H. Kroger, instructor 

 in electrical engineering; D. C. Gillespie, in- 

 structor in mathematics; Lowell B. Judson, 

 assistant professor of horticulture. 



At Dartmouth College, appointments have 

 been made as follows : Assistant professors. 

 Dr. D. H. Gerould, biology; Dr. G. M. Poor, 

 astronomy. Instructors, R. M. Barton and 



F. C. Moore, mathematics; A. H. Chivers, 

 biology; Dr. C. H. Johnston, philosophy. 

 Assistants, F. L. Adams and C. Sheard, physics. 



The following advancements in the teach- 

 ing staff of Lehigh University have been an- 

 nounced: Assistant Professor Arthur E. 



Meaker, C.E., and Assistant Professor Preston 

 A. Lambert, M.A., become professors of mathe- 

 matics, and John H. Ogburn, C.E., assistant 

 professor of mathematics; Assistant Professor 

 John D. Irving, Ph.D., becomes professor of 

 geology ; Assistant Professor Philip M. Palmer, 

 A.B., becomes professor of modern languages 

 and literatures; Barry MacNutt, E.E., M.S., 

 becomes assistant professor in physics ; Assist- 

 ant Professor William B. Schober, Ph.D., be- 

 comes acting professor of chemistry in charge 

 of the department, in place of Professor Will- 

 iam H. Chandler, Ph.D., resigned. 



New appointments at Purdue University 

 are as follows: W. K. Hatt, Ph.D., formerly 

 professor of applied mechanics, to be professor 

 of civil engineering in charge of the depart- 

 ment; Mr. Paul B. Brenneman, B.S., 1894, 

 C.E., 1897, State College of Pennsylvania, 

 formerly engineer and superintendent of mi- 

 ning construction and operation, to be instruc- 

 tor in civil engineering; Mr. Arthur W. Cole, 

 B.S., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1902, 

 formerly of the University of Maine, to be 

 instructor in thermodynamics; Mr. L. W. 

 Wallace, B.S., Texas A. and M. College, 1903, 

 late with the motive power department of the 

 Santa Fe Railroad, to be instructor in car and 

 locomotive design; Mr. W. T. Small, B.S., 

 Purdue, 1903, formerly with the Cooper- 

 Hewitt Electric Company, to be instructor in 

 the electrical laboratory; Mr. C. E. Schutt, 

 B.S., Purdue, 1905, formerly with the New 

 York Telephone Company, Mr. George Lamke, 

 B.S., University of Michigan, 1906, and Mr. 

 W. A. Rush, B.S., Purdue, 1906, to be assistants 

 in the electrical laboratory; Mr. R. D. Kneale, 

 B.S., Purdue, 1906, and Mr. M. L. Allen, B.S., 

 University of Wisconsin, 1906, to be assistants 

 in the civil engineering department. 



Mr. Robert E. Loving, Ph.D. (Johns Hop- 

 kins, '05), has been elected professor of phys- 

 ics at Cornell College, Iowa. Mr. Robert W. 

 Getchell has been appointed assistant in the 

 chemical department. 



Professor Wien, of Wiirzburg, has declined 

 the call to succeed the late Professor Drude, 

 at Berlin, on the ground, it is said, that the 

 government will not erect a modern physical 

 laboratory. 



