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[N. S. Vol. XXIV. No. 617. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Mr. John A. Creighton, one of the founders 

 of Creighton University, Omaha, Nebr., has 

 deeded to that institution two buildings in the 

 wholesale district, worth about $500,000. 



Victoria University, of Manchester, has re- 

 ceived £5,000 from the trustees appointed 

 under the will of Miss Middleton, which 

 will be used towards endowing the chair of 

 anatomy. 



The Boston Transcript states that at a 

 meeting of the board of regents of the Uni- 

 versity of Kansas, a proposition was presented 

 by Chancellor Strong to ask Mr. Andrew Car- 

 negie for money with which to build a new 

 fine arts building, but the proposition was 

 voted down. 



Mr. William A. Marburg, of Baltimore, 

 has presented the Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School with a valuable collection of medical 

 books. 



The new administration building of the 

 Colorado School of Mines, which is to be 

 known as Simon Guggenheim Hall in honor 

 of the donor, was dedicated with appropriate 

 ceremonies on October 17. The dedicatory 

 address was delivered by the Rev. Dr. F. W. 

 Gunsaulus, president of Armour Institute. 

 Short addresses were also made by Rabbi W. 

 S. Friedraan, of Denver, and by Mi'. George 

 M. Post, in presenting to the school portraits 

 of the donor and of the former president of 

 the school. Dr. Regis Chauvenet, these por- 

 traits being the gift of the alumni. A large 

 audience was present, including a delegation 

 from the American Mining Congress, and rep- 

 resentatives from the other educational insti- 

 tutions of the state. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie recently opened the 

 new engineering and natural philosophy de- 

 partments of the Edinburgh University, which 

 were largely erected owing to his gifts. Mr. 

 Balfour, chancellor of the university, in thank- 

 ing Mr. Carnegie, Lord Elgin and other con- 

 tributors to funds, conferred the degree of 

 doctor of laws on Mr. Carnegie and Lord 

 Elgin. 



The senior officers in each department of 

 study in the two undergraduate departments 

 of Yale University and some others have had 

 their annual salaries fixed for the coming col- 

 lege year at $4,000. The total number of pro- 

 fessors affected by this change is about thirty- 

 five. The salary list of the departments men- 

 tioned has been increased by about $9,000 by 

 this rearrangement. 



The chair of geology, at Vassar College, 

 vacant by the death of Professor William B. 

 Dwight, has been filled by the appointment of 

 Dr. George B. Shattuck, associate professor 

 at the Johns Hopkins University. 



Dr. Arthur B. Lamb, instructor in electro- 

 chemistry at Harvard University, has been 

 appointed assistant professor of chemistry and 

 director of the Havemeyer Chemical Labora- 

 toYj at New York University, in succession to 

 Professor Morris Loeb. 



John Charles Hubbard, Ph.D. (Clark), as- 

 sistant professor of physics at New York 

 University, has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of physics in the collegiate department 

 of Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 



The medical department of the University 

 of Pennsylvania has established a department 

 of experimental surgery, and Dr. J. E. Sweet, 

 formerly connected with the laboratory of 

 hygiene, and more recently with the Rocke- 

 feller Institute, has been placed in charge. 



Dr. Alfred Schalek, of Chicago, has been 

 appointed professor of dermatology and geni- 

 to-urinary diseases in the medical college of 

 the University of Nebraska, Omaha. 



Dr. T. M. Taylor has resigned the position 

 of instructor in chemistry at Oberlin College, 

 which he has held for the past five years, to 

 become a member of the faculty of the Car- 

 negie technical schools at Pittsburg. His 

 place will be taken by W. H. Chapin, 1904, 

 who has resigned a fellowship in chemistry at 

 the University of Pennsylvania to remain at 

 Oberlin. 



Dr. Zdenko Skraup, professor in the Uni- 

 versity of Graz, has been appointed professor 

 of chemistry in the University of Vienna, in 

 succession to Professor Adolf Lieben, who has 

 retired. 



