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lege Observatory, has received an appointment 

 as assistant in the astrophysical observatory 

 at Allegheny, Pa. 



Dr. J. GuNNAR Anderson has been ap- 

 pointed director-general of the Geological Sur- 

 vey, of Sweden. 



Dr. Alfred C. Haddon, of Cambridge Uni- 

 versity, gave a lecture before the American 

 Ethnological Society at the American Museum 

 of Natural History on November 15. 



Professor Charles Lane Poor, of Columbia 

 University, gave a public lecture under the 

 auspices of the Nev? York Academy of Sci- 

 ences and the American Museum of Natural 

 History, on November 19, on ' The Proposed 

 New Astronomical Observatory and Nautical 

 Museum for New York City.' 



A COURSE of illustrated lectures on ' The 

 Logical Evolution of Industries ' is being 

 given by Mr. Harlan I. Smith, of the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History of New 

 York, to the normal domestic art students at 

 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, during the school 

 year 1906-7. The purpose of the course is to 

 acquaint these prospective teachers of hand- 

 work with primitive arts and tools that they 

 may more adequately instruct elementary 

 school children in the simple forms of the in- 

 dustrial processes of modern life. 



A PRIZE has been established for proficiency 

 in mineralogy in the Sheffield Scientific School 

 in memory of the late Professor Penfield. 

 The prize, of $25, is to be known as ' The 

 Samuel Lewis Penfield Prize,' and is founded 

 by a gift of $500 from Mr. Morris B. Belknap, 

 of Louisville, Ky., of the class of 1877. 



The statue of the late Principal Viriamu 

 Jones, professor of physics and the first prin- 

 cipal of the South Wales and Monmouthshire 

 University College, has been temporarily 

 placed, pending the completion of the new 

 college buildings, at the City-hall, Cardiff. 



Dr. a. F. Fokker, professor of hygiene and 

 bacteriology at the University of Groningen, 

 has died at the age of sixty-six years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The daily papers report that the sum of 

 $500,000 has been offered to enlarge the uni- 



versity at Louisville, if an equal sum is con- 

 tributed from other sources. 



At the meeting of the Philadelphia County 

 Medical Society on November 7, Dr. S. Weir 

 Mitchell announced that Andrew Carnegie will 

 give the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, 

 $50,000 contingent on the college raising the 

 sum of $100,000. The money is to be used in 

 the erection of a new building. 



The program of the Association of Amer- 

 ican Universities, which is meeting this week 

 at Harvard University is as follows: Friday, 

 November 23, 10 a.m., ' The Appointment and 

 Obligations of Graduate Fellows.' Papers 

 will be presented on behalf of Clark Univer- 

 sity, by Professor Hall; for the University of 

 Wisconsin, by Professor Comstock. 2:30 p.m., 

 ' The Exemption of Educational Institutions 

 from Taxation.' Papers will be read on be- 

 half of Harvard University, by President 

 Eliot; for the University of Virginia, by Dr. 

 J. W. Page. Saturday, November 24, 10 a.m., 

 ' Should Men Bearing the Same Title in any 

 Institution receive the Same Pay ? ' Papers 

 will be presented on behalf of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, by President Jordan; for the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, by Professor Hutchins. 



The National Association of Presidents of 

 the State Universities, which met at Baton 

 Rouge last week, unanimously adopted the 

 report of the committee on the University of 

 the United States recommending the estab- 

 lishment of a national university by the gov- 

 ernment at Washington. 



At the Montana State School of Mines, 

 Charles Henry Bowman, M.S., secretary of 

 the faculty, has been elected president. Pro- 

 fessor Theodore Simons has been elected pro- 

 fessor of engineering design. 



Mr. T. D. a. Cockerell, lecturer in ento- 

 mology at the University of Colorado, has 

 been promoted to a professorship of systematic 

 zoology. At the same institution. Dr. Saul 

 Epsteen, Ph.D. (Zurich), has been promoted 

 to an assistant professorship of mathematics. 



Mr. a. C. Steward, tutor of Emanuel Col- 

 lege, has been elected to the professorship of 

 botany at Cambridge University, vacant by 

 the death of Professor Marshall Ward. 



