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are already included in the third schedule of 

 the workmen's compensation bill, and are not, 

 therefore, within the committee's terms of 

 reference. 



Professor C. H. Judd, of Yale University, 

 gave an address on ' Visual Perception ' before 

 the Washington Academy of Sciences on No- 

 vember 27. The address was illustrated by 

 lantern slides, showing the method of photo- 

 graphing the eyes and giving the results of 

 the study of eye movements. It was discussed 

 by Professor George M. Stratton, of Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Mr. William Smith, of Geneva, has given 

 $500,000 to Hobart College to endow a college 

 for women. 



It is announced that Mr. Andrew Carnegie 

 has offered to give $100,000 to Queen's Uni- 

 versity, Ontario, on condition that the addi- 

 tional sum of $400,000 be collected. 



The trustees of the late Mr. T. Graham 

 Young have presented to the governors of the 

 Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical Col- 

 lege a sum of £10,000 to assist in making pro- 

 vision for the teaching of dyeing and bleach- 

 ing in connection with the chair of technical 

 chemistry in the college. Mr. Young's trus- 

 tees have also voted a sum of £850 for the 

 equipment of the laboratory. 



The majority of the committee of alumni 

 of the Andover Theological Seminary has 

 handed in a report adverse to the removal of 

 the seminary to Cambridge and its affQiation 

 with Harvard University. 



It is reported that the University of War- 

 saw will be removed to Saratoff and the War- 

 saw Polytechnic School to Rostoff-on-the-Don. 

 This would leave Russian Poland without a 

 university. 



Assistant Professor Alexander W. Evans 

 has been promoted to fill the Eaton professor- 

 ship of botany in the Sheffield Scientific 

 School of Yale University. 



Dr. S. M. Lindsay, professor of sociology 

 in the University of Pennsylvania, has been 



called to a newly-established chair of social 

 legislation at Columbia University. 



John L. Stewart, professor of economics 

 and history at Lehigh University, has been 

 appointed director of the library of that insti- 

 tution to succeed the late Professor William 

 H. Chandler. 



The registration of the University of Maine 

 for the present year shows an attendance of 

 56 in the College of Agriculture, and 391 

 in the College of Technology, with 29 in the 

 faculty of the former college and 35 in the 

 faculty of the latter. The new members of 

 the faculty and changes in the various scien- 

 tific departments follow: 



W. M. Munson, Pomologist in the Experiment 

 Station, 



W. D. Hurd, Acting Dean of the College of 

 Agriculture. 



A. C. Jewett, and W. K. Ganong, promoted to 

 professorships in Mechanical and Electrical En- 

 gineering. 



W. J. Morse, Vegetable Pathologist in the Ex- 

 periment Station. 



A. W. Gilbert, promoted to Assistant Professor 

 of Agronomy. 



P. A. Campbell, Instructor in Animal Industry. 

 R. W. Seabury, Instructor in Biological and 

 Agricultural Chemistry. 



C. B. Brown, Instructor in Civil Engineering. 



E. E. Moots, Instructor in Mathematics. 



H. A. Emery, Instructor in Civil Engineering. 



M. J. Dorsey, Instructor in Horticulture. 



C. J. Carter, Instructor in Machine Work. 



G. F. Wittig, Instructor in Electrical Engineer- 

 ing. 



A. C. Whittier, Assistant Chemist in the Ex- 

 periment Station. 



J. C. Colcord, Assistant Chemist in the Experi- 

 ment Station. 



F. Balentine, Tutor in Biology. 

 H. W. Bearce, Tutor in Physics. 



Mr. R. p. Gregory, of St. John's College, 

 has been appointed senior demonstrator in 

 botany in Cambridge University. 



At Cambridge University the Cavendish 

 professor of experimental physics and the 

 Lucasian professor of mathematics have ap- 

 pointed Mr. F. Horton, fellow of St. John's 

 College, to be Clerk Maxwell student in suc- 

 cession to Mr. O. W. Richardson, of Trinity 

 College. 



