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collection is a green toucan (Aulacorhamphus 

 sulcatus), though a grosbeak and two siskins 

 remain to be identified. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Announcement has been made by President 

 Charles F. Thwing that gifts of $100,000 each 

 have been made to Western Reserve Univer- 

 sity, Cleveland, 0., by Mr. H. M. Hanna and 

 Colonel Oliver H. Payne. The $200,000 thus 

 subscribed is to be used in establishing and 

 endowing a laboratory of experimental medi- 

 cine in the medical school. A professorship 

 of experimental medicine has been created 

 and Professor George N. Stewart, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has been elected to the 

 chair, the first of its kind, it is said, to be 

 created in this country. 



The trustees of Hobart College have ac- 

 cepted the proposition of Mr. William Smith, 

 of Geneva, N. Y., to found a woman's college. 

 The name of the new college will be the 

 William Smith College for Women, and it 

 will have an endowment of about $350,000. 

 The new college will have five members on the 

 board of trustees, two of whom must be 

 women. Two new buildings will be erected, a 

 dormitory and a biological and psychological 

 laboratory, to be known as the William Smith 

 Hall of Science. 



Mr. John D. Rockefeller has sent word to 

 the Board of Foreign Missions of the United 

 Presbyterian Church that he will give $100,- 

 000 toward educational work in Egypt and the 

 Soudan. 



A ' Carl Schurz memorial professorship ' 

 is to be established at the University of Wis- 

 consin as a result of the movement recently 

 started in Milwaukee by a number of promi- 

 nent German-Americans. The plan is to 

 raise an endowment of $50,000, the income of 

 which will be used for the establishment of 

 an annual course of lectures at the state uni- 

 versity, to be given by prominent professors 

 of German universities. It is hoped that the 

 establishment of this new chair will lead to an 

 exchange of professors between the University 

 of Wisconsin and German universities. 



President Plass, of Washburn College, 

 Topeka, Kans., a congregational institution, 

 has announced that Mr. Andrew Carnegie has 

 offered to give the college a second $50,000 

 for its endowment fund, provided the total 

 endowment reaches $200,000 by January 1, 

 1908. 



According to a cablegram from Tokio mem- 

 bers of the Purukawa family, who are prom- 

 inent Japanese mine owners, have given 1,- 

 000,000 yen (about $500,000) to establish the 

 nucleus of new universities at Fukuoka, Sap- 

 poro and Sendai. 



As a result of Bishop O'Connell's mission 

 to Japan the Vatican will establish shortly a 

 Catholic University at Tokio. It will be con- 

 trolled by Jesuits of the American province. 



Dr. a. Lawrence Rotch, the founder and 

 director of the Blue Hill Meteorological 

 Observatory, has been elected professor of 

 meteorology at Harvard University. 



Dr. a. E. Halstead has been elected pro- 

 fessor of surgery in the Northwestern Univer- 

 sity Medical School. 



At the annual meeting of the ti'ustees of 

 Oberlin College on December 5 it was voted 

 that under the provisions of the Carnegie 

 Foundation retirement is to be at the option 

 of the teacher or college at the age of sixty- 

 five, but obligatory at sixty-eight. The ofiice 

 of dean of the college of arts and sciences was 

 created, and Charles E. St. John, professor 

 of physics, was elected to the office. Mr. Earl 

 F. Adams, now at Harvard University on 

 leave of absence, was made associate principal 

 and associate professor of physics in the 

 academy. Dean Edward T. Bosworth was 

 granted leave of absence for the second 

 semester. Two associate professorships were 

 created, one in English and one in political 

 science. The bids for the new library exceed 

 the $125,000 given by Mr. Carnegie. After 

 some modifications in the plans bids will be 

 obtained again. 



Mr. F. J. Dykes, M.A., fellow of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, late lecturer in mechanics 

 at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, has 

 been appointed lecturer in mechanics at Trin- 

 ity College. 



