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the council reported that arrangements had been 

 completed for the supply of sea- water, obtained 

 from the open sea beyond the Plymouth Break- 

 water, for special experiments on the rearing of 

 sea-fishes and other marine animals. Through 

 the kindness of Mr. J. W. Woodall, the Associa- 

 tion has had placed at its disposal a small float- 

 ing laboratory, which is at present stationed at 

 Salcombe. The periodical survej's of the phys- 

 ical and biological conditions prevailing at the 

 mouth of the English Channel have been con- 

 tinued by B'lr. Garstang at quarterly intervals 

 for an entire year. Observations were taken at 

 four fixed stations. They included serial tem- 

 perature determinations at all depths, filtration 

 of a definite column of water from bottom to 

 surface with a ' vertical net,' and collections of 

 the floating life at surface, mid- water and bottom 

 by means of a special devised closing net. Mr. 

 Garstang has also carried out a series of pre- 

 liminary experiments on the rearing of sea- 

 fish larvse under different conditions, with a 

 view to a solution of the difficulties hitherto 

 encountered in regard to the practical work of 

 sea-fish culture. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



For the eighth time, we believe, the courts 

 have decided the Fayerweather will case in 

 favor of the colleges. It is said that the case 

 will still be carried to the Supreme Court of 

 the United States. As the amount still in- 

 volved is about $3,000,000 it is to be hoped that 

 no legal technicality will prevent the money 

 from being used as Mr. Fayerweather intended 

 and that it will not be diverted to the distant 

 heirs and the lawyers who are trying to get it. 



A FELLOWSHIP in Greek has been endowed 

 at Columbia University to be open to graduate 

 students in Barnard College. The name of the 

 donor is not made public. The fellowship 

 will carry with it an annual stipend for the 

 holder of $500. 



The foundation-stone of the Passmore Ed- 

 wards Hall of the University of London, which 

 is being erected on a site allocated for the pur- 

 pose by the London County Council in Clare 

 Market almost on the line of the projected new 

 street from Holborn to the Strand, was laid on 

 June 2d. The hall will furnish the home of the 



Faculty of Economics and Political Science (in- 

 eluding commerce and industry), established by 

 the University Commissioners, and in it will be 

 carried on the future work of the London School 

 of Economics and Political Science, which is 

 practically coextensive with the new Faculty, 

 and which has been admitted as a school of the 

 University. Toward the expense of carrying 

 on the work the Loudon County Council will 

 contribute £2500 a year, and Mr. Passmore 

 Edwards has vested the sum of £10,000 in three 

 trustees for the erection of the building and for 

 carrying on the work of the School. 



Dr. Winthrop E. Stone has been chosen 

 president of Purdue University in Indiana as 

 successor to Dr. James H. Smart, who died 

 last spring. Dr. Stone has been vice-president 

 of the university for several years. 



Dr. Lewis G. Westgate has been appointed 

 professor of geology in the Ohio Wesleyan 

 University. 



Dr. Jambs M. Safford, who has been pro- 

 fessor of geology in Vanderbilt University for 

 many years, has just retired at the age of 

 seventy. For half a century he has been State 

 Geologist of Tennessee. 



Dr. George P. Dryer, associate professor 

 of physiology at the medical school of Johns 

 Hopkins University, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of physiology in the Medical School of 

 the University of Illinois. 



Dr. Stephen Riggs Williams, an assistant 

 in zoology at Harvard University and for two 

 seasons instructor at the Cold Spring Biological 

 Laboratory, has been appointed professor of 

 biology and geology at Miami University, Ox- 

 ford, Ohio, in place of Professor Treadwell, 

 who has gone to Vassar College. 



De. Justus W. Folsom, professor of natural 

 science at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, 

 Ohio, has been appointed instructor in entomol" 

 ogy at the University of Illinois. 



Mr. William Richard Sorley, professor of 

 moral philosophy in the University of Aber- 

 deen, has been elected to the Knightbridge pro- 

 fessorship of moral philosophy at Cambridge 

 University, in the place of Professor Henry Sidg- ' 

 wick who has been compelled to resign owing 

 to ill health. 



