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proceed to Senaar and Khartoum. Mr. J. S. 

 Budgett, who is engaged in collecting fishes on 

 the Eiver Gambia, dates his last letters (June 

 22d) McCarthy's Island in the interior. There 

 had been a disturbance in the colony, and one 

 of the Commissioners and a party of police were 

 believed to have lost their lives ; but this had 

 not affected Mr. Budgett' s operations, and he 

 had a large number of Polypteri and Protojjteri 

 in floating cages in the river. He was in good 

 health, and expected to be home in September. 



At the recent annual meeting of the Victoria 

 Institute, the address, ' On our Coal Eeserves 

 at the Close of the Nineteenth Century,' was 

 given by Professor Edward Hall, P.R.S. The 

 author had selected this subject for the annual 

 address, because public attention had recently 

 been directed to the question of coal re- 

 serves, owing chiefly to the increased price of 

 coal and to the unprecedented output of this 

 mineral from British mines, amounting in 1899 

 to 220,085,000 tons, being about 18,000,000 tons 

 over that of the previous yeal-. Referring to 

 the Royal Coal Commission of 1866, presided 

 over by the late Duke of Argyll, the author 

 stated that the production had doubled since the 

 Report of that Commission was issued in 1870 

 — a result scarcely anticipated by the Commis- 

 sioners — and the public were inquiring ' for how 

 long a period our coal reserves would be able to 

 bear the increasing drain.' The author ad- 

 vocated the imposition of an export duty on 

 coal shipped to Continental states, which were 

 taking from us about 40,000,000 tons annually, 

 so as to form a fund towards the relief of in- 

 creasing taxation, and he concluded by the 

 proposal for a new Commission on coal re- 

 sources, showing the subjects which would re- 

 quire investigation. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Three scholarships in music have been en- 

 dowed in Yale University by Mr. Morris F. 

 Steinert. Mr. Steinert has already endowed 

 four scholarships in music at this institution, 

 and has given it an important collection of 

 musical instruments. 



A GIFT of £1000 has been received by the 

 University of London from the children of the 



late Mr. William Liudley, in remembrance of 

 their father. 



The following additions have been made to 

 the faculty of the engineering departments of 

 the Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa : H. J. 

 Burt (University of Illinois), assistant professor 

 of civil engineering ; Dr. Samphear (Cornell 

 University), assistant professor of electrical 

 engineering; L. J. Young (State College, Pa.), 

 instructor in mining engineering, and I. A. 

 Williams (Iowa State College and University 

 of Ohio), instructor in ceramics. 



The Montana School of Mines, at Butte, will 

 begin its college year on the second Tuesday of 

 September. A serious lack of funds has delayed 

 the successful opening of the school for some 

 time, but it is now hoped that the institution 

 can open and offer the courses of study which 

 its organizers have carefully arranged. The 

 present faculty includes Nathan R. Leonard, 

 acting president, and professor of mathematics, 

 recently of the State University of Iowa ; Wil- 

 liam King, professor of chemistry and metal- 

 lurgj', a graduate of the Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity, and for sixteen years instructor in 

 chemistry in the Case School of Applied Sciences 

 in Cleveland and for two years in the College of 

 Montana at Deer Lodge ; and Dr. Chas. H. 

 Bowman, professor of mechanics and mining 

 engineering. 



Dr. W. D. Scott, Ph.D. (Leipzig), has been 

 appointed to a newly created instructorship in 

 psychology and pedagogy in Northwestern Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. Nagel, docent in physiology in the Uni- 

 versity at Freiburg, i. B., has been promoted to 

 an assistant pi-ofessorship, and Dr. Ernst 

 Weinschenk to an assistant professorship of 

 petrography in the University of Munich. 



Dr. Karl Boehm has qualified as docent in 

 mathematics in the University of Heidelberg, 

 and Dr. P. Rabe as docent in chemistry in the 

 University at Jena. 



Dr. Le Dantec, professor in the medical 

 faculty of Bordeaux, has been appointed to 

 give a course of instruction in tropical diseases. 

 In Holland the teaching of tropical medicine 

 has recently been inaugurated by Dr. J. H. 

 Kohlbrugge, docent in the University of Utrecht. 



