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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XII. No. 298. 



' Auatomical and Zoological Researches,' in- 

 cluding an account of the zoological i-esults of 

 the two expeditions to Western China in 1868- 

 69 and 1875. The scientific results of his re- 

 searches in the Mergui Archipelago were pub- 

 lished by the Linnean Society of London, and 

 he also published in 1890 an account of ' Eng- 

 lish Intercourse with Siam in the Seventeenth 

 Century,' as one of Triibner's Oriental Series. 

 In addition to being a fellow of many learned 

 societies he was also a Fellow of the Calcutta 

 University and a corresponding Fellow of the 

 Ethnological Society of Italy. In 1885 the 

 University of Edinburgh conferred on him the 

 honorary degree of LL.D. In 1896 Dr. Ander- 

 son published a small volume on ' The Herpe- 

 tology of Arabia,' and he was lately engaged 

 on a work dealing with ' The Fauna of Egypt.' 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Harvard University, Radcliffe College 

 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 each receive $2000 by the will of Barthold 

 Schlesinger, of Brookline, Mass. 



Mr. John D. Rockefeller has given $180,- 

 000 to Spellman Seminary, a Baptist college 

 for negroes at Atlanta, Ga. 



The Corporation of Harvard University has 

 passed the following minute in acknowledgment 

 of the gift of $100,000 made through Mr. 

 Alexander Agassiz from Mr. and Mrs. Quincy 

 A. Shaw, Mrs. Henry L. Higginson and him- 

 self for the immediate construction of the south- 

 west corner of the Oxford street fajade of the 

 University Museum : Voted that the president 

 and fellows gratefully accept this large gift on 

 the terms and conditions named in Mr. Agassiz' s 

 letter, and hereby record their sense of the 

 great worth of a gift which strengthens and 

 perpetuates the precious associations with the 

 name of Agassiz at Harvard University, and per- 

 fectly illustrates the noble use of private wealth 

 for the promotion of public intellectual ends. 



The city of Lafayette, Ind., has presented 

 to Purdue University a 2,000,000-gallon water 

 works pumping engine for use in the laboi'atory 

 of the university. It was built in 1875 and is 



an excellent example of the duplex walking- 

 beam pump. In addition to its historical value 

 it will furnish an ample supply of water for 

 the hydraulic experiments which will be 

 carried on. 



Smith College will celebrate the 25th an- 

 niversary of its foundation on October 2d and 

 3d. On the latter day historical addresses will 

 be made by the Rev. Dr. John M. Greene, and 

 President Seelye, and there will be an educa- 

 tional conference, with addresses by Dr. William 

 T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Edu- 

 cation ; Dean Le Baron Russell Briggs, of Har- 

 vard University ; President Arthur M. Hadley, 

 of Yale University ; President Seth Low, of Co- 

 lumbia University ; President James M. Taylor, 

 of Vassar College ; President Caroline Hazard, 

 of Wellesley College, and President M. Carey 

 Thomas, of Bryn Mawr College. 



Professor J. G. McGreoor, of Dalhousie 

 University, Halifax (N. S.), has been appointed 

 professor of physics in the University College, 

 Liverpool, in succession to Professor Lodge. 



De. F. E. Bolton, of the Milwaukee State 

 Normal School, has been elected professor of 

 pedagogy in the State University of Iowa. 



Dr. Walter Francis Wilcox has been 

 appointed lecturer on the United States Census 

 of 1900, at Harvard University. 



Professor Rush Rhees, the new president of 

 the University of Rochester, is to be formally 

 installed on Oct. 11th. 



The Crown appointments on the Senate of 

 the LTniversity of London are : Sir John Wolfe- 

 Barry, Sir Henry Roscoe, Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, 

 and the Hon. W. Pember Reeves, and, as a rep- 

 resentative of the faculty of laws. Lord Davey. 



Dr. Adolf Sauer, associate professor at 

 Heidelberg, has been elected professor of miner- 

 alogy and geology and director of the newly 

 established geological bureau at Stuttgart. 



Dr. Tchermack, docent at Leipzig, has been 

 appointed assistant in the physiological labora- 

 tory at Halle. 



Dr. Abbgg, docent in chemistry at Breslau, 

 has been promoted to an associate professor- 

 ship. At the same university Dr. Emil Bose 

 has qualified as docent in physics. 



