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SCIENCE. 



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use of the microscope in the study of metals, 

 utilization of waste heat, and the estimation of 

 sulphur, manganese and phosphorus in metals. 

 In the section dealing with the industry of or- 

 ganic substances the most important discussion 

 was on the use of alcohol for other than drink- 

 ing purposes, and a series of resolutions was 

 passed stating that in the opinion of the con- 

 gress no duty should be charged upon alcohol 

 used in the preparation of pharmaceutical and 

 chemical products. In the case of alcohol in- 

 tended for use as fuel, the substances added 

 should be of a character appropriate to its use, 

 not too costly, and not containing any non- 

 volatile substance. Any attempt to recover 

 pure alcohol from methylated spirit should be 

 liable to severe penalties, and all makers of 

 stills should be compelled to give particulars to 

 the excise authorities of stills sold or repaired. 

 In the other sections discussions were held on 

 the relation of the sugar industry to the State, 

 the methods of analysis of wines and spirits, 

 the carbide industry, manufacture of percar- 

 bonates, and numerous other papers of in- 

 terest. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The new observatory of "Wellesley College, 

 the gift of a member of the Board of Trustees, 

 was formally opened October 8th. Addresses 

 were announced by Professors E. C. Pickering 

 and David P. Todd. 



Union College has received .$10,000 from 

 members of the Mather family of Jefferson 

 county for the establishment of a department 

 of agriculture. 



Francis T. White, of New York City, has 

 given $25,000 to Earlham College, a Friends' 

 institution in Indiana, to be added to the like 

 amount given by him a year ago, the whole 

 to be known as the Francis T. White endow- 

 ment fund. 



The Faculty of Jefferson Medical College, 

 Philadelphia, have recommended the establish- 

 ment of a J. M. Da Costa Memorial Laboratory 

 of Clinical Medicine in memory of the late Dr. 

 Da Costa who was a graduate of the institution 

 and left to it his collections. 



The new School of Commerce, Accounts and 

 Finance of the New York University was for- 

 mally opened on October 2d, by Chancellor 

 McCracken. Professor C. W. Haskins is the 

 dean of the new school which started with an 

 enrollment of about fifty students. 



The Cornell Medical School now occupies its 

 new building on First Avenue between Twenty- 

 seventh and Twenty-eighth streets, New York 

 City. 



The University of Illinois has in course of 

 construction a new agricultural building which 

 will probably be the most extensive building in 

 the United States devoted to agricultural edu- 

 cation. $150,000 have been devoted to its con- 

 struction. 



President Charles Kendall Adams, of the 

 University of Wisconsin, has been give leave of 

 absence owing to ill-health and will spend a 

 year or more abroad. Dr. E. A. Birge, pro- 

 fessor of zoology, and dean of the College of 

 Letters and Science has been made acting presi- 

 dent. 



Dr. George H. Ashley, formerly assistant 

 State Geologist of Indiana, has accepted the 

 professorship of natural history at the College 

 of Charleston in South Carolina. This is the 

 position once held by Alexander Agassiz. 



Dr. T. Bird Moyer, Ph.D. (Univ. of Pa.), 

 instructor in chemistry in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, has been recently elected to the 

 professorship of chemistry in the Pennsylvania 

 College of Dental Surgery. 



Arthur L. Clark has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of physics in Bates College, succeeding 

 Professor M. C. Leonard who is now teaching 

 in Japan. 



The following assistants have been appointed 

 in Columbia University : Alfred Tringle, Ph.D., 

 analytical chemistry ; Frank B. Pendleton, 

 Ph.D., mechanical engineering; Llewellyn Le 

 Count, civil engineering ; Chas. H. Hitchcock, 

 mining ; Wm. G. Clark, metallurgy. 



At Johns Hopkins University, D. N. Shoe- 

 maker has been appointed assistant in zoology 

 and Dr. (xordon Wilson fellow in pathology. 



