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SCIENCE. 



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der the presidency of M. Renaut, with MM. 

 Testut, Arloing and Ledouble as Vice-Presi- 

 dents. Thirty-two new members were ad- 

 mitted, among them being Professors Waldeyer, 

 His, Golgi, and Eternod. The Secretary of the 

 Association is Professor Nicolas, Faculty de 

 M6decine, Nancy. 



rrmvEBSiTY and educational news. 



The formal inauguration of Dr. Henry S. 

 Pritohett as President of the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology will take place on Octo- 

 ber 24th. 



The Trustees of Western Reserve University 

 have voted to erect a new chemical laboratory 

 for the work under the charge of Professor E. 

 W. Morley. 



Me. Alfred L. Jones, of Liverpool, has of- 

 fered il,000 a year for five years towards a 

 fund for establishing a comprehensivesystem 

 of technical education in Wales. 



A students' observatory has lately been 

 opened at Wellesley College, built and equip- 

 ped by the enlightened liberality of one of the 

 Trustees, Mrs. John C. Whitin. That the 

 building is unusually beautiful, of white marble, 

 with roof of ribbed copper, has not been al- 

 lowed to detract from the equipment. A twelve- 

 inch refractor of Alvan Clark & Sons, a three 

 inch transit, a six-foot focus concave grating 

 spectroscope and other necessary instruments 

 are or soon will be in place. The dome by 

 Warner & Swazey works easily, as it should in a 

 woman's observatory, and is of graceful design, 

 a hemisphere upon a cylinder. The address at 

 the opening was by Professor E. C. Pickering. 

 Greetings from Lady Huggins, Miss Agnes 

 Clarke and Miss Dorothea Klumpke were read, 

 and Professor David P. Todd spoke of ' Labor- 

 atory work in Astronomy.' Courses both in 

 physical astronomy and mathematical astron- 

 omy are already initiated under the conduct 

 of Professor S. F. Whiting and Professor Ellen 

 Hayes. 



The annual commemoration exercises will be 

 held at Princeton University on October 20th. 

 The address this year will be by Bishop Satter- 

 lee, of Washington. 



It is reported that Dr. Adams will not again 



resume the duties of the presidency of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, but that Dr. E. A. Birge, 

 professor of zoology and now acting president, 

 will be installed as president. 



Professor R. H. Chittenden, director of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University 

 and professor of physiological chemistry, has 

 been made professor of physiology in the Yale 

 Medical School. 



J. W. Feeley, M.S., professor of physics 

 and geology at Wells College, Aurora, N. Y., 

 has been appointed acting president in the 

 place of Dr. W. E. Waters, who has resigned. 



Mr. Hugo Diemer has been elected assistant 

 professor of mechanical engineering at the 

 Michigan State Agricultural College. He was 

 formerly the head of the mechanical depart- 

 ment of the Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege at Greensborough, N. C. 



Professor W. F. M. Goss has been elected 

 dean of the engineering school of Purdue Uni- 

 versity. 



Professor Roberts Latta, lecturer in logic 

 and philosophy in the University of St. An- 

 drews, has been appointed to the chair of moral 

 philosophy in the University of Aberdeen, 

 vacant by the transfer of Professor Sorley to the 

 corresponding chair at Cambridge University. 



Lawrence E. Griffin, Ph.D. (Johns Hop- 

 kins University), has been appointed instructor 

 in zoology in Western Reserve University. 



J. B. Faught has been appointed professor 

 of mathematics in Michigan Northern Normal 

 School at Marquette, Michigan. 



Richard K. Piez, Pd.D. (New York Uni- 

 versity), has been appointed professor of psy- 

 chology at the State Normal School, Oswego, 

 N. Y. Dr. Piez assumed the duties of his 

 chair upon his recent return from a special tour 

 in Europe, in which he made a study of the 

 applications of modern pedagogy in the actual 

 work of continental schools. Pitt. P. Colgrove, 

 Pd.D. (1900), has resumed his duties at the 

 State Normal School, St. Cloud, Minn., after a 

 leave of absence extending over two years, 

 which he spent in study at the University. Dr. 

 Colgrove will have charge of the departments 

 of psychology and mathematics. 



