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ican machinery. The Electrical World holds 

 that the country has been unfairly treated. It 

 says : "In electricity, Austria, with 25 entries, 

 had 5 grand prizes and 17 gold medals. The 

 United States, with 283 entries, had 6 grand 

 prizes and 23 gold medals. In machinery, 

 Switzerland, with 14 entries, got 9 grand prizes 

 and 15 gold medals. The United States, with 

 282 entries, got a paltry 10 grand prizes and 26 

 gold medals. The relative proportions are pre- 

 posterous. We refuse to believe that American 

 machinery, now sweeping Europe, is inferior 

 to the Swiss or Austrian in any such degree as 

 this implies." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Mrs. Jane K. Sathbr, of San Francisco, has 

 given $1000,000 to the University of California. 



It is reported that three alumni of Yale Uni- 

 versity have offered to subscribe each $100,000 

 for the memorial building in case the further 

 sum of $300,000 is secured. 



The United States Supreme Court has finally 

 rendered a decision sustaining the trust left by 

 Mrs. Katherine M. Gareelon of Oakland, Cali- 

 fornia. After long and expensive litigation, the 

 wishes of Mrs. Gareelon will be carried into 

 effect and three-fifths of the sum will be used 

 to establish a hospital in Oakland and two- 

 fifths will revert to Bowdoin College which will 

 receive about $500,000. 



The Bartram memorial library of botanical 

 books has been presented to the library of the 

 University of Pennsylvania. 



Me. E. F. Balk, of Cincinnati, has given to 

 the University of Cincinnati his collection of 

 specimens of natural history said to be of con- 

 siderable value. 



A NEW bacteriological laboratory has been 

 built for the University of Melbourne at a cost 

 of $20,000. 



The Department of Geology of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago had three parties of students in 

 the field during the past summer. Two of 

 these parties were in Wisconsin, one during 

 July and one during August, while the third 

 party was in the West, along the line of the 



Great Northern Railway. The principal stops 

 made by the third party were at Midvale and 

 Lake McDonald, Montana, and at Lake Chelan 

 in Washington. A trip was also made into the 

 Kootenai region of British Columbia. Each 

 party was in the field four weeks, and the total 

 number of students participating was between 

 thirty and forty. 



The registration at Yale University is 2,474, 

 a decrease of 43 as compared with last year. 

 The Sheffield Scientific School has, however, 

 an increase of 36 students. 



SiK Michael Foster has been reelected 

 member of the British Parliament, representing 

 the University of London, without opposition ; 

 Sir John Batty Tuke has been returned under 

 the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews 

 also without opposition. 



The daily papers report that eight of the 

 former professors of the reorganized University 

 of Havana are to receive pensions of $1,200 a 

 year each during the term of the military 

 occupation. 



The Rev. Dr. Robert Sheppard, professor of 

 history and political economy at Northwestern 

 University, has been appointed president of the 

 University. 



Edward M. Paxson, ex-Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, has been 

 elected president of the Medico-Chirurgical 

 College in Philadelphia. 



William T. Horne and Albert T. Bell, fel- 

 lows in botany in the University of Nebraska, 

 have resigned, the former to accept a position 

 in Kadiak, Alaska and the latter an instructor- 

 ship in the High School of Lincoln, Nebr. Mr. 

 Horne expects to make collections of the flora 

 of Kadiak Island for study on his return a 

 year or two hence. Miss Daisy F. Bonnell, 

 of the class of 1899, has been appointed fellow 

 in botany. 



Professor J. W. Freley has been appointed 

 acting president of Wells College. 



Dr. Spencer W. Richardson, lecturer on 

 mathematical physics at University College, 

 Nottingham, has been elected principal of 

 Hartley College and professor of physics. 



