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The German Governmeut pays the men a lib- 

 eral salary as well as all travelling expenses. 

 The party sails from New York, November 3d, 

 and takes from Tuskegee a full outfit for cot- 

 ton-raising, including cotton-seed, ploughs, cot- 

 ton gins, and wagons and carpentry tools. 



We are requested to state that the second 

 part of the ' List of Private Libraries ' com- 

 piled by Mr. 6. Hedeler, of Leipzig, will soon 

 be ready. It will contain more than 600 im- 

 portant private collections of the United King- 

 dom, including a supplement to Part I. (United 

 States and Canada). Those possessors of 

 libraries, with whom Mr. Hedeler has been un- 

 able to communicate, are requested to furnish 

 him with details as to the extent and character 

 of their libraries if they contain more than 

 3,000 volumes or have a special character. 

 By doing so, they will, of course, not incur any 

 expense or obligation. 



UmVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Rush Medical College, Chicago, is to have 

 a new building costing $80,000, for which Dr. 

 Nicholas Senn has just given $50,000. It 

 will be principally used for administrative pur- 

 poses and will be named Senn Hall. 



The will of Frank Williams, late of Johns- 

 town, makes a bequest of $300,000 to Lehigh 

 University, for the benefit of worthy students. 

 The income is to be loaned to students who are 

 unable to pay their way through college. Their 

 notes are to be taken for the amount borrowed, 

 and the money, when returned, is again to be 

 placed in the fund. 



Amherst College receives $10,000 by the 

 will of the late Edward N. Gibbs. 



Among the bequests in the will of John Sher- 

 man are $5,000 to Oberlin College and $5,000 

 to Kenyon College. 



It is the purpose of the friends of the late 

 William L. Wilson and of the alumni of Wash- 

 ington and Lee University, of which he was 

 president, to raise by subscription a fund of at 

 least $100,000 to maintain a professorship in 

 the University, to be known as the Wilson en- 

 endowment. 



Mes. Jane K. Sather, of Oakland, Cali- 

 fornia, has given $10,000 to the University of 

 California, the income to be used in the pur- 

 chase of books for the library. This is in addi- 

 tion to her recent gift of $100,000, the income 

 from which she is to receive during her life. 



The Harvard Medical School has outgrown 

 its present building and the land on which it 

 stands will sometime be needed for the Bos- 

 ton Public Library. An estate has been bought 

 in Brookline to which it is proposed at some fu- 

 ture time to remove the Medical School as well 

 as the allied schools of veterinary medicine and 

 dentistry. 



It is proposed to build at Chicago University 

 a group of buildings for the social functions of 

 the University. The group includes a dining 

 hall, assembly hall and a club-house for male 

 students. It is hoped that the $400,000 needed 

 for the buildings will be subscribed by next 

 spring when building operations will be com- 

 menced. 



The total income of the colleges of agricul- 

 ture and mechanical arts supported wholly or in 

 part by the Governmeut was for the year 1898- 

 99 $6,193,016 ; 35,458 students were registered. 



The total registration at the University of 

 Michigan to date is 3,648, divided as follows : 

 literary, 1,537; law, 840 ; medicine, 520 ; en- 

 gineering, 345 ; dentistry, 268 ; homoeopathy, 

 71 ; pharmacy, 67. The total registration last 

 year was 3,441, of whom 167 matriculated after 

 the end of October. 



Mr. Hugo Diemer has been elected assist- 

 ant professor of mechanical engineering at the 

 Michigan State Agricultural College. 



Professor John Craig has been appointed 

 extension professor of agriculture and horti- 

 culture in the Agricultural College of Cornell 

 University. 



At Cambridge, Dr. G. E. Rogers, of Gonville 

 and Cains, has been appointed demonstrator in 

 anatomy; Mr. C. T. R. Wilson, M.A., of 

 Sidney Sussex College, has been appointed 

 demonstrator in experimental physics and Mr. 

 J. S. E. Townsend, B.A., fellow of Trinity 

 College, has been appointed assistant demon- 

 strator in physics. 



