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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. X I. No. 313. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



At the convocation exercises of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago on December 18th President 

 Harper announced that Mr. John D. Rockefeller 

 had made a further gift of $1,500,000 to the in- 

 stitution. Of this sum $1,000,000 is to be used 

 as an endowment fund. The balance of the 

 gift is to be used for general needs. Mr. 

 Rockefeller suggests that $100,000 be used for 

 the construction of a university press building. 

 Mr. Leon Mandel has given $25,000 to the 

 university in addition to his previous gifts. 



It is said that Brown University has received 

 gifts of $25,000 and $10,000 towards the second 

 million dollars for the university endowment. 



An anonymous friend of the University of 

 Pennsylvania has given a fund for prizes in the 

 School of Biology and in the department of in- 

 terior decoration in the School of Architecture. 

 The annual value of the prizes will be $400 in 

 the School of Biology and $150 in the School of 

 Architecture. 



We are glad to learn that the validity of the 

 will of the late Colonel Joseph M. Bennett, of 

 Philadelphia, making a large bequest to the 

 University of Pennsylvania has been sustained, 

 the Court refusing to send the case for trial by 

 jury. 



At the annual meeting of trustees of the 

 University of Illinois, at Champaign, the board 

 decided to ask a total appropriation of $900,000 

 from the Legislature, $90,000 of which is to be 

 used to build a new workshop in place of the 

 one destroj'ed by fire ; $150,000 for the chem- 

 ical building and $100,000 for a women's 

 dormitory. The remainder will be used for 

 current expenses for the next two years, in- 

 cluding $15,000 a year for the library, and 

 $16,000 a year for the establishment of a School 

 of Social and Political Science. 



Lord Steathcona was installed as Lord 

 Rector of Aberdeen University on December 

 18th. At the close of his address he announced 

 that he would give £25,000, provided £50,000 

 more was raised within a year, to wipe out the 

 debt of the university. Charles Mitchell, of 

 Newcastle, has offered to subscribe £20,000. 



Herk H. HtTBER has bequeathed 50,000 fr. 



to the Polytechnic Institute at Zurich to be used 

 for scientific excursions. 



The Executive Committee of the Board of 

 Trustees of Cornell University has awarded 

 the contract for the use of the medical depart- 

 ment on the campus at Ithaca. The building 

 will cost $125,000 and will be ready for use in 

 the autumn of 1902. 



At a stated meeting of the Board of Trustees 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, held De- 

 cember 4th, Dr. Edgar F. Smith, professor of 

 chemistry, who has been acting vice-provost 

 for some time, was elected vice-provost, 

 Charles Hugh Shaw, Ph.D. (Penna., 1900) 

 professor of biology in the Temple College 

 Philadelphia, was elected to an honorary fel 

 lowship in botany, in order that he may con 

 tinue the research work in cytology which he 

 had undertaken while pursuing his graduate 

 work. 



President Butler, of Colby University, has 

 resigned and will accept a chair at the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago. 



Attention was called in the last issue of 

 Science to the fact that Professor T. S. Town- 

 send, of Trinity College, Dublin, and Cam- 

 bridge University, had been appointed to the 

 newly- established Wykeham professorship at 

 Oxford. The abilities of Mr. Townsend are 

 fully recognized, and it is expected that he will 

 place the teaching of electricity on a satisfactory 

 footing at Oxford, yet some dissatisfaction is 

 expressed that an Oxford man should not have 

 been elected. Oxford scientific men get pro- 

 fessorships elsewhere, but to judge from the list 

 of professors, they are without honor in their 

 own country. This is thought to be a discour- 

 agement to science at Oxford. In the present 

 case, however, the complainants can scarcely 

 point to an Oxford electrician suitable for the 

 post. 



At a meeting of the Royal Institution on 

 December 3d, it was announced that Dr. Allan 

 Macfadyen had been elected Fullerian professor 

 of physiology. 



Dr. Josef Hort has, owing to ill health, 

 retired from his professorship in the Technical 

 Institute at Earlsruhe. 



