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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XV. No. 367. 



Cramer, professor of botany in the Technical 

 College at Zurich, and of Professor Henry 

 Settegast, director of the Agricultural Insti- 

 tute at Jena. 



SiE Ernest Cassel has given through King 

 Edward £200,000 for a sanitarium for con- 

 sumptives. The King has appointed an 

 advisory committee, composed of leadingphysi- 

 cians, including Sir William Henry Broad- 

 bent, Sir Richard Douglas Powell, Sir Francis 

 Henry Lacking, and Sir Felix Semon. Three 

 ■ prizes of £500, £200 and £100, respectively, 

 have been offered in connection with this 

 scheme, for the best essays on, and plans for, 

 the construction of the sanitarium. The com- 

 petition is open to medical men of all nation- 

 alities. 



By the will of Miss C. B. De Peyster, the 

 New York Historical Society, will, on the 

 death of her sisters, receive an estate of $130,- 

 000. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Oberlin College has collected the $300,000 

 necessary to secure the $200,000 offered by Mr. 

 John D. Rockefeller a year ago, and thus in- 

 creases its endowment by $500,000. Barnard 

 College, Columbia University, has not been so 

 fortunate in fulfilling the terms of Mr. Rocke- 

 feller's offer of $200,000, but Mr. Rockefeller 

 has extended the time to April 1. 



Four trustees of the Worcester Polytechnic 

 Institute, Messrs. S. Salisbury, C. H. Whit- 

 comb, C. H. Morgan and C. G. Washburn, 

 have given $30,000 to the institute. Part of 

 the money will be devoted to the erection of a 

 new foundry and forge shop. 



Sir William MacDonald has placed $125,- 

 000 at the disposal of the Ontario Government 

 to be used in the erection of buildings at the 

 Guelph Agricultural College, for the purpose 

 of giving instruction to school teachers in 

 the elements of nature-study and domestic 

 science. 



Lord Strathcona has given £25,000 to 

 Aberdeen University. 



The sum of about $80,000 has now been con- 

 tributed toward the endowment of the chair of 



political economy and social science at Wash- 

 ington and Lee University in memory of the 

 late William L. Wilson. $100,000 must be col- 

 lected, and it is hoped that subscriptions will 

 be sent to the treasurer of the fund, Mr. Her- 

 bert Welch, 1305 Arch Street, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. 



It is said that M. Robert Lebaudy has of- 

 fered $25,000 towards the establishment of a 

 French industrial school in connection with 

 the University of Chicago. The new school 

 is to be an integral part of the University and 

 the necessary buildings will be located on the 

 campus. The purpose of the school is the sys- 

 tematic study of American industrial and 

 business methods. The students will consist 

 of 600 graduates of French colleges, who will 

 be selected by the French Government. 



A DEPUTATION^ representing the English 

 university colleges of Bristol, Dundee, Leeds, 

 Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle 

 (Durham College of Science), Nottingham 

 and Sheffield, recently visited the chancellor 

 of the exchequer to urge an increase in the 

 grant of £25,000 distributed among the col- 

 leges. No hope, however, was given that the 

 grant would be increased, except in so far as 

 new colleges may receive small grants. 



Mr. Walter Palmer, M.P., has given £2,000 

 to the University of London to provide the 

 apparatus required for the proposed post- 

 graduate courses of lectures in physiology. 



At the University of London, university 

 scholarships have been awarded as the result 

 of the recent B.A., B.Sc, and M.B. examin- 

 ations to the following: Classics, H. G. 

 Wood; mathematics, F. Slator; chemistry, G. 

 Tattersall; zoology, H. M. Woodcock; experi- 

 mental physics, J. Satterly; medicine, C. J. 

 Thomas; obstetric medicine, A. E. Jones; 

 forensic medicine, E. M. Sharp. 



Dr. G. E. Fellowes, assistant professor of 

 history in the University of Chicago, has been 

 elected president of the University of Maine. 



Dr. D. a. Welsh^ senior assistant to the 

 professor of pathology in the University of 

 Edinburgh, has been appointed to the chair 

 of pathology in the University of Sydney. 



