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Chancellor James E. Day, of Syracuse 

 University, has announced tliat Mr. John D. 

 Eocliefeller has given $100,000 to the univer- 

 sity endowment fund. This insures the rais- 

 ing of $400,000 to meet the offer of Mr. John 

 D. Archbald, of New Torlv, to double that 

 amount. Among the new buildings that will 

 be erected will be a biological laboratory. 



Through the death' of Mrs. Charlotte L. 

 Sibley Phillips Exeter Academy will receive 

 $50,000 and the Massachusetts Historical So- 

 ciety $100,000. 



The University of Aberdeen has received 

 £25,000 from Lord Strathcona and £30,000 in 

 smaller subscriptions. 



Sir W. O. Dalgleish has given £10,000 to 

 St. Andrew's University, half of which is for 

 the new building of the Medical School. 



The Drapers Company has voted a donation 

 of £30,000 to the new University of London. 



At a meeting of the executive committee 

 of the Carnegie Trust held in Edinburgh, the 

 secretary and treasurer' submitted their re- 

 ports for the period ended December 31, 1901, 

 showing that fees have been paid by the Trust 

 to 2,441 students, amounting to the sum of 

 £22,941. It was arranged to hold the annual 

 meeting of the trustees in London, at which 

 the first report of the executive will be sub- 

 mitted. 



The second annual court of governors of 

 Birmingham University was held on January 

 8. Mr. Chamberlain, the chancellor, made an 

 address describing the progress of the Univer- 

 sity. Plans have been dravm up for buildings 

 to cost about $5,000,000, and three groups, to 

 cost about $1,500,000, will be erected with the 

 money that has been subscribed. As has been 

 already reported, the Birmingham City Coun- 

 cil had made a grant equal to a halfpenny in 

 the pound on the borough rate, producing £5,- 

 750 in the financial year, and directed that a 

 similar grant should be provided for in its 

 annual estimates until it should otherwise or- 

 der. The Staffordshire County Council had 

 similarly identified itself with the aims of the 

 University by making a grant of £500 a year 

 for five years, in aid of the School of Mining 

 and Metallurgy. 



About a year ago Mr. H. Melville Planna 

 founded in the medical department of West- 

 ern Reserve University a research fellowship 

 for the promotion of original work in medi- 

 cine, especially in physiology and pathology. 

 Applications for the fellowship are now in- 

 vited. The income of the fellowship is about 

 $600 a year. It is tenable, in the first instance, 

 for one year, but a fellow who has done ex- 

 ceptionally good work may be reappointed for 

 a second term. All communications should be 

 addressed to Dr. G. N. Stewart, professor of 

 physiology, or Dr. B. L. Milliken, dean, medi- 

 cal department of Western Reserve University. 



Professor Edmund J. James, professor of 

 public administration in the University of 

 Chicago, has been elected president of North- 

 western University. 



Dr. R. E. Jones has resigned from the pres- 

 idency of Hobart College. 



Dr. Julius Sachs, head of a well-known 

 preparatory school in New York City, has 

 been elected professor of secondary education 

 in Teachers' College, Columbia University. 



At the January meeting of the board of 

 trustees of Syracuse University, the following 

 changes in the faculty of science were an- 

 nounced: Associate Professor H. Monmouth 

 Smith was made full professor of chemistry. 

 Instructor Edward H. Kraus was made associ- 

 ate professor of mineralogy ; W. M. Smallwood, 

 professor of biology in Allegheny College, was 

 elected associate professor of zoology. Pro- 

 fessor Smallwood is now on leave of absence, 

 doing graduate work in Harvard University. 

 He will assume the duties of his new position 

 in September next. 



At Columbia University Mr. John Cabor, 

 Jr., M.E., has been appointed assistant in the 

 department of physics, to succeed George B. 

 Pegram, promoted, and Mr. Wilson E. Davis, 

 A. B., assistant in the department of mining. 



Dr. W. H. Thompson, Dunville professor of 

 physiology. Queen's College, Belfast, has been 

 elected to the chair of institutes of medicine 

 (physiology and histology) in the Royal Col- 

 lege of Physicians of Ireland, rendered vacant 

 by the resignation of Professor J. M. Purser. 



