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of Chicago. Mr. Eockefeller has also given 

 $250,000 to be used for the general needs of the 

 University during the present academic year. 



By the will of Mrs. Lila Currier, $50,000 will 

 go to Columbia University and $100,000 to 

 Yale University upon the death of Mr. Edward 

 W. Currier. 



By the opinion jxist handed down by the 

 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania affirming the 

 opinion of the Orphans' Court of Philadelphia, 

 which sustained the will of the late Joseph M. 

 Bennett, the University of Pennsylvania ac- 

 quires real estate declared to be worth more 

 than $500,000. The decedent left the property 

 to the University 'to further aid and encourage 

 the trustees in carrying out more practically 

 and thoroughly the coeducation of women and 

 girls.' 



The daily papers renew the reports that 

 negotiations are under way for the amalgama- 

 tion of the Armour Institute of Technology 

 with the University of Chicago. The plan in- 

 volves the removal of the Institute to the Uni- 

 versity campus, where the University will fur- 

 nish buildings and equipment to the value of 

 $1,000,000, while the Armour interests will 

 give $1,500,000 in endowment. Subsequent 

 gifts from the Armours and Mr. Eockefeller 

 are expected to increase the capital of the tech- 

 nology school to $5,000,000. The school will 

 continue to be known as the Armour Institute 

 of Technology, its policy will be maintained, 

 and the heads of departments will remain 

 practically the same. 



Columbia University has received an anony- 

 mous gift of $10,000 for two scholarships, and 

 one thousand dollars for a course of biological 

 lectures. 



Mr. William Johnston, a Liverpool ship- 

 owner, has given £25,000 to the University of 

 Liverpool, to promote research in pathology 

 and physiology. 



A CHAPTER of the scientific honor society 

 Sigma Xi has been organized at the University 

 of California with twenty members of the 

 faculty as charter members. 



The registration at the University of Chi- 

 cago for the autumn quarter was 2,431, as 



compared with 1,961 in 1900 and 1,682 in 

 1899. The number of students in the gradu- 

 ate schools was 435, of whom 197 were in the 

 Ogden school of science. In the school of 

 arts and literature the numbers of men and 

 women were equal, in the school of science 

 there were 170 men and 27 women. 



The new laboratory building of the depart- 

 ment of horticulture of the Iowa State Col- 

 lege was formally opened on Saturday even- 

 ing, February 22. 



Cablegrams report that in the disturbances 

 on February 22, at Moscow University, four 

 hundred students, armed with bludgeons, iron 

 bars and revolvers, wrecked the interior of the 

 University buildings, barricaded themselves 

 within, and hung out red ilags from the win- 

 dows. The police and troops forced an en- 

 trance into the interior and arrested the ring- 

 leaders of the rioters. A decree of the minister 

 of public instruction has been gazetted, order- 

 ing the expulsion from the University and 

 high schools of all students arrested in con- 

 nection with rioting. 



Professor F. J. E. Woodbridge, now head 

 of the department of philosophy in the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, has been elected to the 

 chair of philosophy at Columbia University 

 vacant by the election of Dr. Nicholas Murray 

 Butler to the presidency. 



Dr. George E. de Schweinitz, professor of 

 ophthalmology in the Jefferson Medical Col- 

 lege, has been elected to succeed the late Dr. 

 Norris as professor of ophthalmology in the 

 University of Pennsylvania. 



Dr. K. von Tubeuf, chief of the biological 

 division the German Department of Health, 

 has been appointed professor of forestry in 

 the University of Munich. 



The following errors were overlooked in the 

 proof of Professor Greenhill's paper (Science, 

 XIV., p. 973, 1902) : Eq. (1), for x read V- 

 p. 3, line 13, for '' read "^ ; eq. (19), for k read 

 K ; eq. (28), for a" read 2, and for E-2 read E-z; 

 eq. (32) ei seq., for A* and v read u; eq. (40), 

 for n read u. 



