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[N. S. Vol. XV. No. 377. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mrs. Collis P. Huntington has given $250,- 

 000 to the Harvard Medical School to erect a 

 laboratory of patholog-y and bacteriology in 

 memory of the late Mr. Huntington. The 

 sum of $821,225 has now been collected which 

 makes available Mr. John D. Eockefeller's 

 gift of $1,000,000. The donors to this fund 

 whose gifts are $5,000 or over are as follows : 



Miss Mary S. Ames $5,000.00 



Oliver Ames 5,000.00 



C. W. Amory 10,000.00 



Anonymous 10,000.00 



Robert Bacon 25,000.00 



Francis Bartlett 10,000.00 



Mrs. S. Parkman Blake , . 10,000.00 



John L. Bremer 10,000.00 



Mrs. John L. Bremer 5,000.00 



Miss Sarah Bremer 5,000.00 



Walter C. Cabot 5,000.00 



W. Murray Crane 5,000.00 



George F. Pabyan 25,000.00 



Mrs. William H. Forbes 5,000.00 



Augustus Hemenway 15,000.00 



Francis L. Higginson 60,000.00 



George Higginson 10,000.00 



Henry L. Higginson 10,000.00 



James J. Higginson 10,000.00 



H. H. Hunnewell 12,500.00 



Mrs. Collis P. Huntington 250,000.00 



Eben D. Jordan 5,000.00 



David P. Kimball 5,000.00 



Elliott C. Lee 25,000.00 



Joseph Lee 5,000.00 



Arthur T. Lyman 5,000.00 



W. L. Richardson 25,000.00 



Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Shattuck . . 50,000.00 



David Sears 25,000.00 



Fraucis Skinner 5,000.00 



John T. Spaulding 10,000.00 



W. S. Spaulding 10,000.00 



James Stillnpin 100,000.00 



Nathaniel Thayer 25,000.00 



We noted last week the gift of £25,000 of 

 Mr. William Johnston to University College, 

 Liverpool. We learn from The British Medi- 

 cal Journal that the £25,000 is divided as fol- 

 lows : £10,000 is allocated to found a chair of 

 chemical biology, £6,000 at 5 per cent, interest 

 to permanently endow three research fellow- 

 ships of £100 a year each. Of these fellow- 



ships one is to be held by a medical graduate 

 of a colonial university, a second by a grad- 

 uate of medicine of the United States, and a 

 third by a research student in gynsecology. 

 The remaining £9,000 is to be spent in build- 

 ing a laboratory adjoining the Thompson- 

 Yates laboratories, to accommodate the Tropi- 

 cal School, the professor of chemical biology, 

 experimental medicine, comparative pathology, 

 and serum research departments. 



John D. Eookepellee has offered to give 

 $25,000 to the endowment fund of William 

 Jewell College, Liberty, Mo., provided $75,- 

 000 additional is raised by January 1, 1903. 



The corner stone of the science and admin- 

 istration building of Colorado College has been 

 laid. The building, to cost $225,000, will be 

 three stories high, 287 feet long and 95 feet 

 wide, the material being sandstone. A natural 

 history museum will be installed in the build- 

 ing, with laboratories for scientific instruction. 



The Laboratory of Chemistry and Metal- 

 lurgy, at Lafayette College, the gift of Mr. 

 James Gayley of the class of '76, will be dedi- 

 cated on April 5. The program for the dedi- 

 catory exercises includes addresses by Presi- 

 dent Ira Ilemsen,of Johns Hopkins University; 

 President Thos. M. Drown, of Lehigh Univer- 

 sity, and Professor Henry M. Howe, of Colum- 

 bia University. 



The Science Hall, University of Montana, 

 was practically destroyed by fire on March 14. 

 The building was erected three years ago at 

 a cost of $100,000. The loss is covered by 

 insurance. 



At a conference of representatives of the 

 governors of Bang's and Dalhousie colleges, 

 held at Halifax, the joint committees unan- 

 imously arrived at a satisfactory basis of 

 amalgamation for the federation of the vari- 

 ous colleges in the maritime provinces, which 

 will be submitted to the boards of governors 

 of the various colleges for confirmation. 



At Yale University, Dr. Wesley E. Coe, 

 instructor in comparative anatomy, and Dr. 

 Milton B. Porter, instructor in mathematics, 

 have been appointed to assistant professor- 

 ships. 



