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rial to Mr. G. G. Chisholm, for the services he 

 has rendered during twenty-five years to geo- 

 graphical education by text-books of various 

 kinds, atlases, and lectures, all of a high 

 standard of value, as well as for his geo- 

 graphical investigations, among other subjects 

 into cataracts and waterfalls, and on the sites 

 of towns; the Back grant 'to Lieutenant 

 Amdrup, of the Danish navy, for his two voy- 

 ages of exploration to the east coast of Green- 

 land, during which he surveyed and mapped 

 in detail much of the coast hitherto unlinown 

 or imperfectly mapped'; the Peek award to Mr. 

 J. P. Thomson, the founder of the Queens- 

 land branch of the Australian Geographical 

 Society, who, by his writings and in other 

 ways, has done much to promote the interests 

 of geography in Queensland. 



VNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Harvard University has received three large 

 bequests: $450,000 from the late George 

 Smith, of the class of '53, to be used in erect- 

 ing three domitories ; $100,000 without restric- 

 tion from the late Eobert C. Billings, of 

 Jamaica Plain, and $100,000 from the late 

 Jacob Wheelock, of Worcester, Mass. Mr. 

 Wheelock also bequeathed $100,000 to Clark 

 University, and Mr. Billings bequeathed $100,- 

 000 each to the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology and the Boston Museum of Fine 

 Arts. 



Barnard College, Columbia University, 

 has added $500,000 to its endowment, one half 

 having been given by Mr. John D. Rocke- 

 feller and the other half having been collected 

 as a condition of this gift. 



By the will of George L. Littlefield, of 

 Providence, Brown University receives $100,- 

 000 for the establishment of a chair of Ameri- 

 can history and the residue of the estate, 

 which, it is said, may amount to $500,000. 



By the will of Mrs. S. P. Lees, of New York, 

 Washington and Lee University receives a 

 bequest of $30,000. 



Sir William McDonald has given McGill 

 University $20,000 for the purchase of books 

 needed for the research work of students in 

 arts, and has also presented to the physics 



building a liquid-air plant, and to the 

 zoological department equipment for the 

 teaching of embryology. • 



The class of '76 at Yale University has 

 established with $5,000 a scholarship, named 

 in honor of President Hadley, who was a 

 member of the class. 



Other gifts to educational institutions 

 include $20,000 to Carroll College, in Wiscon- 

 sin, from Mr. Ralph Vorhees, and $5,000 to 

 the Stevens Institute of Technology from 

 Mr. Alexander C. Humphreys. 



We are informed that the Science Hall at 

 the University of Montana was only partially 

 burned on March 14, the loss falling almost 

 entirely upon the engineering department. 

 The foundry, forge room, machine shop and 

 the assay laboratory in chemistry were gutted. 

 The loss is about $6,000, fully insured. The 

 other laboratories were not injured. The 

 burned portion will be immediately rebuilt. 

 The origin of the fire is unknown. 



The troubles in the Russian universities 

 and other institutions of learning seem to be 

 very serious. It is said that the University of 

 St. Petersburg will not be open until the au- 

 tumn, and perhaps not then. In a technical 

 school at Plock the students set fire to the 

 building and attempted to lynch the pro- 

 fessors. About one hundred students of Mos- 

 cow University have been banished to Siberia 

 and about 500 have been imprisoned. 



The Carnegie Trust of the Universities of 

 Scotland has prepared its first report. No 

 appropriations have as yet been made for re- 

 search or the improvement of the facilities of 

 the universities. But in accordance with Mr. 

 Carnegie's wishes, the fees of a large number 

 of students have been paid, the number at 

 each of the four universities and the amount 

 of the fees being as follows : St. Andrew's, 

 268 students, class fees, £2,452 16s.; Glasgow, 

 828 students, class fees, £7,672 13s. 6d. ; Aber- 

 deen, 473 students, class fees, £3,806 Is. 6d.; 

 Edinburgh, 872 students, class fees, £9,010 5s. 

 6d. 



Miss Eleanor Marie Nast has been awarded 

 by the Woman's College of Baltimore a for- 

 eign fellowship in biology. 



