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SCIENCE. 



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are the Myrtle Warbler and the Eed-Eyed 

 Vireo. 



Mr. J. C. Stevens, the London auctioneer, 

 sold on April 14 the entomological and sci- 

 entific library of the late Miss E. A. Ormerod, 

 and on April 15 and 17 parts of the collections 

 of butterflies and birds' nests and eggs formed 

 by the late Philip Crowley. 



The American Congress of Tuberculosis 

 will meet in New York City at the Hotel 

 Majestic, on May 14, 15 and 16. 



The Second International Congress for 

 Electricity in Medicine and Radiography will 

 be held at Berne from September 1 to 6, 1902. 



The Astronomical Society of Erance held its 

 annual meeting on April 12, under the presi- 

 dency of M. H. Poincare, who made an address 

 on the progress of astronomy during the year 

 1901. 



The New York Evening Post quotes as a 

 serious piece of news the following from a 

 London Journal : 



"Another American marvel, though in a totally 

 different direction, is Will Gwin, the boy surgeon. 

 Before he could walk he was present at all the 

 operations his father — himself a clever surgeon — 

 undertook, and not long ago he gained his cer- 

 tificate at the New Orleans University, the ex- 

 aminers stating that he was the cleverest 

 osteologist they had ever met. Though only six 

 years of age, he is consulted by patients whose age 

 is ten times his own, and his income runs well into 

 four figures." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. John D. Rockefeller has given 

 $1,000,000 to promote the cause of southern 

 education. It is understood that it will be 

 distributed among educational institutions by 

 the Southern Educational Conference, newly 

 organized by Mr. Robert C. Ogden, of New 

 York City. 



Plans have been completed for the new 

 buildings of the College of the City of New 

 York to be erected on Amsterdam Avenue 

 and 138th and 139th Streets, at a cost of 

 $2,100,000. Eive buildings are planned, in- 



cluding a mechanical arts building and a 

 chemical laboratory. 



Amherst College has received a gift of 

 $15,000 for the endowment fund, the income 

 of which is to be used to increase the salaries 

 of instructors and associate professors. 



The committee of the corporation of Har- 

 vard University appointed last December to 

 report on the University Library has recom- 

 mended the construction of a new library 

 building to cost about $650,000. 



The department of geology of Cornell Uni- 

 versity will conduct field work for ten weeks, 

 the headquarters of the school being in the 

 Ilelderberg mountains, near Albany. 



Mr. W. C. Beat, of the University of 

 Toronto, has been awarded the ' 1851 exhibition 

 traveling scholarship' for research in chem- 

 istry. 



Dr. Raymond Dodge, associate professor of 

 philosophy at Wesleyan University, has been 

 appointed professor of psychology. 



Dr. James Locke, of Yale University, has 

 been called to an assistant professorship of 

 chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. 



Me. M. de K. Thompson, assistant in the 

 Rogers Laboratory of the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, has been appointed in- 

 structor in electro-chemistry, with leave of 

 absence to study abroad. 



A TWO years' course in pharmacy and a four 

 years' course in pharmaceutical chemistry have 

 been added to the college curriculum of North 

 Dakota Agricultural College. Mr. Charles H. 

 Kimberly, of Ohio University, has been elected 

 instructor in pharmacy. Miss Marie B. Senn, 

 professor of domestic science, resigns at the 

 close of college year. 



De. Uhlig has been appointed professor of 

 physiology in the University at Vienna, and 

 Dr. Haussner, of Giessen, professor of mathe- 

 matics in the Technical School at Karlsruhe. 

 Dr. Max V. Vintschagau, professor of phys- 

 iology in the University at Innsbriick, has re- 

 tired. 



