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seum, library, herbarium, and laboratories in 

 the museum building will be open for inspec- 

 tion until 6:30. An exhibition will be held 

 in connection with the meeting, in the hall of 

 the museum building immediately adjoining 

 the lecture hall; this exhibition will be open 

 from one o'clock until half past six on Wednes- 

 day, May 14, and from ten o'clock until five 

 on Thursday, May 15. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Adelphi College, Brooklyn, has received 



gifts amounting to $250,000, of which one 



half was given by Mr. John D. Rockefeller. 



Mr. Heney C. Havemeyer has given two 

 thousand volumes to the library of the public 

 school at Greenwich, Conn., erected by him 

 and Mrs. Havemeyer at a cost of $200,000. 



Three of the positions offered by the Har- 

 vard Medical School to properly qualified men 

 desirous of training in physiological research 

 and in the management of large laboratory 

 classes in experimental physiology are not yet 

 filled for the next collegiate year. Holders of 

 these positions give more than half the day to 

 research. The remaining time is spent during 

 the first four months of the collegiate year in 

 learning laboratory methods and during the 

 last four months in directing the laboratory 

 work of the medical students, about two hun- 

 dred of whom work from two to three hours 

 daily for sixteen weeks in experimental physi- 

 ology. The fundamental experiments in physi- 

 ology done by so many men working at one time 

 present every variety of results and impart a 

 training not to be acquired in other ways. 

 Much too may be learned by association with 

 the large staff engaged in research in the 

 laboratories of anatomy, histology, pathology, 

 pharmacology, hygiene, physiology and physi- 

 ological chemistry, all of which have their 

 laboratories in the Medical School building. 

 No charge of any kind is made either for the 

 training in physiological research and in teach- 

 ing or for the use of animals and other ma- 

 terial. In addition to these opportunities each 

 assistant receives four hundred dollars. Appli- 

 cations for these positions should be sent to 

 Professor W. T. Porter, Harvard Medical 



School, 688 Boylston Street, Boston, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



The Hon. Carroll D. Wright, commissioner 

 of labor, has been appointed president of the 

 collegiate department of Clark University. It 

 is understood that Mr. Wright will not, for the 

 present at least, resign his position under the 

 government or his work at Columbian or 

 Catholic University. 



Dr. Prank Strong, formerly president of the 

 University of Oregon, has been elected chan- 

 cellor of the University of Kansas. 



It is expected that General Webb, presi- 

 dent of the College of the City of New York, 

 will retire from his office at the end of the 

 present year. Arrangements have this winter 

 been made by which the officers of the College 

 retired for age shall receive a liberal pension. 

 The report that Dr. W. H. Maxwell, super- 

 intendent of public schools, will succeed Gen- 

 eral Webb is said to have no definite founda- 

 tion. 



Professor Lachman, of the University of 

 Oregon, has been invited to take charge of 

 the chemical department at the University of 

 California for the coming summer session. 



Dr. Frank E. Van Horn has been ap- 

 pointed professor of geology and mineralogy 

 at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, 

 Ohio. 



Dr. W. B. Huff, instructor in physics in 

 the Johns Hopkins University, has been ap- 

 pointed associate in physics at Bryn Mawr 

 College. Dr. Huff received his baccalaureate 

 degree at the University of Wisconsin in 

 1889, his master's degree at the University of 

 Chicago in 1896, and his doctorate at Johns 

 Hopkins in 1900. 



Dr. Fournier has been appointed professor 

 of geology and mineralogy in the University 

 of Besangon. Dr. v. Nathusius, decent in 

 agriculture at Heidelberg, has been called to 

 an assistant professorship at Jena. Dr. 

 Wohler has qualified as decent in inorganic 

 chemistry in the Technical Institute at 

 Charlottenburg and Dr. Brunner as docent in 

 physical chemistry in the University of Lem- 



