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SCIENCE. 



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About ninety runs were made, the course being 

 laid out on the Riverside Drive. The technical 

 committee of the club reports that the impres- 

 sion produced was that eight miles an hour is 

 a very slow pace and that the evidence that 

 the automobile can be stopped much more 

 quickly than any other vehicle and can be 

 manoeuvred with much greater ease and con- 

 venience is positive and ample. They are said 

 to be a much safer conveyance than the horse- 

 drawn vehicle. 



Eeuter's agency has received despatches an- 

 nouncing the safe arrival on March 23, at 

 Gildessa, on the Abyssinia frontier, of Mr. 

 W. Fitshugh Whitehouse, Jr., the American 

 explorer, and Lord Hindlip. The explorers 

 left England at the beginning of the year with 

 the intention of making a journey from Zeila 

 to the Upper Nile. When the despatches were 

 written, the travelers were in good health 

 and had been able to secure ample camel and 

 other transport. At Jibuti they were joined 

 by Dr. Victor Bell. The party exisected to 

 reach the Abyssinian capital, and after mak- 

 ing a stay with Colonel Harrington, the 

 British agent, proposed to resume the journey 

 either via the Sobat or the Blue Nile. On 

 leaving Adis Abeba it was Mr. Whitehouse's 

 intention to spend a month in the 'devil-in- 

 fested' region of Walamo in order to investi- 

 gate the cause of the native belief that the 

 country is possessed by demons. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Over $800,000 have been subscribed towards 

 the endowment fund of $1,000,000 for the 

 Johns Hopkins University. This fund will 

 be used to support and enlarge the work of the 

 University, not for the construction of build- 

 ings on the new site as has been stated in some 

 of the newspapers. 



Bryn Mawr College has secured $200,000 

 toward the $250,000 needed to meet the condi- 

 tional gift of $250,000 from Mr. John D. 

 Eockefeller. 



President Wheeler, of the University of 

 California, has announced that gifts aggre- 

 gating $80,000 have been made to the Uni- 



versity. One of the largest is that of D. O. 

 Mills, of New .York, who gives $50,000 to be 

 added to the fund of $100,000 given by him 

 twenty-one years. ago for the establishment of 

 the Mills professorship of moral philosophy 

 and civil polity. 



Dartmouth ColIjEGE has received $32,500 

 from the estate of the late F. W. Daniels of 

 Winchester, Mass. Mr. Daniels was a mem- 

 ber of the class of 1868. 



Mr. Francis E. Loomis has established a 

 fellowship in physics at Yale University, open 

 to graduates of the academical department, 

 and the Sheffield Scientific School. 



An institution has been established at Milan 

 by M. Ferdinand Bocconi with an endowment 

 of $200,000 to give scientific training for com- 

 mercial work. 



The regular work of the Gordon Memorial 

 College at Khartoum in the Soudan will be 

 started next year. It will be remembered that 

 on the initiative of Lord Kitchener about 

 $1,600,000 was subscribed in memory of Gen- 

 eral Gordon. 



Professor Frederic S. Lee will next year 

 offer a course in physiology to students of Co- 

 lumbia College, the work in physiology having 

 hitherto been confined to the Medical School. 

 Mrs. Lee has given $500 toward equipping the 

 laboratory. 



Professor S. W. Williston, now of the Uni- 

 versity of Kansas, has been elected head pro- 

 fessor of paleontology at the University of 

 Chicago. 



Dr. Herman Schlundt has recently been 

 elected instructor in physical chemistry at the 

 University of Missouri. Dr. Schlundt took 

 his degree at the University of Wisconsin 

 last June. At Missouri he will have sole 

 charge of the work in physical chemistry. 



Dr. Joseph Swain, president of Indiana 

 University and formerly professor of mathe- 

 matics there and at Stanford University, has 

 been offered the presidency of Swarthmore 

 College. 



Lord Eoseberry has been elected chancellor 

 of the University of London, in succession to 

 the late Earl of Kimberley. 



