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collected. It is reported that tlie further sum 

 of $250,000 has been subscribed. 



Wesleyan University has received an 

 ^nonymous gift of $75,000 for the erection of 

 a new science building. 



In addition to the gift of $50,000 from Mr. 

 D. 0. Mills, noted last week, the University 

 of California has received about $20,000 for 

 the purchase of books from Mrs. Phoebe 

 Hearst, Mrs. Jane K. gather and Mr. Glaus 

 Spreckels; $5,000 for a lectureship in the Col- 

 lege of Commerce from Mr. Henry Weinstoek, 

 and $8,000 for a chair in physiology from Dr. 

 M. Herzstein. 



The Secretary of the Navy was authorized 

 in 1900 to complete plans for new buildings 

 and improvements for the Naval Academy at 

 Annapolis at an expense not exceeding $8,000,- 

 000. We learn from the report of the House 

 Committee on Naval Affairs that the armory 

 and the boat-house are nearly finished and 

 the foundations of the marine engineering 

 building are being constructed, the expendi- 

 ture so far amounting to nearly $1,200,000. 

 The contract has been let for the cadets' quar- 

 ' ters, which will cost $2,248,000, aeconunoda- 

 ting 1,200 cadets. The gymnasium and officers' 

 quarters will be under contract by June 1, as 

 will also be the building known as the officers' 

 mess, and plans for the sea-wall work are now 

 practically completed and will be advertised 

 in a short time. 



Miss Margaret F. Washburn, Ph.D. (Cor- 

 nell), has been elected to the professorship of 

 psychology in the University of Cincinnati 

 vacant by the removal of Professor Judd to 

 Yale University. Miss Washburn is at pres- 

 ent warden of the women's college at Cornell 

 University and will occupy a similar position 

 at Cincinnati. 



Dr. Arthur Lachman has resigned the chair 

 of chemistry and the deanship of the College 

 of Science and Engineering in the University 

 of Oregon. 



Dr. John H. Washburn has resigned the 

 presidency of the Ehode Island College of 

 Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts at Kings- 

 ton. 



Professor David Franklin Houston, pro- 

 fessor of political science in the University of 

 Texas, has been elected president of the Texas 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College at 

 Bryan. 



The board of governors of McGill Univer- 

 sity has appointed Dr. Wyatt Johnson, 

 assistant professor of hygiene, to be professor 

 of hygiene, in succession to Dr. Craik. The 

 following appointments of demonstrators have 

 also been made: Alfred W. G. Wilson, Ph.D., 

 in geology; Mr. Howells Frechette, B.Sc, in 

 metallurgy; Mr. K. M. Cameron, B.Sc, in 

 civil engineering; Mr. H. A. Burson, M.Sc, 

 and Mr. E. L. Franklin, B.Sc, in electrical 

 engineering. 



Appointments at Tale University have been 

 made as follows : L. F. Rettiger, to be instruc- 

 tor in bacteriology; Andrew L. Winter, in- 

 structor in organic analysis; and Arthur L. 

 Dean, assistant in plant physiology. 



Dr. William B. Huff, now assistant in 

 physics at Johns Hopkins University, has been 

 appointed associate in physics at Bryn Mawr 

 College. 



IT. L. Eietz, assistant in mathematics at 

 Cornell University, has been appointed to fill 

 the chair of mathematics at Butler College. 



The following appointments have been an- 

 nounced at Cornell University: E. J. Mc- 

 Caustland, assistant professor in civil engi- 

 neering ; Herman Diedrichs, assistant professor 

 in experimental engineering; Dr. Ernest 

 Albee and Dr. Albert Lefevre, assistant pro- 

 fessors in philosophy, and Dr. I. M. Bentley, 

 assistant professor in psychology. In the de- 

 partment of Professor Wilder, Mr. Hugh D. 

 Reed has been promoted from assistant to in- 

 structor in systematic and economic vertebrate 

 zoology, and the graduate scholarship in 

 neurology has been for the second time as- 

 signed to Mr. Thomas L. Hankinson. 



Professor H. S. Pratt, of Haverford Col- 

 lege, formerly a student in the Zoological 

 Laboratory of Harvard University, is to be 

 abroad next year on leave of absence. His 

 place is to be filled during his absence by E. 

 M. Strong, Ph.D. (Harvard University, 1901). 



