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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XV. No. 388. 



BoYLSTON Hall, the chemical laboratory of 

 Harvard University, has been much over- 

 crov^ded during the last two years. There 

 is about to be added a wing 83 x 33 ft. which 

 will be used by the elementary classes until 

 a new building is constructed. 



Mr. Egbert S. Brookings and others have 

 presented to Washington University a build- 

 ing which was erected for the use of the St. 

 Louis Club. This building will now be used 

 for the Washington University. Club, an or- 

 ganization including professors, male gradu- 

 ates and students of Washington University. 

 The annual dues will be $5.00. The Club 

 will also provide board for students whose 

 homes are not in the city of St. Louis. An 

 eifort will be made to bring representatives 

 of all departments of the University together 

 in this club, to afford good board at reason- 

 able prices, and make the club a home for the 

 graduate and undergraduate students of the 

 University. 



The late Henry S. Morton, president of the 

 Stevens Institute, has bequeathed his scien- 

 tific instruments to the institute. 



CuSHiNG Academy at Ashburnham, Mass., 

 has received a legacy estimated at from $200,- 

 000 to $400,000 by the will of Jacob H. Fair- 

 banks of Fitchburg. The town of Ashburn- 

 ham receives $40,000 for a memorial town 

 hall. 



In the abstract of the accounts recently 

 submitted to Convocation, the total bene- 

 factions at Oxford University last year are 

 announced to be £2 13s. 4d., an increase of 

 8d. over the previous year. 



The U. S. Military Academy at West Point 

 will celebrate its centennial next week. The 

 president of the United States will be present, 

 and the leading universities and scientific 

 schools will be represented by their presidents. 



Hereafter Latin will not be required as part 

 of the matriculation examination of the Uni- 

 versity of London. Logic, drawing, advanced 

 mathematics and geography are added to the 

 subjects that may be elected. 



Several alterations in the regulations for 

 the Natural Sciences Tripos at Cambridge 



University have been passed, including the 

 proposal that, in arranging the class list for 

 the second part of the examination, the ex- 

 aminers may place a candidate in the first 

 class for proficiency in one of the following 

 branches of science: chemistry, physics, min- 

 eralogy, geology, zoology and comparative 

 anatomy, human anatomy, physiology. This 

 was opposed but carried by two votes, the 

 numbers being — placet 75, non-placet 73. 

 Under the old regulations no candidate was 

 placed in the first class for proficiency in one 

 subject unless he had a competent knowledge 

 of some other subject. 



The following degrees were conferred at the 

 University of Colorado on June 5 : M.A. 6, 

 M.S. 2, B.A. 3, B.S. 8, B.Ph. 19, B.S. in 

 engineering 8, LL.B. 12, M.D. 13. A new de- 

 partment of mechanical engineering has been 

 added to the engineering school. 



Dr. John Dewey, professor of philosophy 

 at the University of Chicago, has been ap- 

 pointed to the office of director of the School 

 of Education, made vacant by the death of 

 Col. Francis W. Parker. 



The Rev. Dr. G. P. Denton, president of 

 the Upper Iowa University, has been elected 

 president of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. 

 The Rev. ISTorman Plass, of Williamstown, 

 Mass., has been elected president of Wash- 

 burn College, Topeka, Kansas. 



Arthur Byron Coble, fellow . in mathe- 

 matics in the Johns Hopkins University, has 

 been appointed to the chair of mathematics 

 in the University of Missouri. 



Dr. Josiah Royce, professor of philosophy 

 at Harvard University, will deliver the com- 

 mencement address at Iowa College, Grin- 

 nell, at which time the new president. Dr. 

 E. F. Bradley, will be installed. 



Professor Menschutkin, who holds the 

 chair of chemistry in the University of St. 

 Petersburg, and Professor van Geer, who holds 

 the chair of mathematics in the University 

 of Leiden, have retired from the active duties 

 of their professorships. 



Mr. T. B. Wood, of Gonville and Caius 

 College, has been appointed reader in agricul- 

 tural chemistry at Cambridge University. 



