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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XV. No. 389. 



Geological Survey. A documentary edition 

 of this bulletin for free distribution, upon 

 application to the director, is now available. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Bryn Mawr College has secured gifts 

 amounting to $256,000, thus making available 

 the conditional gift of $250,000 offered by Mr. 

 John D. Eockefeller. 



Friends of Columbia University have pur- 

 chased from the New York Hospital for $1,- 

 900,000 the two blocks of land facing the Uni- 

 versity. It is hoped that this land may be 

 ultimately acquired for the use of the Univer- 

 sity. 



The valuable natural history collections, of 

 the late Dr. C. Kramer, professor of botany at 

 the Polytechnic Institute at Zurich, has been 

 presented by his heirs to the institute. 



Efforts are being made to establish a uni- 

 versity at Frankfort on the Maine. The city 

 possesses in its Schenkenberg Institute a 

 school of natural science and medicine, and 

 there is also in the city a commercial school. 

 The trustees of the Karl Juegel's bequest, 

 amounting to about $500,000, have decided to 

 use the fund for a school of law, history and 

 philosophy. The proposal now being consid- 

 ered is to unite these various institutions in 

 a new university. 



The University at Jena has established in- 

 troductory courses in Greek and Latin for 

 students from the Realgymnasia and Oberreal- 

 schulen who decide after coming to the Uni- 

 versity that they wish to study law. 



The Omaha Medical College has recently 

 become the medical department of the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska. The first two years of the 

 course will be given at both Omaha and Lin- 

 coln. 



At the Jefferson Medical College, Phila- 

 delphia, Dr. Julius L. Salinger and Dr. 

 Thomas G. Ashton have been elected profess- 

 ors of clinical medicine. 



The School of Practical Agriculture, in 

 which a number of New York citizens are in- 

 terested and of which Professor George T. 



Powell is director, has purchased 415 acres of 

 land for a site. 



At Columbia University Professor Friedrieh 

 Hirth, of Munich, has been appointed head of 

 the recently established Dean Lung Depart- 

 ment of Chinese, and Dr. Felix Adler to a 

 newly created professorship of social and polit- 

 ical ethics. At the College of Physicians and 

 Siirgeons, the medical department of the Uni- 

 versity, Dr. Emmett Holt has been appointed 

 clinical professor of the diseases of children, 

 succeeding Dr. Abram Jacobi, who had held 

 this position for more than thirty years and 

 now becomes professor emeritus. Dr. Eussell 

 B. Opitz has been appointed demonstrator in 

 physiology and Dr. E. E. BuiEngton, assistant 

 in normal histology. Mr. J. H. Bair has been 

 made assistant in the department of anthro- 

 pology, and Miss Jean A. Brodhurst, assist- 

 ant in botany at Barnard College. 



Professor Lyman S. Morehouse, of Wash- 

 ington University, St. Louis, has accepted a 

 chair of electrical engineering at the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan. 



Mr. Arthur E. Wade, '02, of Cornell Col- 

 lege, Iowa, has been appointed demonstrator 

 in chemistry at the Sioux City Medical Col- 

 lege. 



Among the announcements made by Presi- 

 dent Goucher at the commencement of the 

 Woman's College of Baltimore on June 3, 

 were the following: Dr. Florence Peebl*, in- 

 structor of biology, has been advanced to as- 

 sistant professor. Miss Marie Eleanor Nast, 

 Ciiicinnati, Ohio, who receives the fellowship 

 given each year to a member of the graduating 

 class, will study biology and physiology at the 

 University of Chicago. Miss Nast last year 

 received from the Woman's College a scholar- 

 ship entitling her to study at the Marine 

 Laboratory at Wood's Holl. Two Wood's 

 Holl scholarships granted this year are 

 awarded to Miss Mary Taylor Abercrombie, 

 'C3, Baltimore, Md., and to Miss Miriam Alice 

 Belt, '03, Beltsville, Pa. A scholarship en- 

 titling the holder to work at Cold Spring 

 Harbor is awarded to Miss Mary E. G. Lentz, 

 Baltimore, Md. 



