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urei; Franklin Sherman, Jr., State Entomolo- 

 gist; Executive Committee, W. L. Poteat, 

 Franklin Sherman, W. W. Ashe, H. H. Brim- 

 ley, Tait Butler, J. L. Kesler, B. W. Kilgore, 

 F. L. Stevens and H. V. Wilson. The first 

 meeting for the presentation of papers will be 

 held during the first week in October. 



Oxford University will on June 24 confer 

 its honorary degree of D.C.L. on William H. 

 M'. Christie, C.B., F.E.S., Astronomer Eoyal, 

 and on Arthur W. Eiicker, F.K.S., principal 

 of the University of London. The degree will 

 also be conferred on Mr. Choate, Ambassador 

 of the United States. 



Princeton University has conferred the 

 degree of LL.D. on Mr. Morris K. Jesiip, 

 president of the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History. 



President Nicholas Murray Butler, of 

 Columbia University, has received the degree 

 of doctor of laws from Princeton University. 

 It is understood that he will receive the same 

 degree from Tale University and from the 

 University of Pennsylvania. He will make 

 the commencement address at the latter uni- 

 Tersity. 



Columbia University has conferred the de- 

 gree of D.Sc. on Professor S. B. Christie, who 

 has held the chair of mining and metallurgy 

 in the University of California since 1885. 



M. EitiL Laurent, professor of agriculture 

 in the Belgian national school at Gembloux, 

 has been elected a correspondent of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Durham University has conferred the de- 

 gree of D.C.L. on Sir W. S. Church, president 

 of the Royal College of Physicians, London, 

 and on Dr. Thomas Annandale, professor of 

 clinical surgery at Edinburgh. 



Professor Ch. Richet, the eminent French 

 physiologist, has resigned the editorship of 

 the Bevue Scienti-fiqiie, which he has held for 

 twenty-five years. He is succeeded by M. 

 Hericourt. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCAiWNAL NEWS. 

 Dr. Francis L. Patton resigned the presi- 

 dency of Princeton University on June 9, 



but retains the Stuart professorship of ethics 

 and the philosophy of religion. Dr. Woodrow 

 Wilson, McCormick professor of jurisprudence 

 and politics, was elected as his successor. 



At the commencement exercises at the Johns 

 Hopkins University last week. President Rem- 

 sen announced that over $900,000 had been 

 subscribed toward the million dollar endow- 

 ment fund. 



The University of Pensylvania has received 

 a gift of $100,000 for the construction of the 

 new medical buildings, the name of the donor 

 being withheld for the present. 



Mr. a. a. Pope, of Cleveland, has given the 

 Western Reserve University $100,000 for 

 buildings. 



President Joseph Swain, of Indiana Uni- 

 versity, accepted the presidency of Swarthmore 

 College, on condition that the endowment be 

 increased by $400,000. This sum has now 

 been subscribed. 



Wells CoiLEGE has received $50,000 from 

 Mr. Henry A. Morgan and $25,000 from Mr. 

 ]Sr. L. Zabriskie for buildings and equipment. 



It is announced that the donors of the new 

 physical laboratory for Wesleyan University, 

 which is to cost $75,000, are Mr. Charles 

 Scott, Sr., Philadelphia, a trustee of the uni- 

 versity, and Mr. Chai-les Scott, Jr., New 

 York, a graduate of the class of '86. The 

 building is to be a memorial of John Bell 

 Scott of the class of '81. 



The appeal by the governors of University 

 College, Dundee, has brought in over £24,000. 



Dr. E. H. Griffiths, principal of University 

 College, Cardiif, and formerly lecturer on 

 physics at Cambridge, has offered to give his 

 collection of apparatus to the college, if a 

 building for a laboratory is provided at a cost 

 of £2,000. He suggests that the laboratory 

 be named in honor of the late Viriamu Jones. 

 If Cardiff does not accept the offer, the collec- 

 tion will be presented to the National Physical 

 Laboratory at Teddington. 



The Sir John Cass Technical Institute, 

 London, erected at a cost of over $150,000, was 

 formally opened on May 5 by Lord Avebury. 



