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SCIENCE. 



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, The draft charter of the proposed Univer- 

 sity for Liverpool, settled by the council of 

 University College, gives powers as to the con- 

 ferment of degrees in all the recognized facul- 

 ties, as well as in the faculty of commerce, 

 which embraces the sciences of economics, ge- 

 ography, banking and commercial law. It also 

 gives powers to admit new constituent col- 

 leges; to recognize halls of residence for 

 students; to establish new professorships and 

 lectureships; and provides for the establish- 

 ment of external examiners. 



The following promotions have been made 

 at the Johns Hopkins University: — George B. 

 Shattuck, Ph.D., now associate, to be associate 

 professor of physiographic geology; Caswell 

 Grave, Ph.D., now assistant, to be associate 

 in zoology; Louis A. Parsons, Ph.D., to 

 be assistant in physics; William G. MacCal- 

 lum, M.D., now associate, to be associate pro- 

 fessor of pathology; Guy L. Hunner, M.D., 

 now instructor, to be associate in gynaecology; 

 Walter Baumgarten, M.D., to be assistant in 

 medicine; Florence E. Sabin, M.D., to be as- 

 sistant in anatomy; Benjamin R. Schenck, 

 M.D., to be instructor in gynecology. 



Dr. H. C. Waeren has been promoted to a 

 full professorship of experimental psychology 

 at Princeton University. 



Me. George F. Gebhardt, instructor in the 

 Armour Institute of Technology, at Chicago, 

 has been elected to the chair of mechanical 

 engineering. 



The following appointments and changes 

 in the scientific faculty of the University of 

 North Carolina were announced at the recent 

 commencement of that institution: W. C. 

 Coker, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), now at Bonn, 

 associate professor of botany; J. E. Duer- 

 den, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), acting-professor 

 of biology during the leave of Dr. H. V. Wil- 

 son, head of the department; Ivey F. Lewis, 

 A.B. (U.N.O., 1902), assistant in biology; 

 M. H. Stacy, Ph.B. (U.N.O., 1902), instructor 

 in mathematics ; Archibald Henderson, Ph.D. 

 (U.IST.C), associate professor of mathematics, 

 was given a year's leave of absence, during 

 which period he will fill an instructorship at 

 the University of Chicago ; George P. Stevens, 



A.B. (U.N.C, 1902), assistant in mathemat- 

 ics; J. E. Latta, A.M. (U.N.C), instructor in 

 physics, was given a year's leave of absence. 

 He has accepted a scholarship at Harvard; 

 H. R. McFadyen was appointed assistant in 

 physics; Hazel Holland, assistant in chemis- 

 try, and W. M. Perry, assistant in pharmacy. 



Dr. Cady Staled, since 1886 president of 

 the Case School of Applied Science, has re- 

 signed. 



Mr. John W. Abercrombie has been elected 

 president of the University of Alabama. The 

 Rev. Dr. Guy P. Benton, president of the 

 Upper University of Iowa, has been elected 

 president of Miami University. 



Dr. James H. Carlisle has resigned the 

 presidency of Wofford College, at Spartan- 

 burg, S. C, and Professor Henry Nelson Sny- 

 der, professor of English, succeeds him. Dr. 

 Carlisle, who is seventy-seven years old, has 

 been elected president emeritus and professor 

 of astronomy and ethics. 



Dr. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, since 1877 

 professor of moral philosophy at Trinity Col- 

 lege, has resigned and has been made professor 

 emeritus. Dr. Pynchon was president of 

 Trinity College from 1874 to 1877 and was 

 from 1854 to 1877 professor of chemistry and 

 natural sciences. 



Mr. Graham Balfour, M.A., assistant sec- 

 retary of the Oxford Examinations Delegacy, 

 has been appointed director of technical in- 

 struction under the Staffordshire County 

 Council, in succession to Professor Thomas 

 Turner, recently elected to the chair of metal- 

 lurgy at Birmingham. 



Me. Douglas A. Gilchrist, B.Sc, professor 

 of agriculture and director of the agricultiiral 

 department at the college, Reading, has been 

 appointed professor of agriculture at the Dur- 

 ham College of Science, Newcastle, in succes- 

 sion to Professor T. H. Middleton, M.Sc, who 

 was recently elected to the chair of agricul- 

 ture in the University of Cambridge. 



Mr. Herbert Stanley Jevons, son of the 

 late Professor Stanley Jevons, has been ap- 

 pointed to a lectureship in mineralogy at the 

 University of Sydney, New South Wales. 



