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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVI. No. 892. 



Col. Mason W. Tyler, class of '62, as a memo- 

 rial to his father, William Seymour Tyler, for 

 many years professor in Greek in Amherst Col- 

 lege. 



The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 

 London, has offered scholarships in miaing 

 and metallurgy to the following colleges : — The 

 Eoyal School of Mines, two scholarships of 

 £50 each; King's College (London), £50; the 

 Camborne School of Mines (Cornwall), £50; 

 and the Durham College of Science (New- 

 castle-on-Tyne), £50. These scholarships will 

 be offered annually for three years. In addi- 

 tion to other work for the advancement of 

 technical education in mining and metallurgy, 

 the institution has submitted to the board of 

 education a plan for affording practical ex- 

 perience in workshops throughout the king- 

 dom to mining and metallurgical students. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that at the urgent request of the French Col- 

 ony of Cochin China, the council of the 

 - medical faculty of the University of Paris has 

 decided to found an institute of colonial medi- 

 cine. The Governor-General of Cochin, M. . 

 Doumer, has granted a subvention of $10,000 

 a year. Provision will be made for special in- 

 struction in tropical diseases, but it is not in- 

 tended to establish a chair for the teaching of 

 the subject at present. 



The council of King's College has passed a 

 resolution by a majority of twenty-two to two 

 declaring that, in view of the University of 

 London act of 1898, every religious test as a 

 qualification for office, position, or member- 

 ship in or under the council of the college, 

 with the exception of professorships or lecture- 

 ships in the faculty of theology, shall, as soon 

 as may be, cease to exist. Wlaile thus abolish- 

 ing tests, the council declares its unwavering, 

 determination to maintain the connection of 

 the college with the church of England, as 

 provided for by its constitution. 



It is understood that Dr. W. L. Bryan, 

 vice-president of Indiana University and pro- 

 fessor of psychology and pedagogy, will suc- 

 ceed Dr. Joseph Swain as president of the 

 University. 



The board of trustees of the University of 

 Arkansas has elected Mr. Harrison Randolph, 

 of Virginia, president of that institution. 



Dr. Charles S. Palmer, professor of chem- 

 istry in the University of Colorado, has been 

 appointed president of the State School of 

 Mines at Golden, Colo. 



K. C. Da'^'is, Ph.D. (Cornell), has resigned 

 the chair of horticulture in the University of 

 West Virginia and the Experiment Station 

 to accept the principalship of the Dunn 

 County School of Agriculture and Domestic 

 Economy, just established under provision of 

 a new law, at Menomonie, Wisconsin. The 

 new school, supported as it is by county and 

 state funds, is without a precedent in the 

 United States. 



Dr. B. M. Ddggar, of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, has been appointed professor 

 of botany at the University of Missouri. 



Dr. W. S. Johnson, of the State Normal 

 School of Natchitoches, La., has been ap- 

 pointed head of the department of philosophy 

 and pedagogy at the University of Arkansas. 



Dr. Wilbur M. Urban, of Ursinus College, 

 has been elected to the chair of philosophy 

 in Trinity College and Mr. Henry A. Perkins, 

 formerly of the Hartford Electric Light Com- 

 pany, has been made professor of physics. 



Glasgow Unitorsitt has called Mr. Robert 

 Latta, professor of moral philosophy, Aber- 

 deen, to the chair of logic, in succession to 

 the late Dr. Adamson. There were eight can- 

 didates for the position. 



Dr. Karl Schwarzschild, associate pro- 

 fessor of astronomy at the University at Got- 

 tingen, has been promoted to a full professor- 

 ship, and Dr. Hillebrand and Dr. Leopold 

 Ambronn, docents in astronomy in the Uni- 

 versities of Graz and Gottingen respectively, 

 have been made associate professors.- Dr. 

 Wilhelni Trabert, associate professor of me- 

 teorology in the University at Vienna, has 

 been appointed professor of cosmical physics 

 at Innsbriick. Dr. Hugo Schwanert, professor 

 of chemistry at the University of Greifswald, 

 has retired. 



