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astronomical department and for an observa- 

 tory house, to be occupied by tlie astronomer, 

 Professor D. P. Todd. 



Urs. Anne Eliza Walsh, of Brooklyn, has 

 given $450,000 to a board incorporated under 

 the laws of New York State, the interest to be 

 used for the education of candidates for the 

 priesthood of the Eoman Catholic Church. 



GovERNOB Aaron T. Bliss has given $21,000 

 to Albion College, Albion, Mich. 



Dr. Conan Doyle has given $5,000 of the 

 $7,000 cleared on his pamphlet ' The War in 

 South Africa ' for a scholarship which shall 

 enable some poor South African, either Boer 

 or British, to take a course in Edinburgh Uni- 

 versity. 



AccoEDiNG to the statistics for the entering 

 class at Yale University next year the num- 

 bers in the academic department will be about 

 the same as last year, and the numbers in the 

 Sheffield Scientific School show an increase of 

 about twelve per cent. 



Professor William Lowe Bryan, head of 

 the departments of philosophy and peda- 

 gogy, has been elected President of the Uni- 

 versity of Indiana. 



Dr. E. H. Lindley has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of psychology and Dr. J. A. Bergstrom, 

 professor of pedagogy, at the same institu- 

 tion. 



Mr. John Hays Hammond has been appoint- 

 ed professor of mining engineering in the 

 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Unversity. 

 Mr. Hammond graduated from the Sheffield 

 Scientific School in 1876 and is a prominent 

 consulting engineer. 



Dr. p. a. Fish has been promoted to a full 

 professorship of comparative physiology and 

 pharmacology at Cornell University. 



Two appointments have been made at the 

 newly established college of Clark University 

 — Mr. Eufus C. Bentley, now fellow in peda- 

 gogy at the University, to be dean and profes- 

 sor of Latin and Greek, and Mr. Frederick H. 

 Hodge, now fellow in mathematics, to be in- 

 structor in mathematics. 



The following announcements were made 

 at the commencement exercises of Washing- 

 ton University: Eobert Heywood Fernald, 

 graduate of the Maine State College in me- 

 chanical engineering, 1892; assistant pro- 

 fessor of mechanical engineering in Case 

 School of Aijplied Science, 1896-1900; M.E., 

 Case School, 1898; M.A., Columbia, 1901; 

 Ph.D., 1902; appointed professor of mechan- 

 ical engineering in place of Professor J. H. 

 Kinealy, who resigns to go into the practice 

 of his profession in Boston. Arthur W. 

 Greeley, A.B., Stanford, 1896; A.M., 1899; 

 Ph.D., Chicago, 1902 ; appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of zoology. A single course in this 

 subject has been given during the past year 

 by Mr. S. M. Coulter, who hereafter will de- 

 vote himself exclusively to botany. Frederick 

 M. Mann, C.E., Minnesota, 1898; M.S. in ar- 

 chitecture, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, 1895; instructor in architectural de- 

 sign in the University of Pemisylvania, 1895- 

 98 ; practicing architect in Philadelphia, 1898- 

 1902 ; appointed professor of architecture. 

 Sherman Leavitt, B.S. in chemistry, Wash- 

 ington University, 1900; and Samuel W. 

 Forder, B.S. in chemistry, Washington Uni- 

 versity, 1902; appointed instructors in chem- 

 istry. These two appointments are to take 

 the place of Doctor Gellert Alleman, who be- 

 comes professor of chemistry in Swarthmore 

 College. P. R. Goodwin, graduate of the Uni- 

 versity of Maine in civil engineering, 1900; 

 instructor in same institution, 1900-1901; ap- 

 liointed instructor in civil engineering. 



Dr. W. a. p. Martin has accepted the presi- 

 dency of the new university at Wu-Chang, 

 China. 



Professor Wislicenus, of Wurzburg, has 

 been called to Tiibingen, to succeed the late 

 Dr. von Pechmann as director of the Chemical 

 Institute of the LTniversity; Dr. Paul Hensel, 

 of Heidelberg, has been called to the profess- 

 orship of systematic philosophy at the Univer- 

 sity at Erlangen ; Dr. Alfred Schaper has been 

 appointed a chief of division in the Anatomical 

 Institute at Breslau and Dr. von Gerichten, di- 

 rector of the Institute for Chemical Technol- 

 ogy at the University at Jena. 



