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ing regulations for the conduct of scientific 

 controversies were adopted: (1) Every con- 

 troversy shall be brought to a close by a final 

 reply from the writer who opened the debate; 

 only in exceptional cases shall an opponent be 

 allowed a second reply. (2) A reply may be 

 inserted in small type, and at the end of the 

 journal, even when the article animadverted 

 on was published as an original communica- 

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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Me. Frederick W. Vanderbilt has given to 

 the Shefiield Scientific School of Yale Uni- 

 versity, of which he is a graduate, a valuable 

 tract of land and will build upon it a dormi- 

 tory. The value of the gift is not known, but 

 it is reported to be $500,000. 



Dr. D. K. Pe.u!SONS has added $50,000 to 

 the $200,000 he has already, given to Whit- 

 man College, Walla Walla, Washington. 



The late Eev. Henry Latham, master of 

 Trinity Hall, Cambridge, has left about $35,- 

 000 to the university to form a fund, from 

 which grants may be made to members of the 

 university who are incapacitated by age or in- 

 firmity, and to their widows and families. 



The Public Health Institute, Edinburgh, 

 completed by the liberality of Sir John Usher, 

 has been handed over to the university. 



The Wesleyan University summer school of 

 chemistry and biology has just opened, with 

 an attendance of thirty-six. 



The universities of the Maritime Provinces 

 of Canada are sending a memorial to the ex- 

 ecutors of Mr. Ehodes's will asking that the 

 conditions of the will be altered so as to give 

 all the provinces of the Dominion an oppor- 

 tunity to compete for the Oxford scholarships. 

 The will provides only for Ontario and Que- 

 bec, two out of seven provinces. 



The president of Waynesburg College, 

 Waynesbvirg, Pa., sends us a note to the effect 

 that at the recent commencement the insti- 

 tution conferred the degree of Ph.D. on 

 President Z. X. Snyder, of the Colorado Nor- 

 mal School. According to 'Who's Who' 



President Snyder was given the degree of 

 Ph.D. by Waynesburg College in 1876. It is 

 to be hoped that Waynesburg College will 

 limit the conferring of the degree of Doctor 

 of Philosophy causa hono7-is to President Sny- 

 der. 



Professor T. W. Galloway, of Missouri 

 Valley College, has been elected to the chair 

 of biology of the new James Millikin Univer- 

 sity, at Decatur, 111., and is succeeded at 

 Missouri Valley College by Dr. Lawrence E. 

 Griifin, assistant in zoology in the Western 

 Reserve University. 



~F. L. Stevens, Ph.D. (Chicago), has been 

 advanced from an instructorship to a full pro- 

 fessorship in the new department of biology 

 at the College of Agriculture and Mechanic 

 Arts at Ealeigh, N. C. 



Several laboratory assistantships in ele- 

 mentary chemistry are available at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, for the 

 coming school year. The pay for these as- 

 sistantships is $300 per year, and the work 

 consists in laboratory instruction in general 

 elementary chemistry; the arrangement being 

 that the assistant shall give one half of his 

 time to the work and devote the other half of 

 his time to research work in some branch of 

 chemistry as arranged with the head of the 

 chemistry department. 



In connection with the grant of £10,000 a 

 year recently voted to the University of Lon- 

 don by the London County Council in aid of 

 the work of the Faculties of Arts, Science, 

 Engineering, and Economics, the Senate have 

 made the following appointments : Professor 

 Eamsay, F.E.S., teacher of chemistry at Uni- 

 versity College; Professor Capper, teacher of 

 mechanical engineering at King's College; 

 Professor Unwin, F.R.S., teacher of civil and 

 mechanical engineering at the Central Tech- 

 nical College, and Dr. J. IsTorman Collier, 

 F.E.S., professor of organic chemistry at Uni- 

 versity College. 



At St. John's College, Cambridge, Mr. G. 

 E. Mathews, F.E.S., senior wrangler in 1883, 

 has been reelected to a fellowship and Mr. J. 

 H. Vincent, D.Sc, has been elected to a 

 Hutchinson studentship in physics. 



