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letter to Secretary Hay, copies of which liave 

 been forwarded to educational authorities. 

 The letter says: The trustees are desirous of 

 making regulations with regard to the method 

 by which qualifications of candidates are to be 

 ascertained, and as to examinations. They 

 will, therefore, be obliged if you will be so 

 good as to bring the scholarship provisions of 

 Mr. Ehodes's will to the notice of your Gov- 

 ernment, with the request on their behalf that 

 the views of the chief officials having control 

 of education in the various States and Terri- 

 tories of the Union may be ascertained and 

 communicated to the trustees. It would be 

 of further great assistance to the trustees if 

 they could be furnished, through your kind- 

 ness, with the opinion of the leading educa- 

 tional authorities of the United States, es- 

 pecially the heads of Harvard, Tale, Columbia 

 and other universities with regard generally 

 to the election of qualifying students and the 

 best mode of giving practical effect to the 

 scholarship trust. It is hoped that the stu- 

 dents can be elected in time to go into resi- 

 dence at Oxford in 1903. 



Dr. F. E. Clements, of the University of 

 Nebraska, will open again his summer school 

 in the Eocky Mountains during the month of 

 August, for the special study of the ecology 

 of mountain vegetation. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on August 13 to fill the position of teacher of 

 agriculture in the Indian service at a salary 

 of $900-$l,000. 



PEorESSOR EuFUS W. Stimson has been 

 elected president of the Connecticut Agricul- 

 tural College. He has been acting president 

 since last September. 



Professor John Fryek, who holds the chair 

 of oriental languages at the University of 

 California, has been appointed to the presi- 

 dency of the new Chinese university at Wu- 

 chang. 



]VIr. James W. Wilson, son of Secretary 

 Wilson, has been elected director of the South 

 Dakota Agricultural College and Station, and 

 will have charge of the work in animal hus- 

 bandry. 



Dr. E. C. Jeffrey, now instructor in the 

 University of Toronto, has been appointed as- 

 sistant, professor in vegetable histology and 

 general morphology in Harvard University. 



Dr. Robert M. BffiD, at present at the Miss- 

 issippi Agricultural College, has been made 

 acting professor of chemistry at the Univer- 

 sity of Missouri and acting chemist of the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Professor F. C. Waugh, of the experiment 

 station at Burlington, Vt., has been called to 

 the chair of horticulture of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College at Amherst, Mass. 



Egbert Stanley Breed, Ph.D. (Harvard, 

 1902), has been appointed professor of biology 

 and geology at Allegheny College, Meadville, 

 Pa. Mr. William Albert Willard, A.M., Mor- 

 gan fellow in zoology at Harvard in 1900- 

 1901, who took the place of Professor Norris 

 during his absence in Europe in the year 1901- 

 02, has been appointed instructor in zoology in 

 the University of Nebraska. 



We learn from the Botanical Gazette that 

 Miss Laetitia M. Snow has been awarded the 

 fellowship given by the Baltimore Association 

 for the advancement of the university educa- 

 tion of women. Miss Snow will continue her 

 botanical studies at the University of Chicago. 



Professor Haven Metcalf, who for the 

 past year has been fellow in botany in the 

 University of Nebraska, has been elected to 

 the professorship of botany in Clemson Col- 

 lege, South Carolina. 



The following changes and additions have 

 been made in the medical faculty of the 

 Columbian University: Dr. Walter Eeed, 

 U. S. A., has been elected to the chair of gen- 

 eral pathology; Dr. Sterling Eufiin, to the- 

 vacancy in the chair of practice of medicine; 

 Dr. Thomas Claytor, to the chair of materia 

 medica and therapeutics; Dr. H. B. Deale, as 

 professor of clinical medicine; Dr. II. N. 

 Hawkes, as professor of clinical medicine; 

 Dr. James Carroll, as associate professor of 

 pathology and bacteriology. 



Dr. David Hilbeet, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Gottingen, has been called to Ber- 

 lin. 



