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ticable by a detailed topographic survey, and 

 the resulting maps will in turn form a basis 

 for the investigation of the important eco- 

 nomic problems in this region. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Carnegie Trust for the universities of 

 Scotland, in addition to payment of the fees 

 of students, has nov? made appropriations for 

 buildings and teaching. The sum of £40,000 

 a year for five years is to be distributed among 

 the universities as follows: Edinburgh, £11,- 

 500; Glasgow, £11,000; Aberdeen, £9,000; and 

 St. Andrews, £8,500. Under buildings and 

 permanent equipment (jlasgow receives £8,000 

 per annum for the period of five years ; Aber- 

 deen (which has recently greatly extended its 

 buildings), £1,000 a year for apparatus; St. 

 Andrews, £3,000 a year; and Edinburgh, £8,000 

 a year. The grants for teaching, which are 

 partly only for present expenditure, and main- 

 ly to establish a fund which at the end of the 

 five years' period will constitute the nucleus 

 of a permanent endowment in each case, are 

 as follows: Glasgow, £2,000 a year; Aber- 

 deen, £7,000 a year; St. Andrews, £4,500 a 

 year; Edinburgh, £2,500 a year. To each of 

 the university libraries an annual sum of 

 £1,000 is given. 



The value of the estate of the late Dr. Levi 

 Cooper Lane, San Francisco, has been ap- 

 praised at over $300,000. His widow, who 

 died on August 9, has left the bulk of the es- 

 tate to Cooper Medical College. 



The chair of pathology at Johns Hopkins, 

 held by Professor Welch, will hereafter be 

 knovsna as the 'Boxley Professorship of Pathol- 

 ogy,' in memory of Dr. Henry Willis Boxley, 

 an eminent surgeon of Baltimore, who died in 

 1876, leaving a bequest for the founding of a 

 chair in pathology. 



At the University of Colorado, at Boulder, 

 John B. Ekeley, M.A. (Colgate), Ph.D. (Frei- 

 burg), has been elected professor of chemistry 

 to succeed Dr. Chas. S. Palmer, who has been 

 called to the presidency of the Colorado State 

 School of Mines. 



President E. E. Nichols, of the Kansas 

 State Agricultural College, has declined the 



presidency of the Rhode Island College of 

 Agricultiire and Mechanic Arts. 



Dk. F. p. Graves has resigned the presidency 

 of the University of Washington. Professor 

 T. F. Kane, professor of Latin, has been 

 elected acting-president. 



Sir George StoivES, since 1849 Lucasian 

 professor of mathematics at Cambridge, has 

 been elected master of Pembroke College. 



Mb. James Black Baillie, B.A. Camb., 

 M.A. and D.Phil. Edin., lecturer on philoso- 

 phy at University College, Dundee, has been 

 appointed professor of moral philosophy in 

 the University of Aberdeen, in succession to 

 Professor Latta, who was recently called to 

 Glasgow. 



Dr. Benjamin Moore, lecturer in physiology 

 in Charing Cross Medical School, has been 

 elected to the Johnston chair of bio-chemistry 

 in University College, Liverpool. Dr. Moore 

 until recently held the chair of physiolog-y in 

 the Medical School of Tale University. 



Me. J. Graham Kerr, of Christ's College, 

 Cambridge, has been appointed professor of 

 natural history in the University of Glasgow, 

 in succession to Professor John Young, who 

 has resigned. 



Dr. Herman Minkowski, of the Polytechnic 

 School at Zurich, has been called to a pro- 

 fessorship of mathematics at Gottingen. 



Professor Schotky, of Marburg, has been 

 called to a full professorship of mathematics 

 at Berlin. 



Dr. Ishieo Miyake has been appointed on 

 the faculty of the new Waseda University 

 (Japan), which has just opened this month 

 under the presidency of Dr. Hatoyama. Dr. 

 Miyake was formerly a student in Tale Uni- 

 versity, having taken his degree in experi- 

 mental psychology with a thesis entitled 'Re- 

 searches on Rhythmic Action.' 



Errata: In the article by Mr. A. Lawrence 

 Eoteh on the International Aeronautical Con- 

 gress, page 297, second column, nineteenth line, 

 ' ten kilometers thick,' read ' fourteen kilometers 

 high ' ; second line from bottom, ' or registration 

 balloon, haUon sonde,' read ' registration balloon, 

 or ballon sonde.' 



