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SCIENCE. 



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don workman for obtaining technical educa- 

 tion in his trade are actually superior to those 

 enjoyed by the German or American work- 

 man. Summing up all the evidence, the com- 

 mittee is convinced that the main causes of 

 British failure in the chemical, optical and 

 electrical industries are the following: (a) 

 The lack of scientific training of the manu- 

 facturers themselves, and their consequent 

 inability to recognize the importance of sci- 

 entific assistance; (h) the defective condition 

 of secondary education, and the consequent 

 lack of sufficiently prepared recruits for ad- 

 vanced technological training; (c) the lack 

 of a sufficient supply of young men who have 

 been trained, not only in scientific principles 

 and method, but also in the application of 

 science to particular industrial processes ; 

 (d) the lack of any institution providing ad- 

 vanced technological training which is suffi- 

 ciently equipped and endowed to enable it to 

 give adequate attention to post-graduate or 

 advance work. There is a consensus of opin- 

 ion that the highest grade of technical edu- 

 cation must be carried on in an institution 

 of university rank during the day. The few 

 hours which can be given in the evening by 

 those who are engaged in business during the 

 day are insufficient for training in research. 



UXIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. John D. Eockefeller has offered to 

 give $500,000 to Teachers College, Columbia 

 University, on condition that the sum of 

 $440,000 be collected from other sources — 

 $190,000 to pay the outstanding debts and 

 $250,000 for further endowment. It was also 

 announced at the meeting of the trustees on 

 October 23 that the college had received from 

 Mr. and Mrs. B. Everett Macy $175,800 for 

 the increase of the endowment funds and $98,- 

 709 for the completion of the Horace Mann 

 School. 



Princeton University has been made the 

 residuary legatee under the will of the late 

 Mrs. Susan Dod Brown, and will, it is said, 

 receive $140,000. 



At a meeting of the governors of University 

 College, Liverpool, on October 14, it was an- 



nounced that the sum of £170,000 had been 

 promised for the endowment of an independent 

 university when created. 



Leipzig University will celebrate the five 

 hundredth anniversary of its establishment in 

 1909. 



The following is a list of appointments in 

 the Scientific Departments of the University 

 of Maine for the present year: Perly F. 

 Walker (University of Missouri, Cornell), 

 professor of mechanical engineering; J. E. 

 Burbank (Bowdoin, Harvard), instructor in 

 physics ; Walter Rantenstrauch (University of 

 Missouri), instructor in mechanical engineer- 

 ing; F. H. Mitchell (University of Missouri), 

 instructor in chemistry; H. W. Britcher (Syra- 

 cuse and Johns Hopkins), instructor in zool- 

 ogy; W. A. Mitchell (Trinity), tutor in phys- 

 ics; H. E. Cole (University of Missouri), tutor 

 in electrical engineering; T. Buck (University 

 of Missouri, Chicago), tutor in mathematics; 

 W. A. Lambert (Harvard), tutor in mathe- 

 matics; H. H. Hanson (Pennsylvania State 

 College), assistant chemist in experiment sta- 

 tion; H. P. Hamlin (University of Missouri), 

 assistant in civil engineering; C. C. Alexander 

 (University of Missouri), assistant in civil 

 engineering. 



Miss Alice W. Wilcox, B.A. (of Vassar), 

 and for two years fellow at Chicago Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed instructor in zoology 

 at Wellesley College. Miss Frances E. Foote, 

 B.A., of Wellesley College, and lately gradu- 

 ate student at Columbia University, has also 

 been appointed to a partial instructorship. 

 These additions to the department are made 

 necessary partly by increase in number of stu- 

 dents and partly by the fact that Miss Mary 

 A. Bowers, senior instructor in the depart- 

 ment is this year doing but half work. 



M. LiARD has succeeded M. Greard as vice- 

 rector of the University of Paris. 



Mr. R. p. Gregory, of St. John's College, 

 has been appointed demonstrator in botany at 

 Cambridge University. 



Dr. H. W. Thomas, of Montreal, has been 

 appointed fellow in pathology at McGill Uni- 

 versity. 



