November 7, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



F53 



partment of Agriculture, his subject being 

 ' The Role of Chemistry in University Educa- 

 tion.' 



On Friday the inauguration exercises proper 

 took place in the hall of the Natural History 

 Museum which is nearly completed. There 

 were distinguished visitors, faculty, students 

 and alumni, to the number of over 1500 in the 

 procession. The inauguration exercises con- 

 sisted of an address on behalf of the state by 

 Gov. Wm. E. Stanley; an address which was 

 largely reminiscent by Ex-Chancellor F. H. 

 Snow; an address on 'The Purposes of the 

 American University,' by President Arthur T. 

 Hadley, of Yale University. Hon. Scott Hop- 

 kins, a member of the Board of Regents, for- 

 mally handed over the University to the new 

 Chancellor, Dr. Frank Strong, who made the 

 Inaugural Address on ' The Relation of Edu- 

 cational Development to the Problems before 

 the University of Kansas.' He was followed 

 by Professor W. H. Carruth on behalf of the 

 Faculty of the University; Chas. L. Faust, 

 of the Law School, on behalf of the students ; 

 A. C. Scott, President of the Oklahoma Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanical College, for the 

 alumni; L. D. Whittemore, of the Topeka 

 High School, for the Kansas High Schools ; 

 Dr. L. H. Murlin, of Baker University, for the 

 Colleges of Kansas. An audience of nearly 

 3000 was present at these exercises. In the 

 evening, the same auditorium, which had been 

 elaborately decorated by different classes and 

 organizations of the university and brilliantly 

 lighted with electric lights, was used for the 

 inauguratioia luncheon, for which over 1100 

 covers were provided. With Chancellor Strong 

 in the capacity of toast-master, the audience 

 listened to short after-dinner speeches, by 

 Dean L. B. Briggs, of Harvard University; 

 President Benj. I. Wheeler, of the University 

 of California; President W. F. Slocum, of 

 Colorado College ; President R. H. Jesse, of the 

 University of Missouri ; Hon. W. T. Morgan, 

 State Printer of Kansas ; Professor C. E. 

 Turner, representing the University of Wis- 

 consin; Dean A. F. Burton, representing the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 

 Hon. Gardner Lathrop, of Kansas City; Rev. 

 W. J. Dalton, of Kansas City; Professor 



Albion W. Small, representing the University 

 of Chicago ; Professor Chas. DeGarmo, repre- 

 senting Cornell University; Dr. C. E. Bessey, 

 of the University of Nebraska; Dean David 

 Kinley, of the University of Illinois ; President 

 P. B. Nichols, of Colorado Agricultural Col- 

 lege; Chancellor W. S. Chaplin, representing 

 Washington University, St. Louis; Professor 

 H. W. Richmond, of Wm. Jewell College, Mis- 

 souri; Hon. Frank Nelson, State Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction ; President D. R. 

 Boyd, University of Oklahoma; President 

 Nichols, of the University of Colorado ; Pro- 

 fessor J. N. Wilkinson, of Kansas State Nor- 

 mal School; Professors F. W. Blackmar, E. 

 Haworth and A. M. Wilcox, of the University 

 of Kansas; Ewing Herbert, of Hiawatha; and 

 Dr. Harvey W. Wiley of Washington, D. C. 



Saturday was devoted to athletic sports, con- 

 sisting of tennis tournaments by representa- 

 tives of Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas Uni- 

 versities, a golf tovirnament on the Oread 

 Links ; a hare-and-hounds run by the students 

 of Haskell Institute and the University; and 

 finally a foot-ball game on McCook Field. The 

 exercises of this installation mark an epoch 

 in the history of this University, which began 

 its work in 1866 with one building, and now 

 has ten. It also has a faculty of 80 members, 

 and more than 1200 students in attendance, 

 and instruction is given in the Schools of Arts, 

 Engineering, Law, Fine Arts, Pharmacy, 

 Medicine and in the Graduate School. 



E. H. S. Bailey. 



THE AUSTRALASIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 

 The next meeting of the Association will 

 be held in Dunedin, New Zealand, in January, 

 1904. Dr. L. O. Howard, permanent secre- 

 tary of the American Association, has received 

 a letter from Mr. George M. Thomson, hon- 

 orary secretary of the Australasian Associa- 

 tion, which reads as follows: 



The next meeting of the Australasian Associa- 

 tion is to be held in Dunedin in January, 1904, 

 and on behalf of the Local Council I have much 

 pleasure in extending to members of your Asso- 

 ciation who may be able to afford the time neces- 

 sary for such a trip a cordial invitation to attend 



