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[N. S. Vol. XXVI. No. 654 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The total amount of money received from 

 the state for the maintenance of the TJniversity 

 of Wisconsin is now more than a million 

 dollars a year, in addition to the funds re- 

 ceived from the federal government, from en- 

 dowment and from fees. 



The University of Colorado, at Boulder, will 

 receive by the will of the late Andrew J. 

 Mackey of that city funds amounting to about 

 $250,000 to be used in the erection of an audi- 

 torium and main building. Another gift to 

 the university of $100,000 for a building has 

 been promised by a Denver citizen. The last 

 legislature appropriated $100,000 for building 

 purposes. 



The Paris medical faculty has recently an- 

 nounced that henceforth the incumbents of 

 the special chairs of anatomy, histology, 

 physics, chemistry and pharmacology will not 

 be allowed to take posts as physicians or sur- 

 geons in the hospitals. Professors of these 

 branches will be obliged to agree to devote 

 themselves exclusively to their educational 

 work. 



According to The Experiment Station 

 Record, a practical school of agriculture was 

 opened at Talea on June 29, 1906, under the 

 directorship of Carlos Echeverria Cazotte. 

 The school was started with an appropriation 

 of $Y1,000 for land and $28,000 for equipment 

 and maintenance. The director is also pro- 

 fessor of agriculture and zootechny and is 

 assisted by professors of forestry, physical and 

 natural sciences, engineering, viticulture and 

 the common elementary branches. 



PoREiGN journals report that the German 

 Colonial Secretary, Herr Dernburg, recently 

 visited Hamburg to inspect the Institute for 

 Tropical Diseases, the Botanical Museum, and 

 the Museum for Ethnology and Anthropology 

 with a view to ascertain whether the city pos- 

 sessed facilities enough for the study of colo- 

 nial and tropical questions to justify the 

 foundation of a colonial training college. 

 Herr Dernburg decided to recommend the 

 establishment of such an institution, and the 



courses at the new college are to be open to 

 those who desire to engage in private com- 

 mercial or industrial enterprise in the German 

 colonies, as well as to government officials. 

 The. new institute will be modeled on the 

 plan of existing German technical colleges. 

 The promoters of the scheme hold that the 

 intercourse between intending officials and 

 young business men will contribute to the 

 benefit of the German colonies. The state of 

 Hamburg will for the present be responsible 

 for the scheme, and, if the results prove satis- 

 factory, the institution will receive official 

 recognition in the form of an imperial sub- 

 sidy. 



The General Board of Studies of Cambridge 

 University recommends that the present lec- 

 tureship in physiological and experimental 

 psychology be not continued, but that in its 

 place two lectureships be established, one in 

 the physiology of the senses in connection with 

 the special board for biology and geology, and 

 that the annual stipend of the lecturer be 

 £100; the other in experimental psychology in 

 connection with the special board for moral 

 science, and that the annual stipend of the 

 lecturer be £50. 



Professor J. Playpair McMurrich has re- 

 signed the professorship of anatomy in the 

 University of Michigan to accept a similar 

 position in the University of Toronto. 



In the College of the City of New York, 

 tutors have been elected as follows: Charles 

 A. Corcoran in physics; Howard C. Griffin in 

 chemistry; and C. A. Touissaint in mathe- 

 matics. 



Professor John O. Reed has been appointed 

 dean of the Department of Literature, Science 

 and the Arts in the University of Michigan, 

 to succeed Professor Hudson, who has re- 

 signed the position as dean, but retains the 

 professorship of history. Professor Heed has 

 already had experience in administrative mat- 

 ters, as principal of the schools of Saginaw, 

 as professor of physics in the University of 

 Michigan and as dean of the university sum- 

 mer session. 



