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committee of the corporation lias recom- 

 mended that the grant be renewed for 1907. 



A STATUTE will be brought forward in Oc- 

 tober for establishing at Oxford a professor- 

 ship of engineering science, for which a sum 

 of not less than £800 per annum, inclusive of 

 a fellowship, has been guaranteed for five 

 years. It is proposed that the professor shall 

 lecture and give laboratory, but not workshop, 

 instruction; and he will have charge of any 

 engineering laboratory that may be assigned 

 him by the university. 



Dr. Winfield Scott Chaplin has resigned 

 the chancellorship of Washington University. 



Professor Harry A. Garfield, who occupies 

 the chair of polities at Princeton University, 

 has been elected president of Williams College 

 to succeed President Henry Hopkins, who will 

 retire at the close of the next academic year, 

 when he will have passed the age of seventy 

 years. Professor Garfield graduated from 

 Williams College in 1885 ; he is the son of 

 President James A. Garfield, of the class of 

 1856. President Hopkins graduated from 

 Williams College in 1858, his father, the Kev. 

 Mark Hopkins, having been president of the 

 institution for thirty-six years. 



Dr. C. H. Gordon, assistant geologist of the 

 Geological Survey, will occupy the newly- 

 established chair of geology and mineralogy 

 in the University of Tennessee. 



Dr. M. a. Chrysler, instructor in botany 

 at Harvard University, has accepted a position 

 as associate professor of botany at the Uni- 

 versity of Maine. 



At a recent meeting of the board of trustees 

 of the University of Illinois, the following 

 promotions and additions were made in the 

 department of psychology: Dr. Stephen S. 

 Colvin, associate professor, to be professor; 

 Dr. John W. Baird, instructor, to be assistant 

 professor; Dr. Fred Kuhlmann, assistant in 

 psychology at Carle University, to be in- 

 structor. The department has grown rapidly 

 in numbers in the last few years. It will be 

 given new and ample quarters in the addition 

 to the Natural History Building which will 

 probably be open for use in September, 1908. 



E. J. WiLCZYNSKi, Ph.D. (Berlin), associate 

 professor of mathematics in the University of 

 California, has accepted a similar position in 

 the University of Illinois. Professor Wilcz- 

 ynski is the author of numerous articles and 

 of a work on Projective Differential Geometry 

 of Curves and Ruled Surfaces published by 

 B. G. Teubner, of Leipzig, in 1906. He has 

 been both research assistant and research as- 

 sociate of the Carnegie Institution, and he was 

 one of the lecturers at the Colloquium of the 

 American Mathematical Society held at Yale 

 University during last summer. He was also 

 one of the organizers of the San Francisco 

 Section of the American Mathematical So- 

 ciety and was elected chairman of this section 

 at its last annual meeting. 



At the recent meeting of the Board of 'Re- 

 gents of the West Virginia University the fol- 

 lowing additions and promotions were made 

 in the college of agriculture: John L. 

 Sheldon, Ph.D., bacteriologist and plant 

 pathologist of the West Virginia experi- 

 ment station, was elected to the professorship 

 of bacteriology and plant pathology in the 

 university. W. M. Munson, Ph.D., professor 

 of horticulture and horticulturist, Maine Ex- 

 periment Station, was elected horticulturist of 

 the West Virginia Station; T. C. Johnson, 

 A.M., instructor in horticulture and botany, 

 was promoted to an assistant professorship in 

 the same subjects in the College of Agricul- 

 ture, and D. W. Working, A.B., A.M., of Den- 

 ver, Colorado, and formerly on the editorial 

 staff of the American Grange Bulletin, was 

 elected superintendent of agricultural exten- 

 sion teaching in the College of Agriculture. 

 Also an order was passed authorizing the 

 establishment of a department of highway con- 

 struction in the college of agriculture. 



The board of trustees of the Sioux City Col- 

 lege of Medicine announces the following 

 changes in its faculty : C. T. Stevens, professor 

 of biology; W. W. Scott, professor of chem- 

 istry ; Dr. Delmar S. Davis, assistant professor 

 of chemistry; Dr. George S. Browning, pro- 

 fessor of infectious diseases, and the Hon. W. 

 L. Harding, professor of medical juris- 

 prudence. 



