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by New Zealand naturalists, and the material 

 obtained will be the property of the Canter- 

 bury Museum. The committee for biological 

 and hydrographical study of the New Zea- 

 land coast, appointed by the Australasian 

 Association for Advancement of Science, wiU 

 provide certain equipment for use in the 

 deeper waters. The Nora Nevin, a new steam 

 trawler just from the stocks at Grimsby, Eng- 

 land, built to the order of the Napier (N. Z.) 

 Fish Supply Company, has been chartered by 

 the New Zealand government, and it is antici- 

 pated that operations will extend over a period 

 of three months. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The town council of Aberdeen has agreed 

 to give £15,000 towards the erection and equip- 

 ment of a technical college in the city. 



We learn from the Experiment Station 

 Record that at the last session of congress an 

 appropriation of $1,000 was made for the pur- 

 pose of continuing and extending the school- 

 garden work which has been carried on for a 

 number of years in a cooperative way by the 

 public schools and the Department of Agricul- 

 ture. Beginning four years ago with a few 

 gardens on the department grounds and a little 

 improvement work around a single school, the 

 movement has grown until this year 700 chil- 

 dren have gardens on the department grounds, 

 124 school buildings in the district have gar- 

 dens, and 160,000 packets of seeds have been 

 sold for home gardens. 



The registration in the summer session of 

 Cornell University is 745, an increase of more 

 than 100 over last year. 



Professor W. F. M. Goss, dean of the 

 Schools of Engineering and director of the 

 Engineering Laboratory of Purdue University, 

 has accepted the position of dean of the Col- 

 lege of Engineering in the University of Illi- 

 nois. 



At a special meeting of the trustees of 

 Union College, Schenectady, N. T., on July 

 18, the resignation of Dr. A. V. Raymond as 

 president was accepted, and Dr. George Alex- 

 ander, pastor of the University Place Presby- 



terian Church of New York, was elected tem- 

 porary president in his place. Dr. Alexander 

 is a trustee of Union College, from which he 

 graduated in 1866. 



At the University of Virginia, members of 

 the faculty have been elected as follows: Dr. 

 Stephen H. Watts, of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, to be professor of general surgery and 

 director of the hospital; Dr. Thomas Leonard 

 Watson, of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 

 to be professor of economic geology, and Dr. 

 Eobert Montgomery Bird, to be collegiate pro- 

 fessor of chemistry. 



Professor J. B. Johnston has resigned the 

 professorship of zoology in the University 

 of West Virginia to accept the position of 

 assistant professor of anatomy of the nervous 

 system in the department of histology and 

 embryology. University of Minnesota. 



Professor F. G. Miller, of the chair of 

 forestry in the University of Nebraska, has 

 resigned in order to accept a similar position 

 in the University of Washington. He with- 

 draws from Nebraska on September 1, on 

 which date his connection with the Washing- 

 ton University begins. His successor has 

 already been chosen — Mr. Frank J. Phillips, 

 of the United States Forest Service. Pro- 

 fessor Phillips will assume his new duties on 

 September 1, after which his address will be at 

 Lincoln. He is a graduate of the University 

 of Michigan School of Forestry, and has been 

 connected with the U. S. Forest Service for 

 the past four years, during which he has been 

 assigned to forest problems in many places in 

 the western states and territories. 



George D. Gable, Ph.D., Hunt professor of 

 mathematics and secretary of the faculty. 

 Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, has accepted 

 a call to the Johnson professorship of mathe- 

 matics in the University of Wooster, Wooster, 

 Ohio. 



Dr. George Dreyer, lecturer in pathology 

 in the University of Copenhagen, has been 

 elected professor of pathology in Oxford Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. Charles Spearman has been appointed 

 reader in experimental psychology in Uni- 

 versity College, London. 



