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elude Dr. A. C. True, director of the Division 

 of Experiment Stations, Department of Agri- 

 culture; Dr. Carroll D. Wright, president 

 of Clark College; and Dr. F. W. Eane, state 

 forester of Massachusetts. 



The permanent advisory committee of the 

 treasury on the allocation of the money pro- 

 vided by parliament in aid of university 

 colleges in Great Britain recommends grants 



as follows : 



Grant, Proposed 

 19C6-7 Grant 

 Victoria University of Manches- 

 ter £12,000 £10,000 



University of Liverpool 10,000 10,000 



University College, London . . . 10,000 10,000 



University of Birmingham 9,000 9,000 



University of Leeds 8,000 8,000 



King's College, London 7,800 7,800 



Armstrong College, Newcastle- 



on-Tyne 6,000 6,000 



University College, Nottingham 5,800 5,000 



University of Sheffield 4,600 5,000 



Bedford College for Women, 



London 4,000 4,000 



University College, Bristol .... 4,000 4,000 

 University College, Reading . . 3,400 3,400 

 Hartley University College, 



Southampton 3,400 2,250 



London School of Economics . . 500 



The grants proposed above amount in all to 

 £84,950, leaving, if a grant of £1,000 to Uni- 

 versity College, Dundee, is continued, a bal- 

 ance of £14,050 available for grants for special 

 purposes. 



The Philip Walker studentship of pathol- 

 ogy at Oxford will be filled in October. The 

 studentship was founded " for the furtherance 

 of original research in pathology." It is of 

 the annual value of £200 (payable quarterly 

 in advance), and is tenable for three years. 

 The student may be of either sex, and need 

 not necessarily be a member of the University 

 of Oxford. 



Peofessor William L. Beat, of the Uni- 

 Tersity of Texas, has been appointed to the 

 chair of botany at Syracuse University, vacant 

 by the resignation of Professor J. E. Kirk- 

 ■wood. 



Dr. Olfv-er C. Lester, A.B. (Central Col- 

 lege, Mo., 1897). Ph.D. (Yale, 1904), instruc- 



tor in the Shef&eld Scientific School of Yale 

 University, has been appointed professor of 

 physics in the University of Colorado, to fill 

 the position vacant by the resignation of Pro- 

 fessor Duane, who, as already announced, goes 

 to the Curie Radium Laboratory of the Uni- 

 versity of Paris. 



Frank Eugene Thompson, instructor in 

 education at Stanford University, with leave 

 of absence to carry on research work at Co- 

 lumbia University, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of education in the University of Colo- 

 rado. 



Professor George W. Bissell, M.E. (Cor- 

 nell, '88), professor of mechanical engineer- 

 ing in the Ohio State College since 1892 and 

 vice-dean of engineering since 1904, has been 

 appointed dean of engineering in the Michigan 

 Agricultural College. 



Howard C. Ford, instructor in civil engi- 

 neering in the University of Colorado, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of irriga- 

 tion engineering at the Iowa State University. 

 Mr. Thomas D. Eason, graduate of the 

 Clemson Agricultural College, has accepted an 

 appointment as assistant in botany in the 

 North Carolina Agricultural College. 



Dr. Frank W. Reed, of the University of 

 Virginia, has been appointed instructor of 

 astronomy in the University of Illinois. 



Dr. W. a. Wilkins has retired from the 

 chair of pathology in McGill University. 



Dr. Feiedrich Berwerth has been promoted 

 to a professorship of petrography a the Uni- 

 versity of Vienna. 



At the University of Lille, M. Clairin has 

 been appointed professor of mathematics; M. 

 Mallaquin, professor of zoology, and M. 

 Hallez, professor of comparative anatomy; at 

 the University of Nancy, M. Minguin has been 

 appointed professor of chemistry and M. 

 Nickles professor of geology ; at the University 

 of Lyon, M. Vavasseur has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of the differential and integral calculus ; 

 at the University of Toulouse, M. Paraf has 

 been appointed professor of mathematics; at 

 the University of Poitiers, M. Turpain has 

 been appointed professor of physics. 



