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entific School has also received a gift of 

 $1,000 a year, for ten years, from an anony- 

 mous donor, a member of the class of '95 S., to 

 be used for the course in commercial geog- 

 raphy. 



The Johns Hopkins University has received 

 $20,000 by the will of the late Miss Frances 

 "Wilson, of Nev? York. 



Mrs. George E. Wheelook has given $5,000 

 to Cohimbia University as a fund in memory 

 of her late husband, the income to be applied 

 to the benefit of the Department of Phys- 

 iology. Columbia University has also received 

 $5,000 from Mr. Bernard M. Baruch for the 

 Vanderbilt Clinic. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given £10,000 

 towards the establishment of a technical col- 

 lege at Aberdeen. 



The board of regents of the University of 

 Kansas have recently let the contract for the 

 first of a group of five new buildings for the 

 School of Engineering. Two more buildings 

 of the group will be started next year, when 

 the money appropriated by the legislature be- 

 comes available. The Robinson Gymnasium, 

 erected at a cost of $100,000, was opened for 

 use on October 10. 



The new laboratories of the scientific de- 

 partments of the College of Liberal Arts of 

 Boston University haTe been opened in the 

 building formerly occupied by the Harvard 

 Medical School and adjoining the Public 

 Library. The top floor is occupied by the 

 departments of astronomy, physics and mathe- 

 matics, and comprises large and small lecture 

 rooms, ■ laboratories and ofiiees ; a large part 

 of the basement is also given over to physics. 

 The chemical and the biological departments 

 occupy the second floor, and consist of large, 

 admirably-lighted class laboratories, private 

 laboratories and store rooms, professors' rooms 

 and an amphitheater for the larger classes. 

 The two domes for the telescopes of the as- 

 tronomical department are situated on the 

 roof and are not quite completed. The 

 equipment of all the laboratories is new and 

 was purchased in part by special funds 

 donated to the university for that purpose. 

 A large passenger elevator makes all the floors 



of the building readily accessible. The scien- 

 tific departments are under the same directors 

 as last year: Professor J. B. Coit in astron- 

 omy and mathematics; Professor N. A. Kent 

 in physics; Professor L. C. Newell in chem- 

 istry, and Professor A. W. Weysse in biology. 



Western Keserve University is one of the 

 three institutions in the United States re- 

 quiring for entrance to its medical depart- 

 ment the equivalent of three years in a stan- 

 dard college of arts or science. The four 

 years' course includes required, systematic 

 work in the laboratories of anatomy and his- 

 tology, pathology, physiology, bacteriology, 

 pharmacology and clinical microscopy. Since 

 instituting the high college requirement for 

 admission, only laboratory work in advanced 

 and physiological chemistry under the charge 

 of the departments of physiology and bio- 

 chemistry has been given in this school. The 

 five-story building now being erected will pro- 

 vide laboratories for the new department of 

 experimental medicine established by the 

 Payne-Hanna gift of $200,000. Alterations 

 and improvements have been completed at 

 Lakeside Hospital, one of the hospitals affili- 

 ated with Western Reserve University. 



The plan of reorganization of the School of 

 Agriculture of the Pennsylvania State College 

 provided for the separation of the collegiate 

 instruction in agricultural chemistry and the 

 work of investigation in that field of science, 

 the two departments thus formed being desig- 

 nated respectively as the department of agri- 

 cultural chemistry and the department of ex- 

 perimental agricultural chemistry. It has 

 already been announced that the latter portion 

 of the work has been retained by Professor 

 Frear, who, it is expected, will also offer some 

 post-graduate courses of instruction. It is 

 now announced that the professorship of agri- 

 cultural chemistry has been filled by the elec- 

 tion of Professor Charles Lyndall Penny, 

 A.M., lecturer in agricultural chemistry to the 

 Delaware Agricultural College, and for many 

 years chemist to the Delaware Experiment 

 Station. Margaret B. MacDonald, Ph.D., 

 (Bryn Mawr) has been appointed to the posi- 

 tion of instructor in agricultural chemistry. 



