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The chair of assaying in the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, vacant by the resig- 

 nation of Professor Eichard W. Lodge to be- 

 come a consulting engineer, has been filled by 

 the appointment of Professor Edward E. 

 Bugbee, who graduated from the institute in 

 1900, and has since been teaching in the Uni- 

 versity of Iowa and the University of Wash- 

 ington. 



The chair of mathematics at the Thomas S. 

 Clarkson Memorial School of Technology, 

 Potsdam, N. T., has been filled by the appoint- 

 ment of Samuel G. Barton, Ph.D. (Pennsyl- 

 vania), Harrison fellow at the University of 

 Pennsylvania, 1905-1906, and research fellow 

 in astronomy, 1906-1908. 



Dr. Leon J. Cole, chief of the division of 

 animal breeding and pathology of the Rhode 

 Island Experiment Station, has been appointed 

 instructor in zoology in Yale University. 

 Lorande Loss Woodrufi, Ph.D. (Columbia), in- 

 strijctor in Williams College, has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in biology at the same in- 

 stitution. Mr. Henry J. Spencer, of Syracuse 

 University, succeeds Dr. Woodruff as in- 

 structor in biology at Williams. 



Dr. Prank Pierpont Graves, of the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of the history and principles of educa- 

 tion at the Ohio State University. Dr. Guy 

 Montrose Whipple, assistant professor of edu- 

 cation at Cornell University, has been ap- 

 pointed acting professor of education at 

 Missouri. 



The following new appointments have been 

 made at the University of Kansas : F. H. Bil- 

 lings, associate professor of botany; Adolf 

 Zeifle, assistant professor of pharmacy; J. E. 

 Todd, assistant professor of geology; H. L. 

 Jackson, assistant professor of chemistry; P. 

 A. Glenn, assistant professor of entomology; 

 Charles Oshwald, instructor in mechanical en- 

 gineering; J. B. Carter, instructor in physi- 

 ology; Burton McCullum, instructor in phys- 

 ics; Prank Rupert, assistant instructor in 

 chemistry; Thomas Haslam and Florence 

 Hazen, assistants in chemistry; W. A. Starin, 

 instructor in botany; W. B. R. Robinson, 

 assistant instructor in zoology. Associate 



Professor M. E. Rice has been made acting 

 head of the department of physics; the chair 

 of physics is vacant and will probably be filled 

 some time during the year. 



At Washington and Lee University, the 

 Rev. J. Howerton, D.D., has been made pro- 

 fessor of philosophy in the place of Dr. A. 

 Quarles, who died in April; and Dr. Thomas 

 K. Urdahl, Ph.D. (Wisconsin, '9Y), professor 

 of political and social science in Colorado 

 College, has been elected to the chair of polit- 

 ical economics and political science, vacant 

 by the removal of Dr. H. T. Willis to the 

 George Washington University. The other 

 changes in the teaching corps are among the 

 assistants, most of whom are changed annu- 

 ally. In physics, Frederic Bartenstein be- 

 comes head assistant, with E. K. Paston and 

 R. W. Dickey as junior assistants. In chem- 

 istry, Wm. H. Marquess is head assistant, 

 with A. P. Lee, E. H. Deets and A. W. Ly- 

 brand as junior assistants. In biology, W. P. 

 Hooper is assistant. In engineering, E. A. 

 Hoge is assistant. In mathematics, R. Rag- 

 land and J. W. Addison are assistants. Of 

 this list Messrs. Bartenstein, Marquess and 

 Lee are reappointments. 



The following changes occur in the Scien- 

 tific Department of the University of Maine 

 this year: W. D. Hurd promoted from acting 

 dean to dean of the College of Agriculture: 

 L. H. Merrill, professor of biological and 

 agricultural chemistry; C. P. Weston pro- 

 moted to professor of mechanics and drawing; 

 Dr. M. A. Chrysler, associate professor of 

 botany; C. B. Brown, promoted to assistant 

 professor of civil engineering; Herman 

 Beekenstrater, assistant professor of horti-eul- 

 ture; J. E. MeClintock, in charge of the agri- 

 cultural extension work; W. M. Curtis, assist- 

 ant professor of mechanical engineering; H. 

 R. Willard, promoted to an assistant professor- 

 ship of mathematics ; D. J. Edwards, promoted 

 to an instructorship in botany; P. L. Bean, 

 L. I. Johnstone, and A. E. Lord, instructors in 

 civil engineering; R. E. Clayton, J. Seymour 

 and W. F. Washburn, instructors in chemistry ; 

 H. W. Bearce promoted to an instructorship 

 in physics; C. C. Murdock, tutor in physics; 

 and C. S. Winch, taxidermist in the museum. 



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