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The official report of the Tale University 

 alumni fund shows contributions during the 

 last fiscal year of $72,283. The amount of the 

 principal of the alumni fund on July 1 was 

 $242,998. The net receipts of the fund for the 

 last seventeen years during which it has been 

 collected have been $464,Y87. 



William Waldokf Astor, who has already 

 given $50,000 to Oxford University, has now 

 offered to give another $50,000 as soon as $500,- 

 000 is subscribed by others. 



The City of Saratov, Kussia, has donated to 

 the university which is to be established there, 

 26 desjatins of ground and 1,123,000 rubles 

 in money. 



The reorganized Bulgarian University, at 

 Sofia, was opened this month. 



The Mohammedan University at Cairo, 

 Egypt, is celebrating the thousandth anniver- 

 sary of its foundation. 



Th& British Medical Journal states that the 

 professors of the medical faculty of the Uni- 

 versity of Eome have at last succeeded in 

 inducing the Italian parliament to give heed 

 to their representations as to the inadequacy 

 of salaries. The average amount of the sal- 

 aries attached to the medical chairs is only 

 £280, while the deputy professors and assist- 

 ants are of course paid on a still lower scale. 

 A bill has been introduced into the Chamber 

 of Deputies providing for such an increase 

 as will enable the professors to devote them- 

 selves wholly to scientific work. 



New appointments have been made in the 

 faculty of Bryn Mawr College as follows: 

 Professor Robert Matteson Johnston succeeds 

 Professor Charles M. Andrews, who has been 

 appointed to the chair of colonial history in 

 Johns Hopkins University. Professor Johns- 

 ton, who is a graduate of the University of 

 Cambridge, has been lecturer in history at 

 Harvard University for the last three years 

 and is a specialist in modern European his- 

 tory. Professor Theodore de Leo de Laguna, 

 of the University of Michigan, comes as pro- 

 fessor of philosophy as a successor to the late 



Professor David Irons, who died last January. 

 Dr. Charles Clarence Williamson, recently 

 university fellow in political economy at 

 Columbia University, has been appointed as- 

 sociate in political science, succeeding Pro- 

 fessor Henry Raymond Mussey, who has been 

 called to the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. 

 George Shannon Forbes, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, and lately student in the universities of 

 Berlin and Leipzig, has been appointed asso- 

 ciate in chemistry. Dr. Daniel Webster 

 Ohern, of the Johns Hopkins University, has 

 been appointed associate in geology, succeed- 

 ing Dr. Benjamin Le Roy Miller, who has 

 been called to Lehigh University. Professor 

 Florence Baseom, professor of geology, has 

 returned after a year's leave of absence in 

 Europe. 



Professor Lewis Ehrhaedt Reber, dean of 

 the School of Engineering and professor of 

 mechanical engineering of the Pennsylvania 

 State College, has been appointed director of 

 the university extension and correspondence 

 study at the University of Wisconsin. 



Dr. Ralph H. Curtiss, formerly of the Lick 

 and more recently of the Allegheny Observa- 

 tory, has been appointed assistant professor 

 of astrophysics in the University of Michigan. 



Dr. Arthur W. Weysse has given up his 

 post in the department of biology of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as he 

 wished to give his undivided attention to in- 

 struction in Boston University. Dr. Percy 

 G. Stiles, in addition to his work as 

 instructor in physiology at the institute, will 

 this year act as assistant professor at Simmons 

 College. 



The vacancy in the department of mining 

 and metallurgy at Colorado College, in Colo- 

 rado Springs, caused by the resignation of 

 Dr. Thomas T. Read, who goes to the Imperial 

 University, at Tientsin, China, has been filled 

 by the appointment of Clyde T. Griswold, a 

 graduate of Amherst College and of Columbia 

 University. During the past two years Mr. 

 Griswold has been connected with the Can- 

 adian Copper Company. 



