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bequest, $105,000;. the Seely gift, $100,000; 

 the G. S. Woodward lectureship gift of $5,000; 

 a gift of $3,055 to the library by friends of 

 the late J. Sumner Smith; to the academic 

 department five loan funds of about $2,000 

 altogether; the Abernethy fellowship of $10,- 

 000; the Milner fund of $45,125, and Wither- 

 bee scholarship of $10,000; the Ely professor- 

 ship fund of $50,000 to the Medical School; 

 and, to building funds, part of the Ross be- 

 quest to the library, $97,534, and the W. L. 

 McLane bequest of $97,468. Gifts to income 

 include $13,869 from the Carnegie founda- 

 tion; $25,000 from the Yale Alumni Fund 

 Association; $31,744 from WiUiam Kent; $8,- 

 600 from E. S. Harkness, and $8,800 from 

 William Sloane for Dwight Hall improve- 

 ments ; and $3,300 from the National Lumber- 

 men's Association for the Forest School. The 

 W. W. Famam accumulating fund has now 

 reached $50,000, and its income becomes avail- 

 able for university purposes. 



Gifts of $363,000 have been made to New 

 York University during the past fiscal year. 

 The value of the university's property hold- 

 ings was said to be $5,130,000, on which there 

 is a mortgage of $1,230,000. 



The family of the late Professor Angelo 

 Heilprin has presented to the Sheffield Scien- 

 tific School the collection of lantern slides, 

 comprising about 1,000 views taken by him in 

 all parts of the world and used by him in his 

 course in physical geography. 



According to the Umschau there were last 

 summer 3,132 teachers in German universi- 

 ties, of whom 1,333 were ordinary or full pro- 

 fessors, 729 extraordinary or associate pro- 

 fessors, 116 honorary professors and 1,054 

 privatdocents or lecturers. There are at Ber- 

 lin 477 teachers, at Munich 226 and at Leipzig 

 224. The smallest number of professors is 

 found at Rostock, Erlangen and Miinster. 



A FELLOWSHIP in industrial chemistry, yield- 

 ing $500 a year for two years, has been estab- 

 lished at the University of Kansas by the 

 Parke-Davis Company, manufacturing chem- 

 ists of Detroit, Mich; Ralph C. Shuey, Uni- 

 versity of Kansas '06, is the first holder of the 

 fellowship. 



J. Feed Baker, B.S. '02, Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College; M.F. Yale '04, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of forestry in the Michigan 

 Agricultural College, in place of E. E. 

 Bogue, deceased. Mr. Baker was in the U. S. 

 Forest Service for a portion of '04; assistant 

 professor of forestry for the State Forestry 

 Commission of Pennsylvania, '05-'06, and 

 professor of forestry in Colorado College, '06- 

 '07. 



At Harvard University, Mr. R. B. Thomson 

 has been appointed instructor in botany and 

 Mr. F. C. Blanck research assistant in bio- 

 logical chemistry. 



The following scientific appointments have 

 recently been made in the State University of 

 West Virginia : John A. Eiesland, professor of 

 mathematics; John L. Sheldon, professor of 

 botany and bacteriology ; Albert M. Reese, pro- 

 fessor of zoology; Henry M. Payne, professor 

 of mining engineering; Daniel W. Working, 

 superintendent of agricultural extension work; 

 Frederick R. Whipple, veterinarian; Welton 

 M. Munsen, horticulturist; Clarence Post, 

 assistant in physics; Margaret Buchanan, as- 

 sistant in mathematics and Greek. 



Dr. J. H. Grindley, of Liverpool Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed principal of the Gov- 

 ernment School of Engineering at Ghizeh, 

 Cairo. 



Mk. a. H. Lees, of King's College, Cam- 

 bridge, has been appointed to the studentship 

 in medical entomology for the period of one 

 year. The studentship was recently estab- 

 lished on the basis of a grant from the " Trop- 

 ical Diseases Research Fund," administered 

 by the Colonial Office. 



We learn from Nature that of the four fel- 

 lowships awarded last month at Trinity Col- 

 lege, two were for classics ; one of the remain- 

 ing two was awarded to Mr. A. S. Eddington, 

 senior wrangler in 1904, and the other to Mr. 

 V. H. Mottram, of the natural sciences tripos, 

 1903, and first class (physiology) in the same 

 tripos, 1905. Mr. A. Wood, who took his 

 degree in chemistry and physics in 1904 as an 

 advanced student, has been elected to a fellow- 

 ship at Emmanuel College. 



