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the maximum limits. A famous hunter ex- 

 pressed his disbelief in twelve-foot elephants, 

 and he claimed to know more about the sub- 

 ject that those who maintained that such a 

 measurement had been reached. In the char- 

 acter of the ears, which Mr. Lydekker recently 

 made the criterion for distinguishing the dif- 

 ferent races of the African elephant, the Edin- 

 burgh specimen, obtained by Major Powell- 

 Cotton in the Lado enclave, approaches one 

 shot near Lake Eudolf by Mr. Cavendish, and 

 named in his honor. Of quite a different 

 type is the Orleans elephant of North Somali- 

 land, with a lobe or lappet at the lower part of 

 the ear. The head of the type-specimen 

 adorns the walls of the Duke of Orleans's 

 private museum at Wood Norton, the whole 

 of which was arranged by Rowland Ward, 

 who also mounted the trophies, the groups 

 being set up from the duke's notes, photo- 

 graphs and sketches, under the royal owner's 

 personal direction. 



UNIVERSITY A^^D EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



BowDOiN College has received a gift of 

 $50,000 from Mr. Andrew Carnegie, to endow 

 a chair of physical science, history and poli- 

 tical science in memory of the late Thomas 

 B. Eeed. The college has now received $150,- 

 000 of the $200,000 required by the General 

 Education Board to make available its gift of 

 $50,000. 



Professor Thomas Barker, from 1865 to 

 1885 professor of mathematics at Owen's Col- 

 lege, now Victoria TJniversity, Manchester, 

 who died on November 20, has bequeathed 

 most of his estate to the university to estab- 

 lish a professorship of cryptogamic botany 

 and to found scholarships in mii^hematics and 

 botany. The bequest will amoiint to about 

 $200,000. Professor Barker also left his 

 microscopes, apparatus, botanical books and 

 herbarium, and his mathematical and general 

 scientific books to the university. 



By the will of the late Mrs. Annie E. 

 Pulton, the TJniversity College of South 

 Wales and Monmouthshire receives a bequest 

 amounting to about $45,000. 



The Educational Times states that Mac- 

 donald College, Quebec, established and en- 

 dowed by Sir William. Macdonald, of Mon- 

 treal, was opened to students on November Y. 

 The college property comprises 561 acres, and 

 has been divided into the campus of 74 acres, 

 where the buildings are located, with demon- 

 stration plots for grasses and flowers; a farm 

 of 100 acres for horticulture and poultry 

 keeping; and a live stock and grain farm of 

 387 acres. The buildings have been planned 

 in accordance with the most modern scien- 

 tific principles. The cost of the buildings and 

 equipment exceeds £300,000, and in addition 

 Sir William Macdonald has provided a perma- 

 nent endowment of £400,000. The college is 

 incorporated with McGill University, and Dr. 

 James W. Robertson, C.M.G., is the principal. 

 The college includes a school for teachers, a 

 school of household science, and a school of 

 agricvilture. Tuition is free to residents in 

 the Province of Quebec. 



The daily press states that Professor Albert 

 Ross Hill, of Cornell TJniversity, formerly 

 dean of the Teachers College of the TJniversity 

 of Missouri, is soon to succeed Dr. Richard 

 IT. Jesse as president of the university. 



At the Pennsylvania State College, Pro- 

 fessor J. P. Jackson has been appointed dean 

 of the School of Engineering, and Professor 

 Hugo Diemer, dean of the mechanical depart- 

 ment. 



Mr. W. Bateson, F.R.S., fellow of St. 

 John's College, Cambridge, since 1885, who re- 

 cently came to this country to give the Silli- 

 man lectures at Tale TJniversity and to attend 

 the meeting of the International Zoological 

 Congress, has been appointed reader in zoology 

 at Cambridge TJniversity. 



Dr. J. G. Frazer, of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, has accepted the new chair of social 

 anthropology in the TJniversity of Liverpool. 



Correction: In Mr. Bateson's address, Sci- 

 ence, November 15, 1907, p. 655, col. 1, par. 4, 

 for 41:7:7:9 read 177:15:15:49. 



