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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXI. No. 7S9 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The Sheffield Scientific School of Tale Uni- 

 versity has received from Messrs. George G. 

 Mason and William S. Mason $250,000 for a 

 laboratory of mechanical engineering. 



For the establishment of the George Pea- 

 body College for Teachers at Nashville, Tenn., 

 the sum of $1,000,000 has now been given by 

 the board of trustees of the Peabody Fund for 

 the Advancement of Education in the South. 

 This gift was promised some time ago condi- 

 tional on the granting by the state of Tennes- 

 see, the county of Davidson and the city of 

 Nashville of a sum approximating $750,000. 



Additional gifts amounting to $450,000 to 

 seven institutions were announced after the 

 seventh annual meeting of the General Edu- 

 cation Board held in New York City on Feb- 

 ruary 2. These are the appropriations: Wil- 

 liams CoUege, Williamstown, Mass., $100,000 

 on condition that the college raise an endow- 

 ment of $1,000,000; Wesleyan University, 

 Middletown, Conn., $100,000 toward $1,000,- 

 000 ; Cornell College, Mount Vernon, la., $50,- 

 000 toward $200,000 ; St. Lawrence University, 

 Canton, N. T., $50,000 toward $200,000; 

 Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky., $25,- 

 000 toward $100,000; the Women's College of 

 Brown University, Providence, E. I., $50,000 

 toward $200,000; the Salem College for Wo- 

 men, Winston-Salem, N. C, $75,000 toward 

 $300,000. 



The trustees of the bequest of $2,000,000, 

 left by Mrs. Amanda W. Eeed, are, as has al- 

 ready been announced, about to establish a 

 college at Portland, Ore., to be known as Eeed 

 Institute. Dr. J. H. Tufts, head of the de- 

 partment of philosophy at the University of 

 Chicago, has recently spent some time in 

 Portland on the invitation of the trustees, to 

 advise as to the scope of the institution. 



A MEDICAL library of 1,100 volumes has 

 been given to the medical school of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin by Dr. Byron F. Eobin- 

 son, a graduate of the university in the class 

 of 1878, now professor of gynecology and ab- 

 dominal surgery in the Illinois Medical 

 School. 



AccoRDns'G to the Madras Educational Re- 

 view, as quoted in Nature, Sir F. D. Lugard, 

 the governor of Hong Kong, has reported to 

 the British government that Mr. H. N. Mody 

 has offered to present the colony with the 

 building necessary to start a university. A 

 committee has been formed, with the governor 

 as chairman, to promote the undertaking. Mr. 

 Mody's original offer was to give a sum of 

 £30,000 for this purpose and a further £6,000 

 towards the endowment. Plans of the neces- 

 sary buildings were prepared, and as the di- 

 rector of public works estimated that the cost 

 would not be less than £58,000, Mr. Mody 

 undertook to provide them in accordance with 

 the plans, stipulating, however, that he should 

 use on the buildings the £6,000 originally 

 given for endowment if it should be required. 

 Albert Johannesen, Ph.D. (Johns Hop- 

 kins), of the United States Geological Survey, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of min- 

 eralogy and petrography in the University of 

 Chicago. 



Dr. Charles C. McFarlane, principal of the 

 Brockport State Normal School, and formerly 

 professor of geography, has been appointed to 

 the newly-created office of comptroller in 

 Teachers College, Columbia University. 



Me. E. C. Punnett, superintendent of the 

 Museum of Zoology at Cambridge University, 

 has been elected to the professorship of biology 

 recently vacated by Professor W. Bateson. 



DISCUSSION AND COBEESPONDENCE 

 'the southernmost glaoiation in the united 



STATES 



In a recent number of Science' H. W. Fair- 

 banks and E. P. Carey report evidences of 

 "Glaciation in the San Bernardino Eange, 

 California," in latitude about 34° 7' N. 

 Concerning this interesting discovery the 

 writers say : " it has hitherto been assumed 

 that the southernmost point of glaciation in 

 the United States was in the Sierra Nevadas, 

 nearly two hundred miles to the north " 

 (north of latitude 36° N.). If their observa- 

 tions are correct, they have found the most 



• January 7, 1910. 



