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sequently published an account of his travels 

 in a work entitled ' Unexplored Baluchistan.' 

 In the same year (1876) he was appointed 

 inspector-general of Egyptian telegraphs. In 

 1887 he surveyed, and described in the 'Pro- 

 ceedings of the Royal Geographical Society,' 

 ' Two Routes in the Eastern Desert of Egypt,' 

 and later described the results of an expedition 

 to the same desert in an official publication 

 entitled ' Etude sur la Nord-Etbai.' It was 

 during this journey that he rediscovered the 

 ancient emerald mines of the Egyptians, and 

 his maps and observations have been the basis 

 for the subsequent exploitation of minerals in 

 this region. During the last decade Mr. 

 Eloyer devoted much attention to the reclama- 

 tion, by judicious planting, of the land which 

 had been lost to cultivation by the encroach- 

 ment of drifting sand upon the western border 

 of the Delta, 



It is proposed to establish under the aus- 

 pices of the International Sanitary Confer- 

 ence an international sanitary bureau for the 

 collection of information respecting infectious 

 diseases, such as plague, cholera and yellow 

 fever, and also for the harmonious working of 

 those sanitary regulations in the east which 

 have so greatly contributed within the last five 

 years to the preservation of public health, as 

 well as to the benefit of trade, by the suppres- 

 sion of the old quarantine system. If the 

 movement is successful the bureau will have 

 its headquarters in Paris. 



UNIVERSITY A^W EDUCATIONAL NEW 8. 



The will of the late Washington Corring- 

 ton, of Peoria, 111., leaves the entire estate, 

 valued at $750,000, for the founding of an 

 educational institution to be known as Oor- 

 rington Institute and University. The estate 

 is to be managed by trustees until it reaches 

 $1,500,000, when work is to be begun at Mr. 

 Corrington's late home, just outside the limits 

 of Peoria. Professor John M. Coulter, of the 

 University of Chicago, is one of the trustees. 



By the will of the late Ruth A. Hoar, the 

 Worcester Polytechnic Institute receives $5,- 



000 and Clark University will ultimately re- 

 ceive $30,000. 



Palmer University, at Muncie, Ind., has 

 secured the $100,000 necessary to obtain the 

 endowment of $100,000 left by the late F. A. 

 Palmer. 



De. Edward Hitchcock, Je.) for several 

 years professor of physical culture and hygiene 

 and director of the gymnasium at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has resigned. 



Professor W. A. S. Hewins, M.A., having 

 resigned the post of director of the London 

 School of Economics and Political Science, 

 the senate has appointed in his place Mr. H. 

 J. Mackinder, M.A., lecturer in economic 

 geography at that institution. Mr. Mackinder 

 has lately resigned the principalship of Uni- 

 versity College, Reading, but will continue 

 his lectures on economic geography in the 

 University of London and historical geography 

 in the University of Oxford. 



Mr. William Ravenscroft Hughes, B.A., 

 has been elected to a fellowship in Jesus Col- 

 lege, Cambridge University. Mr. Hughes was 

 fifth wrangler in the mathematical tripos, 1902. 



The council of King's College, London, has 

 appointed to the chair of mathematics Mr. S. 

 A. F. White, M.A., of Wadham College, Ox- 

 ford, who has been demonstrator in natural 

 philosophy in King's College since 1895. The 

 council has also appointed Mr. E. F. Herroun 

 assistant professor of physics, and Mr. J. B. 

 Dale, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, 

 assistant professor of mathematics. 



SiE John Scott Burdon-Sandeeson, M.A., 

 D.M., hon. fellow of Magdalen, and Regius 

 professor of medicine at Oxford University, 

 has placed his resignation of the professorship 

 in the hands of the vice-chancellor. Sir John 

 Burdon-Sanderson was appointed to the regius 

 professorship, to which is annexed the Al- 

 drichian professorship of the practise of medi- 

 cine, in 1895, upon the resigTiation of the late 

 Sir Henry Acland, who had occupied the chair 

 for thirty-eight years. Professor Burdon- 

 Sanderson was the first occupant of the Wayn- 

 flete chair of physiology, to which he was ap- 

 pointed in 1883, his successor being the present 

 professor. Dr. Gotch.- 



