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[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 478. 



Coast Eegion of Alaska, its Fiords, Glaciers 

 and Volcanoes,' C. Hart Merriam. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Me. J. Ogden Armour has given $250,000 

 to the Armour Institute of Technology for 

 an athletic field. 



Mr. John A. Creighton has given a further 

 sum of about $250,000 to Creighton Univer- 

 sity, a Catholic institution at Omaha, ISTebr. 



The Liverpool city council has decided to 

 grant £10,000 to the university during 1904, 

 on condition that the council nominate from 

 time to time some person to inspect the work 

 of the institution; that the university make 

 an annual report to the council of its vcork, 

 including a statement of accounts; and that 

 not less than £1,000 of the grant be devoted 

 for Liverpool scholarships and for the pay- 

 ment and remission of fees. It is intended 

 to make the grant an annual one. 



Lord Strathcona has given $20,000 to 



Manitoba University to extend its scientific 

 work. 



Mrs. Winbolt has offered to the University 

 of Cambridge £500 to found an annual prize 

 in civil engineering in memory of her late 

 husband, Mr. John Steddy Winbolt, M.A., 

 Trinity College. 



The new Laboratory of Hygiene in the Uni- 

 versity of Jena was dedicated on January 24. 



Dartmouth Hall, the oldest building of 

 Dartmouth College and one of much historic 

 interest, has been destroyed by fire. The loss 

 of $25,000 is partly covered by insurance. The 

 trustees have already resolved to rebuild the 

 hall in more permanent material at a cost of 

 $250,000. _ West College, Colgate University, 

 has been damaged by fire, the biological and 

 geological departments suffering especially. 

 Several buildings belonging to the Johns 

 Hopkins University were destroyed in the 

 recent fire. They were, of course, insured, 

 but the amount of loss to the university is 

 not at present known. It is said that prop- 

 erty to the value of $1,300,000 belonging to 

 the Johns Hopkins Hospital was destroyed. 



This was insured, but there will be a large 

 curtailment in revenue until the property can 

 be rebuilt. 



Attorney-General Cunkeen holds that the 

 land in the Adirondacks, to which Cornell 

 University took title for the purpose of a 

 College of Forestry, has now become the 

 property of the state, and is a part of the 

 forest preserve. The attorney-general also 

 holds that the contract between Cornell Uni- 

 versity and the Brooklyn Cooperage Company 

 concerning the cutting of timber from this 

 land is in violation of the constitution, and 

 void. 



A GORRESPODENT writes to the London Times, 

 in view of recent developments at Oxford and 

 Cambridge, that it is interesting to learn that 

 the Cambridge Union Society has decided by 

 a majority of 87 votes to 70 ' that this house 

 would regret the abolition of compulsory 

 Greek in the previous examination.' This 

 expression of undergraduate opinion appears 

 the more significant when it is remembered 

 how small a proportion of the members of the 

 university are professedly classical students. 

 Last year of the 400 students who passed the 

 first parts of the various examinations for 

 honors only 90 were classical men. 



Dr. Whxiam C. Sturgis, formerly mycol- 

 ogist of the Connecticut Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, has been appointed lecturer on 

 botany at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. 



Dr. H. K. Ander.son, Caius College, Cam- 

 bridge, has been appointed university lecturer 

 in physiology in succession to Dr. Langley, 

 appointed to the professorship. 



Dr. Henry Kenwood has been appointed 

 professor of hygiene at University College, 

 London, in succession to the late Professor 

 W. H. Corfield. , 



Dr. E. p. Wright has resigned the chair of 

 botany at Trinity College, Dublin. 



SiGNOR Boccardi, late assistant in the Ob- 

 servatory of Catania, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of astronomy and director of the Ob- 

 servatory of the University of Turin. 



Dr. Benno Erdmann, professor of philos- 

 ophy at the University of Bonn, has been 

 called to Tubingen. 



