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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 484. 



reported in the newspapers that Mr. Carnegie 

 has donated library buildings to Winthrop 

 College, at Eock Hill, S. C, and to Converse 

 College, at Spartanburg, S. C, both colleges 

 for women. 



The Court of Appeals has affirmed the 

 judgment of the lower courts in deciding that 

 New York University has no title to the lands 

 or properties of the Loomis laboratory at 414 

 East Twenty-sixth Street. The laboratory 

 was founded with $100,000, contributed by 

 Dr. Alfred L. Loomis in 1887; its properties 

 are now valued at $200,000. 



The College of Pharmacy of the City of 

 New York celebrated its seventy-fifth anniver- 

 sary on March 29, by approving an agreement 

 with the trustees of Columbia University 

 whereby, after July 1, it becomes a part of the 

 latter institution. Under the agreement the 

 finances of the College of Pharmacy will re- 

 main in the control of its trustees, although 

 the president of Columbia will be its ex- 

 officio president. The present course of in- 

 struction will remain unchanged until the 

 fall of 1905, when changes are to be made 

 and approved by the officers of Columbia. 

 The standard of admission to the College of 

 Pharmacy, it is expected, will be raised. 

 Students graduating as ' graduates of phar- 

 macy ' are not to receive the university degree, 

 that being conferred only on doctors of phar- 

 macy and post-graduates, who have passed the 

 regents' examination. 



It is expected that the new Agricultural 

 Hall, now under construction at Clemson Col- 

 lege at a cost of about $50,000, will be com- 

 pleted during the summer and ready for 

 occupation by the opening of the next session. 

 This building will provide class-rooms and 

 laboratories for instruction in agriculture, 

 horticulture, botany and bacteriology, zoology 

 and entomology, veterinary science, and geol- 

 ogy and mineralogy, besides a natural history 

 museum. The state legislature, at its recent 

 session, also established 124 agricultural 

 scholarships at a value of $100 each. 



The Oxford convocation has passed a decree 

 accepting with gratitude a donation by 

 Pandit Shyamaji Krishnavarma, M.A., of 



Balliol College, for the establishment of an 

 endowment in memory of the late Herbert 

 Spencer, the endowment to take the form 

 of an annual lecture, with a provision that a 

 ' Herbert Spencer ' prize may, if desired, with 

 the consent of the founder during his lifetime, 

 be substituted for the lecture. 



The trustees of Carleton College at North- 

 field, Minn., have appointed the Eev. Dr. 

 George R. Montgomery, lecturer on philosophy 

 at Yale University, to be professor of phi- 

 losophy, vice the Eev. E. W. Lyman, who 

 goes to the Congregational Theological Semi- 

 nary at Montreal. 



J. VoLNEY Lewis, professor of geology and 

 mineralogy in the Clemson Agricultural Col- 

 lege of South Carolina, has resigned to accept 

 a similar position in Rutgers College after 

 the close of the present session. 



■ Mr. J. E. BuRBANK, B.A. (Bowdoin), M.A. 

 (Harvard), has resigned his instructorship in 

 physics at the University of Maine, to accept a 

 position in the Magnetic Survey, at Wash- 

 ington, D. C. Mr. L. E. Woodman, A.B. and 

 A.M. (Dartmouth), formerly assistant in phys- 

 ics at Dartmouth, has been elected to the 

 vacant instructorship. 



The following appointments have been 

 made at Harvard University: Instructors 

 — O. Ames and J. M. Greenman in botany, A. 

 B. Erizell in mathematics, J. A. Moyer in de- 

 scriptive geometry, S. E. Whiting in electrical 

 engineering, P. S. Smith in geology, and H. C. 

 Boynton in metallurgy and metallography. 

 Assistants — N. S. Bacon, L. S. Hapgood, P. H. . 

 Provandie, in hygiene; A. B. Plowman in 

 botany, 0. F. Black, J. E. Langmaid, A. D. 

 Wyman in chemistry, and J. N. Bell in zool- 

 ogy. Austin teaching fellows — L. Eoss in 

 applied mechanics, A. H. Chivers in botany, 

 A. Tyng in engineering, and A. E. Norton 

 in mechanical drawing and mathematics. 



Mr. Anthony Traill, M.D., LL.D., has been 

 appointed provost of Trinity College, Dublin, 

 in succession to the late Dr. George Salmon. 



KoTARO Shimomura, a graduate of the Wor- 

 cester Polytechnic Institute, has been elected 

 president of Doshislia College, Kioto, Japan. 



