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lasted. Si^eeelies in favor of tlie bill were made 

 by Lord Wolverton, the Marquis of Lansdowne 

 and the Earl of Eosebery. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Me. John D. Rockefeller has given $500,- 

 000 to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, in order 

 that the vcork of the institution may not be 

 curtailed owing to the losses from the recent 

 Baltimore fire. The Maryland legislature has 

 voted $25,000 annually for two years to the 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



By the will of Mrs. Farnham, widow of the 

 late Professor Henry Farnham, Yale Univer- 

 sity receives $52,500 for the endowment fund 

 of the medical school and $39,000 for the 

 endowment fund for the library. 



The Goldsmiths' Company has transferred 

 to the University of London the technical 

 institute in South London which it has main- 

 tained for the last twelve years. The value 

 of the buildings and land is estimated at about 

 $500,000. As work of the kind that the com- 

 pany had been doing will henceforward be 

 paid for by public funds, the institute has 

 been made over to the University of London 

 for higher education. 



The London Times states that the physio- 

 logical laboratory committee of London Uni- 

 versity has presented a report upon the work 

 done in the laboratory during the past two 

 years. This institution was established in 

 February, 1902, to provide facilities for orig- 

 inal work in physiology and experimental 

 psychology, and to publish by means of lec- 

 tures to advanced students the results of re- 

 cent work in this branch of study. For the 

 establishment and maintenance of the labora- 

 tory the senate are chiefly indeoted to Mr. 

 Walter Palmer, M.P., Mr. Alfred Palmer, and 

 Mr. G. W. Palmer, M.P. During the past two 

 years eleven courses of eight lectures each 

 have been delivered in the laboratory, and 

 arrangements have been made by the senate 

 with Mr. John Murray for the publication, 

 under the authority of the university, of such 

 of these courses as may be from time to time 

 approved. The first volume published in this 



series has been Dr. A. D. Waller's ' On the 

 Signs of Life.' The laboratory has been used 

 for various researches by 20 qualified students, 

 and 23 communications from persons working 

 in it have been published in the Proceedings 

 of the Royal Society and other scientific 

 journals. 



The Messrs. Mallinckrodt, of St. Louis, 

 have agreed to pay $500 to a chosen student 

 of chemistry in the graduate school of Har- 

 vard University during the year 1904-1905, 

 on condition that this student contract to 

 serve in the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works 

 during the year 1905-1906 at a suitable salary. 



Boston University is about to establish a 

 scientific department in the College of Liberal 

 Arts, and has appointed in this department 

 A. W. Weysse, A.B., Ph.D. (Harvard), now of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to 

 be assistant professor of biology, and L. G. 

 Newell, A.M. (Brown), Ph.D. (Johns Hop- 

 kins), now of the State Normal School at 

 Lowell, to be assistant professor of chemistry. 



George M. Stratton, A.B. (California), 

 Ph.D. (Leipzig), associate professor of psy- 

 chology in the University of California, has 

 been appointed professor of experimental psy- 

 chology in the Johns Hopkins University. 



Dr. E. G. Van Name has been appointed 

 to an instruetorship in chemistry at Yale 

 University. 



Professor William 0. Emery has been ap- 

 pointed head of the chemical department and 

 director of the chemical laboratory in the New 

 Mexico State School of Mines. Dr. Emery 

 was for ten years instructor and decent in 

 the Universities of Berlin and Bonn. He was 

 later connected with the University of Chi- 

 cago, and professor in Wabash College. 



Professor H. E. Crampton, of Columbia 

 University, will take charge of the work in 

 embryology at the biological laboratory at 

 Cold Spring Harbor. 



Dr. Eothpletz has been made professor of 

 geology and paleontology at the university of 

 Munich, in the room of the late Professor von 

 Zittell. 



