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Wilson College, situated near Chambers- 

 burg, Pa., has received a bequest of $40,000 

 from the late John Lortz, to be used for the 

 erection and maintenance of a natural science 

 building. 



CoLUJiBLi University has received a gift of 

 $60,000 from Mr. Horace W. Charpentier, A.B. 

 ('48), for the chair of pediatrics. 



PuKDUE University has dedicated an as- 

 sembly hall, erected at a cost of $70,000, the 

 gift of Mrs. Eliza Fowler. 



The University of Leipzig has received from 

 the estate of the late Herr Puschmann, 500,- 

 000 Marks for the study of the history of 

 medicine. 



A LiQUiu-AiR plant will probably be installed 

 in the basement of the Kyerson Physical 

 Laboratory, of the University of Chicago, dur- 

 ing the coming summer, at a cost of about 

 $1,400. 



The Chemical Laboratory of the Eensselaer 

 Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, IST. Y., was 

 damaged by fire on the night of May 6. It is 

 said that the fire was caused by an explosion 

 of chemicals and that the loss amounts to 

 nearly $75,000. 



The British Chancellor of the Exchequer 

 recently promised a deputation that the treas- 

 ury grant to university colleges should be 

 raised from £25,000 to £50,000 a year, and held 

 out some hope that the sum might be raised 

 to £100,000 next year. The following com- 

 mittee has been appointed to report on the 

 allocation of the proposed increased grant: 

 The Eight Honorable E. B. Haldane, M.P. 

 (chairman). Sir P. Mowatt, G.C.B., I.S.O., 

 Mr. C. A. Cripps, K.C., M.P., the Eev. Dr. 

 Woods, late president of Trinity College, Ox- 

 ford; Mr. Henry Higgs, of the treasury, will 

 act as secretary. 



By a recent decree of Queen Wilhelmina 

 the University of the Netherlands will recog- 

 nize hereafter the degree of Bachelor of Arts 

 from the following American institutions : 

 The University of California, Catholic Uni- 

 versity of America, University of Chicago, 

 Clark University, Columbia University, Cor- 

 nell University, Harvard University, Johns 

 Hopkins University, Leland Stanford Junior 



University, University of Michigan, Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, 

 University of Wisconsin and Yale University. 



The trustees of Stanford University adopt- 

 ed on March 31 a form of organization which 

 appears to differ from that of most universi- 

 ties by the creation of an advisory board. 

 This consists of nine members, three being 

 elected each year by the academic council or 

 general faculty. All executive acts of gen- 

 eral importance, including recommendations 

 for appointments, promotions or dismissals, 

 are to be submitted by the president to the 

 advisory board for approval before they be- 

 come operative or before they are submitted 

 to the trustees for action, when such action is 

 necessary. 



A VACATION course in geography, similar to 

 that of August, 1902, will be held at the Ox- 

 ford School of Geography during the first 

 sixteen days of next August, provided that a 

 sufiicient number of students send in their 

 names. It is proposed to have courses of lec- 

 tures, probably on the British Isles and on the 

 principles of geography applied to education, 

 and in addition to have classes for practical 

 work both in and out of doors. 



Professor Albert W. Smith, of Stanford 

 University, has been appointed director of 

 Sibley College, Cornell University, succeeding 

 the late Eobert H. Thurston. 



Miss Bertha May Clark, of Baltimore, 

 holder of a foreign fellowship from the 

 Woman's College of Baltimore, has been 

 awarded the annual fellowship given by the 

 Baltimore Association for the promotion of 

 the University Education of Women. Miss 

 Clark graduated from the Woman's College in 

 1900, was the holder of a graduate scholar- 

 ship at Bryn Mawr College in 1900-1901, and 

 was afterwards instructor, in physics in the 

 Woman's College of Baltimore. 



Dr. Henry H. Dixon, who has been assistant 

 to Professor Wright since 1892, succeeds him 

 as professor of botany in Trinity College, 

 Dublin. 



Errafmv : The note on page 774 of the last issue 

 of Science should read " Johns Hopkins gives op- 

 portunity for professional work in connection 

 with the Geological Survey of Maryland." 



