SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 490. 



Under date of March 3, 1901, it was an- 

 nounced that ' in order to further the labo- 

 ratory instruction of large classes of students. 

 Professor W. T. Porter would undertake to 

 provide reliable physiological apparatus con- 

 structed under his personal supervision.' 

 During the past three years such apparatus 

 has been made by the mechanics of the Har- 

 vard Laboratory of Physiology. The demand 

 for this apparatus now warrants a more sys- 

 tematic provision for its manufacture. Pro- 

 fessor Porter therefore announces the forma- 

 tion of The Harvard Apparatus Company, 

 organized for the advancement of laboratory 

 teaching in physiology and allied sciences. 

 This company will manufacture physiological 

 apparatus of simple desigii, sound workman- 

 ship, and low cost, suita^jle for laboratory 

 teaching and for research. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Governor Odell has signed the bill appro- 

 priating $250,000 for the erection of a build- 

 ing for the College of Agriculture at Cornell 

 University. 



The corporation of the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology voted that the executive 

 committee be required to ascertain whether 

 any arrangement can be made with Harvard 

 University for a combination of effort in tech- 

 nical education such as will substantially pre- 

 serve the organization, control, traditions and 

 name of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. 



Eugene N. Foss has given $50,000 to the 

 University of Vermont for the $1,000,000 fund 

 which the graduates of that college are trying 

 to raise to mark the centenary of the institu- 

 tion. 



The will of the late Solomon Loeb, of New 

 York City, gives more than $100,000 to public 

 purposes, including $10,000 for the Chemical 

 Laboratory of the New Tork University, $10,- 

 000 for the Hebrew Technical Institute and 

 $5,000 to the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



The University of Turin has recently cele- 

 brated the five hundredth anniversary of its 

 foundation. 



Denison University has secured a ten-year 

 lease on a small plot of ground adjacent to 

 the campus containing a fine permanent 

 spring for a biological farm. The lease has 

 been donated by a friend, also a fund for 

 equipment, both amounting to $500. A small 

 work room and open-air breeding pools with 

 running water have been built and enclosed 

 with netting. 



Kjng Edward laid the cornerstone for the 

 new buildings of the Eoyal College of Science, 

 Dublin, on May 28. 



Professor Charles S. Howe was inaugu- 

 rated as president of Case School of Applied 

 Science, at Cleveland, Ohio, on May 11. 

 President Ira Eemsen, of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, spoke in behalf of the universities; 

 President H. S. Pritchett, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, on tehalf of the 

 technical schools; John R. Preeman, of the 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 

 on behalf of the technical societies ; and Presi- 

 dent Charles Franklin Thwing, of Western 

 Reserve University, on behalf of the colleges 

 of Ohio. President Howe's inaugural address 

 followed. 



Dr. Maxime Bocher, now assistant pro- 

 fessor, has been appointed professor of mathe- 

 matics at Harvard University. Dr. Edward 

 D. Peters has been appointed professor of 

 metallurgy. 



Dr. a. C. Kerr has been promoted to a pro- 

 fessorship of anatomy at Cornell University, 

 and has been made secretai-y of the Ithaca 

 Division of the Medical College. 



Dr. Oskar Zoth, professor of physiology at 

 Innsbruck, has accepted a call to the Univer- 

 sity of Graz. 



At Williams College, Dr. Frederick H. 

 Howard has been promoted to an assistant 

 professorship in the department of anatomy 

 and physiology. 



Mr. J. O. Griffiths, B.A., late scholar of 

 Balliol College, Oxford, has been elected to an 

 ordinary fellowship after examination in 

 mathematics and physics. 



