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[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 555. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Peter B. Kouss, of New York, son of the 

 late Charles Broadway Rouss, has established 

 at the University of Virginia a memorial to 

 his father by the erection of two adjunct 

 professorships, one of civil, and one of me- 

 chanical engineering, to be supported by him, 

 and to be known as the Kouss memorial ad- 

 junct professorships. 



Mr. Thomas H. Shevlin has given $60,000 

 to the University of Minnesota for a woman's 

 building, which will contain a gymnasium, a 

 luncheon room, etc. 



The Liverpool City Council has agreed to 

 grant a further sum of £10,000 to Liverpool 

 University during the current year. 



Mr. J. E. Crombie has given £1,000 towards 

 the cost of the Aberdeen University quarter- 

 centenary celebration, primarily to guarantee 

 any deficiency in the publication committee's 

 expenses. 



The University at Giessen will celebrate its 

 three hundredth anniversary in May, 1907. 



The Agricultural Department of Olemson 

 College has been reorganized as follows : First, 

 the division devoted to teaching. Second, the 

 division devoted to research work. Under the 

 first head is included the teaching of students, 

 farmers' institute work and extension work. 

 The second division comprises the state experi- 

 ment station and all lines of original research 

 in the sciences relating to agriculture. The 

 directorship of the station, which office has 

 heretofore rested with the president of the 

 college, has been transferred to the Agricul- 

 tural Department. A station covincil has 

 been organized, presided over by the president 

 of the college. This council will meet once a 

 month for the purpose of discussing questions 

 relating to the good of the station and to 

 determine in a general way what shall be the 

 character of the experiments conducted for 

 the coming year. The issuing of all bulletins 

 must be authorized by the station council. 

 All investigations must have the approval of 

 this council. It consists of the president, the 

 director, the professors of chemistry, agricul- 

 ture, horticixlture, entomology and zoology, 

 l)otany and bacteriology, veterinary science, 



and animal husbandry and dairying. Under 

 this organization, the following gentlemen 

 comprize the Agricultural Department and are 

 also employed in conducting experiments re- 

 quired by the experiment station. Professor 

 J. IST. Harper was elected to fill the place of 

 director of the Agricultural Department and 

 of the station, which post was vacated by the 

 resignation of Professor J. S. ISTewman, on 

 July 1. Professor Harper comes from the 

 Kentucky state institiition. The chair of ani- 

 mal husbandry and dairying has been filled by 

 the election of Professor John Michaels, a 

 graduate of the University of Wisconsin. 

 Professor C. L. Newman, who has recently 

 been elected to the associate professorship of 

 agriculture, was for some years connected 

 with the experiment station at Arkansas. 



Professor W. A. Tilden, P.R.S., has been 

 appointed dean of the Royal College of Sci- 

 ence, South Kensington, in succession to Pro- 

 fessor J. W. Judd, F.R.S. 



Dr. William M. Hicks, F.R.S. , principal and 

 professor of physics in Sheffield University, 

 has resigned the post of vice-chancellor, and is 

 succeeded by Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe 

 Eliot. 



Professor E. J. Townsend, of the University 

 of Illinois, has been made acting dean of the 

 College of Science. 



Dr. Albert Lefevre, of Tulane University, 

 has been appointed professor of philosophy in 

 the University of Virginia. 



Professor S. J. Buck has retired from the 

 chair of mathematics at Iowa College, after 

 forty-one years of service. He has been made 

 professor emeritus. . Mr. W. J. Rusk, for the 

 past three years associate professor, has been 

 promoted to the chair of mathematics. 



Miss Mary C. Bliss, for the past year as- 

 sistant in botany in Wellesley College, has 

 been advanced to an instructorship, and the 

 following new appointments have been made 

 in the department: Assistant, Miss Maude 

 Cipperly; graduate student assistants, Miss 

 Alice M. Ottley and Miss Emeline Moore. 



Dr. August Gutzmar, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Jena, has been called to Halle. 



