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SCIENCE. 



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the proceedings of the second conference have 

 been collected and published by the United 

 States Geological Survey. They are now 

 available as Water-Supply and Irrigation 

 Paper No. 146, and may be obtained free of 

 charge on application to the director of the 

 Survey, Washington, 1). C. Besides data con- 

 cerning the organization of the hydrographic 

 branch of the Geological Survey and the 

 Eeclamation Service, the paper contains the 

 minutes of the conference at El Paso and the 

 conference at Washington, the address of the 

 chief engineer, the papers read at the confer- 

 ence, committee reports, circulars relating to 

 a variety of subjects, and brief biographical 

 sketches of all persons employed in the Eec- 

 lamation Service. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. James Millikan, who has given $900,- 

 000 for the establishment of a university at 

 Decatur, 111., which shall bear his name, has 

 offered to give a further million dollars to the 

 institution. 



Major Henry E. Alvord, the late chief of 

 the dairy division of the Department of Agri- 

 culture in Washington, divided his library be- 

 tween Norwich University, of Vermont, his 

 alma mater, and the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College at Amherst. To the latter insti- 

 tution he bequeathed also a fund of $5,000 

 for an Alvord dairy scholarship. This, how- 

 ever, is subject to the life interest of his 

 widow. 



AccoRniNG to the Neiu York Evening Post 

 Dr. Kisaburo Yamaguchi, an official in the 

 Central Office of Mines, Tokio, has announced 

 that Johns Hopkins will be made the recipent 

 of an extensive collection of Japanese min- 

 erals. 



Dr. John N. Tillman was inaugurated as 

 president of the University of Arkansas, at 

 the opening of that institution, on Septem- 

 ber 20. 



Dr. William Louis Poteat, for some years 

 professor of biology in Wake Eorest College, 

 North Carolina, was recently elected president 

 of the same institution. It is proposed to 

 have the inaugural exercises in December. 



At the University of Illinois James Mc- 

 Laren White, professor of architectural engi- 

 neering, has been appointed acting dean of 

 the College of Engineering; Edgar J. Town- 

 send, associate professor of mathematics, act- 

 ing dean of the College of Science, and Dr. 

 Edwin G. Dexter, professor of education, 

 director of the School of Education. Appoint- 

 ments have further been made as follows: 

 Professor S. E. Slocum, assistant professor of 

 mathematics; E. O. Dufour, of Lehigh Uni- 

 versity, assistant professor of civil engineer- 

 ing; C. H. Hurd, University of Chicago, as- 

 sistant professor of applied mechanics; Ed- 

 ward O. Sisson, formerly director of Bradley 

 Polytechnic Institute, Peoria, and Frank 

 Hamsher, principal of academy, assistant pro- 

 fessors of education; Dr. Edward Barto, asso- 

 ciate professor of chemistry and director of 

 water survey; W. J. Risley, University of 

 Michigan, instructor in mathematics and as- 

 tronomy; John Watrous Case, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, instructor in physics. 



Dr. Leo F. Guttman, of London, for two 

 years research assistant to Sir William Ram- 

 say, has arrived from abroad to take up his 

 duties as Carnegie research assistant to Pro- 

 fessor Charles Baskerville, of the College of 

 the City of New York, in his chemical investi- 

 gations of the rarer earths. 



Dr. Wilhelm F. Koelker, who recently 

 took his degree with Professor Emil Fischer 

 at the University of Berlin, has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in organic chemistry at the 

 University of Wisconsin. 



Mr. C. G. Eldredge, of Sabula, Iowa, has 

 been appointed assistant in the chemical de- 

 partment of Cornell College. 



Dr. H. a. Higbee and Dr. Roger C. Wells 

 have been appointed instructors in physics in 

 the University of Pennsylvania. 



Provision has been made for a professorship 

 of botany at the University of Melbourne and 

 for the erection of a botanical laboratory. 



Dr. Konrad Dietrici, of Hanover, has been 

 called to the chair of physics at Rostock. 



Professor O. Pumlirz, of Czernowitz, has 

 been called to the chair of. mathematical phys- 

 ics at Innsbruck. 



