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special reference to military needs, and the 

 result is a collection which, while it would be 

 invaluable in the event of another military 

 campaign, will also be highly useful in the 

 peaceful development of the islands through 

 the medium of modern roads, bridges and other 

 improveraents. These maps will probably do 

 as much to promote the agricultural and in- 

 dustrial development of the Philippines as 

 any single act of the civil government, and 

 for them the authorities are indebted entirely 

 to the patient, painstaking, courageous labors 

 of the army. 



The council of the Royal Meteorological 

 Society has now appointed a lecturer who is 

 prepared to deliver lectures on meteorological 

 subjects, e. g.. How to observe the Weather; 

 Weather Forecasting; Climate; Rainfall; 

 Thunderstorms; Meteorology in relation to 

 Agriculture, Health, etc. The lectures will 

 be illustrated by lantern slides from the large 

 collection in the possession of the society. 

 The council is willing to arrange for exhibit- 

 ing at the gatherings of local scientific socie- 

 ties, institutions or schools, a collection of 

 photographs, diagrams and charts illustrating 

 meteorological phenomena and various pat- 

 terns of instruments used for meteorological 

 observations. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie recently offered $20,- 

 000 to Hope College, Holland, Mich., for a 

 gymnasium, on condition that a like sum be 

 raised by the institution. The condition has 

 been met and the gymnasium is now being 

 erected. 



Mr. Ralph Vorhees, of Clinton, N. J., has 

 given Huron College, a Presbyterian institu- 

 tion in South Dakota, a hundred thousand 

 dollars, subject to a life annuity of five per 

 cent. 



The University of Melbourne will celebrate 

 its jubilee in April, 1906. 



Dr. Austin Scott has resigned the presi- 

 dency of Rutgers College, but retains the 

 chair of history and political science. 



The following appointments have been made 

 in the faculties of the George Washington 

 University : 



Faculty of Graduate Studies. 



General Henry L. Abbott, U.S.A., retired, mem- 

 ber of the Board of Consulting Engineers of the 

 Panama Canal, professor of hydraulic engineering. 



Edward B. Rosa, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), pro- 

 fessor of physics. 



Brigadier-General George M. Sternberg, U.S.A., 

 retired, former surgeon-general of the War Depart- 

 ment, professor of preventive medicine. 



Faculty of Columhian College. 



Edwin A. Hill, A.B., M.A. (Yale), Ph.D. (Co- 

 lumbian ) , assistant professor of chemistry. 



Thomas M. Price, B.S. (Md. Agricultural), 

 Ph.D. (Columbian), assistant professor of chem- 

 istry. 



Timothy W. Stanton, B.S., M.S. (Colorado), 

 Ph.D. (Columbian), assistant professor of paleon- 

 tology. 



Philander Betts, B.S., M.S. (Rutgers), E.E. (Co- 

 lumbian), assistant professor of electrical engi- 

 neering. 



Paul N. Peck, A.B., A.M. (George Washington), 

 instructor in mathematics. 



Department of Medicine. 



Artlmr M. Tasker, B.A. (Wesleyan), assistant 

 in chemistry. 



Ernest W. Brown, Ph.D. (Yale), assistant in 

 chemistry. 



Dr. Alexander McKenzie, lecturer in the 

 University of Birmingham, has been appointed 

 head of the chemical department at the Birk- 

 beck College in succession to Dr. John E. 

 Mackenzie, who has become principal of the 

 Technical Institute, Bombay. 



Appointments at King's College, London, 

 have been made as follows : Mr. E. P. Har- 

 rison, Ph.D., and Mr. H. S. Allen, M.A., as- 

 sistant lecturers in physics; Mr. C. F. Russell, 

 B.A., assistant lecturer in mathematics; Mr. 

 L. Hinkel, assistant demonstrator in chem- 

 istry; Mr. W. Woodland, demonstrator in 

 zoology; Mr. O. S. Sinnatt, B.Sc, and Mr. R. 

 Wolfenden, B.Sc, demonstrators in engineer- 

 ing; Mr. J. E. S. Erazer, E.R.C.S., demon- 

 strator in anatomy. 



Dr. G. N. Woldrich has retired from the 

 chair of geology in the Bohemian University 

 at Prague, and is succeeded by Dr. Pocta. 



