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versity, has been nominated as the first in- 

 cumbent of the chair. 



A TECHNICAL high school with accommoda- 

 tions for 1,200 people will be erected in New- 

 ark, N. J. 



An anonymous gift of £50,000 has been 

 made to the University of Birmingham toward 

 the completion of the new building. The 

 present donation makes the fourth of £50,000 

 which has been received. The other donors 

 were Mr. Carnegie, Sir James Timmins 

 Chance, and 'Anonymously.' Up to the present 

 the council have authorized an expenditure on 

 the new University at Bournbrook of £250,000 

 on buildings and £100,000 on equipment. By 

 the latest donation the total fund in the pos- 

 session of the council is increased to £450,000, 

 In addition the city council have given a half- 

 penny rate, which is equivalent to £6,000 a 

 year, and the county councils of Staffordshire 

 and Worcestershire are subsidizing the uni- 

 versity to the amount of £500 a year each. 

 The Guardians of the Standard of Wrought 

 Plate have decided to make a grant of from 

 £200 to £300 a year. 



The new zoological department of the Uni- 

 versity of Liverpool, including the museum 

 and laboratories of zoology and of the prac- 

 tical applications of zoology, will be opened 

 on November 18 by the Earl of Onslow. 



On October 16 Bellevue College, at Belle- 

 vue, Nebr., celebrated the twenty-fifth anni- 

 versary of its founding with appropriate cere- 

 monies, including an historical address by 

 Eev. D. R. Kerr, D.D., former president of 

 the college and now president of Westminster 

 College, Fulton, Mo. On the same occasion 

 occurred the inauguration of the new presi- 

 dent, Rev. G. W. Wadsworth, D.D., for some 

 years president of Occidental College, Los 

 Angeles, Cal. The faculty of the college has 

 been strengthened this year by the addition of 

 Mr. A. S. McDaniel, A.B. (Wabash), A.M. 

 (Wisconsin), late fellow in chemistry at the 

 University of Wisconsin, as assistant pro- 

 fessor of physical science. A. A. Taylor, 

 Ph.D., continues in charge of the natural 

 sciences. 



Dr. Owen L. Shinn and Dr. Walter T. 

 Taggart have been promoted to assistant pro- 

 fessorships in chemistry at the University of 

 Pennsylvania, and Dr. Roger C. Wells (Har- 

 vard) has been appointed instructor in phys- 

 ical chemistry. 



The following appointments in chemistry 

 have recently been made of graduates of the 

 University of Pennsylvania : R. D. Hall, 

 Ph.D., and R. O. Smith, Ph.D., instructors at 

 the University of Wisconsin ; Jas. R. Withrow, 

 Ph.D., instructor in the University of Illinois ; 

 Hume Bedford, Ph.D., instructor in the Uni- 

 versity of Maine; Miss Alice L. Davison, 

 teacher in the College for Women, Columbia, 

 S. C. 



Mr. Charles J. C. Bennett, who received 

 this year the doctor's degree in education and 

 psychology at Columbia University, has been 

 appointed professor of education in the Louisi- 

 ana State University. 



Dr. W. a. p. Martin, who has been for the 

 past three years associated with the Viceroy 

 Chang Chih Tung in the cause of western 

 education, is about to assist in the formation 

 of a great union college in Pekin, an institu- 

 tion which will be supported jointly by the 

 missionary societies of the methodist, the con- 

 gregational and the presbyterian churches. 

 This enterprise is planned as a model for the 

 guidance of the Chinese government schools. 



Mr. F. S. Pinkerton has been appointed 

 professor of applied mathematics at Cardiff. 



The following appointments have been 

 made at the University of Liverpool: Dr. A. 

 W. Titherley, lecturer in organic chemistry; 

 Dr. W. G. Smith, lecturer in experimental 

 psychology; Dr. H. Bassett, assistant lecturer 

 and demonstrator in chemistry; W. Mason, 

 assistant lecturer in engineering; G. E. Scholes, 

 assistant lecturer and demonstrator in engi- 

 neering; C. A. Sadler, assistant demonstrator 

 in physics. 



Erratum : The review of ' The Educative Proc- 

 ess,' by William Chandler Bagley, printed in the 

 issue of Science for November 3, was written by 

 Professor E. A. Kirkpatrick, State Normal School, 

 Fitchbvirg, Mass. We much regret that through 

 an error it was assigned to Professor Wilbur S. 

 Jackman. 



