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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 570. 



be used for the physical, mathematical and 

 general scientific needs of the school. 



The late Frank Harvey Cilley, the engineer, 

 has bequeathed the residue of his estate, which 

 will probably amount to $70,000, to the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology for the pur- 

 chase of suitable books, photographs, casts, 

 anatomical models and statuary for the library 

 and gymnasium of the proposed Walker Me- 

 morial Gymnasium, or for special lectures on 

 physical culture. 



Mr. T. p. Shonts, chairman of the Isthmian 

 Canal Commission, has given to Monmouth 

 College $10,000 as part of the $30,000 needed 

 to obtain an additional $30,000 which Mr. 

 Andrew Carnegie had promised to give the 

 college for a library. 



The foundation is being laid for the north 

 wing of University Hall, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, which, when completed, will almost 

 double the class and lecture room capacity of 

 that building. The new wing will be ready for 

 occupancy at the beginning of the next aca- 

 demic year. The regents of the university 

 have purchased the large lot on the corner of 

 State and Park streets opposite the University 

 Library and the Assembly Hall, as a site for 

 the new administration building. The plans 

 for the new building have not been com- 

 pleted as yet and work will probably not be 

 begun until next spring. 



The Experiment Station Record states that 

 with the inauguration of a four-year course 

 of study at the agricultural high school of 

 Vienna, the right has been given the school to 

 confer the doctor's degree (' Dolctor der Boden- 

 Jcultiir'). The course was formerly a three- 

 year one, and there has long been an effort to 

 raise the grade of work done by the school. 

 The present action places it on a par with the 

 universities and technical high schools. 



Exchanges state that the Carnegie College 

 of Hygiene at Dunfermline was formally 

 opened on October 4. The course of study 

 is very comprehensive. The college year is 

 divided into three terms of twelve weeks each, 

 and the work is divided into two sections — 

 theoretical and practical — which, in turn, are 

 subdivided. The theoretical includes human 

 anatomy and physiology, personal and school 



hygiene, theory of movements and teaching, 

 symptomatology in connection with remedial 

 gymnastics and school hygiene, and voice pro- 

 duction. The practical course includes (1) 

 educational gymnastics — Ling's Swedish sys- 

 tem, (2) remedial gymnastics and massage, 

 students being allowed, under medical super- 

 vision, to treat cases; (3)- methods of class 

 teaching, students having charge, under super- 

 vision, of classes of all ages in the public 

 schools and in the gymnasium; (4) games, 

 dancing and swimming. 



The Rev. David H. Buell, professor of 

 physics in Georgetown University, has been 

 elected president of the institution. 



Professor H. B. Dates, dean of the Engi- 

 neering School of the University of Colorado, 

 has accepted a professorship of electrical en- 

 gineering at the Case School of Applied 

 Science. 



Professor Theodore Whittlesey, for some 

 years connected with the department of chem- 

 istry, Cornell University, and more latterly 

 adjunct professor of chemistry in the School 

 of Pharmacy of Northwestern University, has 

 recently been appointed adjunct professor of 

 chemistry in Northwestern University. 



Mr. E. J. Seaver has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of botany in Iowa Wesleyan College. 



The following appointments are noted in 

 The Experiment Station Record: J. B. David- 

 son has been elected assistant professor in agri- 

 cultural engineering at the Iowa College to 

 succeed C. J. Zintheo, who resigned to take 

 up work in farm mechanics in connection with 

 the irrigation and drainage work in charge of 

 the Office of Experiment Stations, E. T. 

 Robbins has been elected to the position of 

 assistant in animal husbandry, to succeed W. 

 W. Smith, who has been elected assistant of 

 animal husbandry at Purdue University. At 

 the North Carolina Station W. E. Massey has 

 resigned his position as horticulturist and will 

 devote himself to editorial work. 0. L. 

 Bagley and R. H. Harper, graduates of the 

 class of 1905, have been appointed assiistant 

 chemists to the station. 



Dr. Otto Stolz, professor of mathematics 

 at Innsbruck, has retired. 



