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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 571. 



December 2, the building erected to replace 

 the old structure, which was burned in 1904. 

 The new building cost $100,000. The prin- 

 cipal address at the opening exercises was de- 

 livered by Dr. John B. Grout, superintendent 

 of the State Insane Hospital, at Waterbury. 



Mrs. Clara C. Jacobus has given $25,000 

 to found a fellowship at Princeton University, 

 to he conferred on the graduate student who 

 has reached the highest excellence in his work 

 during the previous year. An anonymous 

 donor has given $10,000 to establish a fellow- 

 ship in chemistry. 



Mr. Henry B. Loomis of the class of '75 has 

 given $10,000 to the Scientific School of Tale 

 University to establish a fellowship in chem- 

 istry. 



Mr. W. D. D. Crotch, M.A., of Asgard, 

 Richmond, Surrey, bequeathed the residue of 

 his personal estate after the termination of 

 two life estates on trust for the museum of 

 zoology at Cambridge, the interest to be set 

 apart to form a fund for the purchase of books 

 or specimens. The present value of the 

 residuary estate has been ascertained to be 

 about £8,000. 



Lord Onslow, on November 18, opened the 

 new museum and laboratories of zoology which 

 have been erected at a cost of £18,000 in con- 

 nection with the work of the University of 

 Liverpool. 



The library of the late John Stuart Mill 

 has been presented to Somerville College for 

 Women, Oxford, by Miss Helen Taylor. It 

 contains about 2,500 volumes. 



Mr. J. Martin White has offered to pay the 

 expenses of a series of lectures in London 

 University on Japanese education. With the 

 aid of the Japanese minister at London, the 

 university has completed arrangements with 

 the Japanese government for the delivery of 

 the lectures during the summer and autumn 

 terms of 1906. The lecturer appointed by the 

 Japanese government is Mr. Masataro Saway- 

 anagi, director of the General Education 

 Bureau in the Department of Education. He 

 will probably deliver courses on the methods 

 of Japanese home and school education, espe- 



cially with reference to Japanese sociology, 

 and also a course on Japanese methods of edu- 

 cational organization and administration. 



The London Times states that in 1899 the 

 Witwatersrand Council of Education raised 

 a sum amounting to £100,000 for the purpose 

 of providing elementary education for the 

 Uitlander community. This money, which 

 now amounts to about £115,000, has remained 

 intact until the present time, with the excep- 

 tion of a portion of the interest which has 

 been given to the Transvaal Technical Insti- 

 tute. At a meeting of the trustees it was de- 

 cided to dispose of the fund in the following 

 manner: £60,000 to the Technical Institute 

 and £30,000 to found a public school at Erank- 

 enwald more or less on the lines of an English 

 public school. The balance of £25,000 will 

 probably be divided between Jeppestown High 

 School and Johannesburg College, but is held 

 over pending the report of the government 

 commission on secondary education. 



The graduate department of the University 

 of Cincinnati has been reorganized with the 

 title of graduate school. Its faculty consists 

 of the heads of departments, with Professor 

 Merrick Whitcomb of the department of his- 

 tory as chairman. 



Nearly sixty students, who are members of 

 the senior class in the Yale Eorestry School, 

 have left for the woods of northern Maine. 

 They will spend the next two months in ob- 

 serving practical forestry and commercial lum- 

 bering work by the companies who conduct 

 logging camps. 



Dr. William Louis Poteat, formerly pro- 

 fessor of zoology, was installed as president of 

 Wake Eorest College on December 7. 



Mr. W. M. Barrows has been appointed 

 Austin teaching fellow of zoology at Harvard 

 University. 



Dr. E. W. MacBride, Strathcona professor 

 of zoology at McGill University, has been ap- 

 pointed examiner for the natural science tripos 

 at Cambridge University. 



Dr. W. a. Bowne, F.R.S., has been ap- 

 pointed professor of applied chemistry at the 

 University of Leeds. 



