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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 576. 



February 2. — ' The Evolution of the Sense of 

 Hearing.' Professor George H. Parker. 



February 9. — ' Africa, from Sea to Center.' Mr. 

 Herbert L. Bridgman. 



February 16. — ' Total Solar Eclipses and their 

 Significance.' Professor Charles S. Hastings. 



F'ebruary 23. — ' Florida Bird-Life, with special 

 reference to the Life History of the Brown Pelican.' 

 Mr. Frank M. Chapman. 



March 2.—' The Wheat Country of the North- 

 west.' Dr. Claude F. Walker. 



March 9. — ' How the Metal Calcium was iso- 

 lated; a Story of Chemical Progress.' Professor 

 Edgar F. Smith. 



March 16. — ' The Colorado Canyon and its Les- 

 sons.' Professor William M. Davis. 



March 23. — ' Botanizing among the American 

 Indians.' Mr. Frederick V. Coville. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The Pennsylvania College for Women in' 

 Pittsburg, has been making a resolute strug- 

 gle to pay off a mortgage indebtedness of over 

 $60,000 resting upon its property, and to make 

 a beginning in securing an endowment. $40,- 

 000 were pledged to the latter purpose in case 

 $150,000 should be subscribed by January 1, 

 1906. The necessary subscriptions have been 

 secured, and, after the mortgage has been paid, 

 the college will possess as the nucleus of an 

 endowment fund the sum of $125,000. It has 

 a fine landed property and good buildings. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has promised to con- 

 tribute $50,000 toward the endowment fund 

 of Bates College when $100,000 shall have been 

 raised for the same purpose by friends of the 

 college. 



The University of Pennsylvania received 

 last month an anonymous gift of $50,000. 



Lake Porest University has received $30,- 

 000 for a dormitory and the same sum for a 

 commons. 



The University of Wisconsin has received 

 a bequest of $10,000 by the will of the late 

 Mrs. Pannie Parker Lewis, for the establish- 

 ment of scholarships for young women stu- 

 dents in need of financial aid. 



Mr. John Peeney bequeathed sums amount- 

 ing to £89,000 towards various institutions 



and objects connected with Birmingham and 

 district. These include Birmingham Art 

 Gallery, £50,000; University of Birmingham, 

 £20,000, and the General Hospital, £10,000. 

 The bequest to the university is for the pur- 

 pose of maintaining a professor, with suitable 

 equipment, lecturing on some one or more 

 scientific subjects directly connected with some 

 one or more of the trades and industries car- 

 ried on in or near Birmingham. 



Sir Donald Currie's offer of £20,000 to 

 Queen's College, Belfast, on condition that a 

 similar sum was raised locally, has met with 

 a satisfactory response. The president of the 

 college has annoimced that the conditions have 

 been more than complied with, and that with 

 the amount secured previously the sum now 

 stands at over £70,000. 



The senate of London University invites 

 applications for the professorship of proto- 

 zoology, established by means of funds offered 

 by the Royal Society and the Rhodes trustees, 

 through the colonial secretary. The salary 

 attached to the chair will be £750 per annum. 



At the annual meeting of the trustees of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, on 

 January 2, at the rooms of the State Board 

 of Agriculture, Kenyon L. Butterfield, presi- 

 dent of the Rhode Island College of Agricul- 

 ture and Mechanic Arts, was elected to fill 

 the vacancy in the presidency at Amherst 

 caused by the death of Henry H. Goodell. 

 He will assume his duties in July. 



The regents of the University of Wisconsin 

 have arranged for State Forester E. M. Grif- 

 fith to deliver a course of lectures on forestry 

 before the students of the university. 



Dr. Walter Mulford, last year instructor 

 in Yale University, has been made assistant 

 professor of forestry in the University of 

 Michigan. 



M. Barbillion has been appointed professor 

 of technical physics in the University of 

 Grenoble. 



Dr. Karl Chun, professor of zoology in the 

 University of Leipzig, has declined a call to 

 Berlin. 



