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SCIENCE. 



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or 'TSth parallel. The expedition is expected 

 to finally return in the summer of 1908, and 

 the sum of £11,000 is given as its prob^le 

 cost. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. IST. W. Harris, of Chicago, has pre- 

 sented $25,000 to Northwestern TJniversity, 

 to be used as an endowment for an annual 

 series of lectures which are to he delivered by 

 some distinguished man, not a professor of the 

 university, upon the results of his own investi- 

 gations in scientific, literary, economical or 

 theological problems. 



By the will of Andrew J. Dotger, of South 

 Orange, N. J., the Tuskegee Noi-mal and In- 

 dustrial Institute will, at the death of the 

 testator's wife, receive the residuary estate, 

 said to be about half a million dollars. 



We learn from Nature that the University 

 of Basle, to which the late Professor Dr. 

 Georg W. A. Kahlbaum was attached for 

 nearly twenty years, has received the sum of 

 100,000 francs from the mother of the deceased 

 professor. Further, Professor Kahlbaum's 

 scientific library and physical instruments are 

 also to be handed to the university. 



The corporation of Harvard TJniversity has 

 decided that students who take more than the 

 required amount of work must in addition 

 to the regular tuition fee of $150 pay $20 for 

 each course. If a student wishes to finish his 

 course in three years, he must take up four 

 additional courses. 



The University of Oxford has established a 

 diialoma in anthropology, awarding a certificate 

 of merit after written and practical examina- 

 tion at the end of a course of study of not less 

 than a year in residence and under supervision. 



The college entrance examination board will 

 hereafter conduct an examination in zoology. 

 The examiners of the board for 1906 in the 

 sciences are as follows : 



Mathematics — Professor F. N. Cole, Columbia 

 University; Professor H. S. White, Vassar Col- 

 lege; Dr. Arthur Schultze, High School of Com- 

 merce, New York, N. Y. 



Physics — Professor E. L. Nichols, Cornell Uni- 

 versity; Professor F. C. Van Dyck, Rutgers Col- 

 lege; Frank Rollins, Stuyvesant High School, 

 New York, N. Y. 



Chemistry — Professor H. P. Talbot, Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology; Professor L. M. 

 Dennis, Cornell University; C. M. Allen, Pratt 

 Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Geography — Professor A. P. Brigham, Colgate 

 University; Professor Florence Bascom, Bryn 

 Mawr College ; W. H. Snyder, Worcester Academy, 

 Worcester, Mass. 



Botany — Professor W. F. Ganong, Smith Col- 

 lege; Professor Henrietta E. Hooker, Mount 

 Holyoke College; Louis Murbach, Central High 

 School, Detroit, Mich. 



TyE College of Engineering of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin announces a list of non- 

 resident lectures for the present year. The 

 lecturers selected include some of the most 

 prominent authorities on special phases of 

 engineering in the country. The lectures are 

 not confined strictly to engineering subjects, 

 but include a consideration of various indus- 

 trial and commercial problems with which the 

 engineer has to deal, and embrace the greatest 

 possible variety of subjects. The complete 

 program is as follows: Mr. P. B. Wheeler, en- 

 gineer of the ■ Semet-Solvay Co., Syracuse, N. 

 Y., two lectures, ' Gas Engineering.' Mr. G. M. 

 Davidson, chemist for C. & N. W. Kailway, 

 ' Purification of Water for Locomotive Boilers.' 

 Mr. J. M. Paithorn, president of the Chicago 

 Terminal Transfer Co., ' Kegulation of Eail- 

 road Freight Eates.' Mr. B. A. Behrend, 

 chief engineer of Bullock Manufacturing Co., 

 ' High Speed in Modern Engineering.' Mr. S. 

 Wyer, consulting engineer, Columbus, 0., two 

 lectures,.' Gas Producers and Producer Gas.' 

 Mr. L. E. Clauson, U. W. '97, signal engineer 

 of C. M. & St. P. Eailway Co., ' Eailroad 

 Signaling.' Mr. Ealph Modjeski, consulting 

 bridge engineer, Chicago, ' The New Thebes 

 Bridge over the Mississippi near St. Louis.' 

 Mr. Arthur B. Wheeler, president of the Chi- 

 cago Telephone Co., subject to be announced 

 later. Professor L. P. Breckenridge, College 

 of Engineering, University of Illinois, * The 

 Use of Bituminous Coal in Boiler Furnaces.' 

 Mr. Andrews Allen, U. W. '91, construction 

 engineer, Chicago, ' Engineering Construc- 

 tion.' Mr. Frank Skinner, assistant editor of 

 Engineering Record, probably several lectures 

 on ' Bridge Construction.' 



