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income of the said fund shall beconie reduced 

 as above mentioned, and that from and after 

 that time the investments representing the 

 said sum and accumulations should from time 

 to time be applied so far as they will extend 

 in augmenting the income of the Said fund to 

 the extent of £300 a year. Further, that if 

 from any cause the lectureships or either of 

 them should cease to be maintained, the said 

 investments or such part thereof as shall not 

 have been then applied as aforesaid should be 

 applied for the promotion of advanced mathe- 

 matical science and research in the University 

 of Cambridge as the vice-chancellor for the 

 time being of such university shall in his abso- 

 lute discretion determine." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mrs. Isabella Eldek has bequeathed to the 

 Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical Col- 

 lege £5,000 to provide for a coiirse of popular 

 lectures on astronomy. 



The new entomological laboratories of the 

 University of California, which are under the 

 charge of Professor C. W. Woodworth, were 

 dedicated in connection with the joint meet- 

 ing of the State Teachers' Association and 

 State Farmers' Institute, on December 27. 

 The building is 38 x 44 feet and is three 

 stories high, besides attic and basement. Dur- 

 ing the past year there have been over 400 

 students enrolled in the department. 



The annual report of the treasurer of Har- 

 vard University shows that the funds of the 

 University, up to July 31, 1905, amount 

 to $18,036,025.71, which is an increase over 

 last year of $1,280,271.61. The largest item 

 of the new funds is $736,225.28, which is the 

 amount of the teachers' endowment fund 

 which had been turned over up to July 31, 

 1905. The amount of the fund is $2,240,000, 

 of which already $1,800,000 has been paid in. 

 The deficit in the university, college and 

 library accounts for the year was $30,743.06, 

 or about $5,000 less than last year. The deficit 

 did not cause the incurrence of any debts as 

 it was charged to the principal of the insur- 

 ance and guaranty fund, thus reducing the 

 .amount of income yielding capital. There 



will be a large measure of relief, however, from 

 the new unrestricted funds and from the in- 

 creased income from the new system of tuition 

 charges. In the medical school there was a 

 deficit of $24,853.93, which reduced the credit 

 balance to $5,560.57. The accounts of the 

 Arnold Arboretum show a surplus of $9,855.39. 



Dr. Joseph Erlanger, associate professor of 

 physiology in the John Hopkins University, 

 has been appointed professor of physiology in 

 the University of Wisconsin. In the same 

 institution Dr. E. A. Eoss, of the University 

 of Nebraska, has been made professor of 

 sociology, and Dr. A. C. McLeod, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, instructor in soils. Dr. 

 W. S. Marshall has been appointed to an asso- 

 ciate professorship of entomology. 



Dr. Caswell Grave, Ph.D., has been ap- 

 pointed professor of biology and director of 

 the Biological Laboratory of the Woman's Col- 

 lege of Baltimore in place of Dr. Maynard M. 

 Metcalf, resigned. Dr. Grave is a graduate 

 of Earlham College (B.S.) and of the Johns 

 Hopkins University (Ph.D.). At the latter 

 university he has been scholar, fellow, Adam 

 T. Bruce fellow, assistant demonstrator and is 

 now associate in zoology. He was for one 

 season on the staff of instruction of the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole and has 

 for four seasons been director of the Bureau of 

 Fisheries Laboratory at Beaufort, N. C. 



Dr. Florence Peebles has resigned her posi- 

 tion as associate professor of botany at the 

 Woman's College of Baltimore, to give all her 

 time to zoological research. Forrest Shreve, 

 Ph.D., has been appointed in her place. Dr. 

 Shreve is a graduate (A.B. and Ph.D.) of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, where he was 

 scholar and fellow and is now Adam T. Bruce 

 fellow in botany. He is at present on leave of 

 absence studying at the Cinchona Botanical 

 Garden in Jamaica. 



Professor Albrecht Penck, of Vienna, has 

 accepted the professorship of geography in the 

 Universitj' of Berlin, vacant by the death of 

 Professor von Richthofen. 



Dr. K. Dietrici, of the Hanover Technolog- 

 ical Institute, has been called to the chair of 

 physics at Kostock. 



