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SCIENCE. 



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tute, are — as chemist, Mr. Kenneth Fisher, 

 senior demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, 

 who has heen for some time engaged on re- 

 search work at Jena University; as botanist, 

 Mr. L. Farmer, assistant curator of herbarium 

 at Kew; as entomologist, Dr. Slater Jackson, 

 of McGill University, and formerly curator 

 of the Canadian government biological sta- 

 tion; and as commercial adviser, Mr. Coates, 

 a trader who has long acted as buyer on the 

 West Coast of Africa for Mr. John Holt, one 

 of the best-known of African merchants. The 

 expedition is proceeding to Dakar, Bathurst, 

 Konakey,, and, if possible, to the Cameroons. 

 Being only an experimental expedition, the 

 stay on the West Coast will not be of very 

 long duration; in fact. Lord Mountmorres is 

 to return in time to visit the exhibition of 

 rubber at Ceylon in April. But should the 

 results prove satisfactory, there is every prob- 

 ability that the institute will despatch a second 

 expedition to spend a long period in Africa. 

 Sir Alfred Jones (president of the institute) 

 and many leading Liverpool gentlemen were 

 present on board the Zungeru, aiid gave the 

 members of the expedition a most cordial 

 send-off. 



UNITSmiTY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Announcement is made that Mr. John D. 

 Eockefeller has given $1,450,000 to the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. Of this sum, $1,000,000 

 is for the permanent endowment, $350,000 to 

 cover the current expenditures or deiicit of 

 the various departments of the university to 

 July 1, 1907, and the remaining $100,000 is 

 to provide a fund, the interest of which is to 

 go to the widow of the late President Harper 

 during her lifetime. 



Brown University will build a library as a 

 memorial to John Hay. Mr. Andrew Car- 

 negie has consented to give one half of the 

 cost, which is estimated at $300,000. 



Mr. John D. Eockefeller has given $115,- 

 000 to Acadia College, at Wolfville, N. S., a 

 Baptist institution. 



A NEW building is to be erected immediately 

 at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute to be 

 devoted to the department of electrical engi- 



neering. For some time past the quarters 

 have been inadequate for the work, and the 

 increasing size of the entering classes for the 

 past three years has finally resulted in the 

 decision on the part of the trustees to proceed 

 immediately with the erection of this new 

 building. Last fall a course in electric rail- 

 way engineering was added. In the erection 

 of the new building it is proposed to provide 

 ample facilities for the course of instruction 

 in this work and also to introduce the most 

 complete experimental facilities possible. The 

 quarters which have in the past been occupied 

 by the electrical engineering department will 

 be divided between the departments of physics 

 and of chemistry, thus affording to each of 

 these departments much needed relief. 



Messrs. Mallinckrodt, of St. Louis, offer 

 $500 for the year 1906-07 to a student of 

 chemistry in the Graduate School of Harvard 

 University, on condition that he serve the svh- 

 sequent year in the Mallinckrodt chemical 

 Works at a suitable salary. 



By the will of the late Sir J. S. Burdon- 

 Sanderson, formerly regius professor of medi- 

 cine at Oxford, the laboratory of the patho- 

 logical department of the university is be- 

 queathed the sum of £2,000, as an endowment 

 to provide for pathological research there, the 

 fund to be vested in the professors of human 

 anatomy, physiology and pathology, who are to 

 have absolute discretion as to the application 

 of the fund. 



The widow and children of the late Dr. von 

 Siegle, of Stuttgart, have, as we learn from 

 Nature, presented 50,000 Marks in memory of 

 the deceased to the chemical institute of the 

 University of Tiibingen. 



Dr. Louis Cobbett has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of pathology, and Mr. L. T. O'Shea, 

 professor of applied chemistry, in the Univer- 

 sity of Sheffield. 



Mr. Charles S. Bradley, practising elec- 

 trician of New York City, known for his con- 

 tributions to electricity and chemistry, has 

 been elected acting professor of chemical 

 practise in the Carnegie Technical Schools, 

 Pittsburg. 



