280 



SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 581. 



the post of scientific assistant in zoology to 

 Dr. Schaudinn, 



The Edison medal committee of the Amer- 

 ican Institute of Electrical Engineers, Mr. 

 John W. Ilowell, chairman, has issued a 

 circular to the educational institutions of the 

 United States, calling their attention to the 

 fact that funds are available for the .award of 

 the medal this year and pointing out the condi- 

 tions under which students, can enter in com- 

 petition for it. 



The commission for the methods of ex- 

 amining and metliylating alcohol, appointed 

 by the French government, has decided to 

 offer the following prizes for open competition, 

 irrespective of the nationality of the competi- 

 tors: (1) a prize of 20,000 francs for a method 

 ■of methylating alcohol, which shall be prefer- 

 able to that now in vogue in France, and 

 which at the same time shall prevent any de- 

 frauding of the revenue; and (2) a prize of 

 50,000 francs for a system which shall permit 

 of the use of alcohol for illuminating pur- 

 poses under the same conditions as those for 

 the use of petroleum. 



VNIVERSirY AND EDUCATIONAL, NEWS. 

 . At the last meeting of the trustees of Co- 

 lumbia University gifts amounting to $318,- 

 000 were announced, including $150,000 from 

 Mrs. Marie H. Williamson to establish a fund 

 in memory of Edward R. Carpentier, the in- 

 ■come of which is to be used for a professorship 

 or lectureship on the origins and growth of 

 civilization, and $100,000 from Mr. George 

 Blumenthal for the endowment of a chair of 

 politics. 



The fund collected by the alumni of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 

 current expenses within the next five years 

 amounts to $211,000. There are eleven hun- 

 dred subscribers. 



Colonel I. H. Wing, of Batfield, Wis., an 

 alumnus of Bowdoin College, has given the 

 college $50,000 to endow the chair of mathe- 

 matics. 



Me. Andrew Carnegie and Mr. Bartlett Doe 

 have each given $50,000 to Bates College. 



Mr. Carnegie has also offered to give Swarth- 

 more College $50,000 for a library building, 

 on condition that an equal sum be raised from 

 other sources. 



By the will of the late Dr. S. Stanhope 

 Orris, formerly professor of Greek at Prince- 

 ton University, the institution receives a be- 

 quest of $25,000 to found ten new scholarships 

 for undergraduates. 



By the will of Mrs. Mary C. Daniels, of 

 Litchfield, Conn., the sum of $6,000 is be- 

 queathed to Trinity College, Hartford, for a 

 scholarship. 



Syracuse University will erect at once a 

 three-story chemical laboratory, 150 X 100 

 feet, and expects to have it ready for occu- 

 pancy by September, 1907. 



A BILL has been prepared for presentation 

 to the New York legislature establishing a 

 university in Brooklyn. 



McGiLL University is to establish an affili- 

 ated college in Vancouver, British Columbia, 

 to be known as the University College of 

 British Columbia. 



The mechanical engineering building of 

 the University of Pennsylvania was completely 

 destroyed by a fire which broke out the night 

 of February 6, the loss sustained being nearly 

 $100,000. Most of this amount was covered 

 by insurance. As the new engineering build- 

 ing is almost completed, the faculty has de- 

 cided to transfer the department to it. 



Yuan Shi Kai, viceroy of Chi Li province, 

 has discharged Professor C. D. Tenney, the 

 foreign director of education, who organized 

 the new school system in this province. 



The trustees of Eutgers College have elected 

 Dr. W. IT. D. Demarest president of the col- 

 lege, to succeed Dr. Austin Scott. Dr. Dem- 

 arest has been acting president for several 

 months. 



Upon the nomination of the Prussian Min- 

 istry of Education, the trustees of Columbia 

 University have appointed Dr. Hermann Schu- 

 macher, professor of political economy in the 

 University of Bonn, to be honorary professor 

 in Columbia University for the year 1906-7. 



