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will soon be ready on La Zacualpa, and two 

 meteorological substations will be established 

 in the mountains close by, where simultaneous 

 observations will be made at the elevations of 

 2,000 and 3,500 feet. The main station is 

 situated at 250 feet above the sea, twelve miles 

 from the Pacific Ocean, on the lowlands at the 

 foot of Sierra Madre, about sixty miles from 

 the border of Guatemala. The director of 

 the station is Dr. Pehr Olsson-Seffer from 

 Stanford University. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Princeton University has been made the 

 residuary legatee of the estate of Mrs. J. 

 Thompson Swan, which is said to be worth 

 about $300,000. The legacy will be used by 

 the graduate school. 



The late Edwin Gilbert, of Georgetown, 

 Conn., has left public bequests amounting to 

 $250,000, including $60,000 for the model farm 

 of the Connecticut Agricultural College. 



HJiRVARD University has received a gift of 

 $50,000 from Eobert Wilcox Sayles, A.B. ('01), 

 of Norwich, Conn., to establish a fund, prefer- 

 ably for the ' acquisition, preparation and 

 maintenance of collections suitable for a 

 geological museum.' 



Lord Eayleigh has sent to the vice-chan- 

 cellor of Cambridge University £7,733 12 s. 

 8 d., being the amount of the ISTobel prize 

 awarded to him in 1904. Lord Rayleigh de- 

 sires that £5,000 of this should be employed 

 in erecting a new building in connection with 

 the Cavendish Laboratory, and that the re- 

 mainder should be devoted to the purchase of 

 scientific books and periodicals for the Uni- 

 versity Library. 



At a recent meeting of the faculty of arts 

 and sciences, of Harvard University, last week, 

 it was voted to establish a department of edu- 

 cation. Heretofore all courses in education 

 have been included in the department of phi- 

 losophy. Professor Paul H. Hanus is at the 

 head of the new department. 



Dr. Lester F. Ward, who has long been 

 connected with the U. S. Geological Survey 

 and the U. S. National Museum, and is 



eminent for his contributions both to sociol- 

 ogy and to paleobotany, has been elected pro- 

 fessor of sociology at Brown University. He 

 will take up the work of the chair in Sep- 

 tember. 



Dr. C. S. Minot, professor of histology and 

 embryology in the Harvard Medical School, 

 has been appointed James Stillman professor 

 of comparative anatomy. 



Dr. William Hallook, professor of physics, 

 Columbia University, has been appointed dean 

 of the faculty of pure science. 



Mr. Eennie W. Doane, A.B. (Stanford, 

 '96), has been appointed instructor in economic 

 entomology and curator of the entomological 

 collections at Stanford University. 



Mr. E. T. Whittaker, F.E.S., has been ap- 

 pointed Andrews professor of astronomy in 

 the University of Dublin and royal astron- 

 omer of Ireland, in succession to the late Pro- 

 fessor C. J. Joly, F.E.S. 



At Manchester University Dr. William 

 Mair, Eiddell demonstrator in pathology and 

 bacteriology in Queen's College, Belfast, has 

 been appointed demonstrator in pathology; 

 Dr. John Cameron, junior demonstrator in 

 anatomy, has been appointed a senior demon- 

 strator; Mr. C. M. Craig, has been appointed 

 a junior demonstrator in anatomy; and Dr. 

 F. W. Gamble, lecturer and demonstrator in 

 zoology, has been appointed a senior assistant 

 lecturer. 



Mr. Charles H. Lees, lecturer in physics 

 and assistant director of the physical labora- 

 tory of the University of Manchester, has been 

 appointed professor of physics of the East Lon- 

 don College. 



Dr. F. Ejiuger, decent in philosophy at 

 Leipzig and assistant in Professor Wundt's 

 laboratory, has accepted a call to a chair of 

 philosophy in Buenos Ayres. 



Dr. a. Kolle, of the Institute for Infec- 

 tious Diseases at Berlin, has been appointed 

 professor of hygiene and director of the Sero- 

 therapeutic Laboratory at Bern. 



Dr. Clemens Schliiter is about to retire from 

 the chair of geology and paleontology at Bonn. 



