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Professor James Mills Peirce, who was 

 appointed tutor in Harvard University in 

 1864, and has been Perkins professor of as- 

 tronomy since 1885, died from pneumonia at 

 his home at Cambridge on March 21. 



J. James R Croes, a well-known civil engi- 

 neer of New York City, died at his home at 

 Tonliers, on March 14, aged seventy-two years. 

 Dr. Albert Prescott Marble, associate 

 superintendent of public schools in New York 

 City and a writer on educational topics, died 

 on March 25, at the age of sixty-eight years. 



The death is announced of Mr. J. G. Good- 

 child, a British geologist and naturalist, long 

 connected with the Geological Survey and the 

 Edinburgh Museum. 



Dr. J. WoDRiCH, professor of geology in the 

 Bohemian University of Prague, has died at 

 the age of eighty-one years. 



A Eeuter telegram from Stockholm says 

 that the auditors of the Nobel foundation state 

 in their report that the five Nobel prizes will 

 this year amount to £7,696 each, that is, £25 

 more than last year. 



There will be civil service examinations, on 

 April 18, to fill the position of chief of the 

 Sugar Laboratory Bureau of Chemistry, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, at a salary of $2,000 

 a year, and the position of technical assistant. 

 Division of Pharmacology, Hygienic Labora- 

 tory, Public Health and Marine Hospital 

 Service, at a salary of $150 a month. 



A COLLECTION of Japanese plants, sent to 

 the New York Botanical Garden in exchange 

 for North American plants, has just arrived 

 from Akita, Japan. The collection, contain- 

 ing two or three hundred specimens belonging 

 to various plant groups, was made last sum- 

 mer by Mr. Yuushun Kudo on Mt. Moriyoshi, 

 at an altitude of Y.OOO feet. 



We learn from Popular Astronomy that the 

 Detroit Observatory of the University of 

 Michigan under the new director, W. J. Hus- 

 sey, is undergoing extensive repairs, including 

 a new addition. The improvements extend to 

 the observatory library, which connects di- 

 rectly with the residence. Mr. E. J. Madden 

 has been appointed instrument-maker to the 

 observatory. He was formerly employed at 



the Lick Observatory in this capacity, and 

 later at the Solar Observatory at Pasadena. 

 An instrument shop is being installed for his 

 work. To meet these expenses the university 

 has appropriated $5,000. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is understood that by the wiU of Dr. 

 William T. Bacon his estate is given for life 

 to Mrs. Bacon, but that at her death the 

 Hartford Medical Society will receive an en- 

 dowment of $100,000, and Yale University 

 will receive a part of the residuum of the 

 estate, which is understood to be worth nearly 

 $300,000. 



It is reported that Mrs. John B. Stetson 

 has offered to give $100,000 to Stetson Uni- 

 versity, founded by the late Mr. Stetson at 

 Deland, Pla., on condition that the present 

 trustees resign. 



Parsons College, Fairfield,. Iowa, has re- 

 cently received $80,000 additional endowment 

 through the will of Col. Charles Parsons, of 

 St. Louis. This increases the donor's gifts 

 to $146,000 and the resources of the college 

 to over $350,000. 



Through the generosity of a Chicago phy- 

 sician (anonymous) and of Dr. Benjamin 

 Taylor Terry, of New York City, Indiana 

 University has received offers of two endow- 

 ments for pathological research. The first 

 endowment is for a research fellowship in 

 serum pathology; the second for a similar 

 position in pathological physiology. The in- 

 come of each fellowship is $Y50 a year. Both 

 offers are made under the condition that Indi- 

 ana University provide adequate library and 

 laboratory facilities for such work. 



The bequest to Cambridge University by 

 F. J. Quick is to be used for the establishment 

 of a Quick professorship of biology, the 

 holder of which shall devote himself to the 

 study of protozoa, especially of such as cause 

 disease. 



Lord Eayleigh, president of the Eoyal So- 

 ciety, laid the foundation stone of a new sci- 

 ence building- at Dulwich College, on March 

 3. The building is to be erected at the cost 

 of £18,000. 



