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historical medical interest lent for the exhi- 

 bition." 



VNITEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Woman's College of Baltimore has re- 

 ceived gifts amounting to $580,000. Of this 

 amount $500,000 was needed to clear the col- 

 lege of debt and $80,000 will be added to the 

 endowment fund. Mr. Andrew Carnegie gave 

 $50,000; the Massey estate, through Mr. 

 Chester D. Massey, Toronto, Canada, $50,000 ; 

 other gifts range from small amounts to $30,- 

 000. The treasurer of the college puts the 

 assets of the college as follows : Grounds, 

 buildings and equipment, $701,000; endow- 

 ment, $719,135. 



Governor Higgins has approved a bill ap- 

 propriating $80,000 for a school of agriculture 

 at St. Lawrence University, with an addi- 

 tional $12,000 for maintenance. This school, 

 it is understood, will be managed in coopera- 

 tion with the authorities of the State College 

 of Agriculture at Cornell University. 



By the will of Catherine L. E. Catlin, of 

 New York, $60,000 is left to religious and 

 charitable institutions, including $10,000 to 

 New York University. 



The administration building at Vanderbilt 

 University, which was destroyed by fire on 

 April 20 of last year, involving a loss of over 

 $250,000, is nearing completion again. The 

 walls are of stone, brick and terra-cotta, and 

 the floors, ceilings and roof are of reinforced 

 concrete so that destruction by fire will not 

 again be possible. 



The electors to the Linacre professorship 

 of comparative anatomy, vacant by the death 

 of Professor Weldon, will proceed to an elec- 

 tion in the month of July. Candidates are 

 desired to send in their names so as to reach 

 the registrar's ofiice not later than July 7. 

 No testimonials are to be submitted, but can- 

 didates are invited to send in with their names 

 eight copies of a brief statement of their 

 career and of their scientific work and ex- 

 perience. 



At Yale University the following appoint- 

 ments have been made: Leo Frederick Eett- 

 ger, M.A., Ph.D., assistant professor of bac- 



teriology and hygiene in the ShefBeld Scien- 

 tific School; William Ebenezer Ford, Jr., 

 Ph.D., assistant professor of mineralogy in 

 the Sheffield Scientific School. 



In the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 

 Columbia University, Dr. Philip Hanson 

 Hiss, Jr., has been promoted to a chair of 

 bacteriology and Dr. F. C. Wood to a chair 

 of clinical pathology. 



At Barnard College, Columbia University, 

 Dr. Herbert M. Richards has been promoted 

 to a professorship of botany; Dr. Edward 

 Kasner, to an adjunct professorship in mathe- 

 matics ; Dr. Ida H. Ogilvie and Miss Margaret 

 A. Reed have been appointed tutors in geology 

 and zoology, respectively; Dr. Vivian A. C. 

 Henmon has been appointed lecturer in psy- 

 chology. 



The non-resident professors engaged for the 

 summer session of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin are Miss Jane Addams, Hull House, Chi- 

 cago ; Professor Gilbert A. Bliss, mathematics, 

 Princeton; Professor Albert Perry Brigham, 

 geology and natural history, Colgate; Pro- 

 fessor Louis H. Burch, manual arts. Western 

 Illinois Normal School; Professor Henry E. 

 Fairclough, Latin, Leland Stanford Junior 

 University; Professor Edward J. Lake, art 

 and design. University of Illinois; Professor 

 Thomas K. Urdahl, political and social sci- 

 ence, Colorado College; Professor Claude H. 

 VanTyne, American history. University of 

 Michigan; Professor William H. Williams, 

 mathematics, Platteville Normal School. Be- 

 sides these non-resident professors a large 

 number of the regular members of the uni- 

 versity faculty will give courses in the. sum- 

 mer session, including Professors Munro, Bar- 

 deen, Ely, Harper, Hohlfeld, Pyre, Shower- 

 man, Trowbridge, Voss, Kahlenberg, Daniels, 

 Elliott, C. E. Allen, Laird, Lathrop, Frost, 

 McGilvary, Slichter and Tressler. 



Dr. Augustus G. Pohlman, of Buffalo, has 

 been appointed associate professor of anatomy 

 in Indiana University. 



Dr. Knight Dunlap, instructor in psychol- 

 ogy at the University of California, has been 

 elected instructor in psychology at the Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



