9G0 



SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 599. 



in the senate by the same committee. The 

 bill appropriating $25,000 for the establish- 

 ment of a fish-culture station for the propaga- 

 tion of shad and other fishes on St. Johns 

 Kiver, Florida, passed the senate. On June 

 12 the house resolution for the protection and 

 regulation of the fisheries of Alaska passed 

 the senate with amendment. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



At the graduating exercises of the Brooklyn 

 Polytechnic Institute President Atkinson an- 

 nounced that the trustees had subscribed 

 $800,000 toward the $2,000,000 necessary to 

 endow the proposed extension of the institute, 

 affording facilities for more advanced work. 



Mk. and Mrs. Jacob Turtellout, of Minne- 

 apolis, have offered to give $400,000 to build 

 and endow an academy for the town of 

 Thompson, Conn. 



Dr. Henry M. Saunders, of ISfew York, a 

 trustee of Vassar College, has given $75,000 

 for the erection of a building, yet undesig- 

 nated, as a memorial to his wife. 



The Drapers' Company has offered £5,000 

 towards the buildings of the department of 

 agriculture in the University of Cambridge, 

 on condition that an equal sum be raised by 

 the end of the year. The Duke of Devonshire, 

 Lord Rothschild, Lord Strathcona and Sir 

 Ernest Cassel have promised £1,000 each. 

 The Goldsmiths' Company have presented 

 £5,000 to the university for the present needs 

 of the library. 



The cornerstone of the new chemical labora- 

 tory of Colgate University was laid on June 

 3 in connection with the commencement exer- 

 cises. At the same time Lathrop Hall was 

 dedicated. 



It is reported that the Andover Theological 

 Seminary is likely to be merged with T;he 

 divinity school of Harvard University. An- 

 dover has considerable endowments, but only 

 fourteen students. 



At the University of Colorado, the following 

 degrees were conferred on June 6: B.A., 66; 

 B.S., 14; M.D., 17; LL.B., 12; M. A., 9; Ph.D., 

 3; total, 121. 



At Harvard University, D. W. Johnson, 

 S.B. (Mexico), Ph.D. (Columbia), assistant 

 professor of geology at the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute, has been appointed assistant professor 

 of physiography; F. T. Lewis, A.B., A.M., 

 M.D. (Harvard), has been promoted to an 

 assistant professorship of embryology. 



At the Johns Hopkins University, associate 

 professor Duncan S. Johnson has been pro- 

 moted to a professorship of botany and asso- 

 ciate Caswell Graves to be associate professor 

 of zoology. 



Dr. Ajlbert Ernest Jenks, recently chief 

 of the Ethnological Survey of the Philippine 

 Islands, has been elected to an assistant pro- 

 fessorship in the department of sociology at 

 the University of Minnesota. The courses pre- 

 sented will be largely ethnological. 



George A. Hanford, A.B., Ph.D. (Tale), 

 has been advanced to the position of associate 

 professor of chemistry and physiological chem- 

 istry and director of the chemical laboratory 

 in the medical department of Syracuse LTni- 

 versity. 



Dr. E. S. Hall, research assistant in chem- 

 istry at the University of Chicago, has been 

 appointed assistant professor of chemistry, and 

 George Winchester, of the University of Chi- 

 cago, has been elected professor of physics at 

 the University of Washington (Seattle) for 

 the ensuing year. 



The following instructors have been ap- 

 pointed at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology for the coming year : M. W. Dole, in 

 mechanical engineering; E. Haskell, in theo- 

 retical chemistry; A. E. Holmes, in mechan- 

 ical engineering; G. W. Eastman, in physics; 

 Charles Field, 3d, in organic chemistry; G. F. 

 Loughlin, in geology; C. H. Mathewson, in 

 analytical chemistry. The following have 

 been appointed as assistants: H. S. Bailey, in 

 technical analysis; J. F. Banash, H. P. HoU- 

 nagel and C. S. McGinnis, in physics; S. H. 

 Grauten, C. D. Richardson and E. B. Rowe, 

 in electrical engineering; B. W. Kendall, in 

 electrochemistry; J. F. Norton, in organic 

 chemistry; G. F. White and F. H. Willcox, in 

 analytical chemistry. 



