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iiounced. Of this amount $215,000 applies 

 toward the Carnegie endowment, leaving- only 

 $35,000 to be raised to ensure receiving Mr. 

 Carnegie's gift of $250,000. 



By the will of the late Professor George A. 

 Wentworth, of Phillips Exeter Academy, $10,- 

 ■000 is bequeathed to the academy. 



The New York Evening Post states that 

 Sir William Macdonald has completed his ar- 

 rangements for transferring to the governors 

 of McGill University all the property of the 

 new Macdonald College at St. Anne de Belle- 

 vue, near Montreal, valued at between $2,000,- 

 000 and $3,000,000. It is the founder's wish 

 that Macdonald College shall rank as a college 

 of McGill University. The funds, apart from 

 the lauds and buildings, amount to $2,000,000. 



Liverpool University has formally accepted 

 from Miss Isabella Gregson, of Bournemouth, 

 formerly of Liverpool, the gift of the Gregson 

 Memorial Institute and Museum situated in 

 Garmoyle street. The gift is to be utilized 

 for university extension purposes, and repre- 

 sents in money value, with an endowment of 

 £5,000 added by the foundress, about £300,000. 



The Goldwin Smith Hall of Humanities of 

 Cornell University was dedicated in connec- 

 tion with the recent commencement exercises. 

 Professor Goldwin Smith, who is in his eighty- 

 third year, made one of the addresses. 



The University of Greifswald will celebrate 

 in August the four hundred and fiftieth anni- 

 versary of its foundation. 



The University of California announces 

 the establishment of two Flood fellowships in 

 economics, of an annual value of four hundred 

 dollars each. These fellowships are open to 

 all properly qualified university graduates 

 wishing to engage in economic study and re- 

 search at the University of California. 



By vote of the president and fellows, con- 

 firmed by the board of overseers on June 13, 

 the ninth statute of Harvard University has 

 been amended as follows: For the degree of 

 ' civil engineer ' is substituted the degree of 

 ' bachelor in civil engineering ' ; the following 

 new degrees are established : bachelor in 

 mechanical engineering, bachelor in electrical 



engineering, bachelor in architecture, bachelor 

 in landscape architecture, master of science in 

 forestry, master of science in chemistry, mas- 

 ter of science in physics, master of science in 

 zoology, master of science in geology. 



The daily papers state that Professor 

 George E. Fellows, of the University of 

 Maine, has been offered the presidency of the 

 Pennsylvania State College. 



At Cornell University, Mr. E. E. Haskell, 

 chief engineer of the U. S. Lake Survey, has 

 been elected director of the College of Civil 

 Engineering. Professor T. Littleton Lyon, of 

 the University of Nebraska, has been elected 

 to a chair of agriculture in the experiment 

 station. Dr. W. W. Rowlee has been pro- 

 moted to a full professorship of botany. 



Dr. George Blumee has been appointed to 

 the chair of the theory and practise of medi- 

 cine in Tale University to succeed the late 

 Dr. John S. Ely. Dr. Blumer was formerly 

 director of the Bender laboratory at Albany, 

 and professor of pathology at the Albany 

 Medical College, and was subsequently pro- 

 fessor in the medical department of the Uni- 

 versity of California. 



In the botanical department of the Ohio 

 State University the following new appoint- 

 Iments have been made: Robert F. Griggs has 

 been promoted from fellow to assistant pro- 

 fessor; Miss Freda Detmers, recently acting 

 as assistant, in place of Walter Fischer, who 

 resigned to take up work in the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, has been made in- 

 structor in botany; Miss Opal I. Tillman, 

 fellow in botany, resigned to accept a position 

 as teacher of botany in the University of 

 Arizona, and as her successor for the year 

 1906-7 Mr. L. A. Hawkins, of Iowa, was 

 appointed. 



Dr. E. von Drygalski, of Berlin, has ac- 

 cepted a call to a newly-established chair of 

 geography at Munich. 



Professor Walter Nernst has been offered 

 the chair of physical chemistry at Leipzig, 

 vacant by the retirement of Professor Wil- 

 helm Ostwald, but has decided to remain at 

 Berlin. 



