360 



SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXV. No. 635 



the engineering experiment station connected 

 with the College of Engineering of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. 



The University of Washington, Seattle, an- 

 nounces the establishment of five teaching 

 fellowships in mathematics, each yielding 

 annual stipends from $400 to $500. Fellow- 

 ships are open to graduate students only. 



The Hon. A. McEobert, Cawnpore, India, 

 has founded a fellowship at Aberdeen Uni- 

 versity for cancer research. At Mr. Mc- 

 Eobert's death the sum of $50,000 is to be 

 available for this work, but that it may begin 

 at once he has undertaken to provide $2,000 

 a year. 



The will of the late Charles James Oldham, 

 of Brighton, leaves to the University of Ox- 

 ford and to the University of Cambridge the 

 sum of £5,000 each, such sums to be invested. 

 The incomes arising from such investments 

 are to be applied to the founding of one 

 annual prize or scholarship in the ancient 

 classics, Greek and Latin, and one annual prize 

 or scholarship in the knowledge of William 

 Shakespeare's works, such prizes or scholar- 

 ships to be called the ' Charles Oldham ' prize 

 or scholarship. 



President Needham, of George Washington 

 University, has announced that Van Ness 

 Park, purchased two years ago as the new site 

 of the university, had been sold to the United 

 States government as the site for the new 

 building of the International Bureau of 

 American Republics ; and that the university 

 held an option on ' Oak Lawn,' a tract of land 

 at the head of Connecticut Avenue, which 

 could be bought for $800,000. He stated that 

 $400,000 was already in hand, and that Theo- 

 dore J. Mayer of Washington had offered to 

 erect a building to cost $185,000, on condition 

 that this site be selected. 



Oberlin College will celebrate the seventy- 

 fifth anniversary of its foundation from June 

 19 to 25. 



Dr. Henry Pratt Judson, professor of po- 

 litical science in the University of Chicago, 

 and since the death of Dr. Harper acting- 



president, was elected president of the uni- 

 versity on February 20. 



It is understood that the presidency of the 

 University of Toronto has been offered to Dr. 

 M. E. Sadler, professor of education at the 

 University of Manchester, formerly director 

 of special enquiries and reports in the British 

 Education Department. 



Mr. George H. Locke, of Ginn and Com- 

 pany, recently dean of the College of Educa- 

 tion of the University of Chicago and editor 

 of the School Review, has been appointed 

 dean of the School for the Training of Teach- 

 ers in the Macdonald College, founded by 

 Sir William Macdonald and affiliated with 

 McGill University, Montreal. The new build- 

 ing of the college, of which Dr. James W. 

 Robertson is the director, will be opened in 

 the autumn. 



WiLLL\M H. Jackson, M.A. (Cambridge), 

 lecturer at Manchester University, has been 

 appointed professor of mathematics at Haver- 

 ford College. 



At Yale University, Dr. Charles H. Judd 

 has been promoted to be professor of psychol- 

 ogy, and Dr. F. P. Underbill to an assistant 

 professorship of physiological chemistry. Dr. 

 Ellsworth Huntington has been appointed in- 

 structor in geography and Dr. William E. 

 Hocking, assistant professor of philosophy. 



Dr. H. T. Barnes, associate professor of 

 physics at McGill University, has been pro- 

 moted to the chair of physics, vacant by the 

 removal of Professor Ernest Rutherford to 

 Manchester. 



Dr. Carl M. Wiegand, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed associate professor of 

 botany at Wellesley College. 



Professor Georg Klebs, professor of bot- 

 any at Halle, has been called to the chair at 

 Heidelberg, vacant by the death of Professor 

 E. Pfitzer. 



Dr. E. D. Holzapfel, professor of zoology 

 in the Technical Institute at Aachen, has been 

 called to the University of Strasburg. 



Dr. Ernst Meumann, of Konigsberg, has 

 been called to the chair of philosophy at 

 Miinster as successor to Professor Busse. 



