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across Africa, has returned to London. Cap- 

 tain Claud Alexander died at Naifoni in No- 

 vember, 1904, and Captain Gosling in the 

 Ubangi-Welle region of June, 1906. Much 

 valuable work has been accomplished. A care- 

 ful triangulation has been carried out from 

 Ibi, in Nigeria, to Lake Chad, and the lake 

 itself traversed in various directions. Part of 

 the course of the Shari was explored; from 

 thence the Ubangi was reached, and the ex- 

 pedition made its way northward to the little- 

 known region where many of the Bahr-el- 

 Ghazal tributaries rise, and down the Tei to 

 the Nile. The expedition has been particu- 

 larly successful in collecting specimens in 

 natural history, including skulls, bones and 

 skins of the okapi. 



The visiting committee of the division of 

 geology of Harvard TJniversity has provided 

 the geological department with the funds 

 necessary to erect a seismograph in the Uni- 

 versity Museum. A Bash-Omori seismograph 

 with two 100-kilogram conical pendulums, one 

 swung in the meridian and the other east and 

 west, will shortly be placed on a suitable 

 foundation in the basement of the geological 

 section. This type of instrument records 

 earth vibrations on smoked paper carried on 

 revolving drums operated by clock-work. One 

 of the same general type, which has been set 

 up in the State Museum at Albany, N. T., for 

 more than a year, on a clay foundation like 

 that underlying the Harvard Station, gave 

 complete records of the San Francisco, Val- 

 paraiso and the great Indian earthquakes. 

 The Harvard Station vsdll pay particular at- 

 tention to New England earthquakes and to 

 the geological examination of the recent fault- 

 lines along which it is suspected many his- 

 torically recorded small shocks have arisen. 



UNIVERBITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 At a meeting of the General Education 

 Board, held in New York City on March 26, 

 the sum of $625,000 was conditionally appro- 

 priated as follows : 



Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., $50,000 to- 

 Tvard $250,000. 



Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Col., $50,000 

 toward $500,000. 



Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss., $25,000 toward 

 $100,000. 



Yale University, New Haven, Conn., $300,000 

 toward $2,000,000. 



Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., $200,000 

 toward $2,000,000. 



It is reported that the suggestion to send 

 500 or 1,000 American teachers next year to 

 study the educational system of Great Britain 

 has met with such a response that it is prac- 

 tically certain now the pilgrimage will be 

 made. It is understood that Mr. Alfred 

 Moseley will make the same arrangements for 

 the trip to England and return as he did for 

 the British teachers — a rate of $25 for the 

 round trip. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, 

 president of Columbia University, and City 

 Superintendent Maxwell, of the New York 

 city schools, are the American committee. 



Barnett Smith, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), has 

 been appointed assistant professor in the geo- 

 logical department of Syracuse University. 



Miss Ida Whiteside, B.A. (Vassar, 1904), 

 has been appointed assistant in astronomy in 

 Wellesley College. 



In the faculty of medicine of McGill Uni- 

 versity, Drs. E. G. Einley, H. A. Lafleur, and 

 C. E. Martin have been made professors of 

 medicine and clinical medicine. These pro- 

 motions follow the death of Dr. James 

 Stewart, who was for many years head of the 

 department. 



Lord Curzon was elected chancellor of Ox- 

 ford University on March 14. The votes 

 were : Lord Curzon, 1,101 ; Lord Eosebery, 440. 



The council of the University of Liverpool 

 has elected Mr. John Edmond Salvin-Moore 

 to the chair of experimental and pathological 

 cytology, recently established by the Liverpool 

 Cancer Eesearch Committee. 



Mr. C. G. Hewitt, has been appointed to 

 the newly-established lectureship of economic 

 zoology in the University of Manchester, and 

 Mr. H. Heap has been appointed assistant 

 lecturer in sanitary chemistry. 



The King of Spain has created a chair of 

 automobilism at the School of Arts and Sci- 

 ences at Madrid. 



