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and the State,' including an address by the 

 governor of the state. The afternoon session 

 on ' Builders of the College,' included ad- 

 dresses by Professor Charles E. Bessey, of the 

 University of Nebraska, and by Professor W. 

 J. Beal, of the college. The exercises on 

 Thursday were under the auspices of the 

 American Association of Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations and vrere pre- 

 sided over by Professor L. H. Bailey, director 

 of the College of Agriculture, Cornell Uni- 

 versity. Addresses on agricultural and engi- 

 neering education and research work in the 

 land grant colleges were given by Dr. Elmer 

 Ellsworth Brown, commissioner of education; 

 President W. E. Stone, Purdue University, 

 and Dr. W. H. Jordan, director of the Geneva 

 Experiment Station. Memorial Day exercises 

 took place on May 30. On Friday morning 

 congratulatory addresses were presented from 

 institutions and learned societies, followed by 

 addresses from the Hon. James Wilson, Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture; President James B. 

 Angell, University of Michigan; President 

 Henry Clay White, College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanic Arts of the University of 

 Georgia; President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, 

 of the University of California, and President 

 Edmund J. James, of the University of Illi- 

 nois. In the afternoon there was a procession 

 of delegates, state officials, members of legis- 

 lature, public school officials, alumni, faculty 

 and students, follovced by an address by the 

 president of the United States and the con- 

 ferring of regular and honorary degrees. 



The Hanna chair of political science and 

 the Selah Chamberlain chair of sociology, re- 

 cently established at Western Eeserve Univer- 

 sity, have been filled by the appointment of 

 Professor A. R. Hatton, of the University of 

 Chicago, and Dr. James E. Cutler, of the 

 University of Michigan. 



Nearly one hundred representatives of the 

 University of London, including the vice- 

 chancellor, the member for the university, the 

 principal, deans of faculties and members of 

 the professorial staff, visited Paris this month 

 for a three days' stay, on the invitation of the 

 University of Paris. 



Dr. Sidney Dean Townley, astronomer in 



charge of the International Latitude Observa- 

 tory at Ukiah, California, and lecturer in 

 astronomy in the University of California, has 

 been appointed to an assistant professorship 

 in the department of applied mathematics at 

 Leland Stanford Junior University. Dr. 

 Townley will assume the duties of his new 

 position with the beginning of the next aca- 

 demic year in August. 



Dr. C. H. Mathewson, Ph.D., Gottingen, 

 now of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, has been appointed instructor in chem- 

 istry and metallurgy in the ShefBeld Scientific 

 School of Tale University. At the same in- 

 stitution Frank L. Cooper, who receives this 

 year his doctorate of philosophy from the 

 Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed 

 instructor in physics. 



G. F. Kay, of the University of Kansas, 

 has been appointed professor of mineralogy 

 and economic geology in the University of 

 Iowa. 



Appointments at McGill University have 

 been made as follows: Dr. A. G. Nichols, 

 lecturer in clinical medicine; H. M. McKay, 

 associate professor of civil engineering; Dr. 

 A. D. Mcintosh, associate professor of chem- 

 istry; Dr. N. Evans, associate professor of 

 chemistry; Professor Paul T. Lafleur, pro- 

 fessor of comparative literature and associate 

 professor of English. Dr. John Brittain, 

 professor of chemistry of New Brunswick 

 University, has been appointed to the chair 

 of nature study in the new Macdonald Agri- 

 cultural College of Ste. Ann, in affiliation 

 v/ith McGill University. 



At the University of Manchester Mr. H. 

 Bateman, at present assistant lecturer in 

 mathematics in the University of Liverpool, 

 has been appointed to the newly-instituted 

 post of reader in mathematical physics. 

 Mr. Bateman was senior vsrrangler in 1905. 

 Mr. C. A. Edwards, Jr., assistant in the metal- 

 lurgical department of the National Physical 

 Laboratory, has been appointed demonstrator 

 and research fellow in metallurgy. 



Db. August Bier, of Bonn, has been called 

 to the chair of surgery at Berlin, vacant 

 through the death of Professor von Bergmann. 



