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enough in respect of some few special move- 

 ments in some few specially employed persons, 

 must on the large scale tend to confusion ; and 

 pushed towards that consummation which its 

 ardent apostles said was so devoutly to be 

 wished for, when the two hands would be able 

 to write on two different subjects at the same 

 time, it must involve the enormous enlarge- 

 ment of our already overgrown lunatic 

 asylums. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The Michigan Legislature on June 13 

 passed the bill increasing the appropriation 

 for the University of Michigan from a one 

 quarter mill tax to a three eighths mill tax. 



The Mackay School of Mines is the name 

 given to the department in the University of 

 Nevada endowed by Mr. Clarence H. Mackay. 

 Mr. Mackay has given money for a building 

 and $120,000 for endowment. 



Mrs. John Hay, widow of the former sec- 

 retary of state, and her sister, Mrs. Samuel 

 Mather, have given Adelbert College, Cleve- 

 land, a memorial chapel in the memory of 

 their father, Amasa Stone. Adelbert College 

 was named after Mrs. Hay's brother, Adelbert 

 Stone. 



Medical journals state that it is planned 

 to rebuild the m.edical building of McGill 

 University, which was recently destroyed by 

 fire, on a plot of ground immediately opposite 

 the Eoyal Victoria Hospital. The ground is 

 owned by Lord Strathcona, who bought it for 

 the purpose of preventing residences being 

 built opposite the hospital, and who is be- 

 lieved t-o be willing to place it at the disposal 

 of the university. The laboratory, which 

 practically escaped the flames, will remain 

 where it is, but the plot on which the medical 

 building proper stood will be cleared and left 

 for the general beautification of the grounds. 



The Carnegie Building and the Walker 

 Chemical Laboratory of the Eensselaer Poly- 

 technic Institute were dedicated on June 12. 

 The addresses were made by Mr. Emil Swens- 

 son and Dr. William McMurtrie. The address 

 in connection with the conferring of degrees 

 was made by Dr. W. H. Wiley. 



The University of Wisconsin will this year 

 give 476 baccalaureate and 49 higher degrees. 



The New York Medical Record states that 

 at a recent meeting of the board of supervisors 

 of the Louisiana State University, held in 

 Baton Rouge, the charter and by-laws of the 

 naw medical college of the university, to be 

 established in New Orleans, and the contract 

 of assimilation between the university and the 

 medical department were submitted to the 

 supervisors and approved. It is the general 

 understanding that this medical department 

 is to be ready for opening during 1908. 



During the past year the students in the 

 department of geology at the University of 

 Michigan have increased from 124 to 281. 

 The regents of the university have met the 

 demand for a larger instructional stafE by 

 making the following new appointments : E. 

 C. Case, Ph.D., assistant professor of his- 

 torical geology and paleontology; I. D. Scott, 

 A.M., instructor in geology; L. P. E. Wil- 

 loughby and W. E. Bliss, assistants in geol- 

 ogy. An appropriation has also been made 

 to equip an earthquake station at the uni- 

 versity. 



George V. Wendell, associate professor of 

 physics at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, has been appointed head of the 

 physics department in Stevens Institute of 

 Technology. 



Mr. Erancis J. Seery has been promoted to 

 an assistant professorship of civil engineer- 

 ing at Cornell University. 



Dr. Willum Salant, of the department of 

 biological chemistry of Columbia University, 

 has accepted an appointment to the position 

 of adjunct professor of physiological chem- 

 istry and pharmacology at the University of 

 Alabama. 



Mr. H. H. Severin, A.M., of the University 

 of Wisconsin, and Mr. S. Morgulis, A.M., of 

 Columbia University, have been appointed to 

 fellowships in zoology and entomology in the 

 Ohio State University for the year 1907-8. 



Mr. a. D. Imms, of Christ's College, Cam- 

 bridge, has been appointed professor of biology 

 at Allahabad University. 



