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[N. S. Vol. XXV. No. 652 



Vanderbilt, of New York, grandson of the 

 founder of the university. 



Notice has been received from the admin- 

 istrator of the estate of Eliza O. Hopes, late of 

 Salem, Mass., that her will provides for a 

 gift to Harvard University of about seven 

 hundred and thirty shares of common stock 

 of the Boston and Maine Railroad for the 

 establishment of the Nathaniel Ropes pro- 

 fessorship of political economy, any annual 

 income not needed for the salary of the in- 

 cumbent to be given to the Peabody Museum 

 of American Archeology and Ethnology. The 

 will also gives about ten thousand dollars for 

 the establishment of the Nathaniel Ropes Jr. 

 scholarship fund. 



By the will of Miss Catherine L. R. Catlin, 

 New York University has received $10,000 for 

 the establishment of a scholarship. 



The summer course in the forestry school 

 of Yale University, which constitutes the first 

 term of the junior year, will open its session 

 of seven weeks on Friday, July 5, at Milford, 

 Pike County, Pa. Through the generosity of 

 James W. Pinchot, six buildings, including 

 an experiment station with tracts of land 

 amounting to 200 acres have been provided 

 for the use of the students in this preliminary 

 summer work. 



The daily papers state that President Ben- 

 jamin Ide Wheeler, of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, formerly professor of Greek at Cornell 

 University, has declined the oSer of the ex- 

 ecutive committee to nominate him for the 

 presidetiey of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. It is said that President 

 Wheeler's salary at the University of Cali- 

 fornia is $10,000, and that he would have re- 

 ceived $15,000 at the institute. It is further 

 reported that Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president 

 of the Carnegie Foundation, who has retained 

 the presidency of the institute until a presi- 

 dent should be found, will retire on July 1, 

 and that Dr. William A. Noyes, professor of 

 chemistry in the institute, will be made acting- 

 president. 



After thirty-nine years of continuous serv- 

 ice Professor William Willard DanieUs, of the 



chemical department of the University of Wis- 

 consin, has been made professor emeritus. 

 Professor Louis Kahlenberg, hitherto pro- 

 fessor of physical chemistry, has been made 

 professor of chemistry and head of the chem- 

 ical department. He will hereafter deliver 

 the basal lectures in general chemistry and 

 will also lecture on physical chemistry and 

 personally supervise chemical researches, espe- 

 cially in physical chemistry. 



At Western Reserve University, Dr. Olin. 

 Freeman Tower has been promoted to be pro- 

 fessor of chemistry and head of the chemical 

 laboratory in Adelbert College, and Dr. Harry 

 W. Springsteen has been appointed instructor 

 in physics. In the Woman's College, Dr. Hip- 

 polyte Gruener has been promoted to a pro- 

 fessorship of chemistry. 



Ralph S. Lillie, Ph.D., Johnston scholar in 

 physiology in the Johns Hopkins University 

 and instructor in general and comparative 

 physiology in the Marine Biological Labora- 

 tory, has been appointed instructor in physi- 

 ological zoology in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



At a recent meeting of the board of regents 

 of the State University of Iowa, Assistant 

 Professor Byron J. Lambert was appointed 

 professor of structural engineering; new in- 

 structorships in civil engineering and in de- 

 scriptive geometry and drawing were created; 

 and an extension of the engineering building 

 more than doubling its present capacity was 

 ordered. 



At the June meeting of the regents of the 

 University of Nebraska Dr. Elda K. Walker 

 was advanced from an instructorship, to the 

 adjunct professorship of botany. At the same 

 meeting Raymond J. Pool, A.B., was elected 

 to an instructorship in botany. 



J. C. McLennan, B.A., Ph.D., for some 

 years director of the Physical Laboratory, has 

 been elected to the professorship of physics in 

 the University of Toronto, in succession to 

 ex-President James Loudon, LL.D. 



Mr. George A. Carse, M.A., B.Sc, has been 

 appointed university lecturer and assistant in 

 natural philosophy in Edinburgh University, 

 in room of Dr. William Peddie. 



