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greater detail, thus suggesting that the en- 

 graver had an actual specimen or another 

 drawing from which to copy. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mr. Lawrence introduced in the House of 

 Representatives on January 27 a bill to create 

 a commission to investigate and report to con- 

 gress as to the advisability of the establish- 

 ment of a Pan-American University. It was 

 referred to the committee on education. 



The regents of the University of Michigan 

 have appropriated $275,000 for the new chem- 

 ical building, which will be erected as soon as 

 possible on the north side of the campus. It 

 will consist of four stories and a central court, 

 being built on the same plan as the new med- 

 ical building. 



AccoKDiNG to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association the contract for the build- 

 ing of the new Richardson Memorial Building, 

 Tulane University, has been let. The new 

 building is to cost about $200,000 and will be 

 three stories and a basement in height. The 

 basement will contain workrooms for minor 

 surgery, original research and toilet and 

 storage rooms ; the first floor will have a large 

 lecture room and physiologic and pharmaco- 

 logic laboratories, and also the administration 

 offices ; the second floor will contain pathologic, 

 bacteriologic and histologic laboratories, pri- 

 vate laboratories for the professors and re- 

 search rooms; the third floor will contain the 

 dissecting room, anatomical museum and labo- 

 ratories for the curator of the museum and 

 the professor of anatomy, research rooms and 

 also a large lectui'c room. The building is 

 expected to be ready in October next. 



The 'last legislature of Pennsylvania ap- 

 propriated $50,000 for the School of Mines 

 and Metallurgy of the Pennsylvania State 

 College, of which sum $20,000 were for further 

 extension of its buildings and $30,000 for its 

 maintenance. The buildings, as planned and 

 partly built and occupied, contain over 60,000 

 square feet of floor space. The buildings con- 

 tain laboratories and lecture rooms, for the 

 instruction in crystallography, mineralogy, 

 petrography, geology, mining geology, metal- 



lography, metallurgy, assaying, ore dressing, 

 coal washing, mining, etc. Among the recent 

 appointments are these: Clarence P. Linville, 

 assistant professor of metallurgy; Frank A. 

 Dalburg, instructor in mining and metal- 

 lurgy; Lloyd B. Smith, instructor in mineral- 

 ogy and geology, and Howard I. Smith, in- 

 structor in mineralogy and metallurgy. 



The trustees of Boston College, an in- 

 stitution in charge of the Jesuits, have ac- 

 quired thirty-three acres of land near the 

 Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Boston, for a new 

 site for the college. The site is said to be 

 one of the finest in New England for educa- 

 tional purposes. It has been suggested that 

 the initial plan should contemplate the erec- 

 tion of a recitation building, an administra- 

 tion building, two science buildings, a gym- 

 nasium, a library and a college theater. Work 

 is to begin at once. 



The sum of $50,000 has been collected for 

 Illinois College at Jacksonville, 111., which 

 makes available the $50,000 offered on this 

 condition by Mr. Andrew Carnegie. 



New four-year courses in chemistry de- 

 signed to train analytical chemists, industrial 

 chemists, agricultural and soil chemists, sani- 

 tary and food chemists, and physiological 

 chemists have just been arranged by the 

 faculty of the University of Wisconsin. 



The Harvard Faculty of Art and Sciences 

 has passed the following resolution: 



At the last meeting of the faculty of arts and 

 sciences it was voted to send to the president and 

 fellows of Harvard College, the committee on 

 athletic sports, and to each college represented in 

 the Association of Colleges of New England, the 

 folloi^'ing expression of opinion: "That in the 

 opinion of this faculty the number of intercol- 

 legiate contests should be largely reduced." 



Dr. G. M. Stratton, professor of experi- 

 mental psychology and director of the Psy- 

 chological Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins 

 University, has accepted the chair in psy- 

 chology in the University of California. 



Professor Jungfleisch has been called to 

 the chair of chemistry in the College de 

 France, vacant through the death of M. 

 Berthelot. 



