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County by furnishing tliem funds to pay their 

 expenses at preparatory schools and colleges. 

 The daily papers state that this fund will 

 amount to at least $2,000,000 and probably to 

 $3,000,000. 



By the will of the late Mary E. Ives, Tale 

 University receives $10,000 for the Art School, 

 and $10,000 for a fellowship in philosophy for 

 women. 



By the will of Edward Hall Cole, of Brook- 

 lyn, $9,000 is given to St. Lawrence Univer- 

 sity, at Canton, N. T. 



Me. William S. Mather has given $5,000 

 to Trinity College to be added to the fund 

 for the payment of salaries. 



The contract for the erection of the new 

 building for the College of Physicians, of 

 Philadelphia, was awarded January 28. The 

 building will cost $300,000, and is to be 

 erected at Twenty-second and Ludlow Streets. 

 It will be a two-story fireproof brick and stone 

 structure, 110 by 150 feet, containing a mu- 

 seum, lecture hall, library, laboratory and 

 portrait gallery. It is said that the work of 

 erection will be started at once. 



At the January meeting of the regents of 

 the University of Michigan, architects were 

 authorized to draw up detailed plans and 

 specifications for a new chemistry building. 

 The structure, which will be three stories and 

 a basement in height, is to be 270 feet long 

 and 150 feet wide, with the 150 foot front 

 located on North University about 75 feet west 

 of the gymnasium — where the dental build- 

 ing is now situated. It will be of brick with 

 stone trimmings and with interior of rein- 

 forced construction throughout. There are to 

 be two, interior courts separated by a crossbar 

 connecting opposite sides of the building. 

 The cost complete will probably be $275,000. 



Nature, quoting from the Pioneer Mail 

 states that the Maharaja of Darbhanga, has 

 made a gift of nearly £17,000 to the Lieu- 

 tenant Governor for the purpose of construct- 

 ing a library building in connection with the 

 Calcutta University. 



At the midwinter commencement of the 

 University of Nebraska, on February 14, there 



were graduated 16 bachelors of arts, 10 bach- 

 elors of science, 3 bachelors of laws, 3 masters 

 of arts and 1 doctor of philosophy. Those 

 receiving advanced degrees are as follows: 

 Doctor of philosophy: Brayton Howard Han- 

 som in zoology ; thesis — " Some Cestodes from 

 North American Birds." Masters of arts: 

 Venus Worrell Pool in botany; thesis — " Some 

 Tomato Fruit Rots." Leva Belle Walker in 

 botany; thesis — "'A New Form of Sphceropsis 

 on Apple " and " Zonation in Artificial Cul- 

 tures of Fungi." John Bennett Whelan in 

 chemistry ; thesis — " Studies in the Reductions 

 of Aldehydes and Ketones." 



The new medical laboratories building in 

 connection with Queen's University, Kingston, 

 Out., was opened formally on January 14. 

 Biology, histology, pathology, physiology and 

 bacteriology will occupy this building. The 

 Ontario government contributed $50,000 to- 

 ward this new building. 



Dr. Henry T. Bovey, dean of the faculty 

 of applied science at McGill University, has 

 resigned to accept the principalship of the 

 Imperial College of Science and Technology, 

 London. 



The Eev. C. L. White has resigned the 

 presidency of Colby College to engage in work 

 for the Baptist Home Mission Society. 



Professor E. Hershey Sneath, who re- 

 signed his chair at Yale University two years 

 ago owing to ill health, has accepted an ap- 

 pointment as lecturer on philosophy in the 

 graduate school. Dr. Eoswell P. Angier has 

 been promoted to an assistant professorship 

 of psychology. 



Howard E. Simpson, instructor in geology 

 at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, has been 

 appointed associate professor. 



Mr. G. 6. Chisholm has been appointed 

 lecturer on geography at Edinburgh Uni- 

 versity. 



The council of the University of Sheffield 

 has appointed Mr. John L. Annan, M.B., 

 Ch.B. (Edin.), to the post of demonstrator in 

 anatomy. Mr. Annan is at present at the 

 University of Edinburgh. 



