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heret College, respectively, the income of 

 whicli funds should be used to help deserving 

 students. 



De. J. W. H. Traill, professor of botany, 

 Aberdeen University, has given to the univer- 

 sity £1,000, to found a bursary for science 

 students. 



BowNE Hall of Chemistry, erected for 

 Syracuse University by Mr. Samuel W. 

 Bowne, of New York, at a cost of $200,000, 

 veas opened last week. 



At a meeting of the trustees of Columbia 

 University on March 2, the budget for 1908-9 

 was passed. The total appropriation is $1,552,- 

 663.79. $1,138,992.79 is set apart for educa- 

 tional administration and instruction, $176,630 

 for the care of the buildings and grounds, 

 $71,479 for the library, $29,312 for the busi- 

 ness administration of the corporation, $47,420 

 for annuities and $88,730 for interest on the 

 debt. 



According to the New Tork Evening Post 

 McGill University has received from the in- 

 surance companies in connection with the 

 fires in the engineering and medical buildings 

 $636,000. The cost of the new engineering 

 building, together with the additions to the 

 Workman building, are estimated at $572,000. 

 It is estimated that the new medical building 

 will cost from $500,000 to $600,000. 



The presidents of the nine colleges and 

 universities of Wisconsin met recently at the 

 University of Wisconsin upon invitation of 

 President Charles R. Van Hise, and organized 

 the Association of Colleges and Universities 

 of Wisconsin. President Van Hise was elect- 

 ed president, and President E. C. Hughes, of 

 Eipon College, was chosen secretary. The 

 chief topic of discussion was the scope of 

 academic work in relation to iniiversity, grad- 

 uate and professional courses. It was decided 

 that each institution should give instruction 

 only in those fields in which it was adequately 

 equipped to do the work well. The several 

 institutions represented agreed to cooperate 

 to the fullest possible extent in advancing the 

 higher educational interests of the state. 



At the meeting of the council of the Uni- 

 versity of Paris on February 24 the vice- 



rector presented to that body a loving cup, a 

 gift made by the University of London to the 

 University of Paris as a souvenir of the hos- 

 pitality it received last summer. The cup is 

 silver-gilt, repousse and chisseled, and is near- 

 ly three feet high. The lid is surmounted by 

 an allegorical figure, while the body of the cup 

 bears on its outside the arms of the Universi- 

 ties of Paris and London, two escutcheons 

 emblematic of the French Eepublic and Great 

 Britain, and three figures symbolic of science, 

 letters and art. The cup was designed and 

 executed by Messrs. Eamsden and Carr. 



At the Johns Hopkins University, Dr. John 

 B. Watson has been appointed professor of 

 experimental and comparative psychology, and 

 Dr. Edward F. Buchner, professor of educa- 

 tion and philosophy. Dr. Watson succeeds 

 Professor George M. Stratton, who has been 

 called to the University of California. He 

 is a graduate of Furman University, S. C, 

 and received the degree of doctor of philos- 

 ophy from the University of Chicago in 1903. 

 He has since been an instructor in that insti- 

 tution and now holds the position of assistant 

 professor of experimental psychology. Dr. 

 Buchner received his doctor's degree from 

 Yale University in 1903, and until 1897 held 

 a position there as lecturer and instructor. 

 He has since been professor of analytical psy- 

 chology in New York University and professor 

 of philosophy and education in the University 

 of Alabama. 



Promotions at Columbia University, to take 

 effect on July 1, are as follows: From in- 

 structor to adjunct professor. Dr. S. Alfred 

 Mitchell, astronomy; Dr. Carlton 0. Curtis, 

 botany; E. L. Kurtz, mining. From adjunct 

 professor to professor. Dr. William E. Shep- 

 herd and Dr. James T. ShotweU, history; 

 Henry B. Mitchell, mathematics; Charles E. 

 Lucke and Walter Eautenstrauch, mechanical 

 engineering. 



At the College of the City of New York, 

 appointments have been made as follows : John 

 P. Turner, of Vanderbilt University, tutor in 

 mathematics; William S. Lord, of the Uni- 

 versity of Maine, tutor in mathematics; Dr. 

 Eobert Boyd, of the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, instructor in vertebrate zoology. 



