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was held of delegates of scientific and medical 

 societies, and a committee was formed (Pro- 

 fessor Starling's committee) to ensure that 

 the evidence as to the value and necessity of 

 these experiments should be presented to the 

 Koyal Commission in proper order. The 

 work of Professor Starling's committee came 

 to an end when the commission ceased to 

 require further evidence. At a meeting of 

 the committee it was decided to form a so- 

 ciety, called the Research Defence Society, to 

 make generally known the facts about experi- 

 ments on animals, and to offer steady opposi- 

 tion to the anti-vivisection societies. Among 

 those who have already joined the society are 

 eminent men of science, leading hospital au- 

 thorities, and distinguished physicians and 

 surgeons. The society hopes to be able to 

 give information to all inquirers, to publish 

 articles, to send speakers when required to 

 debates, and to be of assistance to all who 

 want to have a clear knowledge of the facts 

 of the case. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Plans for two new buildings have been ac- 

 cepted by the board of trustees of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. One is a physics labora- 

 tory, to cost $250,000, the other an extension 

 of the natural history building, to cost $150,- 

 000. The physics building will be three 

 stories in height. The site is directly east 

 of the engineering hall. There are to be two 

 lecture rooms, both on the ground floor, one 

 seating 300 and the other 125 persons. The 

 east wing will be used largely for smaller 

 laboratories, and the west wing for the larger 

 laboratories for electrical measurements. 

 Plans for the extension to the natural history 

 building will more than double the size of the 

 structure. The building will house the de- 

 partment of geology, the State Geological 

 Survey, the general administration offices of 

 the university and of the college, the depart- 

 ment of mathematics, and provide additional 

 classrooms for some other departments. 



Mr. Johnathan Thomas, a member of the 

 board of trustees, has given Washburn Col- 

 lege, Topeka, Kansas, a sum of m.oney suffi- 



cient to build and equip a modern gymnasium. 

 Work on the building will be begun as soon 

 as plans are perfected. 



Mr. W. W. Astor has offered to give a sum 

 of $50,000 in addition to the $50,000 he had 

 already subscribed, to the endowment fund of 

 Oxford University. The gifts are conditional 

 on the sum of $500,000 being raised. 



Mr. James Robert Turle, of London, has 

 bequeathed about $50,000 to the London 

 School of Medicine for Women, and about 

 $40,000 and half the residue of his estate to 

 the Bedford College for women. He also 

 leaves other public bequests. 



It is now definitely settled that the An- 

 dover Seminary will be removed to Cambridge, 

 and affiliated with Harvard University. The 

 Andover seminary has an endowment of over 

 $1,000,000 and five professors, but very few 

 students. 



It is reported that the Rev. Dr. S. Parks 

 Cadman, pastor of the congregational church 

 in Brooklyn, has been elected president of 

 Wesleyan University in succession to the Rev. 

 Dr. Bradford P. Raymond. 



Dr. Carl, E. Seashore, professor of psy- 

 chology, has been elected dean of the Graduate 

 College in the State University of Iowa. 



Gordon M. Bentley, instructor in zoology 

 at the University of Temiessee, has been pro- 

 moted to an assistant professorship. 



Miss E. N. Thomas, assistant in the depart- 

 ment of botany, University College, London, 

 has been appointed lecturer and head of the 

 department of botany, in the Bedford College 

 for Women. 



Dr. Otto Mugge, professor of geology and 

 mineralogy at Konigsberg, has accepted a call 

 to Gottingen. 



Dr. Walter Kaupmann, associate professor 

 of physics at Bonn, has accepted a call to the 

 chair of physics at Konigsberg. 



Dr. Fbiedrich Loeffler, professor at 

 Greifswald, has been called to the chair of 

 hygiene in the Berlin Veterinary School in 

 the place of the late Professor Ostertag. 



