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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVII. No. 697 



Ira Eemsen, '65, president Jolins Hopkins Uni- 

 versity. 



Unveiling the portrait of E. Ogden Doremus, 

 LL.D., second professor of chemistry, 1864-1903. 



" The Future in Chemistry," by Wilder D. Ban- 

 croft, professor of physical chemistry, Cornell 

 University. 



" The College Course and Practical Affairs," 

 H. Nichols, president of the General Chemical 

 Company. 



" Chemistry and the Municipality," by Herman 

 A. Metz, comptroller of New York. 



Formal opening of the building by Edward M. 

 Shepard, chairman board of trustees. 



At its recent session tlie legislature of New 

 Jersey appropriated $20,000 for furnishing 

 and equipping the new engineering building 

 which is being erected for Rutgers College. 



All but $5,000 had been contributed toward 

 a fund of $100,000 for Sewanee University 

 required by Mr. Andrew Carnegie as a con- 

 dition of his gift of $60,000. 



At their last monthly meeting the regents 

 of the University of Michigan resolved to 

 apply for admission to the benefits of the Car- 

 negie Foundation for the Advancement of 

 Teaching. 



The Electrical World says : " A meeting of 

 alumni of the Brooklyn Polytechnic was held 

 last week to protest against what has been 

 charged as mismanagement of the institute. 

 Since 1899, when Henry Sanger Snow, the 

 missing ex-treasurer of the New York and 

 New Jersey Telephone Company, became 

 president and radical changes were introduced, 

 some alumni say that the school has run up 

 a deficit of $268,989, while before it had been 

 self-sustaining. The borrowing capacity of 

 the institution has now been reached, as its 

 indebtedness is $400,000. Abandonment of 

 the arts course, first suggested by Snow, is 

 particularly opposed by the alumni." 



Dr. Frank K. Sanders, of Boston, formerly 

 dean of the Divinity School at Tale, and 

 now executive head of the Congregational 

 Publication Society of the United States, has 

 been elected president of Washburn College, 

 Topeka, Kansas. 



Dr. William H. Warren, professor of 

 chemistry in the Medical Department of 



Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 

 has been appointed dean of that institution. 



Dr. John W. Bradshaw has resigned as 

 registrar of the literary department of the 

 University of Michigan. He will continue 

 in the department of mathematics. The posi- 

 tion of registrar will be filled by Professor 

 Arthur G. Hall, of Miami University, who 

 will be an instructor in mathematics and 

 editor of the Bulletin. 



At the recent meeting of the regents of 

 the University of Nebraska, Professor F. D. 

 Heald presented his resignation in order to 

 accept the professorship of botany in the 

 University of Texas tendered to him some 

 months ago. This leaves vacant also the 

 position of botanist to the Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, which Professor Heald held 

 at the time of his resignation. It is prob- 

 able that in electing a successor the regents 

 will continue the present arrangement which 

 combines the professorship of botany in the 

 School of Agriculture with the position of 

 botanist to the Experiment Station. This in- 

 volves also some instruction of advanced uni- 

 versity students in plant pathology. The 

 election will probably not be made before the 

 middle of June. 



Walter H. French, deputy-superintendent 

 of public schools at Michigan, has been ap- 

 pointed professor in the Michigan State Agri- 

 cultural College, in charge of the department 

 of agricultural education. 



Egbert H. C. Heck, of Lehigh University, 

 has accepted the chair of mechanical engineer- 

 ing at Eutgers College. 



Henry B. Drowne, at present an assistant 

 engineer with the State Board of Public 

 Eoads, of Ehode Island, has been appointed 

 instructor in civil engineering at Brown Uni- 

 versity. 



Mr. H. F. Hart will retire from an in- 

 structorship in mathematics at Syracuse Uni- 

 versity at the end of the present academic 

 year, in order to take charge of the depart- 

 ment of mathematics in the Montclair, N. J. 

 High School. 



