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Austrian government is convinced of the high 

 value of these waters and intends to take 

 charge thereof, construct a proper radium 

 spring, and build hotels, which it will control. 

 The view of the government is, that the bene- 

 ficial effects of radium in a number of dis- 

 eases have been admitted by the medical pro- 

 fession, but hitherto the application has been 

 very expensive and treatment difficult. The 

 government believes now that by the discovery 

 of radium in those waters a powerful and at 

 the same time a cheap medium has been foimd 

 to make the power of radium accessible for 

 bathing purposes. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Mr. Charles Henry Moore, barrister at 

 law and fellow of Gonville and Caius Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, has bequeathed £5,000 and 

 the residue of his estate, apparently about 

 £30,000, to the master and fellows of Gon- 

 ville and Caius College. 



The late Dr. Lennander, professor of 

 surgery at TJpsala, has bequeathed his entire 

 property to the university to endow scholar- 

 ships for medical students, for stipends for 

 research work, and for a fund to provide free 

 postgraduate courses in surgery, hygiene and 

 other branches of medicine. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given the sum 

 of $200,000 to the Mechanics and Trades- 

 men's Institute of New York City. 



As we have already announced the third 

 session of the National Graduate School of 

 Agriculture held under the auspices of the 

 Association of American Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations will open at 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. T., on July 

 6. The range of instruction will be con- 

 siderably broader than at previous sessions 

 and includes courses in biochemistry, 

 agronomy, horticulture and plant physiology, 

 dairy husbandry and dairying, poultry, ento- 

 mology and veterinary medicine. The faculty 

 will include a large number of the leading 

 agricultural scientists of this country. Dr. 

 N. Zuntz, professor of animal physiology of 

 the Eoyal Agricultural College, Berlin, Ger- 

 many; Director A. D. Hall, of the Kotham- 



sted Experimental Station, England; Pro- 

 fessor L. B. Mendel, of Yale University; Pro- 

 fessor S. H. Gage, of Cornell University, and 

 Professor C. B. Davenport, of the Carnegie 

 Institution, will also deliver courses of lec- 

 tures. Dr. A. C. True, director of the U. S. 

 Office of Experiment Stations is dean of the 

 school, and Professor G. N. Lauman, of Cor- 

 nell University is registrar. 



As the result of the appointment of Edwin 

 C. Holden, of New York, to the professorship 

 of mining engineering at the University of 

 Wisconsin, the present group of electives in 

 mining engineering in the college of engineer- 

 ing of the University of Wisconsin wiU be 

 developed into a regular four-year course for 

 the training of mining engineers. 



At the recent meeting of the regents of the 

 University of Wisconsin Professor Louis 

 Kahlenberg was appointed director of the 

 newly-established course in chemistry. 



Mr. Arthur L. Walker has been appointed 

 professor in the department of metallurgy at 

 Columbia University. 



Mr. E. L. Potter, a member of the 1908 

 graduating class in the animal husbandry de- 

 partment of the Iowa State College, has been 

 appointed instructor in animal husbandry (in 

 charge of the department) in the Oregon Agri- 

 cultural College. 



Dr. Victor J. Chambers, now instructor in 

 organic chemistry at Columbia University, 

 wiU succeed Professor A. Lattimore at the 

 University of Eochester. Dr. Chambers re- 

 ceived the degree of bachelor of science at 

 Eochester in the class of 1895. From Johns 

 Hopkins he received the degree of doctor of 

 philosophy in 1901. 



Austin teaching fellows at Harvard Uni- 

 versity have been appointed as follows: Har- 

 old Eugene Bigelow, A.B. (chemistry), Edgar 

 Davidson Congdon, A.M. (zoology), George 

 Thomas Hargitt, A.M. (zoology), George 

 Leslie Kelley, S.B. (chemistry), Chester 

 Couch Pope (engineering), Emile Eaymond 

 Eiegel (chemistry) , Edric Brooks Smith (engi- 

 neering). 



