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to University College, London, to be used and 

 applied, so far as is practicable, for the pur- 

 poses of physical research, and £5,000 to Uni- 

 versity College of South Wales and Mon- 

 mouthshire, also for physical research. 



The London Times states that the new uni- 

 versity established by the legislature of Al- 

 berta win open its first term nest September. 

 The site for its buildings is a fine one of 250 

 acres at Strathcona, on the Saskatchewan 

 River, opposite Edmonton, the provincial cap- 

 ital. The plans have not yet been prepared; 

 and, meanwhile, the university will have the 

 use of a large school building in Edmonton. 

 The scheme of the university's work and build- 

 ings is comprehensive; but in the first term 

 there will only be one combined faculty, of 

 arts and science, giving B.A. and B.Sc. de- 

 grees. Dr. H. M. Tory, the president, form- 

 erly professor at McGill University, says he 

 expects to begin with 40 or 50 students. The 

 province has set apart for the revenue of the 

 university one fifth of the educational land 

 tax and one fifth also of the tax on joint stock 

 companies; and the legislature will make spe- 

 cial grants for building. The convocation 

 consists of the university graduates resident 

 in Alberta, numbering 364, about half of 

 whom are alumni of Toronto University. 

 This body of graduates also elects five of the 

 fifteen members of the senate. 



We learn from the New York Evening Post 

 that the construction of the building to be 

 used by the geology department of Williams 

 College is progressing rapidly. The exterior 

 will be of red brick, painted a colonial yellow 

 to match West College, and the trimmings wiU 

 be of white marble. There will be two stories 

 and a basement. Lecture rooms, laboratory, 

 library and workshop will be in the basement. 

 A museum will occupy the whole of the first 

 floor, and around the walls will be placed 

 fragments of old Clark Hall. The building 

 should be ready for occupancy at the begin- 

 ning of the next college year. 



The Summer School of The Connecticut 

 Agricultural College, which holds its seventh 

 annual session July 1 to 24 inclusive, has 

 arranged for special courses in nature study. 



pedagogy, and elementary agriculture. The 

 Summer School is planned to meet the needs 

 of teachers and others who wish to learn 

 something about outdoor life. 



The trustees of the George Washington 

 University have adopted a recommendation 

 that no student wiU be hereafter matriculated 

 in the Department of Medicine who can not 

 give his full time to study. The work will 

 begin at nine o'clock in the morning and con- 

 tinue throughout the day, the evening work 

 being discontinued except so far as is neces- 

 sary to provide for students already in the 

 school. This action puts all the work of the 

 university in the day time. 



The numbers of medical students in Ger- 

 man universities during the summer course of 

 1907 were as follows: Miinich, 1,248; Berlin, 

 876; Ereiburg, 645; Leipzig, 498; Wiirzburg, 

 449; Heidelberg, 397; Kiel, 340; Marburg, 

 291; Bonn, 277; Breslau, 277; Jena, 275; 

 Tiibingen, 242 ; Strassburg, 233 ; Konigsberg, 

 216; Halle, 210; Greifswald, 201; Erlangen, 

 199; Gottingen, 176; Giessen, 173; Eostock, 

 122. Total, 7,345. 



At Yale University Dr. Henry Lord 

 Wheeler, '90 S., has been promoted to be pro- 

 fessor of organic chemistry in the Sheffield 

 Scientific School, and Dr. Joseph Barrell, 

 '00 Ph.D., to be professor of geology in the 

 college. New appointments and promotions 

 were: Ernest Wilson Sheldon, '07, and Horace 

 T. Burgess, '06, to be instructors in mathe- 

 matics; Clarence Curtiss Perry, '04 S., from 

 assistant to be instructor in physics and steam 

 engine; Clifford Whitman Bates, '05 S., and 

 Charlton Dows Cooksey, '05 S., from assistants 

 to be instructors in physics. 



Dr. Wm. M. Wheeler, curator of inverte- 

 brate zoology in the American Museum of 

 Natural History, has been appointed professor 

 of economic entomology in the Graduate 

 School of Applied Science of Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



Errata : In the article on " Geological Cli- 

 mates " by Dr. J. M. Sebaeberle in the issue of 

 ISciENCE for May 18, on page 784, last line of 

 first paragraph, second column, for " that " read 

 " than," and on page 785, first column, tenth line 

 of first paragraph, for " other " read " ether." 



