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scnian Institution. The study was made 

 under the assistance of a grant from the insti- 

 tution. The collection was taken from sand- 

 stone layers of the Cretaceous period. 



The authorities of Peabody Museum, of 

 Tale University, have made arrangements for 

 securing additions to the mammal collection 

 through Captain B. D. Cleveland, who com- 

 mands a vessel soon to sail from New Bed- 

 ford, Mass., on a voyage to Kergulen Island 

 in the Antarctic Ocean. 



Dr. Hamilton Eice, of Boston, who has 

 returned from an eighteen months' trip to the 

 headwaters of the Eio Negro, in Colombia, 

 has given to the Peabody Museum, of Har- 

 vard University, a valuable collection of 

 ethnological material which he obtained from 

 the natives of the region around the upper 

 Uaupes River. The collection includes dance 

 costumes, feather, headdresses. Tattles, 

 whistles, drums and other paraphernalia used 

 in their dances and ceremonies, blow guns 

 with poisoned arrows, ordinary bows and 

 arrows, ceremonial staffs used for carrying the 

 heads of the enemy, and various household 

 objects such as wooden seats, hammocks, 

 baskets, etc. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mr. James A. Patten, of Chicago, has 

 given $150,000 to Northwestern University for 

 a gymnasium. 



The Sheffield Scientific School of Tale Uni- 

 versity has purchased a site at the end of 

 Eocky Beach off Bradley Point, Savin Eock, 

 on which an experiment and collecting station 

 will be erected. During the past year the 

 school -voted to support a table at the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory, and the structure at 

 Bradley Point is intended for the use of ex- 

 perimenters during the months of the college 

 year when Woods Hole is not accessible. 



The American Ethical Union's summer 

 school of three weeks, usually held at 

 Plymouth, Mass., will this year be held at 

 Madison, Wis. The school will be opened on 

 July 5, in the Historical Library, and will in- 

 clude a series of forty-five lectures. Among 

 the speakers are Dr. Henry Neuman and 



Percival Chubb, of New Tork University; 

 Dr. David S. Muzzey, Dr. John L. Elliott, and 

 Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, of the New Tork 

 Ethical Culture School; William Mackintire 

 Salter, of Cambridge; Professor Nathaniel 

 Schmidt, of Cornell; Professor Charles 

 Zueblin, of the University of Chicago, and Dr. 

 Henry Moskowitz and Leslie W. Sprague, of 

 the New Tork Ethical Society. 



Dr. Walter E. Crane, instructor in the de- 

 partment of mining of Columbia University, 

 has been elected professor of mining and dean 

 of the school of mines of the Pennsylvania 

 State College. 



Egbert M. Terkes, A.B. (Ursinus), 1897, 

 and A.B. (Harvard), 1898; Ph.D. (Harvard), 

 1902, has been promoted to be assistant pro- 

 fessor of comparative psychology at Harvard 

 University. 



Instructors at Cornell University have been 

 appointed as follows: F. A. Molby, G. W. 

 Naysmith, A. A. Somerville and O. Tugman, 

 in physics; F. D. Shetterly, in chemistry; 0. 

 A. Stewart, in geology; J. P. Schaeifer, in 

 anatomy; W. C. Capron, in machine design; 

 M. 0. Earnsberger, in power engineering; G. 

 D. Conlee, in experimental engineering, and 

 J. N. Frost, in veterinary surgery. 



The following appointments have been 

 made at the University of Cincinnati: In- 

 structors : Biology, Harry L. Wieman ; mathe- 

 matics, C. N. Moore; physics, Taylor S. 

 Carter. The terms of E. E. C. Gowdy, Hanna 

 fellow in physics ; L. D. Peaslee, teaching fel- 

 low in zoology, and L. W. Sauer, teaching 

 fellow in botany, have been renewed for 1908- 

 09. 



At the North Dakota Agricultural College : 

 Firman Thompson, instructor in agricultural 

 chemistry, has resigned to accept a position at 

 the Delaware Agricultural College. Professor 

 H. L. White, of the Medical College of the 

 University of Vermont, has been elected as 

 assistant professor of physiological chemistry 

 and toxicology, and J. W. Ince, instructor at 

 McGill University, has been elected instructor 

 in agricultural chemistry. 



