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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVII. No. 702 



J. Schoonlioveii; vice-president, Thomas I. 

 Miller; secretary, Agnes Vinton Luther, 

 curator, James Walker. This is Mr. Schoon- 

 hoven's fourth year as president of this 

 society. 



VNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The Court of Appeals at Albany, N. T., 

 has handed down a decision in which the 

 efforts of the next of kin of Josephine Louise 

 Newcomb, widow of Warren Newcomb, who 

 died in New York City in 1901, to set aside 

 her will, executed in Louisiana, and to secure 

 a portion of her estate, are nullified and her 

 bequest of her entire estate of about $2,000,000 

 to the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College 

 of New Orleans, a department of Tulane Uni- 

 versity, is sustained. 



At the commencement exercises of the 

 Massachusetts College of Pharmacy it was an- 

 nounced that the college had acquired an en- 

 dowment fund amounting to $150,000 by the 

 terms of the will of Warren D. Potter. Mr. 

 Potter, who was a wholesale druggist, died a 

 number of years ago, and by the provisions 

 of his will a residue of his estate reverted to 

 the college two years after the death of his 

 wife. 



George Washington University has re- 

 ceived a gift of $5,000 from the alumni asso- 

 ciation of Colorado. 



In the period from 1893 to 1899 the funds 

 of Stanford University, including the estate 

 of Mrs. Stanford herself, were completely tied 

 up by litigation, leaving the university no 

 income save the sum annually allowed by the 

 Probate Court to Mrs. Stanford for the main- 

 tenaijce of her personal service. During this 

 period Mrs. Stanford devoted all funds 

 accessible to her to the maintenance of the in- 

 stitution. Among other things she possessed 

 a very valuable collection of jewels, the gift 

 of her husband, many of them being of his- 

 toric interest. These were held by her in re- 

 serve for the use of the university, about half 

 of them being sold in London by her at the 

 time of the queen's jubilee, and the proceeds 

 were made available to the university at a 

 time when they were sorely needed. By the 



terms of her will the rest of these jewels were 

 to be sold and a " Jewel Pund " constituted, 

 the proceeds of which were to be devoted in 

 perpetuity to the purchase of books for the 

 University Library. By the act of the 

 trustees of the university this fund has now 

 been segregated as a library endowment. The 

 fund as at present constituted amounts to 

 $500,000, the interest annually being $25,000. 



The report of the syndicate appointed to 

 superintend the provision of buildings for the 

 Department of Agriculture, at Cambridge, 

 states that the university has provided a suit- 

 able site adjoining the Botany School, and 

 that a sum of nearly £13,000 has been sub- 

 scribed or promised by the Drapers' Company 

 and by a number of prominent landowners 

 towards the cost of the building. Plans have 

 been prepared which raeet with general ap- 

 proval, but the building can not be begim 

 until a further sum of at least £2,000 has been 

 subscribed. 



Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., is this 

 week celebrating the hundred and twenty- 

 fifth anniversary of its foundation. Oberlin 

 College celebrates its seventy-fifth anniver- 

 sary. 



Dr. Joseph BarreIl has been promoted to a 

 professorship of geology at Tale University. 



Dr. S. R. WiLLLiMS, tutor in physics in Bar- 

 nard CoUege, Columbia University, has been 

 appointed associate professor and head of the 

 department of physics at Oberlin College. 



At Harvard University Mrs. Wilfred Mac- 

 Donald has been appointed instructor in 

 mathematics, and Mr. D. C. Eogers, assistant 

 in applied psychology at Harvard University. 



Warner Brown, Ph.D. (Columbia), assist- 

 ant in psychology in Columbia University, has 

 been appointed instructor in psychology in the 

 University of California. 



At the Northwestern University Medical 

 School, Dr. Prentiss, of Harvard University, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of an- 

 atomy, and Dr. S. Walter Ransom, associate 

 in anatomy. 



Dr. Wolfgang Ostwald has qualified as 

 docent in physiology in the University of 

 Leipzig. 



