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ganized a central institute at Hamburg to 

 train officials for the German colonies and 

 protectorates, and to centralize all the scien- 

 tific and economic efforts on behalf of the 

 colonies. In order to keep the institution in 

 close touch with commercial interests, three 

 members of the chamber of commerce are 

 delegated to act as an advisory board in all 

 questions that may arise, and as the inter- 

 mediary between the institute and the senate 

 commission. Chairs are to be organized for 

 astronomy, botany, geography, geology, his- 

 tory, jurisprudence, tropical medicine, ethnol- 

 ogy, political economy and zoology in their 

 relations to the colonies, with all the practical 

 branches of these sciences. The Imperial 

 Colonial Office is to send to the institute at 

 least 20 officials each year for an annual course 

 of instruction, and pay for each about $45 the 

 semester. The lectures are open to merchants 

 and others, and a special diploma is given to 

 all those who complete the course. The city 

 of Hamburg at present bears the cost of main- 

 tenance, but state aid is guaranteed in case 

 the scope of the institute is enlarged or it de- 

 velops beyond the present facilities. The 

 term commences on October 1, 1908. 



The Athens correspondent of the London 

 Times reports that two archeological discov- 

 eries of considerable importance have been 

 made. The excavations carried out in the 

 Altis or sacred precincts of Olympia, near the 

 great altar of Zeus, under the superintendence 

 of Professor Dorpfeld, have resulted in the 

 discovery of interesting remains of the Neo- 

 lithic period, including house-vessels and im- 

 plements. Thus it is evident that Olympia 

 was a place of human habitation more than 

 two thousand years before Christ. In Sparta 

 the members of the British School have 

 brought to light a large number of interesting 

 terra-cotta figurines of the fifth century be- 

 fore Christ. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The University of Eochester has practically 

 completed a fund of $100,000; thus entitling 

 it to the additional gift of an equal sum from 

 Mr. Andrew Carnegie. Half of the money is 

 to be used for the erection of a building of 



applied science, and the other half for its 

 endowment. 



The department of physics of the University 

 of Cinoinnati has been granted $500 by the 

 Bache Fund for the purchase of apparatus for 

 research. 



De. John S. Stahe has resigned the presi- 

 dency of Franlilin and Marshall College, 

 Lancaster, Pa., which he has held for the 

 past eighteen years. 



Dr. Horatio H. Newman has recently re- 

 signed an assistant professorship of zoology 

 at the University of Michigan in order to 

 accept the professorship of zoology at the 

 University of Texas, vacant by the removal of 

 Dr. T. H. Montgomery, Jr., to the University 

 of Pennsylvania. Dr. J. T. Paterson, of the 

 University of Chicago, has been appointed in- 

 structor in zoology in the same department. 



The following changes have been made at 

 the Iowa State College, Ames : Professor S. 

 W. Beyer is made vice-dean of the division 

 of engineering; Associate Professor M. L. 

 Bowman is made professor of farm crops; 

 Assistant Professor M. P. Cleghorn is made 

 associate professor of mechanical engineer- 

 ing; Assistant Professor E. E. Buchanan is 

 made associate professor of general bacteri- 

 ology; Professor Maria Boberts is made vice- 

 dean of the junior college; M. I. Evinger is 

 promoted from instructor to assistant pro- 

 fessor in civil engineering; H. S. Bell and 

 B. W. Crossley are made assistant professors 

 in farm crops; H. C. Pierce is made assistant 

 professor in animal husbandry in charge of 

 the poultry department. 



Mr. E. N. Eddmose Brown, B.Sc, has been 

 appointed at Sheffield to the newly-instituted 

 lectureship in geography. Mr. Brown accom- 

 panied the Scottish Antarctic Expedition in 

 1902 as naturalist. He acted in 1906 as 

 special commissioner under the Indian gov- 

 ernment for the investigation of the pearl 

 oyster fisheries. 



GoNViLLE and Caius College, Cambridge, 

 has established a new fellowship, to be called 

 the Monro Fellowship, and Mr. T. B. Wood, 

 M.A., Draper's professor of agriculture, has 

 been elected to it. 



