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Hurd, of the university. The comer stone 

 was then laid by Hon. Augustus W. Gihnan, 

 state commissioner of agriculture. 



At the TTniversity of Nevada, the new 

 mining building and the statue of John W. 

 Maekay, both the gift of Mr. Clarence H. 

 Maekay and his mother, Mrs. John W. 

 Mackay, were dedicated on commencement 

 day. The building, erected at a cost of $75,- 

 000, is to house the departments of mining 

 and metallurgy and of geology and mineral- 

 ogy, ample accommodation being provided for 

 all the work of these departments, besides a 

 large museum room which occupies one wing. 

 In addition to this, Mr. Mackay has promised 

 other gifts of money to the university, for a 

 part of the equipment and running expenses 

 of the same departments, for extensive im- 

 provements of the campus, and for providing 

 an athletic field and training quarters. 



Ground has been broken for the School of 

 Mines Building of the University of Pitts- 

 burg as the University of Pennsylvania is 

 hereafter to be called. This building, which 

 will cost $175,000, is the first of the group to 

 "be erected for the University opposite the 

 Carnegie Institute and the Carnegie Tech- 

 nical School. 



The first commencement exercises of the 

 Carnegie Technical Schools, Pittsburg, was 

 held on June 17. Dr. E. S. Woodward, presi- 

 dent of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, delivered the address to the gradu- 

 ating class, which numbered fifty-nine. 



Dr. G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark 

 University, gave the address at the com- 

 mencement exercises of the College of Physi- 

 cians and, Surgeons, Boston. 



Dr. Edwin E. Sparks, professor of Ameri- 

 •can History at the University of Chicago, 

 was on June 17 installed as president of the 

 Pennsylvania State College, succeeding Dr. 

 George W. Atherton, who died in 1906. Dr. 

 Alex. C. Humphreys, president of Stevens 

 Institute of Technology, and Dr. Paul Shorey, 

 professor of Greek in the University of Chi- 

 cago, made addresses. 



At Western Reserve University, Carl Byron 

 James has been made assistant professor of 



biology in Adelbert College and the College 

 for Women, and Eoger Griswold Perkins, 

 M.D., associate professor of pathology and 

 hygiene in the medical school. George Trum- 

 ball Ladd, LL.D., has been appointed 

 lecturer on education in the College for 

 Women. 



Propessoe a. H. Patterson, of the Univer- 

 sity of Georgia, has been elected professor of 

 physics at the University of North Carolina. 



Dr. Chas. E. Cory has been appointed head 

 of the department of philosophy in the Wash- 

 ington University, in the place of Professor 

 A. E. Lovejoy, who, as we have already an- 

 nounced, has accepted a call to the University 

 of Missouri. 



Central University, Danville, Ky., has 

 elected Professor Frank Lewis Rainey to the 

 chair of biology. Mr. Rainey, who is spend- 

 ing the summer in England and on the con- 

 tinent, has been at the head of the same de- 

 partment in Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, 

 for the past five years. 



In the chemical department of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois appointments have been made 

 as follows: Instructors — Grinnell Jones, 

 Ph.D. Harvard, '08; B. S. Lacy, Ph.D. Har- 

 vard, '06; Brainard Mears, Ph.D. Johns Hop- 

 kins University, '08. Research Assistant — 

 E. E. Gorsline, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, '08. Assistant. — James Coss, Upper 

 Iowa University. Graduate Assistants — J. 

 E. Egan, DePauw University; Luther Knight, 

 formerly assistant at Rose Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute; E. K. Strachan, Worcester Polytechnic 

 Institute; Guy Conrey, University of Mich- 

 igan; W. F. Washburn, formerly assistant. 

 University of Maine. 



Mr. William Bateson, F.R.S., has been 

 elected to the chair of biology at Cambridge 

 University, which has been established for 

 five years, largely owing to an anonymous 

 donor. Mr. Bateson, who was born in 1861, 

 is a son of the late master of St. John's Col- 

 lege and has been a fellow of this college 

 since 1885. 



During the present summer the address of the 

 responsible editor of Science is Woods Hole, 

 Mass. 



