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with illustrations will soon be published. The 

 mass weighs about 355 pounds. There has 

 also been placed on exhibition there the second 

 largest known mass of the siderolite form of 

 the Brenham (Kansas) meteorite. This 

 weighs 218 pounds and replaces the two smaller 

 masses of the same fall that have heretofore 

 been on exhibition. 



Lectures will be delivered in the Lecture 

 Hall of the Museum Building of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, on Sat- 

 urday afternoons, at four o'clock, as follows: 



July 9 — " Botanical Features of the West In- 

 dian Islands," Dr. N. L. Britten. 



July 16 — " Interesting Relations between Plants 

 and Animals," Mr. F. J. Seaver. 



July 23 — " The Forms of Flowers and their 

 Meaning," Dr. C. C. Curtis. 



July 30 — " By Canoe down the Yukon River, 

 Alaska," Dr. Arthur Holliek. 



August 6 — •" Edible Mushrooms," Dr. W. A. 

 Murrill. 



August 13 — " Influences which Govern Local 

 Distribution of Plants," Mr. Norman Taylor. 



August 20 — " Botanical Cruises among the Ba- 

 hama Islands," Dr. M. A. Howe. 



August 27 — " Grasses and their Economic Im- 

 portance," Mr. George V. Nash. 



September 3 — " Poisonous Mushrooms," Dr. W. 

 A. Murrill. 



September 10 — " European Influences in the 

 History of American Botany," Dr. J. H. Barnhart. 



UNIVEE8IT7 AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Cornell Univeesity has been made residu- 

 ary legatee of the estate of Goldwin Smith. 

 It is reported that the value of the bequest 

 will exceed $1,000,000. 



By the will of Frank W. Collendar Tulane 

 University will receive $65,000 for the Sophie 

 Newcomb College. Mrs. Ida A. Richardson, 

 who during her lifetime gave generously to 

 various departments of the university, has left 

 $25,000 to the Medical School. 



At Amherst CoUege associate professors will 

 receive $2,000, instead of $1,600 as formerly; 

 assistant professors will receive from $1,400 

 to $1,600. 



At Princeton University promotions and 

 appointments have been made as follows : E. B. 

 C. Johnson, preceptor in philosophy, professor 

 of philosophy; Oswald Veblen, advanced to 

 professor of mathematics ; Edwin Fitch ISTorth- 

 rup, assistant professor of physics; William 

 Foster, assistant professor of chemistry, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry; Alfred C. Hawkes, assist- 

 ant in mineralogy; Vernon A. Suydam, in- 

 structor in physics; Claude W. Heaps and ■ 

 Karl T. Compton, assistants in physics; Lewis-. 

 E. Gary, instructor in biology; John S. Van 

 Nest, instructor in chemistry; Guy F. Lips- 

 comb, Garrett D. Buckner, Joseph S. Laird, 

 Herbert E. Eankin and John I. B. Vail, assist- 

 ants in chemistry; M. A. Campbell, instructor 

 in geodesy; Edward C. McWilliams, in 

 graphics. 



Among recent appointments made at the 

 University of Missouri are the following : Pro- 

 fessor W. W. Charters, to be dean of the fac- 

 ulty of the school of education; Dr. D. H. 

 DoUey, University of North Carolina, to be 

 professor of pathology and bacteriology; Dr> 

 A. K. Eogers, Butler College, to be professor 

 of philosophy, as successor to Professor A. O. 

 Lovejoy; Dr. J. H. Coursault, assistant pro- 

 fessor of history and philosophy of education, 

 to be professor ; J. D. Elliif , assistant professor 

 of school administration, to be professor ; O. D. 

 Kellogg, assistant professor of mathematics, to 

 be professor; E. J. Durand, instructor in Cor- 

 nell University, to assistant professor of bot- 

 any; E. W. Selvidge, instructor in manual 

 training, to be assistant professor; Carter 

 Alexander, fellow in Teachers College, Colum- 

 bia University, to be assistant professor of 

 educational administration and private secre- 

 tary to the president; D. H. Doane, formerly 

 with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, to 

 be assistant professor of farm management; 

 Horace T. Major, University of Illinois, to be 

 instructor in landscape gardening with charge 

 of the university campus and grounds ; Dr. T. 

 E. Wheeloek, of Yale University, to be in- 

 structor in physics; Frank W. Capp, to be 

 instructor in civil engineering. 



