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tered in Ireland during 1909 numbered 22,650, 

 the births 102,759, and the deaths 74,973. The 

 marriage rate was 5.18 per 1,000 of the esti- 

 mated population (a decrease of 0.02 as com- 

 pared with that for 1908, but an increase of 

 0.06 against the average rate for the ten 

 years) ; the birth-rate was 23.5 per 1,000 (0.2 

 above the preceding year and 0.3 above the 

 average) ; and the death-rate 17.2 per 1,000 

 (0.4 below the previous year and 0.6 below the 

 average). An estimate of the progress of ele- 

 mentary education was formed from the sig- 

 natures made by the contracting parties in the 

 marria:ge registers or certificates. In 1909 

 93.5 per cent, of the husbands and 95.0 per 

 cent, of the wives wrote their names, the 

 remainder signing by marks, as against 86.8 

 and 88.6 per cent, in 1899, 78.8 and 78.0 per 

 cent, in 1889, and 72.0 and 67.1 per cent, in 

 1879. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The Sproul Observatory, of Swarthmore 

 College, is nearing completion. The teles- 

 cope, which will have a twenty-four-inch 

 aperture, is being constructed at Allegheny, 

 and will probably be installed this coming 

 year. In the same building will be installed 

 a new refracting telescope, the gift of Mr. 

 Stephen Loines, of New York. 



The Tuskegee Institute will receive about 

 $400,000 from the estate of Mrs. Dotger, and 

 the Hampden Institute will receive about 

 $250,000 from the estate of Miss Alice Bying- 

 ton. 



By the death of Mrs. Mary Hunt Loomis, 

 the estate of the late Colonel John Mason 

 Loomis, amounting to more than $1,000,000, 

 will, it is said, go to the establishment of a 

 technical school at Windsor, Conn. 



The Supreme Court has granted an injunc- 

 tion to the stepchildren of the late George 

 Crocker, restraining the executors from sell- 

 ing the property which was bequeathed to 

 Columbia University for a cancer research 

 fund. 



Bryn Mawr College wiU celebrate the 

 twenty-fifth anniversary of its opening on 

 October 21 and 22. Among the speakers will 



be President Eemsen, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, and President LoweU, of Harvard 

 University. 



Dr. Charles C. Harrison, provost of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, has tendered his 

 resignation to the board of trustees, to take 

 effect at the end of the present academic year. 



The following promotions and appointments 

 have been made in the chemical department 

 of the University of Hlinois : Edward Bartow, 

 professor of analytical chemistry; C. W. 

 Balke, assistant professor of inorganic chem- 

 istry; E. W. Washburn, assistant professor of 

 physical chemistry; instructors, Ellen S. Mc- 

 Carthy (Ph.D., CorneU), C. G. Derick (Ph.D., 

 Hlinois), Paul E. Howe (Ph.D., Hlinois) ; 

 research assistants, Josef Hecht (Ph.D., 

 Vienna) ; assistants, H. P. Corson (N. H.), 

 J. H. Mitchell (Ala. Poly. Inst), C. J. Baker 

 (Univ. of Denver) ; graduate assistants, H. 

 B.- Gordon (Miami), H. H. Eadcliffe (Ind. 

 Univ.), G. E. Ostrom (Augustana), N. R. 

 Blaterwick (Grinnell), D. W. Wilson (Grin- 

 nell), C. P. Sherwin (Ind. Univ.), E. L. Eoss 

 (Iowa State Agr. College), J. H. Bornmann 

 (Illinois) ; fellows, S. J. Bates (McMaster 

 Univ.), J. W. Eead (Missouri), A. A. 

 Schlichte (Michigan), L. E. Littleton (Tu- 

 lane) ; graduate scholars, P. S. Burgess (E. I. 

 State College), 6. W. Sears (Drury College). 



Dr. C. C. Grove has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of mathematics at Columbia 

 University. 



Mr. H. Bateman, fellow of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, and lecturer in mathematics in 

 the University of Manchester, has accepted an 

 appointment in the department of mathe- 

 matics of Bryn Mawr College. 



J. F. Daniel, Ph.D. (Hopkins), has been 

 appointed instructor of comparative anatomy 

 at the University of California. 



Edith M. Twiss, A.B. (Ohio State Univer- 

 sity, 1895), Ph.D. (Chicago, 1909), has been 

 appointed assistant professor of botany with 

 charge of plant physiology and bacteriology 

 at Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas. For 

 some years Miss Twiss has taught in the 

 Cleveland High Schools. 



