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vice which has been in successful use as a 

 means of determining the quantity of steam 

 passing any pipe to which it may be attached. 

 The gift was transmitted on behalf of the 

 General Electric Company by its Sales Man- 

 ager, Mr. F. G. Vaughen, to Professor Ernst 

 J. Berg, in charge of the department of elec- 

 trical engineering. This is the second signifi- 

 cant gift that the General Electric Company 

 has made the University of Illinois during the 

 past year, the first consisting of a 100-kilowatt 

 Curtis steam turbo-generator which now con- 

 stitutes a part of the equipment of the depart- 

 ment of electrical engineering. 



An association for the promotion of as- 

 stronomy has been formed in India. It is to 

 be known as the Astronomical Society of 

 India, and has its headquarters at Calcutta. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 It is announced that Mr. John D. Rocke- 

 feller has recently offered to give to Western 

 Reserve University for further endowment of 

 its medical department, the sum of $250,000 

 provided $750,000 additional is raised. Toward 

 this $1,000,000 fund, as was announced in May 

 last, Mr. H. M. Hanna, of Cleveland, has 

 given $250,000. The trustees of the university 

 have indicated their intention to undertake 

 to secure the $500,000 needed to complete the 

 fund. 



Yale University is to receive the residue of 

 the estate of Samuel H. Lyman on the death 

 of the testator's brother, Joseph Lyman, with 

 the exception of $25,000, which goes to the 

 Children's Aid Society. A trust fund, to be 

 known as the " Joseph Lyman Fund for the 

 Aid of Deserving Students," is to be estab- 

 lished. The value of the bequest is not 

 loiown, but the estate is said to be large. 



The construction of the new zoological lab- 

 oratory of the University of Pennsylvania 

 was begun on September 16. It will be com- 

 pletely finished and furnished by next sum- 

 mer. The total cost will probably be between 

 $250,000 and $300,000. As planned, it will be 

 the largest building yet constructed for zool- 

 ogy. 



The Drapers' Company, which has already 

 done so much for the Agricultural School of 

 Cambridge University, has offered a sum of 

 £22,000 towards the cost of erecting a new 

 physiological laboratory on the Downing site, 

 and a further sum of £1,000 for fittings. The 

 proposed new laboratory for psychophysics, 

 the cost of which has been collected by Dr. C. 

 S. Myers, will, it is hoped, be erected in the 

 close neighborhood of the proposed building 

 for physiology. 



The new chemical and physiological labora- 

 tories for the University of Bristol are now 

 complete. The formal opening wiU take place 

 on November 15 by Lord Winterstoke, chan- 

 cellor of the university. 



Sylvester K. Loy, Ph.D. (Hopkins), is act- 

 ing professor of chemistry at Symons College, 

 Boston, Mass. 



Thomas A. Lewis, Ph.D. (Hopkins), has 

 been appointed professor of physiology at 

 Richmond College, Va. 



The executive committee of the board of 

 trustees of Cornell University has made the 

 following appointments: Seymour S. Garrett, 

 '04, and John A. Wheeler, '03, assistant pro- 

 fessors of mechanics of engineering; F. W. 

 Buck, '09, C. E. Townsend, '07, and C. W. 

 Davis, '07, instructors in machine design; J. 

 F. Stephens, instructor in electrical engineer- 

 ing; D. S. Cole, instructor in electrical engi- 

 neering; H. McClure, instructor in mechanics 

 of engineering; J. F. Brauner, Jr., '05, in- 

 structor in civil engineering; A. H. Forman, 

 instructor in physics; R. D. Anthony, in- 

 structor in pomolog-y; R. R. Birch, instructor 

 in experimental pathology. 



Appointments at the University of Mich- 

 igan are: Henry Allan Gleason, Ph.D., assist- 

 ant professor of botany; Alvin C. Kraenzlein, 

 formerly of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 assistant professor of physical training; 

 Walter Mann Mitchell, Ph.D., assistant pro- 

 fessor of astronomy; Carl Leonard DeMuralt, 

 formerly of New York City, professor of elec- 

 trical engineering. 



