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limiting active service in the college faculty 

 to the age of seventy years, has tendered his 

 resignation as Appleton professor of natural 

 philosophy and dean of the academic faculty 

 and has been made dean emeritus. On gradu- 

 ation at Dartmouth in 1868 Mr. Emerson V7as 

 appointed instructor in gjrmnastics in Dart- 

 mouth College and instructor in mathematics 

 in the New Hampshire College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanic Arts, then connected with Dart- 

 mouth College. He remained as tutor of 

 mathematics in Dartmouth College four years 

 and then was appointed associate professor of 

 natural philosophy and mathematics, which 

 title he held till 1878, when he was appointed 

 Appleton professor of natural philosophy, as 

 successor to Professor Charles A. Young, who 

 had been called to Princeton; in 1878 he was 

 appointed instructor in astronomy in addition 

 to his professorship, which position he held till 

 1892. In 1893 he was made dean of the aca- 

 demic faculty, but continued teaching physics 

 till 1899, after which he devoted all his time 

 to the dean's work. He, therefore, has been 

 connected with Dartmouth College continu- 

 ously for forty-five years. 



Dr^ Louis Dufestel, medical inspector of 

 the Paris schools, and Dr. Felix Martel, in- 

 spector general of public instruction for the 

 government of Prance, delegates to the Pourth 

 International Congress on School Hygiene, 

 which will be held in Buffalo on August 25 

 to 30, have arrived in New York. 



The commission appointed by the Russian 

 government to study the question of the re- 

 organization of the sanitary services of the 

 empire has presented a report recommending 

 the establishment of a ministry of public 

 health. 



UNIVEBSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mrs. Julia L. Butterfield, of Cold Spring, 

 N. Y., has bequeathed $100,000 to Union Col- 

 lege. There are many other public bequests, 

 including $150,000 for a hospital and $60,000 

 for a library in Cold Spring. 



MiDDLEBURY COLLEGE, Vermont, has received 

 $30,000 as the residuary legatee of the late 



Henry M. Barnum, a graduate of the college 

 of the class of 1858. 



The memorial fund collected in honor of 

 Alderman Beale, formerly vice-chancellor of 

 the University of Birmingham, will be used to 

 endow a chair of civil engineering. The 

 amount collected now amounts to about 

 $55,000. 



By the will of Baron Eendel, the sum of 

 $25,000 is bequeathed to the University Col- 

 lege of Wales, Aberystwith, of which he was 

 president. 



The regents of the state of South Dakota 

 have placed the government of the state uni- 

 versity under the charge of a commission, con- 

 sisting of the deans of the college of arts and 

 sciences, the college of law, the college of medi- 

 cine, the college of engineering and the college 

 of music. Each of the deans will act as chair- 

 man of the board in rotation for one month. 



Dk J. S. KiNGSLEY, since 1892 professor of 

 zoology in Tufts College, has been called to the 

 University of Illinois as professor of zoology 

 in charge of vertebrates. His address now is 

 Urbana, Illinois. 



Dr. Edward O. Sisson, professor of educa- 

 tion in Reed College and previously head of 

 the department of education in the University 

 of Washington, has been appointed commis- 

 sioner of education for the state of Idaho. 



Dr. Otis W. Caldwell, associate professor 

 of botany in the School of Education at the 

 University of Chicago, has been appointed 

 dean of University College at that institution, 

 to succeed Mr. Walter A. Payne, who is now 

 the university examiner. 



Dr. Karl P. Meyer, who has been a mem- 

 ber of the veterinary faculty of the University 

 of Pennsylvania since 1910 and director of the 

 laboratories of the Pennsylvania State Live- 

 stock Sanitary Board, has resigned to take the 

 professorship of bacteriology at the University 

 of California. Dr. J. B. Hardenbergh, an 

 instructor, succeeds Dr. Meyer as director of 

 the state laboratories. 



Dr. George G. Davis, instructor in surgery 

 at Rush Medical College, has obtained leave of 

 absence for one year and sailed for Manila, 



