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science and women's institutes. For the 

 Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, at St. 

 Augustine, $85,000. For the Florida Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical College for Negroes, at 

 Tallahassee, $24,000. For expenses of board 

 of control, $5,500. Total. $436,000. 



It is reported from Melbourne that a pioneer 

 colonist, Mr. W. Robbie, has bequeathed £30,- 

 000 to Aberdeen University to establish schol- 

 arships. 



A PUBLIC bequest amounting to £750,000 

 has been made by the will of Sir William 

 Dunn. They include £2,000 to the institute 

 of medical science of the University of Lon- 

 don, and £2,000 to the London School of Eco- 

 nomics. 



The registration for the year of students in 

 regular courses at the University of Cali- 

 fornia will exceed 5,300. If the summer ses- 

 sion students be counted in, then the year's 

 registration will exceed 8.000. Of American 

 universities, only Columbia is larger. The 

 enrollment at Berkeley up to the second day 

 of registration was 4.645, or 660 more than on 

 the corresponding date of last year. Of the 

 4,645 there were 1,500 new undergraduates, 

 and, of these 1,500 new undergraduates, 1,300 

 were freshmen. The graduate students num- 

 bered 531, or eighteen per cent, more than on 

 a corresponding date last year. 



Ohio State University has introduced an 

 apprentice course in animal husbandry that 

 includes two years study at the university and 

 two years of practical work on a stock farm. 

 The student in this course spends the first 

 year at the university; the second on a stock 

 farm; the third year at the university again, 

 and the fourth year on another stock farm. 

 The students are paid for their work while on 

 the farm. The plan has interested a number 

 ..of the leading stock men of Ohio and other 

 states, and they are cooperating with the uni- 

 versity in carrying it out. 



In the reorganized faculty of medicine of 

 the University of Illinois appointments have 

 been made as follows: Dr. Albert C. Eycle- 

 shymer, St. Louis, professor of anatomy and 

 head of the department of anatomy of the 



inedical school; Dr. Eichard Eupert, Chicago, 

 instructor of anatomy; Dr. George P. Dreyer, 

 Chicago, professor of physiology and head of 

 the department of physiology, school of medi- 

 cine; Dr. Bernard Fantus, Chicago, professor 

 of pharmacology; Dr. Edgar Grim Miller. Co- 

 lumbia, Pa.; Dr. J. Craig Small, Chambers- 

 burg, Pa., and Dr. H. IST. Walker, Harrisburg, 

 Pa., assistant professors of physiologic chem- 

 istry; Dr. Edgar D. Coolidge, Chicago, pro- 

 fessor of materia medica and therapeutics. 



Professor Clark W. Chamberlain has re- 

 signed the professorship of physics at Vassar 

 College to accept the presidency of Denison 

 University. 



Professor A. L. Melander, head of the de- 

 partment of entomology and zoology at the 

 Washington State College, Pullman, and ento- 

 mologist of the State Experiment Station, has 

 been granted a year's leave of absence for re- 

 search work at Harvard University. Pro- 

 fessor W. T. Shaw, zoologist and curator of 

 the museum, will be acting head during the 

 coming year. Mr. M. A. Tothers, assistant 

 entomologist, will have charge of entomolog- 

 ical investigations. Mr. E. O. Ellis, of the 

 Iowa Agricultural College, has been elected to 

 the position of instructor in entomology in the 

 college and assistant in entomology in the 

 Experiment Station. 



Dr. J. E. WoDSED.^LEK, of the zoological de- 

 partment of the University of Wisconsin, has 

 been appointed professor of zoology and head 

 of the department of zoology and entomology 

 at the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, 

 succeeding Dr. J. M. Aldrich. 



Mr. Wm. S. Aldrich, of the Eeclamation 

 Service, has been appointed acting professor 

 of electrical and mechanical engineering at 

 the University of Arizona, during the sab- 

 batical leave of absence of Professor W. W. 

 Henley. 



Dr. Christun A. Euckmick, of Cornell 

 University, has been appointed instructor in 

 psychology in the University of Illinois. 



Professor W. H. Young, Sc.D., F.E.S., 

 professor of mathematics in Liverpool Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed Hardinge professor of 



