JULY 30, 1897.] 
Mr. D. A. BEAMER has given $10,000 to the 
Laman Missouri Educational Association. The 
Boston Transcript, in announcing this gift, re- 
marks: ‘The Association has a capital of $20,- 
000, fully paid up, and will establish and ope- 
rate an up-to-date college of a high order!”’ 
Tuer following advancements and new ap- 
pointments in the scientific departments of the 
University of Texas for the year 1897-’98 have 
been made: Thomas U. Taylor has been ad- 
vanced from the grade of associate professor 
of applied mathematics to that of professor ; 
Dr. Sidney E. Mezes from the grade of adjunct 
professor of philosophy to that of associate 
professor ; Dr. Henry Winston Harper from the 
grade‘ of adjunct professor of chemistry to that 
of associate professor, and W. W. Norman from 
the grade of adjunct professor of biology to 
that of associate professor. Dr. Joseph Bald- 
win, the venerable professor of pedagogy, has 
been made emeritus professor, and Mr. Wil- 
liam 8. Sutton, City Superintendent of the Hous- 
ton Schools, has been elected professor of peda- 
gogy; Mr. EB. P. Schoch returns to the Univer- 
sity as instructor in chemistry. i 
AT the Oshkosh Normal School the following 
appointments have been made: H. Fling, 
Ph.D., Chicago, to the chair of biology and 
chemistry; Frank A. Mitchell to the chair of 
geography ; F. D. Sherman, Ph.D., Leipzig, to 
the chair of pedagogy and psychology. 
AT a meeting of the electors to the Savilian 
professorship of geometry held on July 8th, 
Mr. William Esson, M. A., F. R.S., fellow of 
Merton College, was elected professor in the 
room of the late Professor Sylvester. 
Mr. ERNEST WILLIAM MACBRIDE, fellow of 
St. Johns College, Cambridge, and senior dem- 
onstrator in the zoological laboratory of the 
University, has been appointed to the new chair 
of zoology in McGill University, endowed by 
Sir Donald A. Smith. Mr. MacBride has held 
the Hutchinson studentship for research at 
Cambridge and was awarded the Walsingham 
Medal in 1895. He has published an impor- 
tant series of Monographs on the Hchinoder- 
mata. 
UNDER the will of Mrs. Gee, widow of the 
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late Robert Gee, lecturer on the diseases of 
children in the medical school associated with 
University College, Liverpool, that college re- 
ceives over £7,000 for the purpose of advancing 
the medical department and promoting study 
and research in medical science. It has been 
decided by the medical faculty to institute a 
Robert Gee fellowship in anatomy of the value 
of £100 for one year, and four entrance scholar- 
ships of £25 each for one year. 
THE Council of St. Hugh’s-hall, Oxford, has 
recently accepted from Miss Clara Evelyn 
Mordan a donation of £1,000 to found ascholar- 
ship to be called by her name. 
THE Lancet states that Professor Engelman, 
in taking the late Dr. Du Bois-Reymond’s chair 
at Berlin, is arranging certain changes in the 
Physiological Institute and its four depart- 
ments. The first, for microscopical and bio- 
logical work, will remain under the charge of 
Professor Fritsch. Similarly, the second, for 
chemical physiology, will continue under its 
present director, Professor Thierfelder. The 
third, for special physiology, will be greatly 
enlarged, and the professor himself will take 
part in its work in conjunction with the present 
director, Dr. Immanuel Munk. The fourth 
department, for physical physiology, will also 
be largely increased; it will be called the De- 
partment for the Physiology of the Sensory 
Organs and will remain under the direction of 
Professor Konig. In addition to extensive new 
buildings, the supply of apparatus will be largely 
augmented. ‘The lectures will be given by the 
professor in a course running through two 
semesters, but during the last four weeks in 
the summer Professor Konig will lecture on the 
sensory organs, and during the first four weeks 
of the winter Professor Thierfelder will lecture 
on physiological chemistry. 
PRESIDENT ANDREWS, of Brown University, 
has been requested by a committee of the Board 
of Trustees not to discuss the question of the 
free coinage of silver, and has consequently 
been compelled to resign from the presidency 
of the University. The trustees did not base 
their action on the supposed evil effects of Presi- 
dent Andrews’ teaching, ‘but on the alleged 
ground that the University had, through the 
