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young men to special work, usually preparatory 

 to their early promotion into professorships 

 elsewhere, is found, it is reported, to be some- 

 what trying to the heads of departments, as 

 compelling too frequent changes ; although it 

 is most creditable to the college and very help- 

 ful to the growing technical schools and college 

 departments into which this output passes. 



The Association of Collegiate Alumnae has 

 awarded its European Fellowship to Miss 

 Caroline Stewart (A.B. Kansas University '92, 

 A.M. Michigan '95). Miss Stewart held a 

 Scholarship in Germanic languages at Bryn 

 Mawr, in '95-6, and a Fellowship at the same 

 College in '97. The American Fellowship has 

 been awarded by the Association to Miss Caro- 

 line E. Furness, Vassar '91, who has been as- 

 sistant the past three years in the Observatory 

 at Vassar. 



The Women's Education Association -of Bos- 

 ton, which awards its Fellowships through a 

 joint committee composed of members of its 

 oWn organization and the Fellowship Committee 

 of the Association of Collegiate Alumuse, has 

 this year awarded two European Fellowships of 

 $500 each. The successful "candidates are Miss 

 Louise Phelps Kellogg, Wisconsin '97, student 

 in American history ; and Miss Katherine B. 

 Davis, Vassar '92. Miss Davis was in charge of 

 the Model Workiugmen's Home at the World's 

 Fair and was for a time head-worker at the 

 College Settlement in Philadelphia. The past 

 year she has held a Fellowship in Political 

 Economy at Chicago University, and declined 

 a reappointment to accept this Foreign Fellow- 

 ship. 



A PUBLIC meeting was held in Birmingham 

 on July 1st, to consider the proposal of estab- 

 lishing a university in Birmingham. The prin- 

 cipal address was made by Mr. Chamberlain, 

 M. P., who strongly advocated the plan, and 

 the following resolution was carried: "That, 

 in the opinion of this meeting, it is essential 

 that, in the interests of the city and the Mid- 

 land districts generally, a university should 

 forthwith be established in Birmingham." 

 The resolution was carried. Donations were 

 announced to the amount of £95,244. Included 

 in this was £20,000 from the Birminsrham, 



Brewers' Fund, an anonymous donation of 

 £20,000, £10,000 from Mr. G. H. Kendrick, 

 five donations of £5,000 each, two of £2,000 

 each, and 21 of £1,000 each. Mr. Chamberlain 

 was amongst those who gave £1,000. 



Sib William Forwood, Chairman of the Li- 

 brary, Museum, Art and Technical Instruc- 

 tion Committee of the Liverpool City Council, 

 laid, on July 1st, says the Loudon Times, the 

 foundation-stone of an addition to the fine range 

 of buildings (the Brown Library and Museum, 

 the Picton Reading-room and the Walker Art 

 Gallery) on the north side of William Brown- 

 street in that city. The new structure, which 

 is estimated to cost the corporation close upon 

 £100,000, will provide additional needed ac- 

 commodation for the Museum (which will then 

 be one of the finest of its kind in the kingdom), 

 besides the Central Technical School. The three 

 lower floors, reached from a separate entrance 

 in Byrom-street, will be devoted to the purpo- 

 ses of the Liverpool School of Science, Tech- 

 nology and Art. In the basement will be rooms 

 for practical instruction in electricity, engineer- 

 ing and various other technical subjects. 

 Above this will be a lecture-hall, capable of ac- 

 commodating nearly 400 students, besides class 

 rooms for various subjects, and the necessary 

 administrative offices. On the floor above this 

 again will be a number of other class-rooms, 

 adapted for the instruction in mathematics, 

 building construction, etc.; and in a cross gal- 

 lery on a higher level (isolated from the other 

 portion of the School) will be a properly equip- 

 ped chemical laboratory and lecture-room. 



There are this summer 5,606 students matric- 

 ulated at the University of Berlin, which is 

 more than 1,200 in excess of the registration 

 last summer. There are in addition 678 audi- 

 tors, of whom 193 are women. 



SCIENTIFIC LITER A TUBE. 

 V Electro-Chimie : Prodution electrolytique des 



composes chimiques. Par Ad. Minbt. 



This little volume comprises two sections. 

 Forty-two pages are devoted to the description 

 of the electrolysis of sodium chloride. Every 

 point of interest to manufacturing chemists is 

 carefully considered and explained in detail. 



