December 16, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



871 



oped near the town of Cebu, and there is iron 

 ore in abundance in Luzon, Caraballo, Cebu, 

 Panay and doubtless in other islands. Sulphur 

 deposits abound about active and extinct volca- 

 noes in the Philippines. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The fund being collected by the New York 

 Chamber of Commerce as a memorial to the 

 late Colonel Waring, which it is hoped will 

 reach $100,000, three-fourths of this sum having 

 now been given, is to be used, after the death 

 of Mrs. Waring and her daughter, for the en- 

 downment of a chair of instruction in municipal 

 affairs in Columbia University. 



Mr. E. D. Morgan has given $5,000 for the 

 equipment of a pathological laboratory at the 

 Bussey Institute, Harvard University, of which 

 Professor Theobald Smith is the Director. 

 A new greenhouse, costing $7000, has been 

 given anonymously to the Botanical Garden of 

 the University. 



We regret to note that the will of the late 

 Colonel Bennett, which gave a large endow- 

 ment to the women's department of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, is being contested. 



It is perhaps not generally known that Cor- 

 nell University possesses the largest school of 

 naval architecture in America. There are this 

 year fifty students taking naval architecture 

 and marine engineering as their chief subjects. 



At the anniversary dinner of the Royal So- 

 ciety on November 31st Lord Kitchener an- 

 nounced that he had received £40,000 for the 

 foundation of a college at Khartoum. As a fur- 

 ther indication of what Great Britain is doing 

 for its imperial subjects we note that plans are 

 being made to establish a Mohammedan Uni- 

 versity in India. 



Dr. M. E. Wadsworth has resigned the 

 Presidency of the Michigan College of Mines. 

 In his letter of resignation he says : " When I 

 came to take charge of this institution it had 

 no hold anywhere and its death was hourly 

 expected. I leave it with you firmly estab- 

 lished, a recognized part of the great educa- 

 tional system of the State, a college that ranks 



with any in the world of its kind, and with many 

 of its graduates leaders in their chosen field. 

 It is now successful, prosperous and of world- 

 wide fame. No mining engineering school in 

 United States ever had such a phenomenal 

 growth in numbers and standing as this one 

 has had in the same space of time, and that, 

 too, under extremely disadvantageous circum- 

 stances." 



The Experiment Station Record announces the 

 following appointments : At the Idaho College 

 and Station, J. P. Blanton has be«n appointed 

 President of the University of Idaho and Direc- 

 tor of the Station ; M. T. French, professor of 

 agriculture in the College and Agriculturist of 

 the Station ; Thorn Smith, Assistant Chemist ; 

 Professor A. S. Miller, Geologist, and J. A. 

 Huntley has been elected to the newly estab- 

 lished chair of horticulture. Elmer D. Ball has 

 been made Assistant Entomologist at the Colo- 

 rado Station, and A. H. Bryan and B. W. 

 Clothier Assistant Chemists at the Indiana and 

 Kansas Stations, respectively. Charles W. 

 Burkett has been appointed associate professor 

 of agriculture at the New Hampshire College 

 and Station, and James Withycombe Assistant 

 Director and Agriculturist of the Oregon Station. 

 A. W. Blair has been made State Chemist of 

 North Carolina. At the Vermont Station, L. 

 R. Jones and F. A. Waugh have been granted 

 a half year's leave of absence for special studies 

 in botany and horticulture. 



The Council of the] University of Paris has 

 authorized courses under the faculty of science 

 by M. Chabrie in applied chemistry, and by 

 M. Favre in methods of experimental science. 



The following appointments and promotions 

 abroad are announced : Dr. Heinrich Ober- 

 steiner, assistant professor of physiology and 

 pathology of the central nervous system in the 

 University of Vienna, has been promoted to a full 

 professorship; Dr. Robert Haussner, of Giessen, 

 to an assistant professorship of mathematics, 

 and Dr. K. W. Zimmermann, of Bern, to an 

 associate professorship of anatomy. Dr. Lepetet 

 has been made professor of histology in the 

 University of Clermont, Dr. Oskar Zoth profes- 

 sor of physiology in the University of Gratz, 

 Dr. de Marignac professor of hygiene in the 



