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ilagowan was elected professor of municipal 

 and sanitary engineering— that chair being 

 created. He will also be professor in charge 

 of drawing in connection with civil engineer- 

 ing. Professor A. G. Smith was elected pro- 

 fessor of mechanics in the department of 

 mathematical engineering. 



The board of regents of the State Univer- 

 sity of Iowa during their recent session passed 

 resolutions, instructing the university archi- 

 tect to report plans at the September meeting 

 for the erection of a building designed to give 

 relief to the present crowded condition of the 

 University Museum and Library. The plan 

 which at present seems to meet with most 

 favor is the erection of one wing of a large 

 building that is to be ultimately used for a 

 museum purpose only, but which would in 

 part be used at first also for the accommoda- 

 tion of the general library, department libra- 

 ries remaining for the time where these now 

 are. The museum would at once obtain per- 

 manent quarters as far as the space thus pro- 

 vided would permit. By vacating the third 

 floor of the present science building, through 

 removal of the museum, space would be se- 

 cured for the better accommodation of the 

 remaining biological departments. 



At the annual commencement exercises of 

 the University of Nebraska on June 11, de- 

 grees were conferred as follows : Bachelor of 

 Arts, 132 ; Bachelor of Science, 38 ; Bachelor 

 of Law, 84; Master of Arts, 6; Doctor of 

 Philosophy, 2. No honorary degrees were 

 conferred. Of the Bachelor of Science, four 

 received the degree on the completion of the 

 course in civil engineering, seven in electrical 

 engineering, and three in mechanical engi- 

 neering, the remainder having completed the 

 general science course. Of the six Masters 

 of Arts two, George T. Hargitt and Erie M. 

 Stevenson were in zoology, one, Samuel E. 

 Williams, in physics, and one, John W. Hil- 

 ton, in philosophy. One of the Doctors of 

 Philosophy, John Lewis Sheldon, took the de- 

 gree in botany. 



At the June meeting of the board of trus- 

 tees of the ITniversity of Illinois, the following 

 new appointments were made : Oscar Adolph 



Leutwiler, assistant jsrofessor of machine de- 

 sign; Dwight T. Randall, assistant professor 

 of steam engineering; Banus Hutsou Prater, 

 instructor in civil engineering; Amos Wil- 

 liam Peters, instructor in zoology; John 

 Henri Walton, instructor in chemistry; John 

 James Harman and Robert Hayden Kuss, in- 

 structors in mechanical engineering; Lester 

 Abram Waterbury, instructor in civil engi- 

 neering; William F. Schultz, instructor in 

 physics; Edward O. Heuse and Edna D. Hofi, 

 assistants in chemistry; Emery Roe Hay- 

 hurst, assistant in physiology; William S. 

 Bullard, assistant in zoology; Ira Obed 

 Schaub, assistant in chemistry in Experiment 

 Station; Clifford Willis, assistant in soil 

 physics. 



Professor Forest R. Jones, of the Wor- 

 cester Polytechnic Institute of Technology, 

 has received the appointment of professor of 

 machine design at Cornell University. 



Professor A. Ross Hill, of the University 

 of Nebraska has been elected professor of 

 philosophy in the University of Missouri, 

 and Professor F. C. French, of Colgate Uni- 

 versity, has been elected to the chair at the 

 Universty of Nebraska. 



Professor A. E. Taylor, M.A., of Owens 

 College, Manchester, has been appointed to 

 the John Frothingham chair of philosophy at 

 McGill University. 



A. D. Sorrensen has been appointed asso- 

 ciate professor of psychology and moral phi- 

 losophy at Colby College. 



Dr. B. S. Merigold, instructor in indus- 

 trial chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, has been elected assistant pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at Clark College. 



George A. Hanford, Ph.D. (Yale), will 

 next year have charge of the department of 

 chemistry at the Medical School of Syracuse 

 University. 



Mr. Percy Elfoed has been elected secre- 

 tary of the Technical Instruction Committee 

 for the county of Oxford, at a salary of £600 

 a year. He retains his lectureship of chem- 

 istry at St. John's College, Oxford. 



