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ing officials. He liad not the slightest hesita- 

 tion in saying that the board of agriculture 

 was doing most excellent woi-k. It was keeping 

 in contact with all classes of the community; 

 it was, fortunately, in sympathy with small 

 cultivators as well as large cultivators. If 

 the people interested themselves in the work 

 of the board and be;^efited by its advice, he 

 had no doubt that the colony would in a few 

 years be in a very much better position than 

 it was at present. With reference to the 

 sugar-cane experiments, under the direction 

 of Professor Harrison, the commissioner 

 stated that the work carried on was not sur- 

 passed in any part of the world where the 

 sugar-cane was cultivated. 



UmVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 It is said that the trustees of the Eush 

 Medical College, the medical department of 

 the University of Chicago, have collected 

 $1,000,000 for the institution. The news- 

 papers and medical journals state, we hope 

 correctly, that this assures a gift of $6,000,000 

 to the school by Mr. John D. Rockefeller. 



Mr. H. O. Peabodt, of Boston, inventor of 

 the rifle that bears his name, has bequeathed 

 the greater part of his estate, which is valued 

 at about $1,000,000, for the establishment of 

 a school for girls, to be situated at Westwood, 



The supreme court of Indiana has decided 

 the Donaldson case in favor of the state, 

 this gives the Indiana University about 200 

 acres of primitive forest land, abounding in 

 sink holes, valleys and numerous dry and wet 

 caves, including entrance to an underground 

 stream which can be followed for more than 

 a mile and which is the richest locality for 

 blind fishes in North America. 



Lord Iveagh has given £34,000 to Dublin 

 University for the erection of laboratories for 

 the physical and natural sciences, on condi- 

 tion that an endovraient of £100,000 is pro- 

 vided within three years. 



Plans are being urged in London for the 

 establishment of a scientific and technological 

 institute for advanced work. Subscriptions 



are being secured, and the London" County 

 Council has been asked for an annual grant 

 of $150,000. 



Mrs. Stern and Mrs. Hardy, diaughters of 

 the late Sir George Jessel, formerly master 

 of the rolls and vice-chancellor of' the uni- 

 versity of London, have offered to. p'resent to 

 the university a sum of £2,000 for the estab- 

 lishment, in memory of their father, of a 

 scholarship in law or higher mathematics, to 

 be held at University College. 



Appointments at Brown University have 

 been made as follows : Arthur H. Blanchard, 

 assistant professor of civil engineering; Dr. 

 Leonard W. Williams, assistant professor of 

 biology; Dr. Michael X. Sullivan, instructor 

 in chemical physiology; J. Ansell Brooks, in- 

 structor in drawing. 



Professor William Caldwell, of North- 

 western University, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of philosophy at McGill University. 



Dr. E. M. Peaece, of Philadelphia, has been 

 appointed director of the Bender Hygienic 

 Laboratory and adjunct professor of pathology 

 and bacteriology in Albany Medical College. 



Dr. Eatmond H. Pond has been elected pro- 

 fessor of botany and pharmacognosy and di- 

 rector of the microscopical laboratories at 

 the Northwestern University. 



Dr. John C. Hemmeter, Ph.D. (Johns 

 Hopkins University, 1890), M.D. (University 

 of Maryland, 1885), graduate of the Eoyal 

 Gymnasium, Wiesbaden, has been elected 

 to the professorship of physiology in the Uni- 

 versity of Maryland, vice Professor Francis 

 T. Miles, resigned. A new laboratory for 

 physiology and pathology will be erected dur- 

 ing the sununer for which the sum of $75,000 

 has been appropriated. Professpr Hemmeter 

 has also been elected a regent of the University 

 of Maryland. 



Dr. a. p. Dickson, now of University Col- 

 lege, Cardiff, has been elected professor of 

 anatomy at Dublin University. 



Dr. K. J. V. Orton has been appointed 

 professor of chemistry at the North Wales 

 University College at Bangor. 



