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may be termed the self-made unprofessional 

 engineers or if left more under professional 

 or academic control. The German manufac- 

 turer or railway builder would doubtless an- 

 swer the question in favor of the professionally 

 trained expert. The conditions existing in the 

 two countries being in many respects different, 

 the advancement made in electrical engineer- 

 ing, for example, affords no complete answer 

 to the question. It would be conceded on both 

 sides of the ocean that in the more difficult 

 field of chemical manufacture the profession- 

 ally trained chemist has been indispensable. 

 The New York State Civil Service Com- 

 mission will receive until October 10, appli- 

 cations for the positions of instructors in 

 various manual arts in the reformatory and 

 industrial institutions of the state. The sal- 

 aries are in most eases $65 a month and 

 board. Candidates will not be required to 

 appear at any place for examination but will 

 be rated on their education, special training, 

 experience and personal qualifications as 

 shown by their sworn statements, and by the 

 answers to inquiries made by the Commission 

 of their former employers and others acquaint- 

 ed with their experience and qualifications. 

 Duly authenticated specimens of the work of 

 candidates may also be required to be sub- 

 mitted in conformity to regulations to be pre- 

 scribed by the Commission. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The daily papers state that Mr. John Hays 

 Hammond, professor of mining engineering at 

 Yale University, will present to that institu- 

 tion a metallurgical laboratory costing from 

 $25,000 to $50,000. 



It is reported that donations amounting to 

 $300,000 have been made to the University of 

 Chicago, for archeological research in Egypt 

 and Babylonia. 



It is also reported that the University of 

 Chicago has purchased the south frontage of 

 the Midway Plaisanee between Cottage Grove 

 and Madison Avenue at a cost of $1,450,000 

 and that this land will be used as a medical 

 school including the Eush Medical College and 



the McCormick Memorial Institute for In- 

 fectious Diseases. 



The University of Illinois has acquired in 

 connection with the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons the Chicago College of Dental Sur- 

 gery. 



A PKESS despatch to the daily papers from 

 Des Moines, la., states that Mr. Frederick M. 

 Hubbell, has conveyed, jointly with his wife, 

 property to the value of about $5,000,000 to 

 himself and his sons, Frederick C. Hubbell 

 and Grover C. Hubbell of Des Moines, trustees 

 of the said Frederick M. Hubbell estate, and 

 to their successors in trust for the trustees and 

 their lineal descendants, to the State of Iowa, 

 to be used in founding a college in Des 

 Moines. The trust period begins with the 

 date of the declaration, and continues to the 

 limit of time allowed by the law, viz., for a 

 life or lives in being and twenty-one years 

 thereafter. 



TuE chemical laboratory at Brown Uni- 

 versity has been made about one-third larger 

 during the summer. 



Dr. T. H. Montgomery, Jr., assistant pro- 

 fessor of zoology at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, has been appointed to the professor- 

 ship of zoology in the University of Texas, 

 vacant by the removal of Professor W. M. 

 Wheeler to the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History. Dr. Herbert S. Jennings, as- 

 sistant professor of zoology at the University 

 of Michigan, and now at Naples, has been 

 called to the assistant professorship of zool- 

 ogy at the University of Pennsylvania. 



Dr. E. E. Commings, Ph.D. (Yale), has 

 been promoted to the position of acting head 

 of the Department of Geology at Indiana 

 University. 



Dr. Edward E. Posner has been appointed 

 assistant in physiological chemistry, Colum- 

 bia University. 



Dr. KIael Diener has been appointed as- 

 sociate professor of paleontology in the Uni- 

 versity of Vienna. 



Dr. a. Hansgirg, professor of botany at 

 Prague, has retired after forty years of ser- 

 vice. 



