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urer of Harvard College $154,000, $4,000 more 

 than it was originally intended to collect. The 

 committee hopes to raise the total amount to 

 $200,000 before proceeding to erect the 

 building'. 



The last session of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania appropriated $25,000 to equip a lab- 

 oratory for X-ray research and Finsen's light 

 apparatus at the Hospital of the University 

 of Pennsylvania. Dr. Henry K. Pancoast has 

 charge of the work. 



The State University of Iowa, at Iowa City, 

 has received a rather unusual but useful gift 

 from Mr. and Mrs. Euclid Sanders, both 

 graduates of the institution. The gift com- 

 prises a grant of the Terrill mill dam on the 

 Iowa River, a mile above the university 

 campus, with the water power rights per- 

 taining thereto, together with the deed of a 

 strip of land along the east bank of the river. 

 The dam will yield upwards of five hundred 

 horse power. A water power plant will be 

 erected, in connection with which a hydraulic 

 laboratory will be equipped. It is also pro- 

 posed to construct a reservoir on a neighboring 

 hilltop in order to secure a considerable head 

 of water for experimental purposes. A por- 

 tion of the power developed will be used for 

 the generation of electricity to be used in 

 lighting the university buildings and in dri- 

 ving machinery of the various shops and lab- 

 oratories. At least one wheel berth will be re- 

 served for the conduct of experiments with 

 various forms of water motors. 



Owing to the death of Professor Wilbur C. 

 Knight, the position of professor of geology 

 in the University of Wyoming is at present 

 vacant and probably will not be filled for 

 some months. While the salary is not large 

 the advantages are great, for not more than 

 ten hours a week of class work are required 

 and the opportunities for research are varied. 

 The university possesses the most complete 

 collection of Jurassic fossils in the United 

 States, except Yale University, and a large 

 part of this material has never been studied 

 or described. Beside this the stratigraphy and 

 physiography of the state remain to be studied 

 as well as the petrography, which has already 



yielded the Leucite Hills and Yellowstone 

 Park. 



Di!. Fii.iNCis LiNDLEY Patton, formerly 

 president of Princeton University, was in- 

 stalled as president of Princeton Theological 

 Seminary on the 15th inst. 



Professor J. E. Todd, owing to dissatisfac- 

 tion with the administration of the university, 

 has resigned his position as professor of geol- 

 ogy and mineralogy in the University of South 

 Dakota, which he has held for over eleven 

 years. ITe consequently also ceases to be state 

 geologist. 



Dr. Arthur W. Smith has been appointed 

 professor of physics at the University of 

 Michigan. 



Roy Titus Wells, Ph.D. (Clark), has been 

 appointed assistant professor in charge of elec- 

 trical engineering in the newly organized 

 School of Applied Science of the State Uni- 

 versity of Iowa, at Iowa City. A new elec- 

 trical laboratory is now being equipped under 

 his direction. 



Mr. Thomas T. Reed, E.M. (Columbia), has 

 recently been advanced to the position of asso- 

 ciate professor of mining and metallurgy in 

 the University of Wyoming, preparatory to the 

 creation of a separate department of mining 

 and metallurgy. 



Mr. Robert E. Snodgrass, formerly assist- 

 ant professor of zoology and embryology in 

 the Washington State Agricultural College, 

 has been appointed instructor in entomology 

 in Stanford University. 



Two important professorships are about to 

 be filled at Cambridge University, that of 

 physiology vacant by the resignation of Pro- 

 fessor Poster and that of mechanism and ap- 

 plied mechanics vacant by the resignation of 

 Professor Ewing. 



Owing to the appointment of Dr. Martin to 

 the directorship of the Lister Institute, the 

 chair of physiology is vacant at the University 

 of Melbourne. 



Mr. R. C. Punnett, of Gonville and Caius 

 College, Cambridge, has been appointed dem- 

 onstrator of comparative anatomy in the uni- 

 versity. 



