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SCIENCE. 



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nounces that aiDplications for the Naples 

 table for the year 1904 should be sent to the 

 secretary, Miss Cornelia M. Clapp, Mount 

 Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. Dur- 

 ing the past five years eight women have been 

 appointed by the association, seven of whom 

 have received the title of ' scholar.' Through 

 the special kindness of Dr. Dohrn, two may be 

 received at the station at the same time, both 

 having placed at their disposal equal op- 

 portunities for work. 



The New York Aquarium will hereafter 

 use for its salt-water tank the closed circula- 

 tion system, the water being brought from the 

 sea and kept in a reservoir of 100,000 gallons. 

 After the water is used it is filtered and 

 aerated and returned to the reservoir. Hither- 

 to the water has been taken from the bay, 

 where it varies in density and purity. 



Transit-room shutters of a new design by 

 Professor D. P. Todd were erected the last 

 week in November at Amherst College Ob- 

 servatory. They were built by the Coburn 

 Trolley Track Company and the Norton Iron 

 Works, with special reference to ease and 

 rapidity of working. 



UmVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 By the will of William Wymau, of Balti- 

 more, the Johns Hopkins University may ex- 

 pect ultimately to receive the residue of his 

 estate, valued at $500,000. 



By the will of Henry S. Nourse, of Lan- 

 caster, Mass., a fund is set aside for Harvard 

 University which will amount to at least 

 $50,000. 



Columbia University has received a gift of 

 $5,000 from Mrs. Butler, of New York, to 

 found a scholarship; an anonymous gift of 

 $10,000 is also announced. 



It appears that the will of the late Gordon 

 McKay, leaving a very large sum for scientific 

 work at Harvard University, will be contested 

 by a distant relative. 



The University of Aberdeen has received 

 from the trustees of the late Mr. John Held, 

 of Shannaburn, a sum that will provide not 



less than $2,000 a year for post-graduate re- 

 search scholarships. 



The University of Wales has received by 

 the will of the late Mr. Price Davies, of Leeds, 

 the sum of about $35,000 for scholarships. 



Sir Willl\m MacDonald has given $2,000 

 to McGill University for experimental work 

 in physics. 



A SCHOOL in biology will be conducted at 

 Coronado Beach during the Christmas vaca- 

 tion, under the auspices of the University of 

 California. The work will be directed by 

 Professors W. E. Eitter and C. A. Kofoid. 



Principal Peterson, of McGill University, 

 after a conference with Sir Thomas Shaugh- 

 nessy, president of the Canadian Pacific Rail- 

 way, has announced that a railway department 

 will be created in connection with the uni- 

 versity. 



At an educational meeting held at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago on November 15 and at- 

 tended by more than two hundred superin- 

 tendents of high schools and academies of the 

 middle west, it was unanimously resolved that 

 the first two years of college work should be 

 added to the curriculum of high schools and 

 academies. 



It is reported that Dr. Charles W. Dabney, 

 president of the University of Tennessee, has 

 been ofiered the presidency of the University 

 of Cincinnati. 



Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, now professor 

 of biology at Bryn Mawr College, has been 

 elected professor of experimental zoology in 

 Columbia University. 



Professor Hugo Mijnsterberg, of Harvard 

 University, has been elected non-resident lec- 

 turer on psychology at Columbia University, 

 where he will give a special course of lectures 

 in the early spring. 



Professor F. G. Weenn has been elected 

 Walker Professor of Mathematics in Tufts 

 College in the room of the late Benjamin F. 

 Brown. 



Mr. T. H. HaveloOk, fifteenth wrangler in 

 1900, Smith's prizeman in 1901 and Isaac 

 Newton student in 1902, has been elected fel- 

 low of St. John's College, Cambridge. 



