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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVII. No. 419. 



It is announced that the endowment fund 

 for SehurtlefE College, at Upper Alton, 111., 

 has been completed, and that $92,000 has been 

 collected to pay the debt of Albion College, 

 Mich. 



The trustees of Union College at Schenec- 

 tady, N. T., have received an oiler from the 

 General Electric Company to make a gift 

 for the equipment of the electrical laboratory 

 and the annual payment for salaries. The 

 course will be in charge of Dr. C. P. Stein- 

 metz, who will hold the position of professor 

 of electrical engineering. 



At a recent meeting of the council of the 

 North Wales University College, Bangor, it 

 was announced that Lady Morgan intended to 

 give to the college a sum of £2,500 to found 

 scholarships in memory of the late Sir G. 

 Osborne Morgan, a former vice-president of 

 "the college. 



The registration at New York University, 

 which was omitted from the article on the 

 subject by Dr. Eudolph Tombo, Jr., published 

 in the issue of Science for December 26, is 

 as follows: 

 College of Arts and Pure Science .... 257 



School of Applied Science 103 



Graduate School 181 



School of Pedagogy 355 



School of Commerce 125 



Summer School 113 



Law School 660 



Woman's Law Class 36 



University Medical College 298 



Veterinary College 55 2183 



Deduct names repeated 113 



2070 

 Teaching Staff 210 



The following statements regarding the 

 scientific work of Oxford University are in- 

 cluded in a pamphlet issued by the vice-chan- 

 cellor on the most pressing needs of the uni- 

 veisity: The keeper of the Ashmolean Mu- 

 seimi estimates that not less than £3,500 will 

 be required in the near future for additional 

 cases and upper galleries to meet the rapid 

 increase of the collections. Eventually it will 

 be necessary to erect new exhibition rooms, 

 basement rooms for storage, a coin room and 

 lecture theater; also to add to the library and 



to provide a librarian. The need of space 

 for extension is also felt by the committee of 

 the picture galleries, and the keeper of the 

 Hope collection of engravings. The want of 

 lecture rooms for the use of the public teach- 

 ers of the university is dwelt on in several 

 of the replies. The desirability of insti- 

 tuting and maintaining a laboratory for ex- 

 perimental research in the field of psychology 

 is urged by several professors. The urgent 

 needs of the several departments of the Uni- 

 versity Museum would at the present time in- 

 volve an additional capital expenditure of 

 £33,000, and an annual expenditure of £3,050 

 (representing a capital of £100,000) ; the fu- 

 ture needs specified show that a further cap- 

 ital sum of £60,000 and an annual outlay of 

 £4,000 will eventually be necessary. An addi- 

 tional professorship (for which provision is 

 already made by statutes not yet in operation) 

 is asked for applied mechanics. Better en- 

 dowment is asked for the professorship of 

 human anatomy, the readership in pathology, 

 the Slade professorship of fine art (which it 

 is proposed to make resident and permanent), 

 the Sibthorpian professorship of rural econ- 

 omy (now suspended), the chairs of geology, 

 zoology, physics, and experimental philosophy, 

 and the curatorship of the Pitt-Eivers Mu- 

 seum. A large extension of the system of 

 readerships and lectureships is asked for in 

 medicine, natural science, ancient history and 

 archeology. The curators of the schools ask 

 that the electric light may be installed there 

 at a cost of £850. 



At a meeting of the senate of the Univer- 

 sity of London on December 13 it was de- 

 cided to constitute an additional board of 

 studies in human anatomy and morphology. 

 Dr. Nathaniel H. Alcock was appointed 

 demonstrator in the physiological laboratory 

 till October 1, 1903. 



Sir William Mum has resigned the position 

 of principal of the University of Edinburgh.^ 

 Among those suggested as his successor are 

 Sir William Turner and Sir Archibald Geikie. 



Professor Josef Nusbaum has been ap- 

 pointed professor of comparative anatomy at 

 the University of Lemberg. 



