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The London Times states that the Swedish 

 Antarctic exploration ship Antarctic left 

 Tierra del Fuego at the beginning of No- 

 vember on its second summer expedition. It 

 was expected that the expedition, after some 

 cartographic work and natural history re- 

 search in the northern and western portions 

 of the Dirck Gerritz Archipelago, would ar- 

 rive about December 10 at the winter quarters 

 in Snow Hill Land, where Dr. Nordenskjold 

 would resume the leadership of the entire 

 expedition. The Antarctic will probably re- 

 turn to Port Stanley (Falkland Islands) at 

 the end of February or the beginning of 

 March. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Dr. D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago, has made 

 a gift of $50,000 to the endowment fund of 

 Pomona College at Claremont, Cal. 



General O. O. Howard, president of the 

 board of directors of the Lincoln Memorial 

 University at Cumberland Gap, Tenn., an- 

 nounces that the $200,000 which they desired 

 for the endowment of the school has been 

 raised. 



Dr. Gustav a. Andreen, president of Au- 

 gustana College, at Rock Island, HI., has 

 sailed for Sweden, where he goes to accept 

 a $29,000 gift from Swedish educators and 

 business men to Augustana College. 



A FELLOWSHIP of the value of four hundred 

 and fifty dollars has been established by the 

 trustees of Smith College for the encourage- 

 ment of advanced work in philosophy and psy- 

 chology. It is open to women graduates of 

 not less than one year's standing of Smith 

 and of other colleges, and is awarded annually, 

 subject to renewal at discretion, to the candi- 

 date judged best fitted to profit by it. The 

 holder of the fellowship is required to render 

 a certain amount of assistance (not instruc- 

 tion) in the philosophical department, but is 

 free, and is expected, to devote most of her 

 time to some specified line of work under the 

 direction of the instructors and to present a 

 thesis, embodying the results of her studies, 

 at the end of the year. The work so done 

 may be taken to qualify her for an advanced 

 academic degree. Application for this fel- 



lowship should be sent, with testimonials and 

 other vouchers, to Mr. H. N. Gardiner, Smith 

 College, Northampton, Mass., by May 1. 



At the Ohio State University a veterinary 

 building costing $35,000 and an addition to 

 the chemical building costing $22,000 are now 

 being constructed. Besides these, a building 

 costing $80,000 for the department of civil 

 engineering and drawing will be commenced 

 as soon as the weather will permit, and plans 

 have been ordered for a physics building cost- 

 ing from $80,000 to $90,000. The funds for 

 these structures have all been provided. Each 

 of the buildings will be planned with reference 

 to future additions. The enrolment of the 

 institution during the past term was 1607, a 

 gain of nearly 200 over the corresponding 

 time one year ago. 



A NEW four-story building, 186 x 70 feet, 

 for the departments of mechanical engineer- 

 ing, mining engineering and geology at Le- 

 high University is in process of construction. 



The trustees of Columbia University have 

 voted to designate the physical laboratories 

 for research the Phoenix Physical Labora- 

 tories, in memory of Stephen Whitney 

 Phoenix, of the class of '59, who left a large 

 bequest to Columbia. 



Dr. J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., for the past 

 eighteen years Cavendish professor of experi- 

 mental physics at Cambridge University, has 

 been offered by the trustees of Columbia Uni- 

 versity the chair of physics, vacant by the 

 death of Ogden N. Rood. Professor Thom- 

 son was born at Manchester in 1856, and at- 

 tended Owens College and Trinity College, 

 Cambridge. At Cambridge he was second 

 wrangler and second Smith's prizeman in 

 1880 and was elected fellow of Trinity Col- 

 lege in 1881. In 1884 he succeeded Lord 

 Rayleigh as professor of experimental physics. 



Dr. Charles L. Poor, formerly associate 

 professor of astronomy at the Johns Hopkins 

 University, has been appointed lecturer in 

 astronomy in Columbia University. 



The general board of studies of Cambridge 

 University has appointed Mr. F. G. Hopkins, 

 M.A., of Emmanuel College, to the office of 

 reader in chemical physiology. 



