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[N. S. Vol. XVII. No. 425. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Goldsmiths Company that some time 

 since purchased the economic library of Pro- 

 fessor Foxwell for $50,000, has presented it to 

 the University of London with an endowment 

 of $50,000 a year for five years. 



The debt of Bristol University College, 

 amounting to $25,000, has been cleared by 

 subscriptions including two of $5,000 from Sir 

 "William Wills and Sir Frederick Wills. 



The Carnegie Trustees are elaborating a 

 scheme to provide fimds to the four Scottish 

 Universities for the purpose of endowing post- 

 graduate research. 



A COURSE on forestry has been established at 

 the University of Toronto. 



A MEETING of about fifty members of con- 

 gregation at Oxford passed without dissent a 

 resolution recommending that candidates for 

 honors in mathematics and natural science be 

 not required to pass an examination in Greek 

 on entering the university. Congregation has 

 passed a resolution exempting students who 

 have passed the Ahiturienten examination at a 

 Gymnasium in Germany, Austro-Hungary, or 

 Switzerland from responsions. 



It is hoped that the Rhodes scholars from 

 Cape Colony, Natal, and Ehodesia may be 

 elected in time to go into residence at Oxford 

 in October next and also the first students 

 from Germany, who are to be appointed by the 

 German Emperor, but the other scholarships 

 will not commence before October, 1904. 



Most of the regents of the University of 

 the State of New York have signed a me- 

 morial address to the governor, legislature and 

 people of the state of New York asking that 

 the exclusive power and duty of supervising 

 public education to the state be committed to 

 them. At the same time a bill has been in- 

 troduced at Albany organizing a state board 

 of education within the board of regents. 

 According to this bill, nine regents of the 

 university would be elected by the legislature 

 forming a board of education, who would 

 elect a superintendent of public instruction 

 and supervise the primary and secondary 

 schools. 



Pursuant to the suggestion of President 

 Butler, the members of the various depart- 

 ments of Columbia University have grouped 

 themselves together into divisions. The or- 

 ganization of the divisions dealing with scien- 

 tific subjects is as follows: 



Biology, comprising the Departments of Anat- 

 omy, Bacteriology, Botany, Physiology, Physiolog- 

 ical Chemistry and Zoology — Chairman, Professor 

 John G. Curtis; Secretary, Professor Basliford 

 Dean. 



Chemistry, comprising the Departments of 

 Chemistry and Physiological Chemistry — Chair- 

 man, Professor Chas. F. Chandler; Secretary, Dr. 

 Henry C. Sherman. 



Geology, Geography and Mineralogy, compris- 

 ing the Departments of Geology, Geography and 

 Mineralogy — Chairman Professor Alfred J. Moses; 

 Secretary, Dr. Lea McI. Luquer. 



Mathematical and Physical Science, comprising 

 the Departments of Astronomy, Mathematics, Me- 

 chanics and Physics — Chairman, Professor J. 

 Howard Van Amringe; Secretary, Dr. William S. 

 Day. 



Mining and Metallurgy, comprising the Depart- 

 ments of Metallurgy and Mining — Chairman, Pro- 

 fessor Henry S. Munroe; Secretary, Mr. J. F. 

 McClelland. 



Philosophy, Psychology and Anthropology, com- 

 prising the Departments of Anthropology, Phi- 

 losophy and Psychology — Chairman, Professor J. 

 McK. Cattell; Secretary, Dr. Adam Leroy Jones. 



John Henry MacOracken, president of 

 Westminster College, at Pulton, Mo., has re- 

 signed to become assistant to his father, the 

 chancellor of the New York University. 



Mr. Bruce Pink, of the Upper Iowa Uni- 

 versity, has accepted the chair of botany at 

 Iowa College, and will assume the duties in 

 September. 



Professor Kabl Maebe has been appointed 

 professor of psychology at Wurzburg. 



Mr. p. a. Smith has resigned as instructor 

 in mathematics in the University of Illinois 

 to accept a position in the Hiroshina Higher 

 Normal School of Japan. 



The Lucasian professorship of mathematics 

 at Cambridge, vacant by the death of Sir 

 George Gabriel Stokes, will be filled on Feb- 

 ruary 28. The electors are the heads of the 

 several colleges of the University. 



