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Society for the prevention of cruelty to ani- 

 mals and $10,000 to Bates College. The resi- 

 due of the estate, subject to certain annuities, 

 is to be used for the establishment of an in- 

 dustrial school to be known as the Wentworth 

 Institute. The daily papers state that the 

 estate is valued at $7,000,000. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has presented to 

 Aberdeen University, of which he is lord 

 rector, nine acres of land as a recreation 

 ground for the students. 



Dr. S. M. Lindsay, commissioner of educa- 

 tion for Porto Eico, has introduced in the 

 executive council a bill establishing a Uni- 

 versity of Porto Eico. The institution would 

 be supported by taxation, but it is hoped that 

 it would also receive private gifts and be- 

 quests. 



Columbia University will on October 31, 

 1904, celebrate the hundred and fiftieth anni- 

 versary of its foundation as King's College. 



Representatives from the principal univer- 

 sities and colleges of New York state met on 

 March 26, at Columbia University, to deter- 

 mine the basis upon which the award of the 

 two Rhodes scholarships for New York state 

 should be made. It was decided that in the 

 state of New York the administration and 

 award of the scholarships shall be intrusted 

 to a committee of three, to be elected by the 

 heads of the colleges for men. The committee 

 will consist of President Butler, three years; 

 President Schurman, two years; Chancellor 

 Day, one year. The conference decided that 

 the conditions regulating the award shall be 

 as follows : 



The candidates for the scholarships to be eligiblft 

 shall have satisfactorily completed the work of at 

 least two years in some college of liberal arts and 

 sciences in the State. Except under extraor- 

 dinary circumstances, the upper age limit shall 

 be twenty-four years at the time of entering upon 

 the scholarship at Oxford. To be eligible, the 

 candidate shall be a citizen of the United States 

 or the son of a citizen, and must be unmarried. 



Dr. D. F. O'Connell, the new rector of the 

 Catholic University at Washington, has ar- 

 rived in this country and it is expected that 

 he will be installed during the present month. 



FiLiBERT Roth, formerly assistant professor 

 of forestry at Cornell University, and later 

 chief of Forest Reservations in the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of forestry in the University of Mich- 

 igan. 



Dr. Frederick De Forest Heald, now pro- 

 fessor of biology in Parsons College, Iowa, 

 has been elected adjunct professor of plant 

 physiology and general bacteriology in the 

 University of Nebraska. 



At Teachers College, Columbia University, 

 Mr. Louis Rouillion has been advanced to the 

 rank of adjunct professor of manual train- 

 ing, and Dr. Maurice A. Bigelow to that of 

 adjunct professor of biology (in charge of 

 zoology). 



Dr. Charles W. Shields, professor of the 

 harmony of science and revealed religion, 

 Princeton Uiiiversity, has resigned. Dr. 

 Shields is seventy-eight years of age. 



Mr. Robert E. Bruce, now at Pomona Col- 

 lege, California, has been appointed instructor 

 in mathematics in Boston University. 



Dr. J. Venn, F.R.S., known for his contri- 

 butions to logic and scientific method, has 

 been elected president of Gonville and Caius 

 College, Cambridge. 



The University Court of St. Andrews Uni- 

 versity has appointed Mr. Bernard Bosanquet, 

 M.A., LL.D., formerly fellow and lecturer of 

 University College, Oxford, to the chair of 

 moral philosophy, in room of Professor Wil- 

 liam Knight, who has resigned. 



Mr. V. J. Wooley, a student of physiology, 

 has been elected fellow of King's College, 

 Cambridge. 



Mr. Arthur Edwin Boycott, B.Sc, M.A., 

 has been elected to a fellowship at Brasenose 

 College, Oxford, after an examination in ani- 

 mal physiology. 



Sir Michael Foster, M.P., who has held 

 the professorship of physiology at Cambridge 

 since its establishment in 1883, has placed his 

 resignation in the hands of the vice-chancellor. 



Professor Laurie, who has held the chair of 

 education in the University of Edinburgh 

 since 1876, has intimated his resignation. 



