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ing, Cambridge, Mass., and should state the 

 applicant's previous training in geology and 

 his purpose in further study. Letters of 

 recommendation should be enclosed. Action 

 on applications will be taken about June 1. 

 The expenses of the course, including fee for 

 instruction, will be about $200 from Chicago 

 and return. 



The class in geology and mining of the 

 Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy will 

 make a summer excursion this year, in charge 

 of Director George E. Ladd, to the Black 

 Hills, Butte and Anaconda and the Yellow- 

 stone Park. Similar excursions will in the 

 future be a required part of the work at this 

 institution. The new catalogue of this school 

 announces that there will be made, during the 

 spring and summer months, as a part of 

 regular courses, excursions to the Joplin min- 

 ing district for mine surveying; to the Gas- 

 conad River for field practice in lines of com- 

 munication; to southeast Missouri for geolog- 

 ical field work; and to Joplin, St. Louis, 

 Herculaneum and the Flat River district for 

 the study of mines and ore-dressing and 

 metallurgical plants. 



The report prepared by the business com- 

 mittee of the general ■ council of the Univer- 

 sity of Glasgow in response to a statement 

 drawn up at the request of the Carnegie 

 trustees by the University Court and setting 

 forth what in the opinion of the court were 

 considered to be the most urgent needs of the 

 university, the trustees have made to the uni- 

 versity a grant of £55,000, the payment being 

 distributed over a period of five years. This 

 includes an annual grant for the period above 

 named of £8,000 for buildings and permanent 

 equipment, the branches of study which are 

 to benefit including natural philosophy, ma- 

 teria medica, physiology, forensic medicine 

 and, if any sum remains over, chemistry or 

 geology. There is also to be for five years 

 an annual grant of £2,000 for teaching, in- 

 cluding the endowment of a chair of geology, 

 for which the capital sum is £7,500. The 

 annual grant to the library for the same 

 period is to be £1,000. The University Court 

 has now allotted sites for new buildings for 



the department of natural philosophy and for 

 the department of materia medica, physiology 

 and forensic medicine and public health, and 

 progress with these buildings may be expected 

 without delay. 



At the University of Pennsylvania senior 

 fellowships of the value of $800 for those who 

 have already taken their doctor's degree have 

 been awarded. In zoology, to Dana B. Cas- 

 teel, of Tarentum, Pa., A.B. (Allegheny Col- 

 lege, 1899), A.M. (Ohio Wesleyan, 1900); in 

 mathematics, to Lewis I. Neikirk, of Boulder, 

 Col., A.B., M.S. (University of Colorado, 1898, 

 1901). Ordinary fellowships of the value of 

 $500 have been awarded. In psychology, to 

 Robert H. Gault, of Ellsworth Station, O., 

 A.B. (Cornell, 1902); in biology, to Everett 

 F. Phillips, of Toungstown, O., A.B. (Alle- 

 gheny College, 1899). The TyndaU fellow- 

 ship in physics was granted to Leon W. Hart- 

 man, of Walton, N. Y., B.S., A.M. (Cornell, 

 1898, 1899). A special fellowship in mathe- 

 matics for the year 1903-04 was given to 

 Professor B. F. Finkel, of Drury College, 

 Springfield, Mo. Fellowships for women were 

 awarded as follows; Bennett fellowship in 

 mathematics, to Alice M. McKelden, A.B., 

 A.M. (Columbian, 1899; University of Penn- 

 sylvania, 1900). Bennett fellowship in chem- 

 istry, to Alice L. Davidson, A.B. (Ehnira Col- 

 lege, 1902). Moore fellowship in zoology, to 

 Annie B. Sargent, Bellwood, Pa., B.S. in 

 biology (Pennsylvania, 1899). 



The formal installation of the newly elected 

 president of Hobart College, the Rev. Lang- 

 don Cheves Stewardson, will take place on 

 commencement day, June 17. 



The departments of mining engineering 

 and metallurgy at McGill University wiU 

 be separated. Professor Stansfield will have 

 charge of the metallurgical department, while 

 Professor Porter will continue to direct that 

 of mining engineering. 



Dr. Joseph Barbell, assistant professor of 

 geology at Lehigh University, has received a 

 call to a similar position at Yale University. 



Benjamin L. Miller, A.B. (Kansas), Ph.D. 

 (Johns Hopkins), has been appointed associate 

 in geology in Bryn Mawr College. 



