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sity. The library is to comprise a series of 

 volumes on the history of the various topics 

 of psychological thought from the earliest 

 times, each volume being an independent 

 work, but the whole constituting an encyclo- 

 pedic ' History of Psychology ' — a work never 

 adequately carried out in any language. The 

 arrangements for the volumes of the library — 

 of which there will be twelve or more — are 

 now being perfected, and the publishers ex- 

 pect to make early announcement of certain 

 of the titles, names of writers, etc. 



The following are the spring lecture ar- 

 rangements at the Royal Institution: Pro- 

 fessor Allan Macfadyen, three lectures on the 

 blood and some of its problems; Professor G. 

 H. Darwin, two lectures on the astronomical 

 influence of the tides (the Tyndall lectures) ; 

 Professor E. J. Garwood, two lectures on the 

 work of ice as a geological agent; Professor 

 Dewar, three lectures on hydrogen: gaseous, 

 liquid and solid; Professor S. H. Vines, two 

 lectures on proteid-digestion in plants; Pro- 

 fessor J. A. Fleming, two lectures on electric 

 resonance and wireless telegraphy; Professor 

 Langton Douglas, two lectures on the early 

 art of Siena; Mr. Hamish MacCunn, two 

 lectures on music (with musical illustra- 

 tions) ; and Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, 

 two lectiires on the De Magnete and its 

 author, (1) the book, (2) the man. The Fri- 

 day evening meetings will be resiuned on 

 April 24, when a discourse will be given by 

 the Hon. R. J. Strutt on some recent investi- 

 gations on electrical conduction. Succeeding 

 discourses will probably be given by Professor 

 William J. Pope, Mr. Eider Haggard, Dr. 

 D. H. Scott, Dr. J. A. H. Murray, the Prince 

 of Monaco and others. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 It is now officially announced that Mrs. 

 Elizabeth Milbank Anderson gave on April 

 11, $1,000,000 to Barnard College, Columbia 

 University, to purchase the three blocks of 

 land adjoining Columbia College on the south 

 and Barnard College on the west. Mr. Joseph 

 Pullitzer has given $15,000 for scholarships to 

 the university. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $250,000 

 for an extension of the Mechanics and Trades- 

 men's Institute, New Tork City. 



Dr. D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago, celebrated 

 his eighty-third birthday on April 14, by ma- 

 king anniversary gifts to two colleges. Winter 

 Park, Florida, $50,000 and Kingfisher College, 

 Oklahoma, $25,000. 



The Colorado Agricultural College will soon 

 erect a building for the Department of Civil 

 and Irrigation Engineering. This building 

 will include also the offices of the Experiment 

 Station during 1903^. An appropriation of 

 $40,000 has been made by the Colorado State 

 Legislature. 



Mr. John D. Rockefeller has offered to 

 pay two thirds of the cost of a building for the 

 University of Nebraska to be used for social 

 and religious purposes, on condition that the 

 remaining third of the $100,000 be contributed 

 within about a year. 



Mrs. Helen F. Acklet has left to Wes- 

 leyan University a bequest of $2,000, the in- 

 come from which is to be used for the benefit 

 of one or more women students ; if at any time 

 the trustees of the college refuse to accord 

 women the same privileges in the university 

 as the men, the fund is to revert to the resid- 

 uary legatee. 



The will of A. C. Hutchinson, leaving a 

 large sum to the Medical Department of 

 Tulane University, has been sustained by the 

 courts. 



Professor Elmer E. Brown, head of the 

 Department of Education at the University 

 of California, has been elected dean of the 

 School of Pedagogy at New Tork University. 



Mr. Joel Stebbins, fellow in the Lick Ob- 

 servatory, University of California, has been 

 appointed instructor in astronomy, University 

 of Illinois, and officer in charge of the ob- 

 servatory. 



Mr. G. F. Stout, Wilde reader in mental 

 philosophy at Oxford University and editor 

 of Mind, has been elected to the chair of 

 philosophy and metaphysics at the University 

 of St. Andrews, vacant by the death of Pro- 

 fessor Ritchie. 



