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This gift was made through Professor Miin- 

 sterberg, and it brings the total amount now 

 subscribed for this building up to about $140,- 

 000, or within $10,000 of the total which the 

 university corporation requires before it will 

 permit the corner-stone to be laid. 



The new engineering building being 

 erected at Brown University for the immediate 

 use of the departments of Mechanical Engi- 

 neering and Drawing will be ready for oe- 

 cupany next September. The building is Y2 

 by 84 feet, three stories high, and is designed 

 so that a later addition of nearly equal size 

 may be made to provide room for all the en- 

 gineering departments. 



The Technical Education Board of the Lon- 

 don County Council is offering for competi- 

 tion five senior county scholarships, together 

 with a certain number of senior exhibitions. 

 The scholarships are of the value of £90 a 

 year, and are tenable, under ordinary circum- 

 stances, for three years at universities, uni- 

 versity colleges or technical institutes, whether 

 at home or abroad. 



The board of governors of McGill University 

 have decided that the faculty of comparative 

 medicine and veterinary science at the uni- 

 versity shall cease to exist at the close of the 

 present session. The reason given for this 

 step is the impossibility of securing adequate 

 funds for the reorganization of the faculty 

 along the lines suggested by the governing 

 staff of the university. 



N. M. Fenneman, professor of geology at 

 the University of Colorado and 0. K. Leith, 

 assistant professor of geology at the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, have been appointed pro- 

 fessors of geology in the latter university in 

 view of the election of Professor 0. K. Van 

 Hise to the presidency. 



At the annual meeting of the regents of 

 the University of, Nebraska on April 24 and 

 25, Frank G. Miller, of the Yale School of 

 Forestry, was elected professor of forestry, his 

 services to begin September next. The fol- 

 lowing promotions in scientific positions were 

 announced: H. E. Smith, from associate pro- 

 fessor of animal husbandry to professor of 

 animal husbandry ; J. H. Gain, from instructor 



in animal pathology, to adjunct professor of 

 animal pathology; F. E. Clements, from ad- 

 junct professor of botany to assistant professor 

 of botany; G. H. Chatburn, from adjunct pro- 

 fessor of mathematics and civil engineering 

 to assistant professor of civil engineering; A. 

 L. Haecker, from assistant professor of dairy 

 husbandry to associate professor of dairy hus- 

 bandry; F. W. Smith, from instructor in edu- 

 cation to adjunct professor of education; E. 

 A. Emerson, from assistant professor of horti- 

 culture to associate professor of horticulture; 

 A. L. Candy, from adjunct professor of 

 mathematics to assistant professor of mathe- 

 matics; E. E. Moritz, from adjunct professor 

 of mathematics to assistant professor of 

 mathematics; C. C. Engberg, from instructor 

 in mathematics to adjunct professor of mathe- 

 matics; T. L. Bolton, from adjunct professor 

 of philosophy to assistant professor of phi- 

 losophy ; C. A. Skinner, from adjunct professor 

 of physics to assistant professor of physics; 

 E. H. Wolcott, from assistant professor of 

 zoology to associate professor of zoology; W. 

 A. Willard, from instructor in zoology to ad- 

 junct professor of zoology; G. H. Morse, from 

 associate professor of electrical engineering to 

 professor of electrical engineering. Among 

 other appointments are the following: H. H. 

 Waite, to be assistant professor of bacteriology 

 and pathology ; H. L. Shantz, to be instructor 

 in botany ; E. S. Lillie, to be adjunct professor 

 of physiology. Fellowships were announced 

 as follows: G. G. Frary, chemistry; H. L. 

 Shantz, botany; Esther P. Hensel, botany. 

 G. F. Miles was announced as scholar in 

 botany. 



Among the members of the summer school 

 of the University of California from other 

 institutions will be Professor Palmer, of Har- 

 vard, in ethics. Professor Angell, of Chicago, 

 in psychology. Professor Monroe, of Columbia, 

 in educational method. Professor Palache, of 

 Harvard, in mineralogy, and Mr. Gifford Pin- 

 chot, chief of the Bureau of Forestry. 



Norton A. Kent, Ph.D., formerly assistant 

 at Terkes Observatory, is at present in charge 

 of the department of physics at Wabash Col- 

 lege, Crawfordsville, Indiana. 



