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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVII. No. 437. 



Among the promotions and new appoint- 

 ments at Columbia University are Dr. C. 0. 

 Trowbridge and Dr. F. L. Tufts to be instruc- 

 tors in Physics ; Dr. B. Davis, tutor in physics ; 

 Dr. A. P. Wells, instructor in raechanics; Dr. 

 E. S. Woodworth, instructor in psychology, 

 and Dr. W. P. Montague, lecturer in phi- 

 losophy. 



Dr. G. H. Howe, now assistant professor of 

 physics at Dartmouth, has been elected to the 

 Appleton professorship of physics, in succes- 

 sion to Professor E. P. Nichols, who has been 

 called to Columbia University. 



At a recent meeting of the board of trustees 

 of the New Mexico School of Mines six ad- 

 ditional chairs in the faculty were established. 

 These were mining, physics and electrical en- 

 gineering, mechanical engineering, mineral- 

 ogy and petrography, metallurgy and lan- 

 guages. Several special lectureships were 

 also provided. Carl E. Magnusson, B.E.E., 

 Ph.D., from Wisconsin University, has been 

 appointed to the chair of physics and electrical 

 engineering; Charles T. Lincoln, B.S., of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 

 been appointed acting professor of chemistry, 

 and Francis C. Lincoln, B.S., M.E., late of 

 the San Barnardo Mining and Milling Co., 

 has been placed in charge of the metallurgical 

 department. President Keyes announces that 

 hereafter regular summer work will be carried 

 on at the institution. This work will con- 

 tinue through seventeen weeks and will count 

 as a half year's credit. Field work in geol- 

 ogy, surveying and mine examinations, and 

 special investigation will occupy the time of 

 certain classes. Practical metallurgy in its 

 various phases will also be carried on. 



The University of Montana will be well 

 represented this sununer both in field and 

 class work. The University Summer School 

 will open June 15, and continue for six weeks. 

 Eleven departments will offer work, and the 

 new Woman's Hall will be completed and 

 opened for this session. The Biological Sta- 

 tion work, at Flathead Lake, under the di- 

 rectorship of Professor M. J. Elrod, with a 

 corps of instructors, will give several field 

 and laboratory courses both in botany and 



zoology. The station will open the middle of 

 July and continue for five weeks. The de- 

 partment of geology will conduct an expedi- 

 tion in the southeastern part of the state. 

 This expedition will be composed of several 

 students and an oflScial photographer, and be 

 in charge of Professor J: P. Rowe. The party 

 will leave the university about the middle of 

 June and remain in the field from six to 

 eight weeks. , 



Director E. H. Thurston, of Sibley Col- 

 lege, Cornell University, has accepted an in- 

 vitation from the trustees and faculty of the 

 Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa, to deliver 

 the address at the dedication of the new en- 

 gineering hall on May 21. The new building 

 was built at a cost of $220,000. 



The Eev. Charles S. Murkland, who for 

 the past ten years has been president of the 

 Agricultural College, Durham, N. H., has been 

 forced to resign. According to the Manchester 

 Union, the governor of the state, Mr. Bach- 

 elder, may be made president. This news- 

 paper indicates that there are political in- 

 trigues in connection with the presidency. 



A SCHOOL of applied science has been cre- 

 ated by the board of regents of the Univer- 

 sity of Iowa, and Professor L. G. Weld has 

 been appointed director. 



Mr. William Kent, of New York City, has 

 been elected dean of the L. C. Smith College 

 of Applied Science of Syracuse University. 



Professor Egbert Sample Miller, asso- 

 ciate professor of mechanical engineering at 

 Purdue University, has been elected to a simi- 

 lar position in the newly organized department 

 of engineering at Colorado College. At this 

 institution Dr. Florian Cajori, professor of 

 mathematics, has been elected dean of the 

 school of engineering. 



Dr. Norman M. Harris, associate professor 

 of bacteriology at the Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School, has accepted a call to the University 

 of Chicago. 



Mr. C. a. Ashpord, who has had charge of 

 the teaching of science at Harrow since 1894, 

 has been appointed headmaster at the Eoyal 

 Naval College, Osborne. 



