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his work on folk-lore in Persia, and to V. N. 

 Perets, for ethnographical work. The Semen- 

 off medal was given to L. I. Brodovsky, for 

 the map of Manchuria which he has compiled. 

 Small gold medals were given to A. K. Kuz- 

 netsoff, for the work he has done in the mu- 

 seum of the Chita (Transbaikalian) section 

 of the Geographical Society; to V. H. Lady- 

 ghin, for his work during the Kozloff Tibet 

 expedition ; and to L. S. Berg, for his explora- 

 tion of Lake Aral. A number of silver 

 medals for various minor works were given 

 to several persons. The greatest achievement 

 of the Geographical Society was the visit to 

 Lhasa by a member of the society, the Buryat 

 Lama, M. Tsybikoff, who has also been at a 

 number of monasteries in Tibet, and has 

 brought back 319 volumes of various works 

 of Buddhist philosophy, medicine, history, and 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Professor Hugo Munsterberg announces 

 that the sum of $150,000 for the Emerson 

 Hall of Philosophy, Harvard University, has 

 been secured. 



The University of California has received 

 from Mr. W. M. Pierson a telescope with an 

 eight-inch lens, and from Mrs. A. S. Halliday 

 $500 for the library of mechanical engineer- 

 ing. 



The trustees of Columbia University have 

 appropriated $8,000 for the erection of two 

 buildings at Morris, near Litchfield, Conn., 

 to be used as dormitories for the summer 

 school of surveying. 



Anistouncement is made of the establish- 

 .ment of four Tale scholarships by Chicago 

 Yale alumni, who give $2,500 a year for de- 

 serving and needy Illinois students to be 

 chosen by the faculty in the academic depart- 

 ment and scientific school. 



Governor Odell (-has vetoed the item ap- 

 propriating $10,000 for supporting the School 

 of Forestry at Cornell University. 



The summer session of the University of 

 Maine will open June 29, and continue for 

 five weeks. For this summer term courses 

 are offered in physics, chemistry, botany, 



mathematics, astronomy, history, English, 

 modern languages, Latin and Greek. 



James Harkjs^ess, A.M. (Cambridge and 

 London), since 1888 professor of mathematics 

 at Bryn Mawr College, has been appointed by 

 the board of governors Eedpath Professor of 

 Mathematics at McGill University; and H. 

 M. Tory, M.A., D.Sc, has been appointed 

 associate professor. 



Dr. J. EoLLiN Slonaker, associate in 

 neurology. University of Chicago, has ac- 

 cepted the position of assistant professor of 

 physiology in Leland Stanford Jr. University. 



Dr. Theodore Hough, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, has been appointed 

 assistant professor of biology at Simmons 

 College, Boston. 



G. W. Stewart, instructor in physics at 

 Cornell University, has been elected professor 

 of physics in the University of North Dakota. 



Dr. G. W. Whitney has been appointed 

 reader in philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. 



Appointments at the New Mexico School 

 of Mines have been made as follows: Royal 

 P. Jervis, M.E., professor of mining; Eufus. 

 M. Bagg, A.B. (Amherst), Ph.D. (Johns Hop- 

 kins), professor of mineralogy and petrology; 

 Gay M. Hamilton, of the University of Ne- 

 braska, instructor in geology. Professor C, 

 L. Herrick, formerly president of the Univer- 

 sity of New Mexico, and the Hon. Daniel H.. 

 McMillan, judge of the U. S. District Court, 

 will give courses of lectures, respectively, on 

 geological philosophy and mining law. 



At the University of Birmingham Miss 

 Helen P. Wodehouse, fellow of Girton Col- 

 lege', Cambridge, has been elected assistant 

 lecturer in philosophy. 



In consequence of ill-health Professor G. 

 V. Poore, M.D., has found it necessary to 

 resign his chair of medicine and clinical medi- 

 cine in University College, London, and his^ 

 physicianship to University College Hospital. 

 The council, in accepting the resignation, 

 unanimously adopted a resolution testifying 

 to their high appreciation of the services Dr. 

 Poore had rendered to the college and hospital 

 during the past thirty-five years. 



