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for a dormitory; and of $100,000 from Gen- 

 eral Horace W. Charpentier for the School of 

 Law, part of which is to he used for the estab- 

 lishment of special lectures on the science of 

 law. 



Boston University has received a gift of 

 $100,000, which will be used to purchase the 

 building on the corner of Somerset street and 

 Ashburton place. 



Haevaed University has established a 

 course in forestry, and Mr. R. T. Fisher has 

 been appointed instructor in this subject. 



Trustees have been appointed to the newly 

 organized University of Porto Eico. 



Union College is one of the very few 

 reputable institutions which persists in con- 

 ferring the degree of Ph.D., honoris causa. 

 It has conferred the degree this year on one of 

 our most eminent electrical engineers, who is 

 incidentally professor at the college. 



A CORRESPONDENT has Sent us a circular let- 

 ter from the American National Nashville 

 College of Law, offering to bestow upon him 

 the degree of Doctor of Laws on the payment 

 of a fee of $10. This extraordinary institu- 

 tion announces that it has increased its au- 

 thorized capital stock from $10^000 to $20,000 

 to enable it to oiier courses leading to the 

 degrees of D.O.L. and LL.D. It claims to 

 be incorporated by the commonwealth of Ten- 

 nessee. 



At the commencement exercises of the Uni- 

 versity of Colorado, at Boulder, degrees were 

 conferred as follows: B.A., 10; B.S., 11; 

 B.Ph., 7; B.S. (C.E.), 5; B.S. (E.E.), 8; 

 M.D., 8; LL.B., 11; M.A., 4. At the same 

 institution Professor R. D. George, assistant 

 proiessor of geology at the University of 

 Iowa, has been called to a full professorship 

 of geology. 



Dr. Charles S. Palmer has resigned the 

 presidency of the Colorado State School of 

 Mines and will be succeeded by Dean Victor 

 C. Alderson, of the Armour Institute of Tech- 

 • nology. 



Dr. H. B. Fine, professor of mathematics 

 of Princeton University, has been elected 

 dean. 



Dr. Charles Palaohe, assistant professor 

 of mineralogy at Harvard University, and 

 Dr. J. R. Angell, associate professor of experi- 

 mental psychology at the University of Chi- 

 cago, will lecture in the sununer school of the 

 University of California. 



The following promotions and appointments 

 are announced at Harvard University: Pro- 

 fessor Charles R. Sanger, director of the 

 chemical laboratory; Robert W. Willson, pro- 

 fessor of astronomy; W. Ernest Castle, assist- 

 ant professor of zoology; G. W. Pierce and 

 Theodore Lyman, instructors in physics; 

 Assistant Professor H. A. Torrey, of the Uni- 

 versity of Vermont, instructor in chemistry; 

 J. F. Langmaid, assistant in chemistry; W. 

 S. Tower, assistant in physiography and 

 meteorology; J. M. Greenman, instructor in 

 botany. 



Dr. Frederick Neher and Dr. Alexander H. 

 Phillips, of Princeton University, have been 

 promoted to professorships of analytical and 

 organic chemistry and of mineralogy respect- 

 ively. 



Dr. J. Heath Bawden has been promoted to 

 the professorship of philosophy, Vassar College. 



Joseph E. Kirkwood, Ph. D. (Columbia), 

 instructor in botany, and Albert M. Reese, 

 Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), instructor in histology 

 and embryology, have been promoted to asso- 

 ciate professorships in Syracuse University. 



The following appointments have been made 

 in the Chemical Department of the University 

 of North Carolina for the session 1903-4: 

 R. O. E. Davis, Ph.D, instructor; W. McKim 

 Marriotte and L. B. Lockhart, assistants; 

 Reston Stevenson, M.A. (North Carolina), has 

 accepted a position of assistant in chemistry, 

 Cornell University; H. H. Bennett, Ph.B., as- 

 sistant in chemistry, has accepted an assist- 

 antship in the Soil Survey Laboratory, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Miss Onera A. Merritt, who holds degrees 

 from Birmingham and London Universities, 

 has been appointed instructor in zoology at 

 Wellesley College. 



F. A. Sager, assistant professor of physics 

 in the University of Illinois, has resigned. 



