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assistant to the director; that the fixed Parlia- 

 mentary grant of £15,300 be transferred to the 

 vote for the Board of Agriculture and Fish- 

 eries; and that the post office should make 

 arrangements at the 27 reporting stations in 

 the United Kingdom for the transmission of 

 daily telegraphic reports one hour earlier than 

 the present one of 8:15 to 8:30 a.m., and that 

 storm warnings should, if practicable, have 

 priority over all private messages at all hours. 

 The committee also call attention to the expe- 

 diency of testing the efficacy of wireless teleg- 

 raphy in providing advance news of weather 

 in the Atlantic, and urge that no unneces- 

 sary delay should take place in organizing 

 this experiment. They also recommend that 

 in future the cost of instruments supplied to 

 his Majesty's ships be borne upon the Navy. 

 Votes, except where such instruments are in- 

 tended for use in research or observation spec- 

 ially called for by the director of meteorology, 

 and they consider that the premises now 

 rented by the council are neither suitable in 

 character nor adequate in space for the pres- 

 ent requirements of the office, and that others 

 should be provided wherein the staff might 

 perform their duties under more favorable 

 hygienic conditions, and necessary accommo- 

 dation for the rapidly growing library might 

 be secured. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The new laboratory of physics and engi- 

 neering, given by Mr. William H. Reid, of 

 Chicago, to Washington and Lee University, 

 was dedicated on June 15. 



At the recent commencement of the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska three men graduated from 

 the Department of Forestry which was estab- 

 lished two years ago. These men on the estab- 

 lishment of forestry work in the university 

 were transferred to. this department from 

 other departments of science, and thus were 

 able to complete the course in two years. The 

 full course is four years, and the requirements 

 for admission to the freshman class are the 

 same as for other departments of the uni- 

 versity. 



A DEPARTMENT of medicine with a two-years' 

 course has been added to the curriculum of 



the Washington State University. For the 

 present the work will be in charge of Pro- 

 fessor Byers, head of the department of chem- 

 istry. Dr. C. W. Johnson, assistant professor 

 of pharmacy, has been made dean of the de- 

 partment of pharmacy. 



A MEDICAL department will be established 

 next year as part of St. John's College, a 

 catholic institution at Fordham, New York 

 City. 



The Mercers' Company have given a dona- 

 tion of £1,000 to the Institute of Medical 

 Science Fund (University of London), and 

 the Clothworkers' Company have given £300. 



Mr. Francis G. Smart, M.A., M.G., of 

 Gonville and Caius College, has founded, in 

 the University of Cambridge, a studentship 

 of £100 a year, tenable two years, for the en- 

 couragement of botanical research. 



It is announced that work on the buildings 

 for the Harvard Medical School has not pro- 

 gressed as rapidly as had been hoped, and that 

 , they will probably not be occupied until the 

 autumn of 1906, instead of 1905, as was orig- 

 inally expected. 



At Cornell University, Mr. Carl P. Thomas, 

 a graduate of the class of 1895, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant professor of marine engi- 

 neering. Drs. James McMahon and John H. 

 Tanner have been promoted to full professor- 

 ships of mathematics. 



Dr. a. N. Cook, who has been professor of 

 chemistry in Morningside College, Sioux City, 

 for the past four years, has been elected pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in the State University of 

 South Dakota at Vermillion. 



Dr. C. H. Gordon, who has been acting pro- 

 fessor of geology in the Washington State 

 University during the past year, has accepted 

 a call to the chair of geology in the New 

 Mexico School of Mines. 



Mr. Harry E. Fulton, assistant in biology 

 in the University of Mississippi, has been 

 awarded a fellowship in botany for 1904-5 in 

 the University of Missouri. 



Dr. Philip Henry Pye-Smith, M.D.,F.R.S., 

 has been reelected vice-chancellor of the Uni- 

 versity of London, for the year 1904^5. 



