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owners of the country will appreciate the im- 

 portance of the Survey's effort and will co- 

 operate so heartily as to assure its complete 

 success. It should appeal to them for several 

 reasons : (1) Their names and work will be 

 kept before a class of readers interested in 

 well drilling. (2) Records of their work will 

 be carefully filed in the office of the survey, 

 and will be readily available to them at any 

 time, so that in case their notes are lost they 

 can be duplicated. (3) Their cooperation will 

 aid materially in the study of the geologic 

 structure of the United States, and will thus 

 assist in obtaining knowledge which can not 

 fail to be of ultimate benefit to well drillers. 

 It may sometimes be necessary to regard the 

 records as confidential. In such eases the in- 

 formation will be carefully guarded and used 

 only under the conditions stipulated by the 

 informant. The director of the survey will 

 be glad to have an expression of opinion re- 

 garding this work from well owners and drill- 

 ers, and will be grateful to them for any sug- 

 gestions. 



f 

 UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The courts have confirmed the bequest of 

 $40,000 made by the late Dr. William H. 

 Crim to the University of Maryland School 

 of Medicine. 



The Cooper Medical College, of San Fran- 

 cisco, has received a bequest from Mrs. Pauline 

 C. Lane, wife of the late Dr. C. L. Lane, 

 which enables it to build a library. 



It is stated in Nature that Mr. Frederick 

 Soddy has concluded a series of university 

 extension lectures in Western Australia. The 

 last lecture was delivered on July 23, and on 

 this occasion the premier of the colony, Mr. 

 Walter James, in proposing a vote of thanks 

 to Mr. Soddy, referred to the desirability of 

 establishing a university in Western Australia. 

 During the course of the last twelve months 

 one distinct step has been taken in advancing 

 the movement by the passage of the Univer- 

 sity Endowment Act. Endowment trustees 

 have been appointed, and in these trustees 

 some 100 or 800 acres of land have been vested, 

 which promise to give the future university 



the richest endowment enjoyed by any uni- 

 versity in Australia. They were very apt to 

 think, Mr. James continued, that no univer- 

 sity could be established unless they first ex- 

 pended a large sum of money in an elaborate 

 building. He wished only they could convince 

 the residents of Western Australia that so 

 long as they had efficient workshops for their 

 professors, the sooner they commenced to get 

 their professors the sooner could they begin 

 the work of the university, without money 

 overburdening it in the first instance. Mr. 

 Soddy's visit has done good in bringing home 

 more thoroughly than before how necessary it 

 is that the establishment of this university 

 should be commenced without undue delay. 



The position of assistant in bacteriology in 

 the Laboratory of Hygiene, University of 

 Pennsylvania, and the Thomas A. Scott fel- 

 lowship in hygiene in the same laboratory are 

 vacant for the year 1904-1905. Further in- 

 formation may be obtained from the director 

 of the laboratory. 



Me. Will Grant Chambers has been called 

 from the chair of psychology and education in 

 State Normal School at Moorhead, Minn., to 

 the chair of psychology in the State Normal 

 School of Colorado, at Greeley. 



Dr. H. T. Marshall has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of pathology at Baltimore Medical Col- 

 lege. 



L. C. Karpinski, A.B. (Cornell, '01), Ph.D. 

 (Strassburg, '03), and John W. Bradshaw, 

 A.M. (Harvard), Ph.D. (Strassburg, '04), have 

 been appointed instructors in mathematics in 

 the University of Michigan. 



Professor Lorrain Smith, of Belfast, and 

 Dr. A. S. Griinbaum, of Liverpool, have been 

 appointed to chairs of pathology, respectively, 

 at the Universities of Manchester and Leeds. 



Dr. H. Battermann, astronomer at the Ber- 

 lin Observatory, has been appointed professor 

 of astronomy at the University of Konigs- 

 berg. 



Professor 0. E. Meyer, director of the 

 physical laboratory of the University of 

 Breslau, will retire from active service. 



