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SCIENCE. 



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tember 5. In an introductory lecture at the 

 university Professor Turner said, according 

 to the London Times, that the beginning of 

 the work marked an important event in the 

 history of the section. The erection of the 

 building had occupied a year and entailed an 

 expenditure of not much less than £10,000. 

 There v?as no more ready index of the prog- 

 ress of civilization in any nation than that 

 afforded by the knowledge of the work and 

 value of its metallurgical products, and it was 

 of the utmost importance that metallurgical 

 industries shoiild be encouraged and developed 

 if Great Britain were to keep her position 

 amongst the nations of the world. With re- 

 gard to the position of the United Kingdom 

 in metallurgical industries, a great change had 

 been witnessed in the last twenty-iive years. 

 England used to be spoken of as the chief 

 coal and iron producer of the world, and also 

 occupied a prominent position as a producer 

 of other metals. It still led in gold because 

 of the Transvaal and Australia, but was now 

 second in coal, third in iron, fifth or sixth in 

 other metals, and only produced about one 

 twentieth part of the tin, lead and zinc which 

 were made in the world. The two chief com- 

 petitors had been the United States and Ger- 

 many, and the reasons for their progress were 

 varied. In America there were the necessi- 

 ties of a new country, the rapid development 

 of their railways, the opening up of enormous 

 fields of ore deposits and coal fields. There 

 was also the question on which the chancellor 

 of the university had spoken a great deal, the 

 question of tariffs; but he was more imme- 

 diately interested at the present moment in 

 the influence of education on metallurgical 

 progress and the lines that should be followed 

 in connection with that subject. Professor 

 Turner went on to enumerate the schools of 

 metallurgy in America and Germany, and to 

 show that some of them were on a scale that 

 had hitherto not been matched in Great 

 Britain. 



UNIVERSITY A-ND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 By the will of the late Dr. Henry Tuck, 

 Harvard University will receive one fourth of 



the estate should his children not survive. 

 The estate is valued at $5,000,000. 



Ground was broken for the new Eastman 

 building of Rochester University, to be used 

 for biology and physics, for which Mr. East- 

 man, of Rochester, gave $60,000. The effort 

 to raise necessary funds towards the $150,000 

 required for the building has been successful. 

 Of the desired amount, the sum of $120,000 is 

 in hand, including $15,000 contributed by 

 Hiram W. Sibley for the renovation and 

 decoration of the library. 



The following assistants have been ap- 

 pointed at Leland Stanford Junior Univer- 

 sity : Mechanical Engineering, R. H. Gaither ; 

 Education, E. R. Snyder, Miss C. F. Ather- 

 ton; Entomology, Miss M. I. McCracken; 

 Zoology, W. K. Fisher, H. M. Spaulding; 

 Physics, C. K. Studley, Miss G. N. Brown; 

 Physiology, J. F. Cowan, M. Sindo; Cheni- 

 istry, W. E. Crawford, C. C. James, N. E. 

 Dole, R. H. Sherry, Miss J. A. Comings, D. 

 F. Fitzgerald, W. E. Burke; Civil Engineer- 

 ing, J. F. Byxbee, T. B. Hunter, Jr., E. G. 

 Brua, L. J. Mayreis, G. A. Hodge. 



C. G. Rogers, assistant in physiology in the 

 University of California, has been appointed 

 instructor in physiology at the University of 

 Kansas. 



Me. Alexander Lauder, senior demonstrator 

 in chemistry in the University College of 

 North Wales, Bangor, has been appointed lec- 

 turer in agricultural chemistry in the Edin- 

 burgh and East Scotland College of Agricul- 

 ture. 



Dr. Oskar Hertwig, professor of compara- 

 tive anatomy, at Berlin, has been appointed 

 rector of the University. 



Professor E. Wichert, of Gottingen, has 

 been called to a chair of physics at Konigs- 

 berg; Professor Eduard Bi-iickner, of Bern, 

 has been called to a professorship of geog- 

 raphy, at Halle. 



Professor O. E. Meyer, director of the 

 Physical Laboratory, at Breslau, will retire 

 from active service at the close of the present 

 semester. 



