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nicular railway lias been destroyed and the 

 metal of the tracks has been melted. 



The British Medical Journal states that an 

 examination by Professor Dunstan at the Im- 

 perial Institute, London, of certain minerals 

 discovered during- the recent mineralogical 

 survey of Ceylon has shovyn that the principal 

 constituent of one found in refuse from gem 

 washings near Belangoda is radio-active; it 

 contains 75 per cent, of thorium oxide, and it 

 is thought probable that radium is present. 



Professor James Beart Simonds, of the 

 Isle of Wight, has bequeathed his veterinary 

 specimens and library of veterinary and scien- 

 tific vcorks to the Royal Veterinary College, 

 London. 



It is reported that Dr. Theodore Koch, of 

 the Berlin Museum fiir Volkerkunde, who is 

 exploring the districts of the Upper Amazon, 

 reports that he has advanced farther than any 

 white man on the Kio Tiqui, and has come 

 into contact with hitherto unknovsm Indian 

 tribes. He spent several weeks in their vil- 

 lages, and has brought back from his journey 

 a rich collection of photographs and native 

 articles, among others the famous sig-nal drum 

 of the Tukano tribe. He hopes to prolong his 

 operations till the spring of next year, but the 

 continued disputes between the Peruvians and 

 Brazilians have somewhat interfered with his 

 arrangements. 



Vl^^IVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The late Professor Daniel Willard Fiske 

 has bequeathed the main part of his estate 

 to Cornell University. It is said that the be- 

 quest amounts to between $500,000 to $1,000,- 

 000. It will be remembered that Professor 

 Piske's wife, who died some two years ago, 

 left $2,000,000 to Cornell University, but that 

 the will was broken by Professor Fiske. 



The main building of the University of 

 Minnesota was destroyed by fire on September 

 24, entailing a loss of $125,000 which is said 

 to be covered by insurance. 



Sir Alfred Jones has given £500 and Mr. 

 John Holt £200 to the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine for a fund to be known as 

 the Sir William MacGregor Fund, in honor of 



the newly appointed governor of Newfound- 

 land. 



The presidency of Tulane University has 

 been offered to Dr. E. B. Copeland, president 

 of the Missouri State Normal School, War- 

 rensburg, Mo. 



Dr. Adolf Meyer, of the N. Y. State 

 Pathological Institute, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of psychiatry in the Cornell University 

 Medical School in the place of Dr. Allan 

 McLane Hamilton, who recently resigned. 



The lectureship of pathological chemistry, 

 at New York University, recently endowed by 

 Dr. C. A. Herter, will be held during the 

 present year by Dr. P. A. Levene, of the N. 

 Y. State Pathological Institute. 



The following appointments have been made 

 at Lehigh University: Winter L. Wilson, 

 C.E., M.S., Lehigh, '88, and recently professor 

 of civil engineering in Tulane University, 

 assistant professor in civil engineering; Sher- 

 man M. Turrill, C.E., Cornell, '91, and Robert 

 W. Gay, B.S., C.E., New York University, 

 instructors in civil engineering; Arthur W. 

 Klein, M.E., Lehigh, '99, and Evert O. East- 

 wood, A.M., B.S., University of Virginia, and 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in- 

 structors in civil engineering. Other new in- 

 structors are Charles W. Brown, A.M., Brovim 

 University and Harvard, in the department of 

 geology; Stanley S. Seyfert, E. E. Lehigh, '04, 

 electrical engineering; George C. Beck, A.C., 

 Lehigh, '04, assistant in chemistry. 



Lorande Loss Woodruff, A.M. (Columbia), 

 has been advanced to an instructorship in biol- 

 ogy at Williams College. 



At Dartmouth College, the following ap- 

 pointments have been made : Mathematics, 

 C. A. Holden, assistant professor; Mr. Barton, 

 instructor; Biology, Mr. Lyman, instructor in 

 biology (botany), made assistant professor; 

 Medical School, Dr. Percy Bartlett, A.B., 

 Bowdoin, '92, M.D., Dartmouth, '00, instruc- 

 tor in anatomy; Dr. C. C. Stewart, assistant 

 professor of physiology, Pennsylvania, assist- 

 ant professor of physiology. 



Dr. Hermann Kossel, of the Imperial 

 Board of Health at Berlin, has been called to 

 the chair of hygiene at the University of 

 • Giessen, as the successor of Dr. Georg Gaffky. 



