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tion represents the transition period between 

 tlie ages of stone and of metal, and includes 

 many stone and bronze implements, and also 

 pottery. The museum has also received a col- 

 lection of prehistoric implements collected in 

 the valley of the Susquehanna, and presented 

 by Christopher Wrenn, of Plymouth, Pa. 



The first portion of the $600,000 left by 

 Chai-les P. Doe to the University of California 

 for a new library building will be available 

 this year; the plans are now being drawn for 

 the building, and ground will be broken in the 

 spring. Like California Hall, the administra- 

 tion building, which is being built by a state 

 appropriation of $250,000, and like the Hearst 

 memorial mining building, which Mrs. Hearst 

 is erecting at a cost of half a million, the new 

 library will be of California granite and fire- 

 proof. 



The new surgical building of the Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital was opened last week. 



At the University of Oklahoma a new sci- 

 ence hall, first opened for work at the begin- 

 ning of the present semester, takes the place 

 of the building recently destroyed by fire. The 

 present structure, which is of gray pressed 

 brick, was designed with ample window space 

 in order to secure a maximum of light. It is 

 fitted throughout with electricity, water and 

 gas. The lower fioor is occupied temporarily 

 by the department of chemistry, the second 

 floor by biology and the upper floor by geology. 

 An auditorium, used by all departments, is 

 supplied with a modem stereopticon. There 

 are in all more than thirty rooms used as labo- 

 ratories, oflices, lecture and store rooms. Seven 

 men give instruction in the building, and the 

 enrolment in the various departments is much 

 greater than during any previous year. 



The free lecture system of the New York 

 Board of Education under Dr. Henry M. 

 Leipziger will this year be extended so that 

 there will be about 140 lecture centers. 



According to items in the daily papers, the 

 entrance class at Harvard will number over 

 600, being its largest freshman class. 



The total attendance at Cornell University 

 exceeds that of any previous year by 206 stu- 

 dents. The regularly enrolled students this 



year number in all 3,300, and the entering 

 class numbers 916, against 815 last September. 



Dr. Charles W. Dabney will be installed as 

 president of University of Cincinnati on No- 

 vember 16. 



The trustees of Northwestern University 

 have announced the election of Dean Thomas 

 P. Holgate, professor of mathematics, to be 

 acting president of the institution. 



Dr. Henry Milton Whelpley, professor of 

 microscopy in the St. Louis College of Phar- 

 macy, has been elected dean of that institu- 

 tion. He has been a teacher in the college 

 since 1884. 



Dr. C. J. Keyser has been promoted to a 

 professorship of mathematics at Columbia 

 University. 



Messrs. John Prazer, Thomas McCutcheon 

 and Walter Taggart have been appointed in- 

 structors in chemistry at the University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



The following appointments have been made 

 in the science departments of the University 

 of Maine for the coming year: 



H. S. Boardman, C.E. (Maine, 1895), has been 

 promoted from associate professor to professor of 

 civil engineering. 



C. P. Weston, C.E. (Maine, 1900), Ph.D. (Co- 

 lumbia, 1904), has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of mechanics. 



H. E. Willard, B.A. (Dartmouth, 1899), and 

 M.A. (Dartmouth, 1901), instructor in mathe- 

 matics. 



W. K. Ganong, B.S. (Worcester Polytechnic 

 Institute), instructor in electrical engineering. 



A. L. Grover, B.C.E. (Maine, 1899), instructor 

 in drawing. 



R. K. Morley, B.A. and M.A. (Tufts, 1904), 

 tutor in mathematics. 



L. C. Smith, B.S. (Maine, 1904), assistant in 

 chemistry. 



Edith M. Patch, B.S. (Minnesota, 1902), Ento- 

 mologist to the State Experiment Station. 



Miss Mary J. Hurlburt has been appointed 

 instructor in physics at Smith College. Miss 

 Harriet W. Bigelow resumes her work in as- 

 tronomy, after three years' absence. 



Mr. George H. Carpenter, of the Science 

 and Art Museum, Dublin, has been appointed 

 professor of zoology in the Eoyal College of 

 Science for Ireland. 



