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000; Des Moines College, $5,000; Wilberforce 

 University, Green, O., $5,000; Ambidexter In- 

 stitute, Springfield, 111., $10,000. 



The Educational Times states that of the 

 £170,000 required for the endowment of Shef- 

 field University nearly £110,000 has been col- 

 lected or promised. The Duke of Norfolk, 

 who is named as the chancellor of the new 

 university, has given £10,000. All classes of 

 the community have contributed freely. The 

 claims of the scheme are being advocated in 

 the large towns near Shefiield, such as Eother- 

 ham, Doneaster, Barnsley and Chesterfield, on 

 the support of which the stability of the uni- 

 versity largely depends. It is essential to the 

 success of the scheme that the public grants 

 should be largely increased. The Sheffield 

 city council now supports the technical de- 

 partment of the college to the extent of about 

 £5,000 a year, but has promised, if the charter 

 is granted, to make a yearly contribution to 

 the arts, science and medical departments of 

 a sum not exceeding the revenue of a penny 

 rate, which is expected to produce some £6,700 

 a year, or about £5,000 more than the council 

 now pays to those departments. The West 

 Hiding county council has set aside £6,000 a 

 year for the universities in Yorkshire. This 

 sum has not yet been divided between Leeds 

 and Sheffield. In addition, it is anticipated 

 that the Derbyshire county council, as well as 

 some of the surrounding local authorities, will 

 contribute. 



At a recent meeting of the Harvard faculty, 

 it was voted to change the requirements for 

 the degree of A.M. and to allow undergradu- 

 ates who have completed the requirements for 

 the degree of A.B., with the exception of a 

 single course, to be admitted to the graduate 

 school as candidates for A.M. 



The following appointments and promotions 

 have been made at the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons, Columbia University: Dr. Gor- 

 ham Bacon, professor of otology; Dr. Joseph 

 A. Blake, professor of surgery; Dr. George E. 

 Brewer, professor of clinical surgery; Dr. 

 Frederick R. Bailey, adjunct professor of nor- 

 mal histology; Dr. Arnold Knapp, professor 

 of ophthalmology; Dr. Eugene Hydenpyl, ad- 



junct professor of pathological anatomy; Dr. 

 Frederick Peterson, clinical professor of psy- 

 chiatry; Dr. Francis Carter Wood, adjunct 

 professor of clinical pathology, and Dr. Rus- 

 sell Burton-Opitz, adjunct professor of physi- 

 ology. 



Mr. James Walter Goldthwait, of Lynn, 

 Mass., has been appointed instructor in geol- 

 ogy at Northwestern University. Mr. Gold- 

 thwait took his undergraduate and his gradu- 

 ate work at Harvard University, where he was 

 also one of the corps of instruction. 



The following appointments have been 

 made to the teaching force of the Michigan 

 College of Mines, Houghton, Michigan: 

 Arthur Alexander Koch, Ph.D., University of 

 Basel, instructor in chemistry; Charles Frank- 

 lin Bowen, M.S., University of Wisconsin, and 

 Eugene Thomas Hancock, B.S., University of 

 Wisconsin, instructor in geology and mineral- 

 ogy; Charles Hamilton Hoyt, C.E., Thayer 

 College of Engineering, instructor in civil and 

 mining engineering; Durward Copeland, B.S., 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in- 

 structor in metallurgy and ore dressing. 



W. L. Powers, Cornell College, '03, has been 

 appointed assistant in inorganic chemistry in 

 the Medical College of Sioux City. 



Dr. William Palmer Wynne, D.Sc. (Lond.), 

 F.R.S., senior honorary secretary of the 

 Chemical Society and professor of chemistry 

 in the School of Pharmacy of the pharmaceut- 

 ical Society, has been appointed to the Firth 

 chair of chemistry in University College, 

 Sheffield, in succession to Professor Carleton 

 Williams. 



Dr. Albert S. GkiJnbaum, lecturer in ex- 

 perimental medicine in Liverpool University 

 and director of the Liverpool Cancer Research, 

 has been appointed professor of pathology and 

 bacteriology. 



Mr. J. J. Lister, M.A., fellow of St. John's, 

 Cambridge University, has been appointed 

 demonstrator of comparative anatomy until 

 Michaelmas, 1905. 



At the University of Brussels, Drs. G. 

 Dwelshawers and R. Berthelot have been pro- 

 moted to full professorships of philosophy and 

 Dr. Stroobant to a professorship of astronomy. 



