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Any excess of the annual income may be ap- 

 plied at the discretion of the department of 

 geology and geography in aiding meritorious 

 students in making other excursions. 



Dr. Isaac Egberts, the eminent astronomer, 

 has bequeathed his residuary estate, probably 

 over $150,000, to the University of Liverpool 

 and the University Colleges of North and 

 South Wales, for the purpose of founding 

 scholarships, with preference to astronomy, 

 biology, zoology, botany, chemistry, electricity, 

 geology and physics. 



Dr. John Grieve left $8,000 to the medical 

 faculty of the University of Glasgow, which 

 will be used to endow a lectureship in physi- 

 ological chemistry. 



William Mackenzie has presented to the 

 University of Toronto the collection of fossils 

 made by Dr. George E. Matthew, of St. John, 

 ]Sr. B. The collection contains many type 

 specimens. 



Mr. Henry Evans, of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, has bequeathed to the university his 

 collection of British Lepidoptera. 



The following appointments have been made 

 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 

 Messrs. Eoy D. Mailey, George A. Abbott and 

 Charles A. Kraus, research assistants in phys- 

 ical chemistry; Dr. Erastus G. Smith, research 

 associate, and George C. Bunker, research as- 

 sistant, in sanitary science. 



At Oberlin College the following appoint- 

 ments have been made: W. D. Cairns, A.M. 

 (Harvard, 1898), advanced from instructor to 

 associate professor of mathematics ; Miss Flor- 

 ence Fitch, Ph.D. (Berlin, 1903), to be asso- 

 ciate professor of philosophy ; Mr. C. H. Burr, 

 A.B. (Oberlin, 1903), to be assistant in phys- 

 ics; Mr. W. H. Chapin, A.B. (Oberlin, 1904), 

 to be assistant in chemistry ; Mr. J. R. Luckey, 

 A.B. (Oberlin, 1904), to be assistant in mathe- 

 matics and physics; Frederick Anderegg, pro- 

 fessor of mathematics, has returned after a 

 year's absence abroad. 



A. J. Carlson, Ph.D. (Sanford, '03), in- 

 structor in physiology in the University of 



Pennsylvania, has been appointed associate in 

 physiology in the University of Chicago. 



At the University of Oklahoma the follow- 

 ing are giving instruction for the first time: 

 C. 0. Major, M.E. (Cornell), in charge of 

 engineering; C. E. Gabel, Ph.D. (Vienna), 

 instructor in embryology and histology; E. 

 G. Woodruff, A.M. (Nebraska), instructor in 

 mineralogy; and H. C. Washburn, Ph.C. 

 (Michigan), instructor in pharmacy. 



It has been arranged that the installation 

 of Lord Kelvin as chancellor of the Univer- 

 sity of Glasgow shall take place in the Bute 

 Hall, on Tuesday, November 29. 



At the annual meeting of the governors of 

 Durham University College of Science, New- 

 castle-on-Tyne, the name of the college was 

 changed to the Armstrong College of Science 

 in the University of Durham. Sir Isambard 

 Owen, vice-dean of the faculty of medicine in 

 the University of London, was elected prin- 

 cipal of the college in place of the late Dr. 

 H. P. Gurney, who was killed while moun- 

 taineering in Switzerland in August. 



Professor E. G. Coker, of McGill Univer- 

 sity, has been elected to the chair of civil 

 engineering at the Finsbury Institute of 

 Technology, London, in succession to Pro- 

 fessor Dalby. 



At King's College, London, Professor Calde- 

 cott will lecture on general psychology during 

 first and second terms of coming session; 

 Professor Halliburton, on histological psy- 

 chology, during first term, and Dr. C. S. 

 Myers, on experimental psychology (with dem- 

 onstrations and laboratory work), during the 

 second and third terms. 



At Cambridge Mr. P. V. Bevan, M.A., fel- 

 low of Trinity College, has been appointed 

 demonstrator of experimental physics in suc- 

 cession to Mr. Skinner, who has resigned. 

 Mr. C. Chittock, B.A., of Trinity College, has 

 been appointed assistant demonstrator in suc- 

 cession to Mr. Bevan. 



M. H. PoiNCARE, professor of mathematical 

 astronomy at the University of Paris, has 

 been appointed professor of general astronomy 

 in the Ecole Polytechnique. 



