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of which $25,000 has been given by Dr. D. K. 

 Pearson. 



At a recent meeting of the trustees of Co- 

 lumbia University gifts aggregating $46,850 

 were announced by the trustees. Among 

 these was the sum of $15,000 from Gen. Horace 

 W. Oarpentier, of the class of 1848, to be added 

 to the fund for the endowment of the chair 

 of pediatrics, established at the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons by General Car- 

 pentier. Two other gifts were of $10,000 

 from the family of the late Dr. Guy B. Miller, 

 M.S., '98, for the Medical School, and of 

 $20,000 from an anonymous donor for a large 

 plaster model of the university buildings and 

 grounds for permanent exhibition. 



Aw anonymous donor has sent a £1,000 

 Bank of England note to the treasurer of Uni- 

 versity College, Bristol. 



Mr. Prancis Galton, F.E.S., has founded 

 in London University a fellowship for the pro- 

 motion of the study of 'National Eugenics,' 

 ' the study of the agencies under social con- 

 trol that may improve or impair the racial 

 qualities of future generations, either phys- 

 ically or mentally.' 



A NEW technical institute was opened at 

 Danzig by the German Emperor on October 

 6. It has been built by the state at a cost of 

 over $1,700,000 on land presented by the city 

 of Danzig. It will have six faculties — archi- 

 tecture, building engineering and machine 

 engineering, chemistry, general science and 

 shipbuilding. 



The statute for exempting from Greek 

 candidates for the honors schools of natural 

 science and mathematics, at Oxford, which is 

 based upon the resolutions passed by congre- 

 gation, on February 9, when the voting was 

 164 to 162, will be promulgated on November 

 29. 



Edward H. Kraus, B.S. (Syracuse, '96), 

 Ph.D. (Munich, 01), has been appointed as- 

 sistant professor of mineralogy in the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan in the- vacancy caused by 

 the death of Professor W. II. Pettee. 



Mr. E. D. Grant, who for some time past 

 has been instructor in the department of 

 mathematics and physics of the Michigan Col- 



lege of Mines, has recently been made assistant 

 professor in the same department. 



Dr. Andrew Sledd, A.M. (Harvard), Ph.D. 

 (Yale), has been called to the presidency of 

 the University ot Florida, Lake City, Florida 

 (formerly the State Agricultural College). 

 The following appointments are also an- 

 nounced: Edward E. Flint, Ph.D. (Gottin- 

 gen), M.D. (Harvard), professor of chemistry; 

 M. T. Hochstrasser, M.E. (Georgia School of 

 Technology), professor of mechanical engi- 

 neering and drawing; F. M. Eolfs, B.S. (Iowa 

 State College), M.S. (Colorado Agricultural 

 College), professor of botany and horticul- 

 ture; Karl Schmidt, Ph.D. (Marburg), pro- 

 fessor of. mathematics and astronomy; E. H. 

 Sellards, A.M. (Kansas State University), 

 Ph.D. (Tale), professor of entomology, geol- 

 ogy and zoology. Two hundred and five stu- 

 dents are enrolled, a substantial increase over 

 former years. A new brick dormitory, 

 40 X 100 feet, replacing Foster Hall, burned 

 in December, 1903, was opened for occupancy 

 on jSTovember first. An effort is being made 

 to develop the several departments on a uni- 

 versity basis. 



Mr. E. D. Sanderson, recently state ento- 

 mologist of Texas and professor of entomol- 

 ogy of Texas Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College has resigned, and has assumed work 

 at Durham, IST. H., as professor of zoology at 

 the New Hampshire College and entomologist 

 of the Experiment Station. 



Professor Bertram C. A. Windle, F.E.S., 

 dean of the medical faculty and professor of 

 anatomy in Birmingham University, has been 

 appointed president of Queen's College, Cork, 

 in succession to Sir Rowland Blennerhasset. 



Mr. Alfred Young, lecturer in mathematics 

 in Selvyyn Hostel, Cambridge, has been 

 elected to a fellowship of mathematics in 

 Clare College. 



Professor Primrose McConnell has been 

 appointed lecturer in the Winter School of 

 Agriculture, under the Essex Education Com- 

 mittee, in succession to Mr. W. Angus, ap- 

 pointed to the professorship of agriculture at 

 Adelfl,ide. 



