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may use inland waters in tlie disposal of sew- 

 age matter from public sewers. The statutes 

 enacted in various states are classified accord- 

 ing to their general scope and an opportunity 

 is thus afforded to compare their effectiveness 

 and desirability. In some states there is 

 nothing more than a simple provision making 

 it a crime to poison wells and springs, while 

 in others elaborate provisions have been made 

 to check and, so far as possible, absolutely 

 prevent all pollution of all waters by the re- 

 fuse products of animal life or the waste of 

 human industry. In citing the statutes, Mr. 

 Goodell has grouped the states together log- 

 ically to show the stage of growth in sanitary 

 education at which each has arrived. It is 

 hoped that the publication and distribution 

 of this paper will help to bring about a gen- 

 eral apprehension of correct principles upon 

 the important subject of water pollution. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The John Bell Scott Memorial Laboratory 

 of Physical Science, at Wesleyan University, 

 Middletown, Conn., will be dedicated on De- 

 cember 7. The address will be delivered by 

 Dr. Edward B. Eosa, on ' The National 

 Bureau of Standards and its Relations to 

 Scientific and Technical Laboratories.' 



We learn from' the London Times that at 

 the beginning of last year an appeal was made 

 by Dublin University for a fund for the de- 

 velopment and better equipment of the science 

 schools in Trinity College. Lord Iveagh 

 offered to provide all the estimated building 

 expenses (a sum of £34,000) conditionally 

 upon the amount required for annual expenses 

 being obtained by public subscription. Por 

 the latter purpose a capital of £78,000 is re- 

 quired. The committee in charge of the fund 

 announce to-day that of this amount £15,886 

 has now been subscribed or promised, a site 

 and designs have already been prepared for a 

 new physical laboratory, and building opera- 

 tions will begin before the end of the year. 



New medical buildings and the George 

 Holt Physics Laboratory, which have been 

 added to the Liverpool University, were 

 opened on November 12. The inauguration 

 proceedings took place in St. George's-hall 



and were presided over by the Chancellor of 

 the University, Lord Derby, who was accom- 

 panied by Lord Kelvin, Mr. Haldane, K.C., 

 M.P., Lord Cross and representatives of the 

 English universities. The buildings have 

 been erected at a cost of £21,600, which has 

 been subscribed by Liverpool merchants and 

 representatives of local families. 



The following promotions and appointments 

 have been made in the Department of Mathe- 

 matics and Astronomy of the University of 

 Pennsylvania: George H. Hallett, Ph.D., has 

 been promoted to an assistant professorship of 

 mathematics; Eric Doolittle, C.E., to an as- 

 sistant professorship of astronomy; Henry B. 

 Evans, M.E., Ph.D., has been appointed as- 

 sistant professor of mathematics. 



Dr. Albert Woelfel has resigned his posi- 

 tion in the Memorial Institute for Infectious 

 diseases, Chicago, to accept an appointment 

 in the Department of Physiology, of Univer- 

 sity of Chicago. 



We learn from The Electrical World that 

 Professor Harry E. Clifford, acting head of 

 the department of electrical engineering in 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 has been appointed to the free professorship 

 of theoretical electricity in the institute. Mr. 

 W. S. Barstow has been elected a member of 

 the faculty of the Polytechnic Institute of 

 Brooklsm. Mr. Barstow will serve in the 

 department of electrical engineering as con- 

 sulting professor of central station practice. 

 Mr. Charles F. Scott has become a member of 

 the board of consulting professors of the de- 

 partment of electrical engineering of the in- 

 stitute. 



Mr. E. p. Gregory, demonstrator of botany, 

 and Mr. E. Cunningham, senior wrangler, 

 1902, have been elected fellows of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge. 



Professor Svante Aerhenius, of Stock- 

 holm, has been called to the University of 

 Berlin. 



Dr. W. Nernst, of Gottingen, has been 

 called to Charlottenburg, as director of the 

 Eeichsanstalt. 



Dr. Otto Lummer, of the Eeichanstalt, has 

 been appointed professor of physics at the 

 University of Breslau. 



