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at Martinette, Wis., and Escanaba, Mieii. ; 

 and probably a third station will be established 

 at Ashland, Wis. The expense of the experi- 

 ments will be borne jointly by the bureau and 

 the companies. Cedar and tamarack tele- 

 phone and telegraph poles will be furnished 

 by the state of Wisconsin free of cost, and 

 two railroad companies have agreed to haul 

 them to the experiment stations without 

 charge for freight. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



A GIFT of $50,000 by Mr. Edward D. Adams, 

 in memory of his son, Ernest K. Adams, has 

 been made to Columbia University for the 

 foundation of a research fellowship in phys- 

 ical science. The gift is accompanied by a 

 valuable collection of scientific apparatus to 

 be allotted to the electrical, physical and psy- 

 chological laboratories of the university. 



It was made a condition of granting a 

 charter to the University of Leeds that an en- 

 dowment fund of at least £100,000 should be 

 collected. Of this s-um over $60,000 has been 

 subscribed. 



The Liverpool city council has voted the 

 sum of £10,000 towards the support of the 

 University of Liverpool. 



By the will of Mr. G. T. B. Wigan, M.A., 

 of Trinity College, Cambridge, a sum of above 

 £9,000 was bequeathed to the university, the 

 annual income to be applied for the purpose 

 of promoting and encouraging scientific edu- 

 cation or research in the university. 



The University of Aberdeen will celebrate 

 the four hundredth anniversary of its founda- 

 tion in the summer of 1906. 



The commissioner of agriculture for the 

 Dominion of ^ Canada, Mr. Robertson, will 

 resign on January 1, to take charge of the new 

 agricultural college established by Sir William 

 MacDonald. According to the London Times, 

 this will probably be the most complete agri- 

 cultural college in the world. It is to be 

 known as the Macdonald Foundation for Rural 

 Education, the organization of which will be 

 in the hands solely of Sir W. Macdonald and 

 Mr. Robertson. It is to consist of three de- 



partments. The first will be for original re- 

 search in bacteriology as applied to soils and 

 products, in the biology of animals and plants, 

 and in agricultural chemistry. The second 

 will be a department of farms for the prac- 

 tical illustration of the discoveries in the re- 

 search department, and the third will be a 

 department of instruction combining a farm 

 school and a college of agriculture. There 

 will be residences for men and women students. 

 The laboratories will be equipped in the most 

 complete manner, and the best features of the 

 principal agricultural colleges in Europe and 

 America will be adopted. The amount of 

 Sir W. Macdonald's benefaction is said on 

 good authority to be not less than £1,000,000. 



On the occasion of the installation of Lord 

 Kelvin as chancellor of the University of 

 Glasgow, on November 29, the degree of LL.D. 

 was conferred on Dr. James Thomson Bottom- 

 ley, F.R.S., Arnott and Thomson demonstra- 

 tor in experimental physics in the University 

 for 24 years from 1875; Admiral Sir John 

 Charles Dalrymple-Hay, F.R.S.; Mr. Gug- 

 lielmo Marconi; and the Hon. Charles A. 

 Parsons, F.R.S. 



Professor William G. Raymond, of the 

 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of civil engineering and 

 head of the departments of engineering in the 

 Iowa State University at Iowa City. Pro- 

 fessor Sherman M. Woodward, of the Univer- 

 sity of Arizona, has been called to the chair 

 of steam engineering. 



Professor Harris J. Ryan, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed professor of elec- 

 trical engineering at Stanford University. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has been reelected 

 Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrews 

 without opposition, Mr. Andrew Lang and Sir 

 Henry Craik having declined to stand. 



Augustus Edward Hough Love, M.A., 

 D.C.L., F.R.S., Sedleian professor of natural 

 philosophy at Oxford, formerly fellow of St. 

 John's College, Cambridge, has been elected 

 to an honorary fellowship at Queen's College. 



Mr. E. Verner has been elected to a newly 

 established chair of applied chemistry at the 

 University of Dublin. 



