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SCIENCE 



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sum required for land and buildings, $1,185,- 

 000, has been entirely secured. The sub- 

 scribers to the fund number about seventeen 

 hundred. 



Mr. Ezra J. Warner, of Chicago, has given 

 $12,500 to Middlebury College for the furnish- 

 ing of Warner Science Hall, erected last year 

 at a cost of over $80,000. The college has also 

 received a gift of $5,000 from Dr. M. Allen 

 Starr, of New York, to purchase books for the 

 library. 



The cornerstone of the new science build- 

 ing at Drury College, Missouri, was laid on 

 June 13. Toward the cost of this building 

 Dr. D. K. Pearsons contributed $25,000, and an 

 equal amount has been made up by general 

 subscription. 



Senator Hanna has given $50,000 to Ken- 

 yon College, Gambier, O., for a dormitory. 



John D. Eockefeller has promised $25,000 

 to Des Moines College, Iowa, on condition that 

 friends of the institution raise $55,000 more. 



The College of Physicians and Surgeons, 

 Chicago, which is the medical department of 

 the University of Illinois, has been destroyed 

 by fire resulting from lightning. The loss on 

 the building and equipment is said to be $200,- 

 000. 



The commission selected to draft plans for 

 the Carnegie Technical School at Pittsburg has 

 presented its report. The commission proposes 

 three divisions, the Carnegie Technical College, 

 the Carnegie Technical High School and the 

 Carnegie Artisan Day and Evening Classes. It 

 advises that experimental shops and laboratories 

 be built, that the college support one or more 

 publications, to give the fruits of its research to 

 the world ; that English, French, and German 

 and Spanish be studied. It also recommends 

 courses of study for the three divisions. The 

 commission consists of Professors V. C. Alder- 

 son, of Chicago, Eobert H. Thurston, of Cornell 

 University, Thomas Gray, of Terre Haute, Ind. , 

 a,nd J. B. Johnson, of Wisconsin University. 



Dr. F. W. Sanders has been compelled to 

 resign the presidency of the New Mexico Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (Mesilla 



Park^ N. M.). The following abstract from his 

 letter of resignation has been published in the 

 New Mexico Collegian for June, 1901 : "I have 

 declined to serve you longer unless you would 

 abandon the pernicious system of annual elec- 

 tions, and have urged you to give this system 

 up for a number of reasons ; because, among 

 other things, it almost inevitably lends itself to 

 the control of the pettiest of personal and local 

 and political influence, and makes a permanent 

 policy impossible ; but especially because it 

 makes possible the removal of able and faithful 

 employes for reasons that will not bear the 

 light." The new president has not yet been 

 elected. 



The University of New Mexico, at Albuquer- 

 que, N. M., has been unfortunate in losing its 

 president, Dr. C. L. Herrick, who resigned on 

 account of ill health. Dr. Herrick is at present 

 in the field, continuing his important researches 

 in the geology of New Mexico. 



Dr. Taliaferro, an instructor in the 

 Pennsylvania State College, has been made 

 President of the Florida Agricultural College. 



At the University of Colorado, a chair of 

 geology has been established which will be 

 filled by Dr. N. M. Fenniman. The chair of 

 philosophy, vacant by the death of Dr. Francis 

 Kennedy has been filled by the appointment of 

 Dr. M. F. Libby. 



Karl E. Guthe has been promoted to an 

 assistant professorship of physics at the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan. 



Dr. a. p. Saunders has been promoted to a 

 professorship of chemistry at Hamilton Col- 

 lege. 



S. P. Orth has been promoted to a professor- 

 ship of natural science at Buchtel College. 



Arthur L. Clark has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of physics at Bates College. 



Dr. Margaret K, Smith has been appointed 

 professor of psychology at the State Normal 

 School, New Platz, New York. 



Dr. W. Palladin has been made professor 

 of plant anatomy and physiology in the Uni- 

 versity of St. Petersburg. 



