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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 342. 



As we recorded last week the National 

 Council of Education did not adopt the report 

 of its committee on a national university. The 

 National Educational Association passed the 

 following resolution, offered by President R. H. 

 Jesse, of the State University of Missouri : 



Resolved, That this Association hereby reaffirms its 

 former declaration in favor of the establishment by 

 the National Government of a national university 

 devoted not to collegiate but to true university work. 



The Berkeley correspondent of the New 

 York Evening Post reports that the summer 

 session of the University opened with a regis- 

 tration of 720 ; but as some schools have not 

 yet closed, whose teachers are to join the at- 

 tendance later, the total attendance is certain 

 to pass 800. To this body of students sixty- 

 eight courses are offered by forty-two instruct- 

 ors. Last year there were 433 students and 

 twenty- five instructors, the latter giving thirty- 

 five courses. In 1899 there were 161 students. 



The chair of geology and natural history in 

 the University of California, held by the late 

 Professor Joseph Le Conte, will, it is under- 

 stood, be divided, Professor Andrew C. Law- 

 son being placed in charge of the geology and 

 associate Professor William E. Ritter in charge 

 of the department of zoology. 



The professorship of astronomy in the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, which has been vacant 

 since the resignation of Professor Milton Upde- 

 graff, to accept appointment in the United 

 States Naval Observatory at Washington, has 

 been filled by the selection of Dr. Frank H. 

 Seares, of California, now studying in Paris. 

 Dr. Seares is a graduate of the University of 

 California. 



Professor William Esty, of the University 

 of Illinois, has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of electrical engineering in Lehigh Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. E. C. Lunn, of the University of Chi- 

 cago, has been appointed instructor in mathe- 

 matics and astronomy in Wesleyan University. 



Professor James P. C. South all, M.A. 

 (Virginia), of Hobart College, New York, has 

 been appointed associate professor of physics at 

 the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, at Auburn, 



filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of 

 Professor H. H. Kyser. Professor Southall 

 was for three years instructor in mathematics 

 and physics at the University of Virginia. He 

 has been professor of physics at the Miller Insti- 

 tute, in Virginia, for five yeai-s, fellow and asso- 

 ciate in physics at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, and for two years professor of physics 

 at Hobart College, New York. 



The usual twenty fellowships have been 

 awarded at the Johns Hopkins University, in- 

 cluding the following in science : 



Arthur Byron Coble, of Lykens, Pa., A.B., 

 Pennsylvania College, 1897. Mathematics. 



Rheinart Parker Cowles, of Los Angeles, Cal., 

 A.B., Stanford University, 1899. Zoology. 



Charles Fowler Lindsay, of Halifax, N. S., 

 A.B., Dalhousie University, 1899. Chemistry. 

 Robert Edward Loving, of Wilmington, Va., 

 A.B. , Richmond College, 1896. Physics. 



Benjamin LeRoy Miller, of Oskaloosa, la., 

 A.B., University of Kansas, 1897. Geology. 

 Louis Alexander Parsons, of Burlington, la., 

 A.B., Iowa State University, 1895. Physics. 

 Dorothy M. Reed, of Leyden, N. Y., B.L., 

 Smith College, 1895, M.D., Johns Hopkins 

 University, 1900. Pathology. 



Daniel Naylor Shoemaker, of Fair Haven, 

 O., S.B., Earlham College, 1894. Zoology. 



William Stone Weedon, of Baltimore, S.B., 

 Maryland Agricultural College, 1894. Chem- 

 istry. 



The following appointments to fellowships 

 and scholarships in physics have been made in 

 the University of Nebraska : 



Fellows : W. B. Cortmel, Case School, Cleve- 

 land ; F. T. Bates, University of Kansas. 

 Scholars : L. B. Tuckerman, Adelbert College, 

 Cleveland ; I. Summers, University of Mis- 

 souri ; S. Williams, Iowa College, Grinnell. 



Dr. Isambard Owen has been elected prin- 

 cipal of Cardiff College in succession to the late 

 Viriamus J^ones. 



The Council of University College, Liverpool, 

 has elected Edgar Walford Marchant, D.Sc, 

 senior demonstrator at Finsbury Technical Col- 

 lege (London), to the lectureship in electro- 

 technics vacated by Mr. Alfred Hay's appoint- 

 ment to a professorship at Cooper's Hill. 



