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and without the slightest hitch. The current 

 passes from the transmitter to an underground 

 plate, and then to a box containing the isolat- 

 ing elements of pitch and petroleum, whence it 

 is carried to the receiver at a distance and read 

 off by a Morse apparatus, which in turn repro- 

 duces the communications transmitted back to 

 the starting-point. The realization within a 

 limited space of the theory of wireless tellurian 

 telegraphy is therefore complete. A demon- 

 stration of the feasibility of the system is 

 shortly to be made between Paris and Com- 

 piegne, and immediately afterwards between 

 Paris and Brussels. Of course the radius of 

 action depends upon the power of the elec- 

 trodes, but Colonel de Pilsoudski declares that 

 messages can traverse not only mountains and 

 streams, but more easily still the sea. 



An exposition will beheld at Osaka in Japan 

 from March 1 to July 31, 1903. The articles to 

 be exhibited include agricultural, horticultural, 

 forestry and water products ; mining, indus- 

 trial, and mechanical exhibits ; and those per- 

 taining to education, science, sanitation, econ- 

 omy and the fine arts. The articles shall be 

 those collected, produced or manufactured by 

 the subjects of the Empire, or by foreigners re- 

 siding in Japan. The cost of the exposition is 

 to be paid by the imperial treasury, except the 

 expense of exhibiting, which will be borne by 

 the exhibitors. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The New York Evening Post states that Mrs. 

 Mary Austin Carroll, of Boston, has just made 

 a gift to the University of Virginia, by which 

 the institution will receive during the remainder 

 of her life an annual income of about $11,000. 

 Mrs. Carroll's father, the late Arthur W. Aus- 

 tin, at his death twenty years ago left his estate 

 of $400,000 in trust for the benefit of his daugh- 

 ter during her life, and at her death to go to 

 the institution founded by Thomas Jefferson. 

 Mrs. Carroll, sharing her father's love for the 

 University, has just arranged to give for the 

 rest of her life all her income except $5,000 a 

 year, which she reserves for her own support. 



The first meeting of the Trustees of the Car- 

 negie Educational Fund was held in Edinburgh 



on July 15. Lord Elgin, who presided, read a 

 letter from Mr, Carnegie announcing that he 

 had signed a deed placing $10,000,000 at the 

 disposal of the trustees. 



The last general Assembly of Connecticut 

 passed a bill giving an appropriation of $3,000 

 per annum to the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station at New Haven for insect work and re- 

 quiring that the station appoint a State ento- 

 mologist and pay his salary. Mr. W. E. 

 Britton was appointed to that oflSce by the 

 Board of Control at its meeting, June 10, 

 The law also requires that all nurseries in the 

 State be inspected once each year and that all 

 nursery stock shipped into the State shall bear 

 on each bale or package a certificate of in- 

 spection. 



The position of Austin teaching fellow in 

 histology and embryology at the Harvard Med- 

 ical School is vacant. The value of the fellow- 

 ship is $500, the appointment being annual. 

 The holder is expected to give about one-third 

 of his time to teaching in the laboratory and 

 the remainder wholly to an original research, 

 which must be approved by the professor in 

 charge. In the prosecution of the research the 

 large resources of the laboratory may be util- 

 ized. Applications should be accompanied by 

 a statement of previous experience and work, 

 and should be addressed to Dr, Charles S, 

 Minot, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. 



Dr. F. L. Stevens, who has just returned 

 from a year of study at Bonn, Halle and 

 Naples in the capacity of travelling fellow of 

 the University of Chicago, has been elected in- 

 structor in biology, in full charge of the de- 

 partment, in the College of Agriculture and 

 Mechanic Arts, Ealeigh, N. C. 



N. E. Gilbert, A.B. (Wesleyan, 1895), Ph.D, 

 (Johns Hopkins, 1901), has been appointed in- 

 structor in physics at Lehigh University, 



Frederick H. Safford, Ph.D. (Harvard), 

 has resigned from the mathematical staff of the 

 University of Cincinnati. 



At Birmingham University, Dr. A. H, R. 

 Buller has been appointed lecturer in botany 

 and Dr. R. C. Farmer demonstrator in chemis- 

 try. 



