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now in Java, making further collections in 

 Buitenzorg, and. will return home in August. 



The daily papers say that Dr. A. H. Doty, 

 health officer of the port of New York, pro- 

 poses to try to exterminate the mosquitoes of 

 Staten Island. Men are said to be at work 

 mapping all the marshes, stagnant pools, etc., 

 and crude petroleum is to be released beneath 

 the surface of the water. The marshes, etc., 

 will also be drained. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. a. C. Bartlett has increased his gift 

 for a gymnasium for the University of Chicago 

 from $125,000 to $200,000. 



Mr. John S. Newbury, of Detroit, has given 

 Yale University $25,000 for an organ, to be 

 placed in Memorial Hall. 



A netv astronomical observatory with in- 

 creased equipment, including the equatorial 

 telescope which formerly belonged to the late 

 Judge Knapp of New Jersey, is being erected 

 at Lincoln University, Pa. This will be used 

 mainly for purposes of instruction under the 

 directorship of Professor Walter L. Wright, Jr. 

 who has, for a number of years, been in charge 

 of the department of mathematics at that 

 institution. 



The General Purposes Committee of the 

 Birmingham City Council has decided to recom- 

 mend a grant of the proceeds of a half-penny 

 rate which will provide the University with the 

 sum of £5,000 annually. 



Four members of the faculty of the Con- 

 necticut Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn., 

 have been asked to resign, as a result, it is said, 

 of their alleged opposition to the policy of 

 President Flint. They are : Nelson S. Mayo, 

 M.S., D.V.M., professor of anatomy, physiology 

 and veterinary science ; Henry A. Ballon, as- 

 sistant professor of forestry, botany and mili- 

 tary science ; Thomas D. Knowles, instructor 

 in English, mathematics, history and physical 

 culture ; Charles E. Myers, instructor in farm 

 accounts and business methods, and secretary 

 of the faculty. 



We learn from The Botanical Gazette that 

 the regents of the University of West Virginia 



have abolished the professorship in botany 

 without notice to the present incumbent. Dr. 

 E. B. Copeland. Dr. Copeland is spending the 

 summer at the Cold Spring Biological Labora- 

 tory. 



The chair of pathology in the University of 

 Sydney is vacant and applications for it are in- 

 vited. The salary is £900 per annum and a 

 pension of £400 per annum is allowed on cer- 

 tain conditions after twenty years' service. 

 The sum of £100 will be allowed for passage 

 expenses from Europe or America. The suc- 

 cessful applicant is to begin his duties on March 

 1, 1902. Further particulars may be obtained 

 from the Agent-General for New South Wales, 

 9 Victoria Street, London, S. W., to whom ap- 

 plications, stating applicant's age (which must 

 not be more than forty years) and qualifica- 

 tions, and accompanied by four copies of each 

 testimonial submitted, should be sent not later 

 than September 14, 1901. 



At the July meeting of the Board of Eegents, 

 Mr. L. W. Hartman was elected to the profess- 

 orship in physics at the Kansas State Agricul- 

 tural College for the coming year. For the 

 past year and a half Mr. Hartman has been on 

 the stafiT of the department of physics at Cor- 

 nell University. 



Karl Wilhelm Genthe, Ph.D. (Leipzig), 

 has been appointed instructor in natural his- 

 tory in Trinity College. 



The following have been appointed assistants 

 in histology and embryology at Cornell Univer- 

 sity : Arthur M. Bean, A.B,, of Iowa College ; 

 Charles W. Bunker, B.S., of the University of 

 Nebraska; Bert R. Hoobler, B.S., of Wabash 

 College ; William C. Thro, A.M., of Cornell 

 University ; Gersham F. White, B.S., of Ohio 

 University, and William F. Wismar, A.B., of 

 Rochester University. 



Dr. Alfred Koch, of Oppenheim, has been 

 appointed associate professor and director of 

 the Institute of Agricultural Bacteriology at 

 the University of Gottingen. ' 



Dr. Edmund Landau has qualified as docent 

 in mathematics at the University of Berlin, and 

 Dr. G. Senn as docent in botany in the Univer- 

 sity of Basle. 



