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SCIENCE. 



[N. S, Vol. XIV. No. 352. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NOTES. 



The construction of a new science building, 

 costing $300,000, has been begun at Colorado 

 College. Towards this building Dr. D. K. 

 Pearsons gave $50,000 and an anonymous donor 

 has recently given $100,000. 



The equipment of the Whitin Observatory 

 of Wellesley College has received the addition 

 of a sidereal clock, built by the E. Howard 

 Clock Company of Boston. 



Mr. James S. Dickson, of Glasgow, has 

 given £10,000 to the University of that city 

 for the endowment of a lectureship of mining. 



Lord Kelvin delivered the inaugural address 

 on the occasion of the formal opening of the 

 James Watt Laboratory of Engineering at Glas- 

 gow University on September 3. The cost of 

 the laboratory has been about $200,000, toward 

 which sum. about $125,000 has been subscribed. 



We learn from the London Times that the 

 new technical school with museum extension 

 in William Brown street and Byrom street, 

 Liverpool, the foundation-stone of which was 

 laid on July 1, 1898, by Sir William Forwood, 

 chairman of the Library, Museum and Arts 

 Committee of the Liverpool Corporation, is 

 now practically completed, and its doors will in 

 a few days be opened to students in general. 

 The new building, designed by Mr. E. W. 

 Mountford, is of the modern nineteenth-century 

 classic style, and built of StanclifFe stone, from 

 the same quarry whence was obtained the ma- 

 terial for St. George's Hall. It extends from 

 the Brown Public Museum to Byrom street, 

 where there is an imposing curved front, and 

 the seven windows of the lower art gallery are 

 separated by couples of Ionic columns, over 

 thirty feet in height. The technical school 

 occupies three lower floors of the building as 

 well as some galleries at the very top, and is 

 entered from Byrom street, while the two up- 

 per floors form an extension of the Brown Mu- 

 seum, and are entered only from that building. 

 Notable features of the William Brown street 

 frontage are two bold, projecting bays, with 

 deep vaulted arches enriched with simple dec- 

 oration, while emblematic statuary fills in the 

 pediment, all the statuary being from the studio 

 of Mr. T. W. Pomeroy. In the basement, 



which is very little below the street level, are 

 many rooms and laboratories intended for vari- 

 ous handicrafts, with up-to-date apparatus. In 

 a cross-gallery on the top floor of the building 

 is a chemical laboratory where about threescoi-e 

 students can work, while above all is an observ- 

 atory with a large equatorial telescope. Al- 

 together the school has accommodation for 

 1,300 students at one time, and the electric 

 lighting and ' Plenum ' ventilation are excellent 

 in all departments. In the chemical and nau- 

 tical rooms students are already at work. 



Dr. E. E. Schieb, of the University of South 

 Carolina, has been appointed professor of phi- 

 losophy and pedagogy in Tulane University. 



Dr. T. H. Haines, has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of philosophy in Ohio State Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. L. W. Ladd, who is a son of Dr. George 

 T. Ladd, professor of philosophy at Yale Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed to the newly estab- 

 lished Hanna chair in the Medical College of 

 Western Reserve University. 



Dr. Emily Ray Gregory has been appointed 

 professor of biology, Wells College, Aurora, N. Y. 



At Dartmouth College Mr. George H. Lyman, 

 of Beloit College, has been called as successor 

 to Dr. George T. Moore, professor of botany, 

 who has accepted a government position at 

 Washington. Charles E. Bolser, A.B. (Dart- 

 mouth), Ph.D. (Gottingen), has been appointed 

 instructor in chemistry. 



Professor Joseph French Johnson has re- 

 signed the chair of finance in the University of 

 Pennsylvania and accepted the chair of politi- 

 cal economy and banking in the New York 

 University school of commerce, accounts and 

 finance. 



Dr. a. Stansfield, instructor in assaying 

 under Sir W. C. Roberts- Austen, at the Royal 

 College of Science, London, has been appointed 

 to the newly-established chair of metallurgy 

 in McGill University. 



Dr. Kasner has qualified as decent in me- 

 teorology in the Polytechnic Institute at Berlin ; 

 Dr. Weinhold for mathematics at Kiel ; Dr. G. 

 Rost for mathematics at Wiirzburg, and Dr. E. 

 Haunig for botany at Strasburg. 



