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SCIENCE. 



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Mb. Andrew Carnegie has given £25,000 

 to the Glasgow Technical College towards the 

 £50,000 necessary to complete the required 

 fund, £150,000, for the improvement of that 

 institution. Mr. Carnegie has also offered 

 £7,500 for a library at Ilkeston. 



The attendance at Cornell University, in- 

 cluding 850 new students, is stated by Presi- 

 dent Schurman, in his annual opening address, 

 as about 250 in excess of that of last year, and 

 as indicating the total registration for the year, 

 inclusive of the medical school in New York 

 and the summer school at Ithaca, as between 

 3,250 and 3,500. The registration on the cam- 

 pus, of students in regular courses, promises to 

 be about 2,750. Sibley College has a total at- 

 tendance of new students, in all classes and 

 courses, of above 350, almost equal to the total 

 of upper classmen returning to the college, mak- 

 ing the probable total registration for 1901-'02 

 about 750 in all grades. The College of Civil 

 Engineering has increased fifty per cent., and 

 the other colleges and departments report large 

 additions. The new building for the medical 

 department is about half completed ; that for 

 Sibley College, the great central ' dome,' about 

 one third. 



President Seth Low presented his resigna- 

 tion to the trustees of Columbia University on 

 October 7. It was accepted with expressions of 

 deep regret, and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, 

 professor of philosophy and education, was 

 made acting president. 



Dr. George H. Denny, professor of Latin, 

 has been elected president of Washington and 

 Lee University to fill the vacancy caused by 

 the death of William L. Wilson last October. 

 Dr. Denny is not yet thirty-one years of age. 



F. H. King, since 1888 professor of agricul- 

 tural physics in the University of Wisconsin, 

 has accepted the position of chief of a new di- 

 vision, created in the Bureau of Soils, and goes 

 to the new appointment in November next. 

 The vacancy created at the Univei'sity of Wis- 

 consin has not yet been filled. 



At Trinity College, Professor Flavel S. 

 Luther, of the mathematical department, has re- 

 turned from Europe and will take up his work 

 after a year's absence. Rev. Herman Lilien- 

 thal has resigned as assistant in the department 



of philosophy and Rev. Charles Harris Hayes, 

 Ph.D. (Columbia, Halle and Oxford), of Port- 

 land, Me., will take his classes. 



Dr. Edwin Mead Wilcox, M.Sc. (Ohio), 

 and Ph.D. (Harvard), formerly professor in the 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College of Okla- 

 homa, has been appointed professor of biology 

 in the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, 

 Ala., filling the vacancy caused by the resigna- 

 tion of Professor F. S. Earle, who has resigned 

 to accept a curatorship in the botanical depart- 

 ment of Columbia University, New York. 



Dr. W. M. Blanchard, last year instructor 

 in chemistry at the Rose Polytechnic Institute, 

 has been appointed instructor in charge of the 

 department- of chemistry at De Pauw Univer- 

 sity, in the room of Dr. P. S. Baker, whose 

 death we were recently compelled to announce. 



The following changes have been made in 

 the scientific departments of the University of 

 Maine; Gilbert A. Boggs, Ph.D. (Pennsyl- 

 vania), has been appointed instructor in chem- 

 istry ; John E. Burbank, A.M. (Harvard), tutor 

 in physics; Frank H. Mitchell, B.S., tutor in 

 chemistry ; H. W. Britcher, of Syracuse and 

 Johns Hopkins Universities, assistant in zool- 

 ogy ; Louis R. Cafy, B.S., assistant in biology, 

 and Geo. E. Poucher, of De Pauw University, 

 assistant in physics. 



Dr Isambard Owen having definitely de- 

 clined to accept the principalship of the South 

 Wales and Monmouthshii-e University College, 

 the council at a recent meeting decided 

 to advertise for a successor to the late principal, 

 Viriamu Jones, at a salary of £1,000 a year. 



Mr. W. J. Pope has been appointed professor 

 of chemistry and head of the chemistry depart- 

 ment at the new Municipal School of Tech- 

 nology at Manchester. 



Dr. T. E. Stanton, professor of engineering 

 at University College, Bristol, who recently 

 accepted the appointment of superintendent of 

 the Engineering Department in the National 

 Physical Laboratory, is succeeded in his chair 

 at Bristol by Mr. R. M. Ferrier, B.Sc. (Glasgow). 



Professor Max Wolf, of Heidelberg, has 

 received a call to the University at Gottingen 

 as professor of astronomy and director of the 

 observatory. 



