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natural dye-stuflfs, largely consumed in England 

 and extensively grown in British possessions ; 

 indigo was the latest object of this particular 

 kind of enterprise, and a sum of If millions 

 sterling was being devoted to the achievement 

 of the extermination of this natural dye-stuff. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. John D. Eockepeller has promised to 

 contribute $200,000 toward the endowment 

 fund for Barnard College, Columbia University, 

 provided that an equal sum is given by others 

 before January 1, 1902. 



The corner stone of the new Medical Build- 

 ing of the University of Michigan was laid on 

 the 15th inst., under the auspices of the State 

 Medical Society, by Dr. Leartus Connor, the 

 president of that body. Addresses were de- 

 livered in connection with the ceremonies by 

 the Hon. Regent Kiefer, President Angell, Dr. 

 J. A. McCorkle, professor of medicine in the 

 Long Island College Hospital and a member of 

 the class of '73 of the University of Michigan, 

 and by Professor J. G. Adami of McGill Uni- 

 versity. .The building, which has been made 

 necessary by the rapid growth in recent years 

 of the Medical Department, will contain the 

 laboratories and class-rooms of the departments 

 of hygiene, bacteriology, anatomy, histology 

 and pathology, and the contracts for its erec- 

 tion' call for an expenditure of $88,000, ex- 

 clusive of what may be required for the heating, 

 plumbing and general equipment. The old 

 Medical Building, which has been the home of 

 the Medical School for fifty years, will be re- 

 modeled throughout and adapted for the use 

 of the departments of pharmacology, physiology 

 and chemistry. 



At the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology Capt. William Hovgaard, of the Danish 

 Navy, has been appointed professor of naval 

 design in the department of naval architecture. 

 Dr. H. P. Talbot has been made head of the 

 department of chemistry. Dr. Talbot has for 

 some years past been professor of analytical 

 chemistry, and, since the departure of Dr. 

 Drown, has in a measure acted as head of the 

 department. 



Mr. Henry M. Huxley has been made 

 Hemenway fellow and assistant in anthropology 

 at Harvard University. 



The New York Evening Post states that D. 

 K. Zangogiannis, who was appointed professor 

 of pedagogy at the University of Athens two 

 years ago, and who had made a special study 

 of German educational systems, has been de- 

 posed by the Government because of an article 

 he wrote for a German periodical in which he 

 criticised the Greek high schools. 



Dr. John Young, professor of natural his- 

 tory at Glasgow, has been obliged by the con- 

 dition of his health to resign his chair after 

 thirty-five years' service in the University. He 

 will continue to act as curator of the Hunterian 

 Museum. 



Dr. Purser, professor of the institutes of 

 medicine in the School of Physic, Trinity Col- 

 lege, Dublin, has resigned the chair he has held 

 for twenty-seven years. 



At Trinity College, Cambridge, the annual 

 election to fellowships has been held, when 

 four vacancies were filled. The new fellows in 

 the sciences are Harold Albert Wilson, B.A., 

 advanced student ; certificate of research 1899 

 for papers on ' The electrical conductivity of 

 flames containing salt vapors,' 'Velocity of 

 solidification,' ' The influence of dissolved sub- 

 stances and of electrification on the re-forma- 

 tion of clouds,' and 'On the variation of the 

 electric intensity along the electric discharge 

 in rarefied gases ' ; Allen scholar, 1900 ; Clerk 

 Maxwell scholar, 1901 : and James Hopwood 

 Jeans, B. A., bracketed second Wrangler, Math- 

 ematical Tripos, Part 1, 1898 ; First Class, 

 Division 1, Mathematical Tripos, Part II., 

 1900 ; Isaac Newton student, 1900 ; Smith's 

 Prize, 1901. 



Dr. H. Erdmann, of the University of Halle, 

 has been appointed to a full professorship of 

 inorganic chemistry, in the Technical Institute 

 at Berlin. Dr. G. A. Gmeiner has been ap- 

 pointed professor of mathematics in the Ger- 

 man university at Prague. 



On page 620 of the last issue of Science the 

 word ' geological ' was omitted before the word 

 research in the sixth line. 



