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education at Cambridge, the Liverpool Eoyal 

 Infirmary and Guy's Hospital, London. After 

 qualification, he studied specially at Vienna 

 and Freiburg. He was then invited by the 

 Secretary of State for India to proceed to India 

 for plague work ; and labored both up country 

 and also as an assistant to M. Haffkine in the 

 Imperial Research Laboratory at Bombay. He 

 then returned to England and has been con- 

 stantly engaged in the Thompson Yates Lab- 

 oratory, Liverpool, on research and the prep- 

 aration of plague prophylactic, by the request 

 of the Secretary of State for War and the 

 Agent-General of Cape Colony. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mb. T. Jefferson Coolidge, late Minister 

 to France, has given a fund of $50,000 to the 

 Jefferson Physical Laboratory of Harvard Uni- 

 versity for physical research. The income is to 

 be expended at the discretion of the director. 

 Professor John Trowbridge. Among the terms 

 of the gift is the following : The income of this 

 fund shall be used primarily for laboratory ex- 

 penses of original investigations by members of 

 the laboratory staff ; but the director, at his 

 discretion, may award therefrom an hono- 

 rarium, of not more than $500 per annum, for 

 the private use of any person who — although 

 receiving no salary from the university — may 

 wish to carry on original investigations under 

 his direction at the Jefferson Physical Labora- 

 tory. 



The General Electric Company has agreed to 

 give $12,500 for the establishment of a school 

 of electricity at Schenectady, provided that an 

 equal amount is secured from other sources. The 

 school would be afiiliated with Union College. 

 It will be remembered that the New York legisla- 

 ture was asked last year to establish this school. 



At the final meeting of the committee en- 

 gaged in founding a fellowship at the New York 

 University, in memory of the late Oswald 

 Ottendorfer, held recently, plans were made 

 for turning over the amount of subscriptions to 

 the University. The treasurer, James Speyer, 

 reported that the fund aggregated $20,199.85. 



Mr. George A. Armour has given $2,500 a 

 year for five years for the maintenance and de- 



velopment of the classical seminary at Prince- 

 ton University. The university is the residuary 

 legatee of the estate of Dr. John Sayre of Mis- 

 souri, $15,000 of which is now available. It 

 has also lately acquired, through the gift of an 

 unnamed donor, the property of the late Pro- 

 fessor Guyot. 



Mr. Edwarb B. Page, of New York, has 

 given to the SheflSeld Scientific School of Yale 

 University, $6,000 to found scholarships. 



On the occasion of the laying of the corner 

 stone of the new medical building of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, Dean Vaughan announced 

 that a few prominent medical alumni of the 

 university had established a fellowship in con- 

 nection with the medical department, to be 

 known as the Corydon L. Ford Fellowship, in 

 memory of the first professor of anatomy in the 

 university. 



President Angell, of Michigan University, 

 announces that an instructor in forestry is soon 

 to be appointed. 



Professor W. D. Gibbs, of the Ohio State 

 University, has been elected professor of agri- 

 culture and director of the experiment station 

 at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture 

 and theMechanic Arts at Durham, N. H. 



Professor Arthur W. Smith, who was at 

 Tulane University last year, has been appointed 

 professor of electricity and electrical engineer- 

 ing at the University of Mississippi. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has accepted the 

 Lord Rectorship of St. Andrew's University for 

 the ensuing three years. 



Dr. John Purser, for forty years professor 

 of mathematics in the Belfast Queen's College, 

 has retired. 



Professor W. Somerville, having accepted 

 post at the Board of Agriculture, will resign 

 the chair of agriculture at Cambridge Univer- 

 sity at the end of the present term. 



Professor Rudorff, director of the Labora- 

 tory of Inorganic Chemistry in the Technical 

 Institute of Berlin, has retired on account of 

 his health. 



Professor Max Wolf, of Heidelberg, has 

 declined the call to the professorship of astron- 

 omy at the university at Gottingen. 



