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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 358. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Council of Birmingham University have 

 authorized the preparation of plans for build- 

 ings to cost about $1,000,000. 



The engineering departments of Leland Stan- 

 ford University have been granted $50,000 for 

 equipments. 



A BACTERIOLOGICAL laboratory is to be 

 erected at the State Agricultural College, Lan- 

 sing, Mich., at a cost of $50,000. This sum 

 does not include the cost of the equipment, 

 which will be the best attainable. 



Northwestern University has received an 

 anonymous gift of $15,000. 



George C. French, of Mexico, Oswego 

 County, N. Y., has given $4,000 to Syracuse 

 University toward founding a chair of mathe- 

 matics as a memorial to his brother, the late 

 Dean, John R. French, of that institution. 



The professors at the Paris School of Anthro- 

 pology oflfer the following courses for the year 

 1901-1902 : M. Papillault : Anatomical an- 

 thropology, external form and proportions of 

 the human body ; special study of variations 

 due to social environment. M. Capitan : Pre- 

 historic anthropology, bases of prehistoric 

 studies : petrography, paleontology, industry. 

 M. Andre Lefevre: Ethnography and linguistics, 

 France during the fourteenth century. Charles 

 V. and Charles VI., the hundred years' war, 

 letters, art, language. M. Georges Herve : 

 Ethnology, ethnology of Europe, Alsace. M. 

 Adrien de Mortillet : Ethnographic technology, 

 the industry of modern primitive races com- 

 pared to tertiary and quaternary industry. 

 M. J. V. Laborde : Biological anthropology, 

 biological introduction to criminal anthropol- 

 ogy. The predisposition to crime in the or- 

 ganic and functional evolution of man. M. 

 Franz Schrader : Anthropological geography, 

 terrestrial laws and human customs. M. L. 

 Manouvrier : Physiological anthropology, com- 

 parative study of the sexes ; view point of 

 sociology. M. Charles Letourneau : Sociology 

 [history of civilizations] ; the conclusions of 

 ethnographic and comparative sociology. M. P. 

 G. Mahoudeau : Zoological anthropology, ori- 



gin of man ; genealogy of the hominidse. The 

 courses began on November 4 and are public ; 

 there are no tuition fees. 



Professor William S. Aldrich, late of the 

 University of Illinois, has entered upon his 

 duties as director of the Thomas S. Ciarkson 

 Memorial School of Technology, Potsdam, N. 

 Y. Among other recent appointments to the 

 staff of the Ciarkson School are Professor Ed- 

 win Haviland, Jr., B.S. (Swarthmore), M.A. 

 (Cornell), who will occupy the chair of civil 

 engineering, and Mr. W. S. Graffan, B.S. 

 (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), who has been 

 appointed superintendent of shops. 



The Ontario Government has appointed Dr. 

 T. L. Walker, at present assistant superintend- 

 ent of the Indian Geological Survey and curator 

 of the Calcutta Museum of Geology, to the 

 chair of mineralogy and petrography in Toronto 

 University. Dr. Walker is a graduate of 

 Queen's University, Kingston. 



Dr. D. S. Kimball has resigned the chair of 

 machine design in Cornell University to accept 

 a position with an electric company, and is suc- 

 ceeded by Dr. C. E. Coolidge. At the same 

 university Mr. William Riley has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in entomology. 



Dr. a. E. Shuttleworth has resigned the 

 chair of chemistry in the Ontario Agricultural 

 College to accept a technical position. He is 

 succeeded by Dr. Harcourt. 



The following changes in the science faculty 

 of Syracuse University were announced at the 

 opening of the year : C. B. Thwing, Ph.D. 

 (Bonn), has been elected professor of physics, 

 filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of 

 Professor EugeneHaanel. At the time of his 

 election Dr. Thwing was professor of physics in 

 Knox College, Galesburg, 111. F. A. Saunders, 

 Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), has been elected in- 

 structor in physics ; H. C. Cooper, Ph.D. 

 (Heidelberg), instructor in chemistry and E, 

 H. Kraus, Ph.D. (Munich), instructor in min- 

 eralogy. 



J. O. QUANTZ, Ph.D. (Wisconsin, 1897), has 

 been called to the chair of psychology at the 

 State Normal School at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 



