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were made during the last two sessioas of the 

 Legislature, has been completed and equipped, 

 and is now occupied by the department of 

 chemistry. The building is a three-story brick 

 structure, finished with Roman cement, and is 

 100 feet long by 46 feet deep. It contains six- 

 teen rooms, of which thirteen are now in use. 

 Four large laboratories are for student use, and 

 will accommodate over 200 students working 

 in sections. The lecture room has a seating 

 capacity of one hundred and fifteen persons ; 

 it is completely equipped with separate prepa- 

 ration room, rear hood, 28 foot table provided 

 with down draught, projecting spectroscope 

 and polariscope, etc. The building also con- 

 tains four private laboratories, two store rooms, 

 a dark room, a balance room and a private 

 office for the director. The three rooms not 

 yet fitted up are all of large size. The labora- 

 tories are ventilated by a large Sturtevant cen- 

 trifugal exhauster, driven by an electric motor ; 

 all the rooms are wired for light and for power, 

 and are heated by steam. Gas is furnished by 

 a 100-light Detroit combination machine. The 

 total cost of building, furniture, apparatus and 

 chemicals was $22,500. 



The trustees of Williams College met in New 

 York City on November 8, with a view to se- 

 lecting a president for the College, but were 

 unable to come to a decision. Of the fifteen 

 trustees in attendance it is said that five voted 

 for Dr. E. H. Griffin, professor of the history 

 of philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University 

 and dean of the college faculty, and three for 

 Dr. Henry Lefavour, professor of physics at 

 Williams College and dean of the faculty. 



In the Medical Department of the University 

 of Pennsylvania Dr. Charles Mills has been ap- 

 pointed clinical professor of nervous diseases, 

 in the place of Dr. Horatio Wood, resigned ; 

 Dr. W. G. Spiller, assistant professor of nerv- 

 ous diseases, and Dr. Charles Burr, professor 

 of mental diseases. 



Assistant Professor S. Lawrence Bige- 

 LOW has been made acting director in charge of 

 general chemistry at the University of Michi- 

 gan during Professor Freer's absence in the 

 Philippines. Mr. A. M. Clover has been ap- 

 pointed acting instructor in chemistry. R. T. 



Sanford and N. F. Harriman have been ap- 

 pointed assistants in the chemical laboratory. 



A. B. Macallum, Ph.D., has been promoted 

 to a full professorship of physiology in the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto. 



The following appointments have been re- 

 cently made at the University of Oregon : E. 

 D. Ressler, A.M. (Ohio State University), as- 

 sistant professor of education ; Henry D. Shel- 

 don, Ph.D. (Clark), assistant professor of phi- 

 losophy and education ; Richard H. Dearborn, 

 B.S. (Cornell), instructor in electrical engineer- 

 ing; Charles W. M. Black, Ph.D. (Harvard), 

 instructor in mathematics ; Orin F. Stafford, 

 A.B. (Kansas), instructor in chemistry ; Percy 

 P. Adams, A.B. (University of Oregon), assist- 

 ant instructor in civil engineering ; Archibald 

 A. Atkinson, A.B. (Pacific University), assistant 

 instructor in biology ; P. Irving Wold, B.S. 

 (University of Oregon), assistant instructor in 

 physics ; R. R. Renshaw, scholar and assistant 

 in chemistry. 



Professor J. B. Garner, of the Bradley 

 Institute at Peoria, has been appointed professor 

 of chemistry in Wabash College. 



Mr. Lyman F. Morehouse, an assistant in 

 the physical department of the University of 

 Michigan, has accepted a position as an in- 

 structor at Washington University, St. Louis. 

 Mr. Lindley Pyle will fill the vacancy at the 

 University of Michigan. 



Philip B. Hawk, M.S., has been elected to 

 succeed W. D. Cutler, A.B., as assistant in 

 the department of physiological chemistry of 

 Columbia University, at the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons. 



Clark Wisslbr, A.B. (Indiana), Ph.D. 

 (Columbia), has been appointed instructor in 

 psychology in the School of Pedagogy of New 

 York University, and Dr. J. E. Lough has been 

 promoted from an instructorship to an acting 

 professorship. 



Professor Hugh L. Callendar, F.R.S., 

 has been appointed to the professorship of 

 physics in the Royal College of Science, vacant 

 by the resignation of Professor Riicker, who 

 has become principal of the University of 

 London. 



