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SCIENCE. 



N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 360. 



man to Mombasa by Lake Rudolf,' by Major 

 H. H. Austin ; ' Southwards on the Antarctic 

 Ship Discovery,' by Mr. George Murray, F.R.S., 

 and Dr. Hugh Robert Mill ; ' A Journey from 

 Quetta to Meshed by the New Nushki Trade 

 Route,' by the Earl of Ronaldshay ; ' The Bed- 

 ford Level and Experimental Demonstration of 

 the Rotundity of the Earth,' by Mr. H. Yule 

 Oldham; 'The Snows of Canada,' by Mr. 

 Vaughan Cornish; 'Antarctic Glaciation,' by 

 M. Henryk Argtowski, and ' Methods and 

 Appliances in the Teaching of Geography,' a 

 special lecture for teachers, by Mr. A. W. 

 Andrews. The paper by M. Argtowski will be 

 given at an afternoon meeting, while Mr. 

 Andrews's lecture will be given at a special 

 meeting on a date and at an hour likely to be 

 convenient to teachers in and around London. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Me. William Wyman announces that 

 000 has been raised of the $1,000,000 necessary 

 to make available his offer to the Johns Hopkins 

 University of 60 acres of land in the Northern 

 Annex. Mr. William Keyser gave $200,000 of 

 the amount. The names of all the contributors 

 to the fund will not, however, be announced 

 until it is complete. 



Kenyon College has received from various 

 sources $100,000 towards its endowment and 

 $50,000 for a new dormitory. 



An industrial college for women, to be called 

 The Simmons Female College, will be shortly 

 established in Boston, in accordance with a be- 

 quest made by John Simmons in 1875. The 

 estate, which was subject to a life interest, now 

 amounts to over $2,000,000. 



Mr. B. F. Barge, B.A. (Yale '57), has added 

 $2,500, to the same sum given by him recently 

 to Yale University. The money is to endow a 

 mathematical fund. 



By the will of the late E. P. Barker, Am- 

 herst College and Alfred University each re- 

 ceive $1,000. 



Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Thompson, of Indian- 

 apolis have added $20,000 to the $10,000 pre- 

 viously given by them to Butler College in that 



city, for the construction of the Bona Thomp- 

 son Library, as a memorial to their daughter. 



Mr. B. a. Palmer, of New York, has made 

 a gift of $30,000 to Union Christian College, 

 Merom, Ind. 



Drury College, at Springfield, has re- 

 ceived $8,000 from E. A. Goodnow, Esq., of 

 Worcester, Mass., for scholarships for young 

 women. 



The Duke of Sutherland has decided to erect 

 a large technical school near Golspie, Suther- 

 land. Building and equipment will cost £10,- 

 000, and in order to place the institution in an 

 independent position it is said that Mr. Car- 

 negie has offered another £10,000 as an endow- 

 ment. 



Mrs. FitzPatrick has given £2,000 to found 

 a lectureship on the history of medicine, in the 

 Royal College of Physicians, London, in mem- 

 ory of her late husband. Dr. Thomas Fitz- 

 Patrick. 



The Horace Mann school building of Teach- 

 ers College, Columbia University, will be dedi- 

 cated on December 5. The principal address 

 will be by ex -President Daniel C. Gilman, of 

 the Johns Hopkins University. 



Edward P. Hyde, A.M. (Johns Hopkins, 

 1900), has been given a fellowship in physics in 

 the Johns Hopkins University. 



Mr. R. p. Paranjpye, who was bracketed 

 senior wrangler in 1899, has been elected to a 

 fellowship at St. John's College. 



Dr. Hans Solereder, of Munich, has been 

 appointed professor of botany and director of 

 the Botanical Institute at the University at 

 Erlangen. Dr. V. Schiflfner, associate professor 

 of systematic botany in the German University 

 at Prague, has been called to a similar position 

 in the University of Munich. A full professor- 

 ship of astronomy in the University of Got- 

 tingen has been offered to Dr. Karl Schwarz- 

 schild, docent at Munich. Dr. G. Kowalewski, 

 docent in mathematics at Leipzig, has been 

 called to an associate professorship in the Uni- 

 versity at Greifswald, and Dr. Julius Sommer, 

 docent at Gottingen has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of mathematics in the Agricultural 

 School at Bonn-Poppelsdorf. 



