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uses is said to be one quarter of the whole 

 amount or about $65,000 a year. 



The Journal of the American Medical Association 

 understands that one of the wealthy families of 

 Chicago is arranging to endow, in a most liberal 

 manner, an institution for the study and scien- 

 tific investigation of infectious diseases. The 

 details and particulars have not yet been made 

 public, but it is reported that it will be second 

 in importance only to that of the gift by Mr. 

 Eockefeller, 



The Publishers'' Weekly gives some informa- 

 tion in regard to the export and import of 

 books and other printed matter for the first 

 nine months of the present year. The value of 

 the imports is $2,868,489, and of the exports 

 $2,592,268. As compared with the same period 

 of last year, the imports have increased about 

 $360,000, and the exports about $270,000. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



As a gift of a graduate, whose name is with- 

 held, a new building will be erected at Harvard 

 University at a cost of nearly $100,000. The 

 building will contain an auditorium having a 

 seating capacity of about 1,000. 



Dr. George Woodward has made a gift of 

 $20,000 for the establishment of a Woodward 

 Fellowship in Physiological Chemistry at the 

 University of Pennsylvania. 



Recent contributions to the Oberlin College 

 endowment fund are : C. B. and E. A. Shield, 

 of Chicago, $10,000; Merritt Starr, of Chicago, 

 $2,500 ; Dr. L. C. Warner, of New York, $3,000 

 from a fund now held in trust by him. 



Mrs. L. J. Wood, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., 

 has given $1,000 to the Physical Laboratory of 

 the Johns Hopkins University for new appa- 

 ratus. 



It is reported in the daily papers that a re- 

 cent decision of the United States District 

 Court of the State of Michigan greatly increases 

 the value of the estate of William Lampson, 

 bequeathed to Yale University. By this de- 

 cision the University comes into possession of 

 land supposed to contain large quantities of 

 copper. 



The building at the University of Michigan 

 devoted to physics and chemistry is being re- 

 modeled, and the alterations are now well ad- 

 vanced. 



The list of graduate students in Cornell 

 University for the current year is published. 

 It includes the names of 163 candidates for ad- 

 vanced degrees ; of these 96 are for Ph.D., 40 

 for A.M., 13 for M.M.E., 11 for M.S. in Agri- 

 culture, 2 for D.Sc, and 1 for M.C.E. There 

 are 185 graduate students in regular university 

 courses and 15 who are not candidates for any 

 degree. Mr. J. W. Prince (CM.) holds the 

 Sibley Fellowship in M.E. and Mr. L. D. 

 Crain (Perdue) the university fellowship in the 

 same subject. Of the 15 candidates for no de- 

 gree, 2 are in M.E. Of the 185 graduates, 

 mainly A.B.'s in the regular courses, 60 are in 

 M.E. , 68 in medicine and the remainder in 

 various courses. 



The department of botany, of the Iowa State 

 University, conducted its first summer school 

 of botany at Lake Okoboji during the summer. 

 The session continued from July 27 to August 

 20, and proved very succcessful. The summer- 

 school laboratory was located by Professor 

 Macbride near Okoboji post office, a central 

 point with respect to the most diversified 

 botanical region in the State. The work was 

 in charge of Assistant Professor B. Shimek, and 

 consisted chiefly of field excursions and the sub- 

 sequent elaboration and laboratory investiga- 

 tion of the material so secured. 



It is announced that Professor Robert Craik, 

 M.D., LL.D., dean of the faculty of medicine 

 and Strathcona professor of hygiene and public 

 health at McGill University, will resign his 

 position and receive a seat on the Board of 

 Governors. Dr. Craik has been connected with 

 McGill for over half a century. 



At the University of Toronto, Dr. Howard 

 Barnes has been appointed assistant professor 

 of physics. 



At the University of Michigan, Messrs. A. M. 

 Clover, R. F. Sanford and N. F. Harriman have 

 been appointed instructors in the chemical 

 laboratory, and Instructor G. O. Higley has re- 

 turned from a year's leave of absence in Zurich. 



