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The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 will have on January 1, 1902, four magnetic 

 observatories cooperating in the international 

 magnetic work to begin on that date and to 

 continue during the pei-iod of antarctic explora- 

 tion, viz : one at Cheltenham, Md., near Wash- 

 ington, D. C, another at Baldwin near Law- 

 rence, Kansas, a third at Sitka, Alaska, and a 

 fourth near Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. 



The Gottingen Academy of Sciences has de- 

 cided to establish and maintain at its own ex- 

 pense, during the period of the special inter- 

 national magnetic work, a magnetic observatorjj 

 near Apia, in the Samoan Islands. The ob- 

 servatory will be equipped for observations in 

 terrestrial magnetism, atmospheric electricity, 

 meteorology and seismology. This observatory 

 will be nearly magnetically south of the Hono- 

 lulu observatory and about the same distance 

 south of the magnetic equator as the latter is 

 north of it. The two observatories will like- 

 wise use practically the same instruments and 

 methods, so that interesting and valuable con- 

 tributions may be expected from them. Mr. 

 A. Nippoldt, of the Potsdam Observatory, will 

 be in charge of the Samoan Observatory. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Mr. F. a. Sampson, of Sedalia, Mo., has pre- 

 sented to the University of Missouri his library 



of Missouriana, a collection which is valued at 

 $25,000, and Professor Litton, formerly of 

 Washington University, St. Louis, who died 

 recently, bequeathed to the University a valu- 

 able collection of scientific apparatus and 

 books. 



The sum of $1 , 200 has been pledged with which 

 to purchase books for an alcove in chemistry at 

 Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa. 



It is stated in the New York Evening Post that 

 it has been decided by the alumnse of Wellesley 

 College to use certain funds in hand for an oil 

 portrait of Helen A. Shafer, professor of math- 

 ematics in the college from 1877 to 1888, and 

 president from 1888 to 1894, and for the pur- 

 chase of books, models and other permanent 

 equipment for the department of pure mathe- 

 matics ; and, in addition, to establish a fund of 

 $2,000 to be turned over to the trustees and in- 

 vested by them as the Shafer Memorial Fund, 

 the interest to be expended for the benefit of 

 the above department. 



The trustees of Clark University, at Worces- 

 ter, Mass., have voted to establish a colle- 

 giate department in accordance with the will 

 of the late Jonas Clark. E. Harlow Eussell, 

 principal of the State Normal School at Worces- 

 ter, has been selected for president of the de- 

 partment, which is to come into operation in 

 October, 1902. 



Mr. Begin ald Gordon, instructor in physics 

 in Columbia University, has resigned to enter a 

 mercantile business. His place will be taken 

 by H. C. Parker, now a tutor in physics, and 

 Mr. Parker's tutorship will be filled by G. B. 

 Pegram, now an assistant. 



Mr. H. O. Jones, Clare College, Cambridge, 

 has been appointed Jacksonian demonstrator 

 in chemistry in place of the late Mr. W. T. N, 

 Spivey. 



Mr. H. S. Davis, graduate student in zo- 

 ology at Harvard University, has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in vertebrate zoology at the 

 Washington Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Pullman, Washington. 



Professor Paul Kaufmann has resigned 

 the chair of pathology in the University of 

 Missouri. 



