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the forecastle will contain space for 50 Arctic 

 dogs. The ship will be rigged as a three-masted 

 schooner. Two steam winches will serve the 

 anchor and will also be used for scientific pur- 

 poses. The ship will be illuminated through- 

 out with electric light. The Howaldt Ship- 

 building Yard, which is under a contract to 

 have the ship built by the 1st of May, 1901, 

 and fitted out not later than the end of August, 

 1901, has already begun the construction. A 

 model of the vessel will be shown at the Paris 

 Exhibition. 



Lectures given or about to be given before 

 the Royal Institution, London, are as follows : 

 Mr. C. Vernon Beys, six Christmas lectures 

 (specially adapted for young people) on Fluids 

 in motion and at rest ; Professor E. Ray Lan- 

 kester, twelve lectures on the Structure and 

 classification of fishes ; Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, 

 three lectures on the Senses of primitive man ; 

 Professor H. H. Turner, three lectures on Mod- 

 dern astronomy ; Dr. Charles Waldstein, three 

 lectures on Recent excavations at Argive He ■ 

 rseum (in Greece), three lectures by Sir Hubert 

 H. Parry ; Mr. W. L. Courtney, three lectures 

 on the Idea of tragedy in ancient and modern 

 drama; the Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, six lec- 

 tures on. Polarized light. The Friday evening 

 meetings will begin on January 19lh, when a 

 discourse will be given by the Right Hon. Lord 

 Rayleigh, on Flight ; succeeding discourses will 

 probably be given by the Hon. C. A. Parsons, 

 Professor J. Reynolds Green, Mr. H. Warring- 

 ton Smyth, Professor J. H. Poynting, Major 

 Ronald Ross, Professor Frank Clowes, Sir Ben- 

 jamin Stone, M.P., Professor J. Arthur Thom- 

 son, Sir A. Noble, Professor Dewar and others. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. John D. Rockefeller has given $100,- 

 000 to Columbia University to endow the chair 

 of psychology. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given §300,000 

 to Cooper Union, New York City, and $200,000 

 has been contributed by Abram S. Hewitt and 

 Mr. Edward Cooper. This will enable the 

 Union to establish courses in mechanic arts. 



Syracuse University receives $25,000 by 



the will of the late Erastus F. Holden, of 

 Syracuse. 



The Italian Parliament has voted a sum of 

 1,300,000 lire for the erection of new buildings 

 for the Universitj' of Bologna. 



President J. M. Crafts, of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, has presented his 

 resignation, to take effect at the close of the 

 present academic year. In his letter of resigna- 

 tion, he says: "My reasons for taking this 

 step at the time are founded upon my desire to 

 return to purely scientific occupations. My 

 term in oflfice has shown me the wide field of 

 educational problems, both within and outside 

 the Institute, which should be studied, and I 

 have found that such studies and the perform- 

 ance of administrative duties, although not in 

 themselves burdensome, leave little freedom 

 for the pursuit of experimental science. A 

 choice must be made between administrative 

 and scientific occupations, and it is the latter 

 which I wish to choose." 



Edwin Grant Dexter, A.M. (Brown), Ph.D. 

 (Columbia), now of the State Normal College, 

 Greeley, Colo., has been elected professor of 

 pedagogy in the University of Illinois. 



Mr. E. M. Blake, Ph.D., who was recently 

 elected to an honorary fellowship in mathe- 

 matics at Cornell University, has entered upon 

 his work there. Mr. Blake received his doc- 

 tor's degree from Columbia University in 1893, 

 after which he spent two years there as instruc- 

 tor in Barnard College. He spent the year 

 '95-'96 as a student in Leipzig, Berlin and Got- 

 tingen, and in '96-'98 was instructor in mathe- 

 matics in Purdue University. Since leaving 

 Purdue, Dr. Blake has been a student in Paris ; 

 his investigations thus far have been chiefly in 

 kinematics. 



By a recent Ministerial decree, M. Sergeje- 

 vich, whose unpopularity with the students of 

 the University of St. Petersburg is said to have 

 been one of the chief causes of the disturbances 

 that have occurred among them, has been re- 

 lieved of his functions as Rector of the Univer- 

 sity of St. Petersburg. He has been succeeded 

 by Professor Holmstein, who is credited with 

 liberal tendencies. 



