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loses a great part of its value after a few j-ears. 

 The simpler euumeratiou would cost less than 

 half as much as a general census, aud, for 

 £50,000 or so, would maintain the continuity 

 of observation to an extent to which all those 

 interested attach the highest value. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



By the will of the late Sidney A. Kent, of Chi- 

 cago, the University of Chicago receives $50,000 

 and the Chicago Art Institute the same sum. 



Mes. Alice M. Eice, of Worcester, Mass., 

 has bequeathed $25,000 to Bowdoiu College and 

 $5000 to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 

 The latter institution also receives a further 

 contingent bequest of $5000 aud one-half the 

 residue of the estate. 



The Maryland Legislature has appropriated 

 $24,000 a year for two years to the Johns Hop- 

 kins University. It will be remembered that 

 for the past two years $50,000 has been given 

 annually by the State to the University. The 

 request for a continuation of the appropriation 

 was bitterly opposed, but fiually $25,000 was 

 granted by the Senate. The House rejected the 

 Senate Bill, as we reported last week, but it was 

 fiually brought up under the • Omnibus' bill and 

 passed, after being reduced to $24,000 a year. 



On April 6th the Physical Laboratory of Le- 

 high University was destroyed by fire. The 

 building was 220 feet long, 44 feet wide, and four 

 stories high. It was built in 1S92 at a cost of 

 $115,000 and it contained apparatus worth about 

 $35,000, most of which was destroyed. The 

 private Library of Professor W. S. Franklin 

 was mostly saved. The trustees at a meeting 

 on the same day decided to rebuild at once the 

 Laboratory, -which will be equipped and ready 

 for occupancy by next September. 



The University of the South at Sewanee, 

 Tenn., has received $50,000 from Mr. George 

 "W. Quintard of New York City, 



Me, Joseph A. Coean has given $20,000 to 

 Bates College for a librarj' building. 



Me. Geoege B. Haeelson, of Bloomington, 

 111., has given to the Powell Museum, of Illi- 

 nois Wesleyan University, a valuable collection 

 of minerals, fossils, and specimens of natural 



history, which he has made during the past 

 twenty-fi^ve years. 



It is understood that part of the recent gift 

 of $200,000 made by Sir William MacDonald, 

 of McGill University, will be used to secure an 

 extensive mineralogical collection. 



An anonymous benefactor has undertaken to 

 endow a Colonial Fellov.-ship of £100 a year for 

 five years in connection with the Liverpool 

 School of Tropical Medicine. It will be granted 

 to a graduate or student of a Colonial University 

 who desires to carry on bacteriological work in 

 the Thompson-Yates laboratories. 



We much regret to learn that the board of 

 regents of West Virginia LTniyersity, Morgan- 

 town, W. Ya., has formally received from Pres- 

 ident Eaymond charges of insubordination and 

 incompetency against five of the professors with 

 the recommendation that they be dismissed. 

 The members of the faculty will file counter- 

 charges and will insist upon the removal of the 

 president. 



Dr. Feank E, Lillie, professor of biology 

 at Yassar College, has accepted a professoi-ship 

 in the zoological department of the LTniversity 

 of Chicago. 



Peofessoe Williajm Oslee of the Johns 

 Hopkins University states that he is not a can- 

 didate for the chair of medicine in the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh. 



De. Edtvaed a. Aldeeman, president of the 

 University of Korth Carolina, has been elected 

 president of Tulane University to succeed the 

 late Col. William Preston. Johnson. 



Me. H, Woods, of St. Johns College, Cam- 

 bridge, has been appointed university lecturer 

 in paleozoology. 



De. Heemaxn Julics Kolbe, curator of the 

 Zoological Museum of the LTniversity of Berlin, 

 has been promoted to a professorship. 



De. Hugo Heegesell, docent aud director 

 of the Meteorological Institute of the University 

 at Strassburg, has been appointed associate pro- 

 fessor. 



De. Konigsbeegee has qualified as docent in 

 physics in the University of Freiberg, i. B. and 

 Dr. August Klages, in chemistry at the Uni- 

 versitv of Heidelberg. 



