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in every way those who may come from abroad 

 for scientific observations, and for superintend- 

 ing arrangements generally. This commission 

 will sit either at the Royal Observatory, Lisbon, 

 or at the Society of Geography, Lisbon ; its 

 president is his Excellency Senor Marianno 

 de Carvalho. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Ohio Legislature with only three dis- 

 senting votes has placed a special tax on prop- 

 erty for two years of one-twentieth of a mill on 

 the taxable property of the State for the Ohio 

 State University. This will yield $90,000 a 

 year, which will provide a building for the 

 department of physics and one for the college 

 of law. 



It is reported in the dally papers that the 

 Bev. F. H. James of Oakley, Kans., having in- 

 herited a large sum of money, will endow a 

 Methodist University in Kansas City with 

 $1,000,000. It is also stated that he has also 

 given $300,000 for a college in Oakley. It is to 

 be hoped that these reports are correct. 



The University of Wales has received a be- 

 quest of £5500 for the foundation of scholar- 

 ships from the late Mr. Price Davies. 



The summer school in practical mining of 

 Columbia University will be conducted by Pro- 

 fessor Robert Peele at Cripple Creek, Colo. 

 After five weeks spent in the mines the student 

 will have two weeks work in geology with Pro- 

 fessor Arthur HoUick. 



Nature states that the report of the Advisory 

 Committee appointed to inquire into the best 

 manner for providing for scientific and commer- 

 cial training respectively in connection with the 

 new University of Birmingham has just been is- 

 sued. It will be remembered that Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie and an anonymous donor each prom- 

 ised a gift of 50,000Z. toward the establishment 

 of these two departments. The committee have 

 made inquiries as to facilities for the teaching 

 of science in its application to industries, and 

 they report that, in their opinion, no such teach- 

 ing, complete as they contemplate it, and as it 

 must be, if it is to be successful, exists in any 

 college in Great Britain. In making their 

 recommendations, the committee have had in 



view the object of the teaching of science in its 

 application to industry, coupled with such tech- 

 nical instruction in handicrafts as will enable 

 the students to complete their course in the 

 University itself. It is proposed that the fa- 

 cilities already provided in Mason University 

 College should be supplemented by chairs of 

 mining, metallurgy, engineering, and applied 

 chemistry. The scheme submitted contemplates 

 the introduction of a complete equipment for 

 the treatment of metals by heat and a small 

 plant for treatment by electricity, as well as the 

 necessary outfit for testing metals. Shops would 

 be provided for manual training, and it is 

 recommended that the machines used should be 

 of the best and most modern type of English, 

 American, and foreign manufacture. The com- 

 mittee further recommend the acquisition of 25 

 acres of land in the outskirts of Birmingham on 

 which to build the University, their estimate of 

 the total cost being 155,000Z. 



Pbopessor C. S. Prosser has been made 

 acting head of the Department of Geology in 

 Ohio State University. 



The following fellows have been appointed 

 at the University of Pennsylvania : Zoology, 

 J. R. Murlin and Miss R. A. Vivian ; pedagogy, 

 I. B. McNeal ; mathematics, U. S. Hanna ; 

 biology, Miss C. B. Thompson ; sociology, 

 Miss C. Kimball. 



Professor Ludwig Boltzmann, of Vienna, 

 has accepted the call to the. chair of physics in 

 the University of Leipzig. 



M. MoissAN has been appointed professor of 

 inorganic chemistry in the Paris School of Phar- 

 macology in the place of M. Riche who has 

 retired. 



Mr. J. F. Hudson, of Oxford University, 

 has been appointed mathematical lecturer at 

 University College, Bristol, in succession to Mr. 

 J. F. McKean who has been appointed a 

 mathematical lecturer at the Royal Naval En- 

 gineering College, Devonport. 



Dr. Meyer has qualified as docent in physics 

 in the University of Vienna, and Dr. Oppen- 

 heim as docent in theoretical physics in the 

 German University of Prague. 



