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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XI. No. 285. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Columbia University has received an 

 anonymous gift of $100,000 for a building to be 

 devoted to the religious life of Columbia, like 

 Dwight Hall, at Yale, and Brooks House, at 

 Harvard. 



Mr. J. B. Duke, of Durham, N. C, has pre- 

 sented Trinity College, of that city, with $50,- 

 000 for a library. 



It is said that President Taylor will be able 

 to announce at the Vassar commencement, that 

 the $25,000 needed for a biological laboratory 

 in addition to the $25,000 given anonymously, 

 has been secured, and that the building will be 

 erected without delay. 



By the death of Mrs. Juliet S. Bradford, half 

 the estate of Dr. Vincent L. Bradford of Phila- 

 delphia, who died sixteen years ago, reverts to 

 Washington and Lee University. The Univer- 

 sity will receive $100,000 and the testator's 

 law library and paintings. The amount is still 

 charged with several annuities, and by the 

 terms of the will the paintings and the law 

 library are to be kept up by the annual appro- 

 priation of $500 and $400 respectively. 



It is planned by a corporation composed 

 chiefly of friends of Teachers College, Columbia 

 University, to purchase a site and erect a dor- 

 mitory for the College on the Amsterdam avenue 

 front of the College block. The approximate 

 cost is estimated at $1,000,000. 



A NEW chair of physics, the Wykeham pro- 

 fessorship, has been established at Oxford, and 

 steps are being taken to establish a special 

 laboratory in connection with it. 



The wood-working shop and men's gym- 

 nasium of the University of Illinois were de- 

 stroyed by fire on June 9th. 



A FRESHMAN at Harvard University has been 

 sentenced to five days in jail by Judge Almy 

 for stealing a sign, which appears to be a sen- 

 sible way to put a stop to such minor breaches 

 of the law among college students. 



Professor F. P. Venablb, Ph.D., F.C.S., 

 director of the chemical laboratory in the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina, was on June 5th 

 unanimously elected to the presidency of that 

 institution. He succeeds Dr. E. A. Aldemann, 



who, as we have already reported, goes to Tu- 

 lane University as president. 



Nathan E. Leonard, who for twenty-seven 

 years has been professor of mathematics in the 

 State University of Iowa, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Montana School of Mines, at Butte. 



At the University of Pennsylvania Dr. J. 

 "William White Rhea Barton has been appointed 

 professor of surgery, and Dr. Edward Martin 

 and Dr. Charles S. Frazier clinical professors 

 of surgery. Dr. Richard M. Pierce was made 

 demonstrator of pathology, and Dr. William 

 F. Hendrickson and Dr. Frederick H. Howard 

 assistant demonstrators in pathology. 



Dr. F. L. Dunlop leaves the Worcester 

 Polytechnic Institute to accept an instructor- 

 ship in Chemistry at the University of Michigan. 



Professor Robert B. Owens, of McGill 

 University, has been appointed to the Tyndall 

 fellowship in physics of Columbia University, 

 and Mr. J. A. Matthews has been appointed 

 Barnard fellow. 



At the University of North Carolina, J. E. 

 Mills, A.B., A.M. (Davidson College N. C), 

 has been made assistant in chemistry, and J. E. 

 Latta, Ph.B. (University of N. C), instructor 

 in physics. 



Dr. Max Meyer, formerly assistant in the 

 psychological laboratory at Berlin and this year 

 honorary fellow in psychology in Clark Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed professor of psychology 

 in the University of Missouri. Dr. Charles W. 

 Green has been appointed instructor in zoology 

 in the same University. 



Mr. J. Frank Messenger, B.A. (Kansas, 

 1895), has been appointed assistant in the psy- 

 chological laboratory of Harvard University. 



We notice the following appointments in 

 German Universities : Dr. Alfred Wohl docent 

 in chemistry at the University of Berlin, has 

 been promoted to a professorship ; Dr. A. 

 Fritsch of Vienna, has been appointed associate 

 professor of botany in the University at Gratz ; 

 Professor Eugen Meyer of Gottingen, has been 

 made professor of mechanics in the Institute 

 of Technology at Charlottenberg, and Dr. 

 Schmeisser of Klausthal, director of the Geo- 

 logical Institute of the School of Mines at Berlin. 



