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SCIENCE. 



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of the old Dwight House. Twenty-flve thousand 

 dollars of the endowment fund has been devoted 

 to the establishment of a chair of psychology. 



The following gifts and bequests have also 

 been announced during the past week: Edgar C. 

 Brackett, a member of the State Senate of New 

 York, has given $30,000 to Cornell College, 

 Mt. Vernon, la. By the will of Alexander H. 

 McFadden, who died recently in Philadelphia, 

 Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., receives $10,- 

 000. At the commencement of Smith College 

 President Seelye announced that |32,000 had 

 been given to the College from various sources. 

 Ezra J. Warner, of Chicago, has added $20,000 

 to a previous gift of $50,000 for a science hall 

 for Middlebury (Vt.) College. 



Peopessor Chaeles A Young, of Princeton 

 University, delivered the commencement ad- 

 dress before Adelbert College. His topic was 

 ' The Unities of Time, Space, Law and Sub- 

 stance in the Domain of Astronomy.' 



The Board of Regents of the University of 

 West Virginia has refused to accept the re- 

 signation of President Eaymond and has passed 

 a resolution approving the policy he has pur- 

 sued in regard to the faculty and the students. 



De. Heney Wade Rogees has resigned the 

 presidency of Northwestern University. 



At Smith College, Dr. Arthur H. Pierce, of 

 Amherst, has been appointed associate professor 

 in mental and moral science, and Ralph Bar- 

 ton Perry instructor in ethics and pedagogy. 

 The following assistants have also been ap- 

 pointed : Miss A. Bruere in physics, Miss F. C. 

 Smith in botany and Miss A. P. Hazeu in 

 zoology. 



The following appointments to the position 

 of instructor have been made recently : Dr. 

 Lawrence E. GrifBn, in biology and zoology, at 

 Adelbert College ; F. W. Kaffer, in civil engi- 

 neering, at Princeton University ; Dr. Walter 

 B. Cannon, in physiology, in the Harvard 

 Medical School ; C. L. Bonton, in mathematics, 

 and Mr. E. W. Morse, in natural historj', in 

 Harvard University. 



The following degrees were conferred at the 

 commencement of Cornell University : There 

 were fifty-three who received A.B., forty who 

 received Ph.B., and sixty-two who received 



B.S. This is the last occasion on which the 

 two latter degrees will be conferred by the uni- 

 versity. There were fifty-two LL.B.'s con- 

 ferred, and six M.D.'s were added to the fifty- 

 three already conferred at the Medical com- 

 mencement in New York. Eight took B.S. A. 

 (agriculture), seven D.V.M. (veterinary medi- 

 cine), one (the first to receive such a degree in 

 this country); B.S.F. (forestry), B.Arch. (archi- 

 tecture) was granted to ten candidates; C.E. 

 (civil engineering) to fifty-two, and M.E. (me- 

 chanical engineering) to 100 of whom forty- 

 three had specialized in electrical engineering. 

 Fourteen were then given the degree of A.M., 

 one of M.C.E., four of M.M.E. There were 

 nineteen candidates for the Ph.D. degree of 

 which thirteen were in the sciences as fol- 

 lows : William Chandler Bagley (psychol- 

 ogy), Charles Edward Brewer (chemistry), Kary 

 Cadmus Davis (botany), Stevenson Whitcomb 

 Fletcher (horticulture), Charles Tobias Knipp 

 (physics), Gertrude Sharb Martin (social sci- 

 ence), William Fairfield Mercer (entomology), 

 Wilhelm Miller (horticulture), Vida Frank 

 Moore (ethics), Edward Charles Murphy (civil 

 engineering), William Alphonso Murrill (bot- 

 any), Guy Montrose Whipple (psychology), and 

 Ambrose Pare Winston (political science). 



At Cambrige University Mr. L. R. Wilber- 

 force has been appointed university lecturer in 

 in physics ; Mr. G. F. C. Searle a university lec- 

 turer in experimental physics, and Dr. G. H. F. 

 Nuttall university lecturer in bacteriology and 

 preventive medicine. 



The sixteen wranglers of the Cambridge 

 Mathematical Tripos this year are headed, 

 says Nature, by Mr. J. E. Wright of Trinity, 

 Mr. A. C. W. Aldis of Trinity Hall being sec- 

 ond wrangler. An Indian student, Mr. Balak 

 Ram of St. John's is fourth ; and Miss W. M. 

 Hudson of Newnham College, sister of the sen- 

 ior wrangler of 1898, is bracketed eighth wrang- 

 ler. Miss E. Greene, also of Newnham, is 

 equal to tenth. St. John's claims five of the 

 wranglers. Trinity four, Clare two. In Part 

 II. , the bracketed senior wranglers of last year, 

 Mr. Birtwistle of Pembroke, and Mr. Paranjpye 

 of St. John's, are placed with two others in the 

 first division of the first class. 



