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tion was established at Skegness. Reports 

 have also been obtained from Portland Bill, 

 and Malin Head has taken the place of Black- 

 sod Point. A station was still required, how- 

 ever, on the south coast of Ireland to complete 

 the I'equirements of the two continental offices. 

 In other respects the arrangements for weath- 

 er telegrams between this country and the con- 

 tinent of Europe, the Azores and the United 

 States remained the same as in the preceding 

 year. The council regret that the practical 

 extension of wireless telegraphy has not en- 

 abled them to increase the area of observation 

 to the westward by information obtained from 

 Atlantic liners by that means. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Lord Eayleigh proposes to present to Cam- 

 bridge University the value of the Nobel prize 

 for physics which has just been awarded to 

 him. 



The secretary of the University College of 

 Xorth Wales has announced that the recent 

 bequest to the college by the late Dr. Isaac 

 Roberts, the astronomer, is expected to realize 

 £15,000. 



The University of Edinburgh has received 

 a gift of £25,000 from Sir Donald Currie for 

 the establishment of lectureships. £5,000 may, 

 however, be used for the purchase of a site for 

 new laboratories. The university has also re- 

 ceived £15,000 from other sources. 



In accordance with the will of George 

 Smith, '53, of St. Louis, filed in March, 1902, 

 the treasurer of Harvard University has re- 

 ceived in cash and securities a payment of 

 $257,550.66. When this fund reaches $450,000 

 by accumulation, three new dormitories are to 

 be erected. They will be named the James 

 Smith Hall, the Persis Smith Hall, and the 

 George Smith Hall. 



It is reported that general plans for the 

 new Yale library to be built from the Ross 

 legacy of $250,000 are definitely settled. The 

 Chittendon wing will be preserved, and the 

 first part of the new library will probably be 

 built between that wing and the present old 

 university library, which will thus be pre- 

 served for some years. The new structure 



will probably use up the whole legacy of $250,- 

 000, and will supply all university library 

 needs for twenty-five years to come. 



HoLLis Hall, the oldest dormitory of Har- 

 vard University in use, was damaged by fire to 

 the extent of $5,000 on December 29. 



The Columbia University Council has au- 

 thorized the degree of graduate in pharmacy 

 to be conferred, as in the past, by the ivTew 

 York College of Pharmacy, but has provided 

 for the establishment of a course of higher 

 grade leading to the degree of pharmaceutical 

 chemist. 



A SCHOOL of veterinary medicine and sur- 

 gery was opened at the University of Liverpool 

 on December 13. 



The Association of American Universities 

 will meet at Johns Hopkins University, in 

 Baltimore, on January 12, 13 and 14. The 

 following are the delegates: California, Pro- 

 fessor B. I. Wheeler, Professor Irving String- 

 ham, Professor Leuschner; Catholic, Dr. E. 

 A. Pace, Dr. F. Egan; Chicago, President 

 W. R. Harper, Professor A. W. Small; Clark, 

 President G. S. Hall; Columbia, Professor 

 Monroe Smith, Professor W. H. Carpenter, 

 Professor Henry M. Howe, Professor E. D. 

 Perry, Mr. F. P. Keppel; Cornell, Dean 

 Thomas F. Crane; Harvard, President C. W. 

 Eliot, Dean J. B. Ames, Professor T. K. 

 Carver; Johns Hopkins, President Remsen, 

 Professor Gildersleeve, Professor Welch; Le- 

 land Stanford, Jr., Professor A. H. Suzzallo, 

 Professor E. P. Cubberley; Michigan, Pro- 

 fessor A. C. McLaughlin ; Pennsylvania, Dean 

 J. II. Penniman, Professor J. C. Rolfe, Dean 

 Clarence G. Childs; Princeton, Professor A. 

 F. West, Professor W. M. Daniels, Professor 

 H. B. Pine ; Virginia, Dean J. M. Page, Presi- 

 dent E. A. Alderman; Wisconsin, President 

 Charles R. van Hise; Yale, President A. T. 

 Hadley. 



John Robert Sim, assistant professor of 

 mathematics in the College of the City of 

 New York, has been made head of the de- 

 partment of pure mathematics. 



Dr. Oskar Brefeld, professor of botany at 

 Breslau, has retired from active service. 



