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from that in the United States. The drilling 

 of test wells by the government survey has 

 seldom been practicable here, but the govern- 

 ment of Brazil, like that of Peru, expects to 

 actually drill for water, and drilling outfits 

 have accordingly been purchased in this coun- 

 try for that purpose. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The University of Pennsylvania has asked 

 from the state an appropriation of $650,000 to 

 be used as follows: (1) University hospital — 

 maintenance, $140,000 ; new building, $75,000 ; 

 clinical amphitheater and laboratories for dis- 

 pensary buildings, $35,000; (2) university — 

 $175,000 for general maintenance, construc- 

 tion of buildings, and the purchase of appa- 

 ratus; (3) veterinary department — $100,000 

 for the erection of a suitable building and 

 equipment; (4) free museum of science and 

 art — $125,000 for the construction and equip- 

 ment of a building for the expansion of the 

 department. 



!Mr. Charles H. Hackley, of Muskegon, 

 Mich., has made public bequests, as follows : 

 To the Hackley Manual Training School of 

 Muskegon $250,000 is given, which, added to 

 $360,000 already given by Mr. Hackley, makes 

 the school's total endowment $610,000; as an 

 endowment for the Hackley Hospital, $300,- 

 000, less any sum given during Mr. Hackley's 

 lifetime for this purpose; for the maintenance 

 of the Hackley Public Library, $200,000 ;' for 

 the purchase of pictures for this library, $150,- 

 000. 



Mount Holyoke College will receive $172,- 

 000 as the residuary legatee of Edmund K. 

 Turner. 



The Drapers' Company have voted a further 

 sum of £400 a year for five years towards the 

 statistical work and higher teaching of the 

 department of applied mathematics, and the 

 Mercers' Company have voted £1,000 to the 

 chair of physiology, in University College, 

 London. 



We learn from Experiment Station 



Record that W. C. Stubbs, who has been since 

 1885 professor of agriculture in the Louisiana 



State University and director of the experi- 

 ment stations, has voluntarily retired. He is 

 succeeded by Professor W. R. Dodson, who be- 

 comes, by virtue of his ofiBce as professor of 

 agriculture at the university, director of the 

 three stations in the state, director of the 

 State Geological Survey, ofiicial chemist, etc. 



Mr. Thorne M. Carpenter has resigned his 

 position as assistant chemist and assistant in 

 the investigations with the respiration cal- 

 orimeter, of the Agricultural Station of the 

 Pennsylvania State College to accept a 

 similar position in connection with the in- 

 vestigations on human nutrition at Wesleyan 

 University. The vacancy has been filled by 

 the promotion of Mr. N. C. Hamner, and Mr. 

 W. A. Smith, a graduate of the college in 

 1901, has been appointed assistant chemist. 

 Mr. J. B. Eobb, of the Maryland Agricultural 

 College, who has assisted in the respiration 

 calorimeter investigations during the past 

 three winters, has been temporarily engaged 

 for the same purpose for the present season. 



Mr. F. L. Srnxix, assistant in physical chem- 

 istry at the University of Wisconsin, has juit 

 accepted a call to the University of Indiana, 

 as assistant professor of physical chemistry. 



M. Jonathan Rigdon, fellow of Clark Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed instructor in phi- 

 losophy in Clark College. 



Mr. H. H. Higbe, assistant in mechanical 

 engineering at Columbia University, has been 

 appointed instructor in the University of 

 Michigan, and Mr. L. F. Parr has been ap- 

 pointed to fill the vacancy at Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 



Mr. Edgar Schuster, M.A., New College, 

 Oxford, has been appointed to the Francis Gal- 

 ton research fellowship in national eugenics. 



Mr. L L. Tuckett, M.A., of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, has been appointed demonstrator 

 in physiology. 



M. Michael-Levy has been nominated by 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences for the chair 

 of inorganic chemistry at the College de 

 France, vacant by the death of M. Fouque. M. 

 Cayoux is named as the second cli'^ice of the 

 academy. 



