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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXI. No. 533, 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



By the death of Mrs. George L. Littlefield, 

 widow of George L. Littlefield, of Pawtucket, 

 R. I., Brown University becomes the recipient 

 of the bulk of the Littlefield estate, estimated 

 at $500,000. The will provides that the cor- 

 poration shall apply the money as it sees fit, 

 except that $100,000 shall be used for the 

 establishment of the George L. Littlefield pro- 

 fessorship of American history. 



By the will of William F. Milton, of New 

 York, his estate will go to Harvard University 

 on the death of Mrs. Milton. The daily papers 

 state that it is worth between one and two 

 million dollars. 



CoLUMBU Unh-ersity has received $100,000 

 from Mr. Jacob H. Schiff to endow a chair of 

 social work, and the new professorship has 

 been filled by the appointment of Dr. Edward 

 T. Devine, general secretary of the Charity 

 Organization Society, director of the School 

 of Philanthropy and editor of Charities. This 

 endowment makes possible the close affiliation 

 between the School of Philanthropy and Co- 

 lumbia University. 



The contest of the will of Mrs. Josephine 

 L. Newcomb, who left more than $2,000,000 

 for the endowment of a college for women in 

 connection with Tulane University, New Or- 

 leans, has so far resulted favorably to the 

 interests of the college. 



The regents of the University of Nebraska 

 have recently voted $50,000 for the erection of 

 the first wing of a building to accommodate 

 the department of geology and the State Mu- 

 seum. The condition of the department at 

 present is so overcrowded and is so subject to 

 loss by fire that the curator has boxed and 

 removed fifty tons of material during the past 

 school year. This has been lowered for safe 

 keeping in an unused steam tunnel running 

 under the campus. In the hope and full ex- 

 pectation that the legislature of Nebraska will 

 act favorably upon this recommendation of 

 the regents, the TTonorable Charles H. Morrill, 

 founder and patron of the Morrill geological 

 expeditions of the University of Nebraska, has 

 offered the department an additional thousand 

 dollars annually with which to pursue geolog- 

 ical investigations both within and beyond the 



limits of the state. This will make it pos- 

 sible for the first time in several years to again 

 resume the annual Morrill geological expedi- 

 tions which were so fruitful of results from 

 1891 to 1901. 



WiLLL\MS College will ultimately receive 

 $12,500 by the will of Mrs. Harriet A. Jones, 

 of Chicago. 



Mr. E. Whitley has given $5,000 towards 

 the endowment of a chair of pathology at 

 Oxford. 



The Cambridge University convocation has 

 voted to retain compulsory Greek in the ' little 

 go ' or entrance examination, the vote being 

 1559 to 1052. It is understood that a ma- 

 jority of the resident teachers preferred to 

 make Greek optional, but the vote of convoca- 

 tion is largely decided by the country clergy 

 who have qualified for the M.A. 



Dr. E. O. Lovett, professor of mathematics 

 of Princeton University, has been elected pro- 

 fessor of astronomy to succeed Dr. C. A 

 Young, who has become professor emeritus. 



Mr. Harold L. M.^^dison has been appointed 

 instructor in zoology in Brown University. 



Dr. C. S. Gager, assistant in the labora- 

 tories of the New York Botanical Garden, is 

 acting as instructor in botany at Rutgers Col- 

 lege for the last half of the collegiate year. 



Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson, president, and 

 several other members of the board of man- 

 agers of the Free Museum of Science and Art 

 of the University of Pennsylvania have re- 

 signed owing to friction connected with crit- 

 icism of some of the discoveries of Professor 

 Herman V. Hilprecht. 



Dr. Charles G. Rockwood, Jr., professor 

 of mathematics at Princeton University, has 

 resigned. 



Dr. Spottiswoode Cameron has been ap- 

 pointed professor of public health at Leeds. 



Dr. A. R. CusHNY, of the University of 

 ^Michigan, has been appointed professor of 

 pharmacology and materia medica in Uni- 

 versity College, London. 



Professor L. V. Vernon-Harcourt has re- 

 sig-ned the chair of civil engineering in Uni- 

 versity College, London. . 



