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SCIENCE. 



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explained recent developments of the sun and 

 earth-magnetism question, and described the 

 new observatory on Mount Wilson, California, 

 and its proposed work. The second lecture 

 was devoted to an explanation of the lunar 

 theory. On March 16 he spent some time in 

 giving an account of the work at some Amer- 

 ican observatories and in showing photographs 

 of nebulffi. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 It was announced at the meeting of the 

 trustees of Columbia University, on May 1, 

 that $500,000 had been given by an anonymous 

 donor for the construction of a new college 

 hall. Ground has already been broken for 

 the new building in accordance with plans pre- 

 pared by Messrs. McKim, Mead and White, 

 the architects of the university. It will stand 

 at the southeast corner of Amsterdam Avenue 

 and 116th St., adjoining the dormitories now 

 in course of erection. The building will be 

 known as Hamilton Hall, in honor of Alex- 

 ander Hamilton of the class of 1777, and will 

 thus perpetuate the name of the college build- 

 ing before the removal of Columbia University 

 to its new site. 



The legislature of Minnesota which has just 

 adjourned, made direct appropriations for the 

 University of Minnesota for the next two 

 years amounting to $706,600, besides $58,000, 

 derived from the insurance on the old main 

 building, destroyed by fire last September. 

 The largest items covered by the appropria- 

 tion are $408,000 for a new main building, 

 and $60,000 per year to the current expense 

 fund. Besides money received by direct ap- 

 propriation from the legislature, the univer- 

 sity has a regular annual income of $438,000, 

 derived from the tax levy, invested funds and 

 other sources. 



Ground has been broken for the new build- 

 ing for the College of Agriculture at Cornell 

 University. It is expected that the buildings 

 will be completed in the summer of 1906 at a 

 cost of $250,000. 



Professor Alpiieus S. Packard bequeathed 

 about 2,000 scientific books to Bowdoin Col- 



lege. He also bequeathed $200 to the college 

 to be reinvested until it shall amount to 

 $2,000, when it shall be called the Packard 

 Scholarship, in memory of his father. Pro- 

 fessor A. S. Packard, class of 1816. The in- 

 terest is to be used for the aid of students in 

 botany, zoology and geology. 



A PROFESSORSHIP of civil engineering in the 

 University of Birmingham with a salary of 

 £600 has been established. The professor wiU 

 be allowed to take higher consultative work, to 

 keep in touch with civil engineering practise, 

 provided that it does not interfere with his 

 university duties. Applications, accompanied 

 by 75 copies of testimonials, should be received 

 by the secretary not later than May 20. 



At the University of Nebraska departments 

 of pathology and bacteriology, of applied me- 

 chanics and machine design, and of geography 

 have been created. Dr. E. H. Wolcott has 

 been promoted to a professorship of anatomy; 

 G. R. Chatburn to an associate professorship 

 of applied mechanics and machine design; G. 

 E. Condra to an associate professorship of 

 geography and economic geology, and Herbert 

 A. Waite to an associate professorship of 

 pathology and bacteriology. 



Dr. Ealph Garrigue Wright, B.S. (Colum- 

 bia, 1899), Ph.D. (Basel, 1902), who has been 

 acting as Professor Bogert's private assistant 

 in connection with some investigations in or- 

 ganic chemistry at Columbia University this 

 year, has been called to the prpfessorship of 

 chemistry at Washington and Jefferson Col- 

 lege. 



Mr. D. a. Lyon, instructor in geology and 

 mining in Stanford University, has been pro- 

 moted to an assistant professorship. 



Messrs. O. A. Molatch and W. M. Kelsie 

 have been appointed assistants in chemistry in 

 Cornell University. 



Mr. Charles F. McKjm, of Messrs. McKim, 

 Mead and White, and Mr. Thomas Hastings, 

 of Messrs. Carrere and Hastings, have been 

 appointed directors of ateliers, with the rank 

 of professor in the School of Architecture of 

 Columbia University. 



