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estate, containing thirty acres and costing 

 $510,000. This purchase fixes definitely the 

 direction of Tale's growth northward heyond 

 the present site of the Shefiield Scientific 

 School. 



It was announced at the meeting of the 

 Tale Corporation, on May 15, that a gift 

 had been received by Tale from a Harvard 

 graduate — whose name was withheld — for the 

 purpose of cementing the good feeling between 

 the two universities. The use of the fund 

 was left entirely to the Tale CoriJoration, 

 which has voted to expend it for securing from 

 time to time lecturers from Harvard to speak 

 before the students of Tale. President Eliot, 

 of Harvard, has accepted the corporation's 

 invitation to be the first lecturer. 



The University of Indiana has been granted 

 $100,000 by the state legislature for the erec- 

 tion of a new library. 



Work is about to be started on the new sci- 

 ence hall of Colby University, which will be 

 erected at a cost of about $90,000. 



Dr. D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago has made 

 a gift of $50,000 to Montpelier Seminary at 

 Montpelier, Vt., which he attended, conditional 

 upon the institution raising $100,000 within a 

 year. 



At the annual meeting of the National 

 Academy of Design it was voted to accept the 

 offer of Columbia University to form an affilia- 

 tion. It is planned to collect $500,000 for a 

 building, which will be erected on a site fur- 

 nished by Columbia University. 



The University of North Dakota will open 

 a medical college in the autumn of 1905. 

 Until the clinical advantages are adequate the 

 medical course will extend only through the 

 first and second years of the four years' cur- 

 riculum. Students who have completed the 

 work at the University of North Dakota will 

 be received into the junior year of the medical 

 schools with which articulation is arranged. 



The Medical College at Bahia, Brazil, with 

 its equipment and valuable library, has almost 

 totally been destroyed by fire. 



Dublin University has recently opened its 

 degrees to women, and the first result has 



been somewhat curious. Students who have 

 done their work at Oxford or Cambridge may 

 receive the bachelor's degree at Dublin. As is 

 well known, Oxford and Cambridge do not 

 give their bachelor's degree to women, and 

 eighty-four women who had completed the 

 work for the degree at these universities have 

 received the degree from Dublin on the pay- 

 ment of $50 each. 



Professor Asaph Hall, Jr., has resigned as 

 professor of astronomy and director of the ob- 

 servatory at the University of Michigan. Pro- 

 fessor W. T. Hussey, of the Lick Observatory, 

 has been elected his successor. Professor 

 Hussey was graduated from Michigan in 1889. 



Samuel J. Barnett, assistant professor of 

 physics at Stanford University, has accepted 

 the chair of physics at Tulane University, 

 vacant by the resignation of Dr. Brown Ayres 

 to accept the presidency of the University of 

 Tennessee. 



The department of physics in the Univer- 

 sity of California has secured the appointment 

 of Dr. A. S. King and Dr. A. W. Gray for 

 the coming year, as instructors. Dr. King 

 will continue the spectroscopic investigations 

 on which he has published already a number of 

 papers. Dr. Gray returns from the Univer- 

 sity of Leyden, where he has been working in 

 the cryogenic laboratory, to a ' Research In- 

 structorship on the Whiting Foundation,' sup- 

 ported from the income of the bequest of 

 Harold Wliiting, formerly associate professor 

 of physics in the University of California. 



At Williams College, Mr. William E. Mc- 

 Elfresh has been promoted to the Thomas T. 

 Reed professorship of physics, and Mr. Herd- 

 man L. Clelland to a professorship in geology. 



Dr. E. B. Holt has been appointed assistant 

 professor of psychology at Harvard Univer- 

 sity. 



Dr. a. R. Eerguson, senior assistant to the 

 professor of pathology in Glasgow University, 

 has been appointed professor of pathology in 

 the Medical School, Cairo. 



The council of the Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales has appointed Mr. Harald I. 

 Jensen to be the first Linnean Maclay fellow. 



