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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



March 27, was transferred to the re- 

 tired list in accordance with law. — The 

 Turin Academy of Science has con- 

 ferred the Bressa prize of about $2,000 

 on Dr. Ernest Rutherford, professor of 

 physics at Victoria University, Man- 

 chester. — Dr. W. M. Davis, Sturgis- 

 Hooper professor of geology, has been 

 selected by the German government as 

 Harvard visiting professor at the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin for the academic year 

 1908-9.— President Eliot, of Harvard 

 University, delivered in April six lec- 

 tures at Northwestern University on 

 the Norman W. Harris Foundation. 

 His general subject was " University 

 Administration." 



Provision will be made by the Can- 

 adian government in the estimates for 

 the coming financial year for a grant 

 of $25,000 by the Dominion parliament 

 towards the expenses of the visit of the 

 British Association to Winnipeg. The 

 city of Winnipeg proposes to make a 

 grant of $5,000. The week of the meet- 

 ing will probably be from August 25 

 to September 1, 1909. Dr. J. J. Thom- 

 son, Cavendish professor of experi- 

 mental physics at Cambridge, will 

 preside. 



In the bill making appropriations 

 for the Department of Agriculture for 

 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, 



and just introduced into the House, 

 the total sum appropriated is $11,- 

 431,346. Of this amount the following 

 sums are appropriated to what may 

 be termed the scientific bureaus and 

 offices of the department : Forest Serv- 

 ice, $3,796,200; Weather Bureau, $1,- 

 062,260; Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 $1,331,076; Bureau of Animal Indus- 

 try, $1,330,860; Bureau of Chemistry, 

 $791,720; Bureau of Entomology, 

 $434,960; Office of Experiment Sta- 

 tions, $230,620; Bureau of Statistics, 

 $221,440; Bureau of Soils, $204,700; 

 Office of Public Roads, $87,390; Bureau 

 of Biological Survey, $62,000, making 

 a total of $10,254,226. 



The Kentucky legislature, recently 

 adjourned, changed the name of the 

 College of Agriculture and the Mech- 

 anic Arts to the State University and 

 appropriated to it $200,000 in addition 

 to what it has already been receiving; 

 $30,000 of this amount is to be annual. 

 At the same time it appropriated $150,- 

 000 each to the two new State Normal 

 Schools. — Plans for two new buildings 

 have been accepted by the board of 

 trustees of the University of Illinois. 

 One is a physics laboratory, to cost 

 $250,000, the other an extension of 

 the natural history building, to cost 

 $150,000. 



