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recently given the sum of $10,000 for a new women's hall, wliich is 

 much needed. 



The Florida State Normal and Industrial School has received from 

 Andrew Carnegie $10,000 for a new library. 



To the University of California has been bequeathed the estate of 

 the late M. Theodore Kearney, near Fresno, comprising about 5,000 

 acres of land, valued at about $1,000,000 and jdelding an annual 

 income of some $50,000, preferably for the endowment of agricultural 

 education and research. 



BUILDINGS. 



While there are many important college buildings for agriculture 

 in process of construction, few of these buildings have been com- 

 pleted during the past year. The University of Arkansas, however, 

 has completed six buildings, including two dormitories, a $15,000 

 chemistry building, a $12,000 agricultural building, a $6,000 dair}'- 

 building, and a hospital. The new administrative building of the 

 University of California has been completed at a cost of about $267,000, 

 with an additional expenditure of $26,000 for ecjuipment. A new 

 entomological laboratory has been dedicated for the use of both col- 

 lege and station. It occupies a new building consisting of three 

 stories and a basement. The central building of the Iowa State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts has also been completed, the 

 total expense for building and furniture amounting to $410^000. The 

 University of Florida was removed during the summer of 1906 from 

 Lake City to its new location at Gainesville. At the latter place it 

 has now only three buildings, but is planning an elaborate and costly 

 modern plant. The agricultural building at the I^niversity of Illinois 

 is undergoing an overhauling as the result of the removal of the 

 household science department to the new women's building and the 

 erection of a farm mechanics building on the back part of the cam- 

 pus. These changes have l^een necessitated by the rapid growth 

 of the college of agriculture, which at the time of the erection of the 

 agricultural building consisted of 7 instructors and 19 students. Now, 

 six years later, there are 44 employees in the college and station and 

 430 students. At the Micliigan Agricultural College the campus has 

 been extended bv removing all of the older barns back 200 or .300 

 yards, thus providing room for a new agricultural building ^\■hich it 

 is proposed to erect in the near future. 



Among the new buildings which are in process of erection are the 

 $250,000 college of agricidture buildings at Cornell University, a new 

 $45,000 botanical building at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 a new main building at the college of agriculture of the I^niversity of 

 Minnesota, and a new agricultural-horticultural building at the 

 Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College. 



