806 EXPEKIMENT STATION RECORD. 



is proposed to build only the sea wall and to reclaim two large areas of land on the 

 west L'de, which are now entirely covered by water, containing together over 131,000 

 acres, of which 115,000 will be available for cultivation. The reclamation of these 

 two western "polders," together with the indemnities to the fishing interests and 

 other incidental expenses, is estimated to cost about $-10,000,000, and would occupy 

 about fourteen years. The area of the two other " polders" to be reclaimed later is 

 365,000 acres. The total cost of reclaiming the 480,000 acres of cultivable land is 

 estimated at about $75,000,000, and would occupy some thirty-three years. The 

 rental value of the reclaimed land is placed at $10 an acre. Aside from providing a 

 large body of land suitable to cultivation, it is urged that the project will be of great 

 economic advantage in effecting a saving in the present cost of pumping and main- 

 tenance of sea banks, as well as by providing direct communication by road and 

 railway along the top of the dike between Holland and Friesland, shortening the 

 distance materially. 



It is understood that the consideration of the bill for inaugurating this work has 

 been temporarily postponed, owing to the condition of the finances of the country. 



Personal Mention. — Dr. K. von Tubeuf, chief of the biological division of the 

 German department of health, has been appointed professor of forestry in the 

 University of Munich. 



Prof. W. H. Brewer, for thirty-seven years professor of agriculture in the Sheffield 

 Scientific School of the Yale University, will, according to a note in Science, retire 

 from the active duties of the professorship at the end of the present academic year. 



Oscar Clute, LL. D., a graduate of the 31ichigan Agricultural College in the class 

 of '62, president of the Michigan Agricultural College from June, 1889, to August, 

 1893, and of the Florida Agricultural College from 1893 to 1897, died January 23, 1902. 



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