900 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Wyoming Uxiversity. — The legislature has appropriated funds for the fompletion 

 of the Science Hall and to enlarge the campus. The new l)uilding will contain the 

 geological museum and preparatory rooms, the botanical and chemical laboratories, 

 and a large lecture room. A central heating plant for all the buildings will be built. 



Xeceoloc^y. — Dr. George T. Fairchild died March 15, 1901, after a lingering illness, 

 at Columbus, Ohio, where he had gone for medical treatment. According to an 

 account of his life in the Kansas Agricultural College Industrkdist, Dr. Fairchild was 

 bom at Brownhelm, Ohio, October 6, 1838, his father being a farmer and teacher. 

 He was educated at Oberlin College, graduating in the classical course in 1862 and 

 in the department of theology in 1865. He was ordained to the ministry in the Con- 

 gregational Church, but never served as pastor, as he was elected instructor in the 

 Michigan Agricultural College in 1865 and the next year was made professor of 

 English literature, which position he filled until called to the presidency of the Kan- 

 sas State Agricultural College in December, 1879. He remained at the head of the 

 latter institution for seventeen and a half years, withdrawing at the close of the 

 collegiate year 1897. Under his presidency this college grew steadily in efficiency 

 and in general appreciation, both in the State and among similar institutions. "The 

 attendance grew from year to year, appropriations by the State legislature became 

 more abundant, and the name of the college became a synonym for thorough educa- 

 tional work. During the first year of his connection with the college the attendance 

 was but 276; during the last year it had grown to 734." Dr. Fairchild was promi- 

 nently identified with the educational associations of this country. He was a life 

 director in the National Educational Association, and took a prominent part in the 

 Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, of which he 

 was president in 1897. The last four years of his life were comparatively unevent- 

 ful. After a period of rest, during which he wrote his ])Ook on " Rural Wealth and 

 Welfare," he accepted a call to the chair of English literature at Berea College, 

 Kentucky, which position he occui^ied at the time of his death. 



National Bureau of Standards. — The recent act of Congress providing for the 

 establishment of this new bureau calls for a director, physicist, chemist, two assistant 

 physicists or chemists, several laboratory assistants, a secretary, engineer, and 

 mechanician. The appointment of Dr. Samuel W. Stratton, of the University of 

 Chicago, as director, has been announced. Dr. Stratton has been in charge of the 

 Office of Standard Weights and Measures in Washington. The appropriation for 

 the bureau carries $27,140 for salaries, $100,000 toward the erection of a fire-proof 

 laboratory, the entire cost of which is not to exceed $250,000, $25,000 for a site for 

 the laboratory, $10,000 for equipment, and $5,000 for general expenses, making a 

 total of $167,140. A visiting committee of five members, consisting of experts in the 

 various interests involved, but not in the employ of the Government, is provided for. 

 Fees will be charged for the services of the bureau in making comparisons, calibra- 

 tions, tests of apparatus, or investigations, except those performed for institutions 

 connected with the Federal or State governments. Germany is said to provide 

 $116,000, Great Britain $62,100, and Austria $46,000 annually for the maintenance of 

 similar standardizing bureaus. 



AcjRicuLTURAL EDUCATION IN GERMANY. — Accordiug to E uote* in the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle (29 (1901) , No. 734, p. 45), there are at present 241 institutions in Germany 

 giving instruction in agriculture, exclusive of the special schools of horticulture, 

 dairying, and other industries. There are chairs of agriculture and agricultural 

 institutes connected with 12 universities, and in addition 20 schools of agriculture, 

 not including the primary schools, where the education given is of a more elementary 

 character. Traveling teachers also visit remote districts to instruct the peasants and 

 show them the best methods of cultivation, etc. 



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