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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Main Kiiidixg of the Schooi^ of AGRicni.TunE. 



tion on a bluff overlooking the Missis- , 

 sippi, but plans have been drawn to ' 

 remodel the entire arrangement of the 

 buildings with a view to taking ad- 

 v-mtage of its fine site. 



Land, buildinijs and equipment, stu- 

 dents and teachers in large numbers, 

 the universily will surely have. It is 

 now a big university and will become 

 much bigger. Whether it will become 

 one of the great universities of the 

 world will depend on whether it can 

 find great men for its clinirs. This is 

 tne question hefore all our universi- 

 ties: it should be the dominant con- 

 cern of Minnesota at the present time. 



8CIE\TIFIC ITEMS 

 Presidents of the national scientific 

 sccieties have been elected as follows: 

 The Anerican Socitty of Naturalists, 

 Professor H. S. Jennings, of the Johns 

 Hopkins Univ(r ity; The American 

 Chemical Society, Professor Alexander 

 Smith, of the University of Chicago; 

 The Botanioil Society of America, 

 Professor W. O. Farlow, of Harvard 



University; The Geological Society of 

 America, Piofessor W. M. Davis, of 

 Harvard University; The Association 

 of American Geographers, Professor 

 Ralph S. Tarr, of Cornell University; 

 The American Paleontologieal Society, 

 Professor William B. Scott, of Prince- 

 ton University; The Society of Biolog- 

 ical Chemists, Professor L. B. Mendel, 

 of Yale Univer-ity; The American 

 Anthropological Association. Dr. J. 

 Walter Fewkrs, of the Bureau of 

 Americin Ethnology; ine American 

 Psychological Association. Professor 

 I. E. Seashore, University of Iowa; 

 the American Phi'osophical Associa- 

 tion, Professor Freiierick J. E. Woo '- 

 bridge, of Columbia University. 



The Nob'l prizes, amounting to 

 about $40,000 ench. have been distrib- 

 uted by the Kin; of Sweden with the 

 usual ceremonies. Th" prize-winners 

 in science — Professors Vi n der Wails 

 (physics), Wallach (chemistry) and 

 Kossel (medicine) — 'ere present to 

 receive their prizes nnd give the statu- 

 tory Irctures. 



