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tory and the United States Forest Service, 

 ■which share equally in the expenses of the 

 work. Engagements have been entered into 

 ■which will bring the survey to a completion 

 in 1910. Maps ■will be published showing the 

 present and original distribution of forest 

 areas in Illinois, and a report will be made, 

 by counties, in detail, together with a descrip- 

 tion of the various types of forest, as to com- 

 position and condition, estimates of the stand- 

 ing timber in each county, means of main- 

 taining the producing power of the forest 

 lands of the state, and recommendations to 

 private owners for the handling of their lands 

 in a way to maintain and improve their for- 

 ests. 



An Alabama Anthropological Society has 

 been established. It is composed of twelve 

 active members, residents of Montgomery, 

 and of such associate and honorary members 

 (an unlimited number) as may be hereafter 

 elected. There are to be 12 meetings each 

 year, each member submitting one paper. It 

 is planned to issue from time to time publi- 

 cations of a scientific nature and a yearly 

 bulletin containing the twelve papers sub- 

 mitted during the year. The first regular 

 meeting will take place on July 22. The 

 officers are: Thomas M. Owen, LL.D., presi- 

 dent ; Herbert B. Battle, Ph.D., vice-president ; 

 Peter A. Brannon, secretary; Buckner Beas- 

 ley, treasurer. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Me. John D. Eockefeller has made a 

 further gift of $10,000,000 to the General Edu- 

 cation Board. Its endowment is now $53,000,- 

 000. Mr. Rockefeller has authorized the board 

 to distribute the principal as well as the in- 

 come for educational purposes should this at 

 any future time appear to be advisable. 



Union College has received $75,000 from 

 Mrs. Katharine Spencer Leavitt, of Washing- 

 ton, for the endowment of the department of 

 philosophy, the gift being in memory of her 

 father. Rev. Dr. Spencer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 who was graduated from Union in 1824. 



Lord Strathcona, Canadian high commis- 

 sioner in London, has given half a million 



dollars to McGill University. Of this amount, 

 $450,000 is to be used for completing the new 

 medical building, and the balance for the aug- 

 mentation of salaries of the faculty. 



Messrs. John Swire and Sons have prom- 

 ised a contribution of £30,000 towards the 

 Hong Kong University endowment fund, the 

 Taikoo Sugar Refining Company £5,000 and 

 the Ocean Steamship Company £5,000, on con- 

 dition that the whole amount required is sub- 

 scribed. 



The University of Liverpool announces that 

 the J. W. Garrett international fellowship in 

 pathology and physiology of the value of £100 

 per annum, open to members of universities 

 and medical schools in the United States, 

 will be awarded in September. Applications 

 should be addressed to the dean of the medical 

 faculty. University of Liverpool. 



Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, director of the 

 hygienic laboratories of the Public Health and 

 Marine Hospital Service, has been appointed 

 head of a newly established department of 

 hygiene and preventive medicine in the Har- 

 vard Medical School. 



Professor Julius Stieglitz, of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry of the University of Chi- 

 cago, has recently been made director of the 

 laboratories of analytical chemistry in that 

 institution. 



Students who have been engaged in re- 

 search work in the laboratory of physiological 

 chemistry of Yale University and have re- 

 ceived the degree of doctor of philosophy from 

 the institution, have received appointments as 

 follows : John Franklin Lyman, assistant pro- 

 fessor agricultural chemistry, Ohio State 

 University; Mary Davies Swartz, instructor 

 in Teachers College, Columbia University; 

 Israel S. EHeiner, demonstrator of physiolog- 

 ical chemistry, medical department, of Tu- 

 lane University; Warren W. Hilditch, in- 

 structor in physiological chemistry, Syracuse 

 University; Victor C. Myers, adjunct pro- 

 fessor of ]>hysiological chemistry, Albany 

 Medical College; Arthur W. Dox, chemist, 

 cheese investigations, Storrs Agricultural 

 E.xperiment Station. 



