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picnic all the participants are taken out to 

 the demonstration fields and there the meth- 

 ods used to secure high yields are explained 

 by professors from the agricultural college. 

 How popular these meetings are is shown by 

 their growth in attendance. In 1909 the 

 average number present at a meeting was 80; 

 this year it was 450. A notable result of these 

 demonstration fields and demonstration pic- 

 nics is the great improvement in agricultural 

 methods in the sections where they are in 

 force. 



UNIFEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The London correspondent of the Journal 

 of the American Medical Association writes 

 that the British government has made ar- 

 rangements for taking part in the tropical dis- 

 eases exhibition to be held at Ghent this year. 

 The London School of Tropical Medicine, the 

 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the 

 Cairo and Khartum schools, the navy and the 

 army will be represented. Each of these or- 

 ganization has been given certain diseases to 

 illustrate in a popular manner, so that people 

 may realize what is being done to make the 

 tropics habitable to mankind. The cases will 

 contain specimens of the insect pests which 

 are the cause of the spread of disease in the 

 tropics, with examples of the culture of bac- 

 teria taken from their blood, and numerous 

 microscopic and photographic views of the de- 

 velopment of the difl^erent stages. In all, 

 thirteen diseases will be illustrated. The Lon- 

 don School of Tropical Medicine will make a 

 complete display of the work in progress in 

 connection with cholera, beriberi and ele- 

 phantiasis, including any fresh information 

 available consequent on the outbreak of 

 cholera among the Balkan troops. The Liver- 

 pool school will set out the work that is being 

 carried on against yellow fever and sleeping 

 sickness, diseases in which the school has spe- 

 cialized for a long time. The admiralty will 

 exhibit what has been done by the fleet sur- 

 geons in the matter of undulant fever, more 

 commonly known as Malta fever, and due to 



the goats of the island. The war office will 

 take up that scourge of all armies, typhoid 

 fever, and will depict the results of the study 

 in the prevention and cure of the disease. 

 Plague comes under the direction of the India 

 office, and Dr. Andrew Balfour, of the Egyp- 

 tian service, will make a special exhibit deal- 

 ing with leprosy and other eastern diseases. 

 Most, if not all, of the exhibits will make an 

 important feature of the part played by flies, 

 mosquitoes, fleas and rats in the distribution 

 of disease. Part of the display is intended to 

 inform the public how best to guard against 

 these insect pests. Mosquito-proof houses, 

 mosquito-proof clothing, and even mosquito- 

 proof books are to be on view. A rat-proof 

 house will be included in the departmental ex- 

 hibits. There will be several examples of 

 foods which have been deprived of their nutri- 

 tive qualities, such as polished rice, which 

 causes beriberi. The Liverpool school, which 

 deals with this subject, will exhibit tinned 

 foods from which the nutritive properties have 

 been withdrawn in the process of preserving. 



The Arkansas general assembly has ap- 

 propriated $36,000 for the medical department 

 of the University of Arkansas for the biennial 

 period ending March 31, 1915. 



Lake Erie College has obtainel the sum of 

 $200,000 for general endowment. 



The Tucker fund committee at Dartmouth 

 College has established a fellowship of the 

 value of $1,200 which may be renewed for a 

 period of three years; the holder of the fel- 

 lowship may study at an American or foreign 

 university and at its expiration must be pre- 

 pared to accept an instruetorship at Dart- 

 mouth College. 



Dr. Charles F. Myers, of New York City, 

 has bequeathed $25,000 to Acadia University, 

 Nova Scotia, to establish a professorship of 



Mr. Augustus Nash has bequeathed the 

 residue of his estate in trust to pay a near 

 relative the income during life, and after- 

 wards to pay the capital sum to Bristol Uni- 

 versity in the hope that it may be used to ad- 



