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fund to be called the " Matcliett Fund," the 

 income of which is to be used for the general 

 purposes of the college. 



The Catholic University, Washington, D. C, 

 is to have three new buildings — two labora- 

 tories and a main dining-hall, which will seat 

 1,000. One building, the chemical laboratory, 

 is to cost $300,000. The second laboratory 

 building will house the departments of phys- 

 ics and mechanical engineering. 



Governor Spry, of Utah, has approved a 

 bill recently passed by the legislature cre- 

 ating a department of metallurgical research 

 in the state school of mines, the engineering 

 school of the University of Utah. The new 

 department will be in charge of a director who 

 will be given from four to six young mining 

 engineers and metallurgists as assistants. He 

 will have no teaching whatever to do, but will 

 devote his entire time to research work. 



Very radi'cal changes are in progress in the 

 chemical laboratory of the Rensselaer Poly- 

 technic Institute. A new and larger lecture 

 room is being built on top of the present one, 

 and a new " water " laboratory, capable of ac- 

 commodating sixty students, is under con- 

 struction on the second floor. This additional 

 laboratory will be very completely equipped 

 for the analysis of water and sewage and 

 every facility will be provided for underta- 

 king such work from the chemical, bacterio- 

 logical and microscopical standpoints. The 

 quantitative and organic laboratories will be 

 greatly extended, reequipped and furnished 

 with conveniences of recent type, including 

 glass shelving, enlarged hoods and individual 

 arrangements for blast and suction on the 



There is pending in the Texas legislature 

 a bill providing for the removal of the State 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College from its 

 present location near Bryan to Austin and its 

 merging with the State University. 



The college of education of the Ohio State 

 University will conduct the educational sur- 

 vey of Ohio, which was provided for by a re- 

 cent act of the legislature. The purpose of 

 this survey is to secure concise information 



concerning the condition of all educational in- 

 terests of the state. Upon this information 

 future legislation on educational matters will 

 be based. Dean W. W. Boyd, of the college, 

 will have personal supervision over the sur- 

 vey, which will be started at once. 



The Prussian ministry of education (Kul- 

 tusministerium) has established a bureau of 

 school information (Kgl. Preuss. Auskunfts- 

 stelle fiir Schulwesen) which was opened 

 on April 1, 1913. Dr. Kullnick has been 

 placed in charge of the bureau and will pub- 

 lish an annual year-book under the title of 

 " Jahrbuch der Koniglich Preiissischen Aus- 

 kunftsstelle fiir Schulwesen." The first issue 

 will appear in November of this year and will 

 include all manner of information concerning 

 school matters, such as is not readily acces- 

 sible in other official or non-official publications. 

 Each volume will contain at least 320 pages. 

 Persons who are desirous of securing infor- 

 mation about German schools or school sys- 

 tems are referred to the new bureau, which 

 will be ready at all times to answer any ques- 

 tions concerning these matters. 



The income of the Theresa Sessel fund 

 given to Yale University for promoting orig- 

 inal research in biological studies, will, for the 

 present, be used in establishing two research 

 fellowships, to be awarded on the recommen- 

 dation of a standing committee composed of 

 the chairman of the departments of physiol- 

 ogy, zoology and botany, in consultation with 

 the dean of the graduate school. In making 

 the award, preference will be given to gradu- 

 ates of Tale or other universities, who have 

 already obtained their doctorate and who have 

 demonstrated by their work fitness to carry 

 on successfully original research work of a 

 high order. The fellowships will be of the 

 value of $1,000. 



Frederick Sheldon traveling fellowships 

 for 1913-14 have been awarded in the sciences 

 at Harvard University as follows : 



Donald Clinton Barton, for research in geology 

 in Europe and Egypt during the summer of 1913. 



Sidney Fay Blake, for research in botany in 

 Europe. 



