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15, 1913. Efforts will be made to reach a de- 

 cision on this appointment by June 1, 1913. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for associate physi- 

 cist, qualified in metallurgy, to fill a vacancy 

 in the Bureau of Standards, Washington, 

 D. C, at a salary of $2,200 a year. There is 

 also announced an examination for logging 

 engineers to fill vacancies in this jwsition in 

 the Forest Service, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, at salaries ranging from $2,400 to $3,000 

 a year. The duties of this position will be: (1) 

 Planning the most effective logging develop- 

 ment of large national forest areas ; (2) de- 

 termining methods and costs of logging and 

 manufacturing national forest timber and the 

 market value of the products; (3) appraising 

 the value of stumpage for sale; (4) inspecting 

 and supervising the administration of timber 

 sales. 



The Fourth International Congress on 

 School Hygiene will be held in Buffalo, Au- 

 gust 25 to 30. The officers are Dr. Charles 

 W. Eliot, president; Dr. William H. Welch 

 and Dr. Henry P. Walcott, vice presidents; 

 Dr. Thomas A. Storey, of the College of the 

 City of New York, secretary general, and 

 Dr. Francis E. Fronczak, the Buffalo member 

 of the executive committee. Delegates will 

 attend from all the leading nations, from 

 every college and university of note in this 

 country and from various other educational, 

 scientific, medical and hygienic organizations. 



The following provisional program of the 

 Australian meeting of the British Association 

 in 1914 is published in The Observatory: 



July 3 — Leave London by direct steamer (later 

 by overland route). 



August 4 — Arrive Freeman tie (for Perth), 

 Western Australia. An advance part leaving Eng- 

 land a week earlier than the main party will join 

 the main party here. 



August 8-12 — Adelaide. Lectures; receptions; 

 excursions. 



August 13-19 — Melbourne. Presidential ad- 

 dress (first part) ; sectional meetings, etc. 



August 20-26 — Sydney. Presidential address 

 (second part) ; sectional meetings, etc. 



August 28-31 — Brisbane. Lectures; receptions; 

 excursions. 



The earliest date of arrival in England is 

 October 3; the route is by train to Adelaide, 

 thence by steamer (via Suez to a Mediter- 

 ranean port). Eeturning by steamer via 

 Thursday Island, Port Darwin, Java, Singa- 

 pore and Colombo, members will reach Eng- 

 land about October 10-18. A party visiting 

 New Zealand for a week will probably arrive 

 home about the end of October. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 WiLLi.\M B. Eeed, Jr., whose death oc- 

 curred recently in Putnam County, N. T., has 

 left an estate estimated at $350,000, of which 

 $250,000 is left to Princeton University, sub- 

 ject to the life interest of his wife. 



By the will of Addison Brown, ex-judge of 

 the United States District Court, who died on 

 April 9, Harvard University receives, $10,000; 

 Amherst College, $5,000; Bradford Academy, 

 $5,000, and 200 shares of United States Steel 

 preferred are left to the New York Botanical 

 Garden. 



Mr. John Howard Ford has given $1,000 to 

 Rutgers College for the purchase of the ento- 

 mological library of the late Professor John 

 B. Smith. 



On May 8 and 9 the University of Illinois 

 will dedicate three new engineering buildings. 

 These are the transportation building, the 

 locomotive testing laboratory and the mining 

 laboratory. A series of addresses by eminent 

 men in the transportation and mining fields 

 will be features of the program. 



The mayor of Dresden has published a pam- 

 phlet in which the plan for the foundation of 

 a university in that city is described. The 

 university is to be combined with the already 

 existing technical and veterinary colleges. It 

 is proposed that the city appropriate $2,500,- 

 000 (10,000,000 Marks) for this purpose, and 

 the state a sum of $75,000 for the erection 

 of buildings and an annual appropriation 

 to defray the expenses of the scientific de- 

 partments. 



