June 13, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



905 



President Lowell cut the sod whicli was lifted 

 by Mrs. Henry L. Higginson, a daughter of 

 Professor Louis Agassiz and a sister of the 

 late Professor Alexander Agassiz, '55. After 

 tHs, George R. Agassiz, '84, and Masimilian 

 Agassiz, '89, foUowed in turn, as well as a 

 number of other officers of the different de- 

 partments of the University Museum. The 

 money for the addition has been raised by 

 contribution from friends interested not only 

 in the Peabody Museum, but in the Univer- 

 sity Museum. The building will be pushed 

 forward with energy and it is hoped that the 

 new space for the collections will be available 

 in the course of nine or ten months. 



The tenth annual session of the Puget 

 Sound Marine Station will convene at Friday 

 Harbor, Washington, on June 23, and will 

 continue for a period of sis weeks. The 

 courses to be offered wiU be as follows: algol- 

 ogy, E. B. Wylie, University of Iowa; plant 

 ecology, A. R. Sweetser, University of Ore- 

 gon; elementary botany, William Moodie, 

 Washington State Normal; elementary zool- 

 ogy, H. B. Duncanson, Nebraska State Nor- 

 mal; general ecology, H. S. Erode, Whitman 

 CoUege; embryology of invertebrates, Wm. J. 

 Baumgartner, University of Kansas; ichthy- 

 ology, E. V. Smith, University of Washing- 

 ton; advanced ecology, Trevor Kincaid, Uni- 

 versity of Washington; plankton, John F. 

 Bovard, University of Oregon. Facilities wiU 

 also be offered for research along botanical 

 and zoological lines. The systematic survey 

 of the local fauna which has been in progress 

 for several seasons will be continued by fur- 

 ther deep-water exploration. The director of 

 the station, Professor Trevor Kincaid, of the 

 University of Washington, will be glad to 

 give more extended information to persons 

 planning to visit the laboratory. 



UNIFEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mr. Andrew Carnegie has undertaken to 

 provide a million dollars for the medical de- 

 partment of Vanderbilt University. Of this 

 sum $200,000 would be given the university 

 immediately for the erection and equipment 

 of laboratories. The income from the re- 



maining $800,000 would be paid annually for 

 the support of the department through the 

 Carnegie Corporation. A condition of the 

 donation provides that the direction of the 

 educational and scientific work of the depart- 

 ment be committed by the board of trustees 

 to a small board of seven members, three of 

 whom shall be eminent in medical and scien- 

 tific work. 



Messrs. James B. and Benjamin N. Duke 

 have given $800,000 more to Trinity College 

 in North Carolina. The college thus met the 

 $150,000 promised by the Rockefeller Founda- 

 tion and has added one million dollars to its 

 endowment. 



Governor Sulzer has signed a biU appro- 

 priating $250,000 for a building for the State 

 College of Agriculture at Syracuse University. 

 Plans for the building are in the hands of the 

 state architect and ground for the building 

 will be broken early in the summer. The 

 building will be located on the western end of 

 the university campus, and when completed 

 will be the largest and best equipped forestry 

 building in the United States. Provision will 

 be made in the basement of the building for 

 laboratories for timber-testing and for investi- 

 gations in the production of paper pulp and in 

 the destructive distillation of timber. That 

 is, there will be in a simple and miniature way 

 complete paper-making and acid plants. With 

 this will be a very complete wood-working 

 shop where students may get acquainted with 

 woods from the builder's standpoint. Besides 

 offices, class-rooms and laboratories, there will 

 be an auditorium on the third and fourth 

 floors with a seating capacity of 1,000. Such 

 closely related lines as forest botany, forest 

 zoology and forest entomology will be taken 

 care of in especially equipped laboratories. 



That the University of Wisconsin has 5,970 

 students at Madison this year and 5,523 en- 

 rolled in correspondence-study courses — a 

 total of 11,493 — is shown by the new catalogue 

 of the university which came from press this 

 week. Every college in the university except 

 the College of Engineering shows a gain. The 

 College of Agriculture, with a gain of 108 

 students over last year's enrollment of Y43, 



