June 20, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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ample, 1,130 persons were killed in 1910 by- 

 wild animals and 7,767 by snakes; but Bom- 

 bay is, with the exception of the Punjab, at 

 the bottom of the list with 22 deaths by wild 

 animals and 1,247 by snakes. The statistics 

 regarding the number of cattle killed by wild 

 animals are not very perfect, but it is esti- 

 mated that in the five years ending 1910 the 

 number of animals killed was about 100,000, 

 leopards accounting for 48 per cent, and tigers 

 for 32 per cent. 



UNIVESSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Columbia University, Eutgers College and 

 the Reformed Church in America receive be- 

 quests which may amount to $1,000,000 each 

 as the three principal beneficiaries under the 

 will of Mrs. Mary B. Pell, who died on May 26 

 at 182 Riverside Drive, and was the widow of 

 John H. Pell. Each beneficiary received a 

 direct bequest of $200,000 and an interest in 

 large trust funds aggregating more than 

 $2,000,000. The bequest to the Reformed 

 Church is for the purpose of building the 

 Wessels Memorial Hall at the theological 

 seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., and the 

 same name is to be adopted for a memorial 

 hall to be erected with the bequest to Rutgers. 

 The fund for Columbia is to erect Pell Hall, 

 in memory of the decedent's husband, who 

 was an alumnus of Columbia. 



Princeton University has received $100,000 

 from Mrs. Russell- Sage toward the construc- 

 tion of a dining hall. 



GovERNOK SuLZEB has sigued bills appro- 

 priating $450,000 for the College of Agricul- 

 ture of Cornell University, which also receives 

 $125,000 in the supply bill. The appropria- 

 tion for the veterinary college is $70,000. A 

 part of the additional appropriation this year 

 is to he used for increasing salaries. 



The bill taking over the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons by the University of 

 Illinois was advanced to its third reading in 

 the legislature, on June 5, after the defeat of 

 amendments offered by those opposing the pro- 

 ject. The state is being asked to appropriate 

 $200,000 for maintenance of the institution, 



this being a part of the $4,300,000 appropria- 

 tion asked for the University of Illinois. 



The Plant Industry Hall of the University 

 of Nebraska, containing the departments of 

 agricultural botany, entomology, experimental 

 agronomy and horticulture was dedicated on 

 June 10, the address being made by Professor 

 John M. Coulter, professor of botany in the 

 University of Chicago. 



The following appointments have been made 

 to the faculty of the new school of technology 

 of the Johns Hopkins University: Professor 

 C. C. Thomas, of the University of Wisconsin, 

 to the chair of mechanical engineering; Pro- 

 fessor C. J. Tilden, of the University of Michi- 

 gan, to the chair of civil engineering ; and Pro- 

 fessor J. B. Whitehead, hitherto professor of 

 applied electricity in Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, to the chair of electrical engineering. 



E. Dana Durand, former director of the 

 United States Census, has accepted the posi- 

 tion of director of the Bureau of Research in 

 Agricultural Economics, at the Minnesota 

 Agricultural College. 



Professor Pierre Boutroux, of the Univer- 

 sity of Poitiers, Prance, has been elected pro- 

 fessor of mathematics at Princeton University. 



Dr. R. G. Hoskins, Ph.D. (Harvard, '10), 

 has been appointed associate professor of phys- 

 iology in the Northwestern Medical School. 

 Dr. Hoskins, who has been working on inter- 

 nal secretions, will devote three fourths of his 

 time to research and one fourth to teaching. 



Charles T. Kirk, Ph.D. (Wisconsin, 1911), 

 has been appointed professor of geology in 

 the University of New Mexico. According to 

 the State law of 1909, establishing a Natural 

 Resources Survey, Mr. Kirk becomes ex-officio 

 state geologist, and will spend the present 

 summer in reconnaissance work in that capa- 

 city, with headquarters at Albuquerque. 



Dr. Edward C. Day, Harvard foreign 

 fellow, Naples, Italy, has been elected in- 

 structor in zoology, Syracuse University. Dr. 

 M. W. Blackman, of the department of zool- 

 ogy, Syracuse University, has been elected 

 associate professor of entomology in The New 



