July 3, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



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Storkersen, started in three sledges with 18 

 dogs on a trip over the ice towards the north. 

 The thermometer showed 56 degrees Centi- 

 grade below zero; nevertheless, they often 

 came across big crevices among the ice floes. 

 About 50 miles from shore they found water 

 which they sounded with a newly-invented 

 machine to the depth of 800 meters without 

 reaching bottom. Sixty miles farther on no 

 change was recorded, until at last, turning 

 towards the southeast, they found bottom. 

 They followed this edge of the continental 

 shelf towards the east, but had soon to return 

 owing to the strong current. Captain Mik- 

 kelsen was thus able to prove that deep water 

 exists north of Alaska to a great distance. 

 On the return journey the ice had started 

 drifting and thick fogs enveloped everjrthing, 

 but on May 13, after 55 days of sledge jour- 

 ney, the explorers reached land again, only to 

 find that the ship had been lost in the mean- 

 time. The ice pressure had proved too much 

 for her, but the crew had saved all the instru- 

 ments, food and utensils. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The class of '83 of Harvard University will 

 present to the university for its general en- 

 dovsTnent a fund of more than $100,000. 



By the will of George Bliss Griggs, who 

 graduated from Tale University in 1872 and 

 who died on May 22, Tale is bequeathed a 

 fund of $75,000, to be used to found scholar- 

 ships for worthy students in the academic 

 department. 



By the will of Colonel C. S. Barrett, of 

 Cleveland, O., a member of the class of '68 

 of Norwich University, the institution re- 

 ceives an \mrestricted endowment of $100,000. 



The contract has been let for a new agri- 

 cultural building for the University of Mis- 

 souri which will cost $100,000. This building 

 win contain the administrative offices of the 

 College of Agriculture and Experiment Sta- 

 tion, and will house also the departments of 

 animal husbandry and agronomy and the 

 State Soil Survey. It will likewise house the 

 State Board of Agriculture, including the 

 offices of the state veterinarian, the state high- 



way commissioner and the pure food and dairy 

 commissioner. The building is to be of native 

 limestone, two stories and a high basement, 

 with an extreme length of 266 feet. It will 

 be thoroughly fireproof, and is to be completed 

 by the middle of the next school year. 



The trustees of the Massachusetts College 

 of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts at 

 Amherst have voted to establish a graduate 

 school with Professor Charles H. Fernald as 

 its head. It will confer the degrees of master 

 of science and doctor of philosophy. 



Professor C. H. Beach, of the University 

 of Vermont, has been elected president of the 

 Connecticut College of Agriculture and Mech- 

 anic Arts. Professor Beach is succeeded in 

 the chair of animal husbandry at Vermont by 

 Mr. Eobert M. Washburn, state dairy and 

 food commissioner of Missouri. 



The following appointments, to take effect 

 in August, 1908, have been made in Stanford 

 University: John Andrew Bergstrom, of In- 

 diana University, to be professor of educa- 

 tion; Burt Estes Howard, of Los Angeles, to 

 be professor of political science; J. E. Mc- 

 Clelland, to be assistant professor of mining; 

 John Kester Bonnell, to be instructor in Eng- 

 lish; F. O. Ellenwood, to be instructor in 

 mechanical engineering; Eobert E. Eichard- 

 son, to be instructor in bionomics; L. Lance 

 Burlingame, to be instructor in botany. The 

 following promotions have been made: AUyn 

 Abbott Toung, from associate professor to be 

 professor of economics; Frederick John Eog- 

 ers, from assistant professor to associate pro- 

 fessor of physics; Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, 

 from assistant professor to associate professor 

 of law; Henry Waldgrave Stuart, from assist- 

 ant professor to associate professor of philos- 

 ophy; Charles Andrew Huston, from in- 

 structor to be assistant professor of law; 

 Edwin Chapin Starks, from curator to be 

 assistant professor of zoology; Samuel B. 

 Charters, Jr., from instructor to be assistant 

 professor of electrical engineering; Everett P. 

 Lesley, from instructor to be assistant prp- 

 fessor of mechanical engineering; George 

 Holland Sabine, from instructor to be assist- 

 ant professor of philosophy; Eobert B. Harshe, 



