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[N. S. Vol. XXVIII. No. 711 



The Forest Service lias arranged for six 

 sub-offices, to be situated in six cities whicli 

 are centers of interest in forestry. Two of 

 these are at San Francisco and Denver, and 

 one will probably be Portland. It is also 

 expected that offices will be opened in the 

 states of Montana and Utah. 



Foreign journals announce that a Society 

 of the Observatories of Mont Blanc has been 

 regularly constituted, with a board of direc- 

 tors largely chosen from the Academy of Sci- 

 ences, for the more systematic continuation 

 of the work begun by the late M. Janssen and 

 M. Vallot. The society has decided to place 

 the Vallot and Janssen observatories under 

 the direction of M. Vallot. With this object 

 the latter has given his establisliment to the 

 society just formed— -a purely scientific asso- 

 ciation—which appeals for members and 

 funds. The secretary is Comte de La Baume- 

 Pluvinel, 9 Eue de La Baume, Paris. 



UNIVEBSITr AND EDVCATIOyAL NEWS 

 Professor James Douglas has given to the 

 University of Arizona ten thousand dollars as 

 an endowment, the income of which is to be 

 used for the purchase of " instruments of pre- 

 cision and research " in the School of Mines 

 and the Department of Mineralogy. 



The Peabody College for Teachers at Nash- 

 ville, Tennessee, which is at present a depart- 

 ment of the University of Nashville, but is 

 soon to be established on a separate founda- 

 tion by the trustees of the Peabody Education 

 Fund, has, by recent action of its authorities, 

 raised its entrance requirements to the full 

 foiirteen units as defined by the Carnegie 

 Foundation. The entrance subjects are ar- 

 ranged in three groups, the first requiring 

 Latin and Greek, the second Latin and modern 

 language, the third Latin or modern lan- 

 guages. In the second and third groups there 

 are many alternatives in language, history 

 and science. Following these entrance gi-oups 

 are three four-year courses, all leading to the 

 degree of bachelor of arts. The work in the 

 freshman and sophomore years is mainly pre- 

 scribed while that in the junior and senior 

 years is nearly all elective. During the last 



two years the student must select forty per 

 cent, of his work from the professional courses 

 given in the Department of Education, Psy- 

 chology and Philosophy. The year is divided 

 into quarters, and the classes meet five times 

 a week, and each student is expected to take 

 three courses. The minimum requirement for 

 graduation is thirty-six courses of five hours 

 each, or a total of one hundred and eighty 

 hours. 



We learn from the London Times that at 

 a meeting of the governing body of the Im- 

 perial College of Science and Technology, held 

 on July 24, a letter from the Eoyal Commis- 

 sioners of the Exhibition of 1851 was read, 

 intimating that the commissioners had appro- 

 priated the whole of the remaining site of 

 their estate at South Kensing-ton for the pur- 

 poses of the Imperial College of Science and 

 Technology. The question of the provision 

 of additional buildings and laboratories on the 

 sites granted by the commissioners was under 

 consideration, and it was decided, in the first 

 instance, to proceed at once with the provision 

 of new mining and metallurgical buildings for 

 the Eoyal School of Mines, and to invite Sir 

 Aston Webb, E.A., to serve as architect to 

 these buildings and of such other buildings as 

 the governing body may determine to erect. 

 The Hon. E. J. Strutt, F.E.S., was appointed 

 additional professor of physics and Mr. S. 

 Herbert Cox, professor of mining. Further, 

 an additional professor of zoology, a professor 

 of metallurgy, and an assistant professor of 

 botany are to be appointed in the near future. 

 Dr. Charles Oliver Merica has been 

 elected president of the University of Wy- 

 oming. 



Dr. H. a. Christian has been appointed 

 Hersey professor of the theory and practise 

 of physic at the Harvard Medical School. 



At Tale University Louis Doremus Hun- 

 toon, M.E., at present assistant professor of 

 mining and metallurgy in the Scientific 

 School, has been promoted to a full professor- 

 ship; George Surface, Ph.D., of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, has been appointed in- 

 structor in geography, and George M. Coll- 

 well, Ph.D., instructor in mathematics. 



