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[N. S. Vol. XXVIII. No. 722 



Wooiiliead. Cambridg-e, vice-president ; and 

 Dr. Maud E. Abbott, Montreal, seoretary- 

 treasurer. It was decided to publish a bul- 

 letin and an editorial committee consisting of 

 Drs. Aldred S. Wartliin, Ann Arbor, Midi.; 

 Dr. Asohlioff, Freiburg, Germany; and Dr. 

 Frederick F. Eussell. ATasliiugtou, Tvitli the 

 president and secretary ex-ottieio, was ap- 

 pointed. Among the subjects discussed at the 

 meeting were " The Exchange of Specimens," 

 " Elevation of the Medical Museum as a 

 Teaching Medium." "Index Pathologicus." 

 '■ Classification of Specimens." and " Methods 

 of Teehnie." The next, meeting of the asso- 

 ciation will be held in Boston in April next, 

 following the meeting of the Association of 

 American Pathologists and Bacteriologists. 



Aloxg the lines of the Erie Eailroad in 

 western New York a train wOl be run this 

 fall by the New York State College of Agri- 

 culture at Cornell. The train will be known 

 as the " Educational Special." On board will 

 be about a dozen senior members of the agri- 

 cultural facult.v. At each station, where a stop 

 of forty-five minutes will be made, the pro- 

 fessors will talk to the farmers and answer 

 any questions that may be asked by seekers 

 for information about improved methods of 

 farming. Circulare and posters will be sent 

 in advance, so that the exact time of the ar- 

 rival of the train may be known. Towns on 

 the main line, the Rochester division and the 

 Hornell and Attica division and their 

 branches will probably be visited and the 

 party will be on the road about ten days. 



As a result of recent cooperative work with 

 the state board of health of Rhode Island, the 

 United States Geological Survey has accumu- 

 lated a large amo\mt of data in regard to 

 textile and other factory wastes, the i>rocesses 

 which piroduce them, their effects on streams 

 into which they may flow, and methods by 

 which their deleterious effects may be reduced 

 to a minimum. This information will soon 

 be made available to the geneial public 

 through the medium of one of the surveys 

 water-supply papers. The factory wastes 

 studied in detail are those resulting from wool 

 scouring, cotton-yarn bleaching, cotton-yarn 

 dyeing, and eottou-eloth bleaching, and from 



the manufacture of fertilizer, glue and oleo- 

 margarine. E-xjierimental purification of the 

 wastes was undertaken with varying results. 

 The details of the experiments, with esti- 

 mates of probable cost and degree of purifica- 

 tion, will be given in full in the forthcoming 

 paper. It was found that all the wastes 

 studied can be satisfactorily purified at a 

 reasonable expense. The sewage from the 

 manufacture of fertilizer, glue and oleo- 

 margarine contains enough valuable matter 

 to pay the costs of treatmen^t, and the recovery 

 of wool fat and potash from wool-scouring 

 liquor will in many cases result in a sub- 

 stantial profit. The pollution of streams and 

 consequent destruction of natural water re- 

 sources by such liquid wastes therefore seems 

 to be imwarranted. 



UyiVEESITT AXD EDUCATlOyAL NEWS 



A BILL has been introduced in the Vermont 

 legislature appropriating $(3,000 annually for 

 the establishment of a department of pedagogy 

 in Middlebury College. 



Professor Ln-Erso has given to Cambridge 

 University almost the whole of the apparatus 

 and material belonging to him in the chemical 

 laboratory. 



The attendance at the University of Cin- 

 cinnati this year, exclusive of the external 

 students, is as follows: liberal arts, 409; engi- 

 neering, 191; teachers, 191; medical, 119; law, 

 S2; graduate, S5. 



TVe learn from the Experiment Station 

 Eccord that in accordance with the law passed 

 by the first state legislatiire of Oklahoma 

 providing for the establishment and main- 

 tenance of agricultural schools of secondary 

 grade in each supreme court district of the 

 state, two schools have been established this 

 year, one known as the Murray State School 

 of Agriculture, located at Tishomingo in 

 Johnston County and the other at 'Warner in 

 Muskogee County. These state schools will 

 offer no courses of instruction other than in- 

 dustrial courses. Each school has an appro- 

 priation for the firet year of $20,000 for build- 

 ings and $12,000 for maintenance. One fourth 

 of the maintenance fund for each school must 



