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physics) ; Professor Easterfield, of "Wellington, 

 ]Sr. Z. (chemistry) ; Professor Skeats, of Mel- 

 bourne (geology and mineralogy) ; Mr. Charles 

 Hedley, of Sydney (biology); Mr. A. H. S. 

 Lucas, of Sydney (geography) ; Mr. A. G. 

 Hamilton, of Wellington, E". Z. (ethnology 

 and anthropology) ; Mr. G. H. Knibbs, of Mel- 

 bourne (social and statistical science) ; Mr. H. 

 W. Potts, of the Hawkesbury College (agri- 

 culture) ; Professor P. W. Chapman, of Ade- 

 laide (engineering and architecture) ; Dr. J. 

 Mason, of Wellington, N. Z. (sanitary science 

 and hygiene) ; Mr. Peter Board, of Sydney 

 (mental science and education). The acting 

 permanent secretary, Mr. J. H. Maiden, can 

 be addressed at the office of the association. 

 Royal Society's House, Sydney, and will be 

 glad to give further particulars and to enroll 

 members for ISTew South Wales. 



Nature states that a movement, supported 

 by the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 

 is on foot to approach the Australian govern- 

 ment with the object of having Barrow Island, 

 sixty miles off the northwest coast, set apart 

 as a fauna reserve. The island, which is re- 

 markable for its kangaroo, bandicoot, rat, and 

 wren, none of which occurs on the mainland, 

 is likely to be leased for sheep-farming, to the 

 detriment of the fauna. The policy of the 

 Crown's retention of islands as sanctuaries for 

 wild life is being amply justified by the experi- 

 ences of New Zealand and the United States, 

 and the Barrow Island fauna is worth effort to 

 save. 



TEE MORLEY CHEMICAL LABORATORY OF 

 WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY 



The open weather of the fall and winter has 

 made it possible to push more rapidly the 

 construction of the new Morley Chemical 

 Laboratory of Western Eeserve University. 

 This building, which will house the depart- 

 ments of chemistry and geology of both under- 

 graduate departments of the university, is 

 situated upon the Adelbert College campus. 

 It will provide accommodations sufficient for 

 three hundred students in chemistry and one 

 hundred and fifty students in geology. 



The building is collegiate gothic in style, is 



built of brick and concrete, with Indiana lime- 

 stone trimmings, and is of fire-proof construc- 

 tion. It is three stories in height. The first 

 floor will contain two large laboratory rooms, 

 recitation rooms, offices, small research labora- 

 tory, dark rooms, a workshop and storeroom. 

 On the second floor there will be two large 

 laboratories, the main lecture room, with 

 preparation room adjoining, a storage room, 

 a small laboratory, balance room and offices. 

 The third floor will be largely devoted to the 

 department of geology, which department will 

 occupy a large lecture room, a laboratory for 

 students, a private laboratory, offices and a 

 storeroom. This floor will provide, also, addi- 

 tional recitation rooms, library and reading 

 room and a small laboratory for electrochem- 

 istry for the department of chemistry. The 

 laboratory building will cost one hundred and 

 twenty thousand dollars and will be ready for 

 occupancy in September, 1909. 



The library of the department of chemistry 

 will include the Morley collection of books on 

 chemistry. These books were assembled by 

 Professor Morley during his years of active 

 association with Western Eeserve and were 

 given by him to the university. These books 

 are now being reclassifled and recatalogued. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The regents of the University of Wisconsin, 

 in accordance with the recommendation of the 

 State Timber Land Owners' Association and the 

 Wisconsin Conservation Commission, proposed 

 to the United States government to provide 

 a suitable building on the university campus 

 for the use of the U. S. Forestry Service as a 

 laboratory for the investigation of problems 

 connected with the utilization of forest 

 products. The proposed building will cost 

 $30,000, and will be furnished with heat, light, 

 and power by the university. The U. S. 

 Forest Service desires to concentrate at some 

 engineering college in the west all of its 

 present laboratories. The purpose is to carry 

 on an elaborate series of investigations upon 

 all kinds of timber, with reference to adapt- 

 ing each to its best use, and to utilizing 

 timber, stumps and refuse now wasted. The 

 utilization of the by-products of the logging 



