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annually for inventions tending to diminish 

 danger and preserve life among those engaged 

 in mining operations. The adjudication of 

 this " Tyndall Medal " is to be placed in the 

 hands of the managers of the Royal Institu- 

 tion, where Professor Tyndall occupied the 

 chair of Natural Philosophy from 1853 to 

 1887. 



It is proposed to endow as a memorial to the 

 late Dr. William T. BuU an institution for 

 surgical research to he connected with the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Co- 

 lumbia University, from which Dr. Bull was 

 .graduated in 1872, and where he served for 

 ■many years as professor of surgery. It is 

 further stated that Mrs. Bull proposes to 

 •erect a memorial hospital for the treatment of 

 tuberculosis. 



Professor Mark Vernon Slingerland, who 

 lield the chair of economic entomology at Cor- 

 nell University, and was an authority on the 

 injurious insects of the United States, died 

 at Ithaca on March 10, at the age of forty- 

 four years. 



Major Edmund Lewis Zalinski, U.S.N., 

 retired, at one time professor of military 

 science in the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, known for experimental work on 

 high explosives, died in New York City on 

 March 10, at the age of fifty-nine years. 



Dr. S. H. Laurie, emeritus professor of 

 education in the University of Edinburgh, 

 died in Edinburgh on March 2 at the age of 

 seventy-nine years. 



Dr. Emil Erlenmeyer, formerly professor 

 of chemistry in the Munich Technical Insti- 

 tute, has died at the age of eighty-three years. 



The deaths are also announced of M. 

 Frederic Eauh, professor of philosophy at 

 Sorbonne, and Senhor Barbosa Eodrigues, 

 author of several works on the Brazilian flora. 



A RECENT list of the publications of the 

 United States Geological Survey gives the 

 titles of 977 volumes. This list does not in- 

 clude the separate chapters from the annual 

 volume on mineral resources, which make up 

 several hundred pamphlets. 



It is now finally settled that the Forest 

 '■Service Experimental Laboratory will be situ- 



ated at the University of Wisconsin. Oppor- 

 tunity was given to Michigan and Minnesota 

 to present the advantages of those institutions, 

 but the original plan will be carried out. 

 Work on the new laboratory, which is to be 

 located on Camp Randall near the agricul- 

 tural buildings and the new site of the engi- 

 neering group, will be begun at an early date. 

 The university provides the site and a $30,000 

 building, while the forest service is to equip 

 the laboratory at a cost of $14,000 and to pro- 

 vide the entire staff of investigators, whose 

 salaries will aggregate $28,000 a year. The 

 laboratory is to be available for students and 

 faculty of the university for research work, 

 and the members of the staff are to deliver 

 lectures on forestry and allied subjects to stu- 

 dents of the university. A course for forest 

 rangers is to be provided by the university in 

 connection with the experiment station as soon 

 as it is completed. The work of the labora- 

 tory is to include tests of various kinds of 

 wood for paper pulp, for building material, 

 for the distillation of turpentine, alcohol and 

 resin from wood waste. 



APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE UNITED 8TATE8 

 BUREAU OF EDUCATION 

 The estimates of appropriations for the 

 United States Bureau of Education! for the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, as trans- 

 mitted to Congress, included under the gen- 

 eral head of salaries estimates for additional 

 employees as follows : Expert in higher edu- 

 cation, $4,000; expert in industrial education, 

 $3,000; expert in the welfare of children, 

 $3,000; editor, $2,000; additional clerks, $12,- 

 100. Of the new employees requested, Con- 

 gress made provision for an editor at $2,000; 

 one clerk at $1,200; and one clerk at $1,000. 

 The salary of the Commissioner of Education 

 was increased from $4,500 to $5,000, making 

 a total increase in the appropriations for the 

 general work of the Bureau of $4,700 over the 

 appropriations for the current fiscal year. 

 The requests for a lump sum appropriation of 

 $40,000 for educational investigations ; for an 

 increase of $1,500 in the appropriation for 

 the library; for an increase of $8,000 in the 

 fund for collecting statistics; and of an ap- 



