May 28, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



855 



It has been estimated that the amount of 

 ■wood annually consumed in the United States 

 at the present time is twenty-three billion 

 cubic feet, while the growth of the forest is 

 only seven billion feet. In other words, 

 Americans all over the country are using 

 more than three times as much wood as the 

 forests are producing. The figures are based 

 upon a large number of state and local re- 

 ports collected by the government and upon 

 actual measurements. The state forester of 

 Connecticut, in a recent report, has given 

 figures on grovrth and use for New Haven 

 County, which give more details than are gen- 

 erally to be obtained, and illustrate how the 

 forest isi being reduced by over-cutting. In 

 this county a very careful study was made on 

 each township of the amount of forest, the 

 rate of growth, and the amount of timber 

 used. For the year 1907 the timber used was 

 120,000 cords, in the form of cordwood, lum- 

 ber, ties, poles and piles. The annual growth 

 on all types of forest land, including the 

 trees standing on abandoned fields, for the 

 year, reached a total of 70,000 cords. Thus 

 the amount cut yearly exceeds the growth by 

 50,000 cords. The amount of standing timber 

 considered as merchantable and available for 

 cutting within the next few years was found 

 to be 1,200,000 cords. Each year the annual 

 growth increases the supply on hand by 70,000 

 cords, while the use decreases it by 120,000. 

 The net reduction is therefore 50,000 cords a 

 year. If the cut and the growth remain at 

 the present figures, the supply of merchantable 

 timber will be exhausted in about twenty 

 years. At the end of that time there will be 

 a large amount of forest standing in the 

 county, but it will be in tracts under forty 

 years of age, containing wood below the most 

 profitable size for cutting. Cordwood could 

 still be cut, but supplies of the most profitable 

 products, like ties and lumber, would be prac- 

 tically exhausted. 



estry School. The university has also re- 

 ceived $50,000 for the School of Fine Arts and 

 $50,000 for a memorial gateway. 



Dr. W. G. Frost, president of Berea Col- 

 lege, announces that an indiistrial school for 

 negroes will be established near Shelbyrille, 

 Ky., and the erection of buildings will be be- 

 gun in a short time. A railroad station 

 and a post office for the school will be estab- 

 lished, called Lincoln, Ky. The endowment, 

 largely given by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 

 amounts to $350,000. 



The University of Pennsylvania has asked 

 the city of Philadelphia to transfer to it 

 sixty-one acres of land adjoining the grounds 

 of the institution in return for fifty free 

 scholarships. The land wanted extends east 

 to the Schuylkill Eiver. 



The Goldsmith Company has given £50,000 

 to the Imperial College of Science and Tech- 

 nology, London, for a building extending the 

 engineering department. 



The Bristol Town Council has decided to 

 contribute in the proportion of one penny in 

 the pound on the rate, or about £7,000 per an- 

 num, towards the support of the proposed uni- 

 versity for Bristol and the west of England, 

 for which more than £200,000 has been snib- 

 scribed, mainly by members of the Wills 

 family. 



Dr. Edward L. Eaep has resigned his posi- 

 tion as professor of sociology at Syracuse 

 University to accept the chair of Christian 

 sociology at Drew Theological Seminary, 

 Madison, N. J. 



Mr. T. H. Labt has been appointed to the 

 chair of physics in Victoria College, Welling- 

 ton, New Zealand. 



Dr. M. Cutta, associate professor in the 

 Technological School at Munich, has been 

 called to a chair of applied mathematics in the 

 University of Jena. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Mrs. Morris K. Jesup has given Tale Uni- 

 versity $100,000 to establish the Morris K 

 Jesup chair of agriculture in the For- 



DISCU8SI0N AND CORRESPONDENCE 



SOME NEW DATA ON THE PROFESSOr's FINANCUL 

 POSITION 



A TEACHER on entering the profession gen- 

 erally tacitly assumes that after a eertain 



