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each additional £10,000 up to a maximum of 

 250 guineas. A provisional committee has 

 been appointed, to hold office for three months 

 and including: Dr. E. F. Armstrong (Messrs. 

 Joseph Crosfield and Sons), Mr. F. W. Brock 

 (Messrs. Brunner, Mond and Co.), Dr. Chas. 

 Carpenter (South Metropolitan Gas Co.), 

 Dr. M. O. Forster (British Dyes, Limited), 

 Mr. John Gray (Messrs. Lever Brothers), 

 Mr. Norman Hoden (Messrs. Hardman and 

 Holden), Mr. C. A. Hill (British Drug 

 Houses, Limited), Mr. C. P. Merriam (Brit- 

 ish Xylonite Company), Sir Alfred Mond, 

 M.P. (Mond Nickel Company), Mr. Max Mus- 

 pratt (United Alkali Company), Sir William 

 Pearce, M.P. (Messrs. Spencer, Chapman and 

 Messel), Mr. B. G. Perry (Messrs. Chance and 

 Hunt), Mr. E. D. Pullar (Pullar's Dye 

 Works), Dr. Alfred Bee (Society of Dyers and 

 Colorists), Mr. A. T. Smith (Castner-Kellner 

 Alkali Company), and Mr. John W. Wilson, 

 M.P. (Messrs. Albright and Wilson). 



In an item published in Science for July 7, 

 the cost of printing for the Cornell and Ge- 

 neva Agricultural Experiment Stations was 

 reported as $60,000 each, whereas this was 

 probably the sum for the two institutions. We 

 are informed that at the Geneva Station the 

 cost of bulletins and reports for three years 

 has been as follows: 1913, $11,978.85; 1914, 

 $14,514.28; 1915, $14,944.81. These figures in- 

 clude the cost of both bulletins and the an- 

 nual reports, with the exception of Part 2 of 

 1915, known as " The Cherries of New York." 

 This cost $4,455 extra. 



Action by congress has recently created six 

 new scientific positions in the division of sci- 

 entific inquiry of the Bureau of Fisheries. 

 The positions comprise two assistants for the 

 Washington office, two field assistants and a 

 superintendent and scientific aid for the lab- 

 oratory to be constructed at Key West, Flor- 

 ida. The bureau will be enabled to extend its 

 scientific work particularly in relation to ma- 

 rine shellfish, fresh-water mussels and fishery 

 problems of the Gulf of Mexico. A slight in- 

 crease was made in the appropriations for mis- 

 cellaneous expenses available for investigations. 

 The Bureau of Fisheries has never before re- 



ceived in one year so substantial an increment 

 to its scientific staff. 



The secretary of commerce announces the 

 completion of the work at the Bio Grande to 

 the westward of Brownsville, Texas, and 

 Matamoras, Mexico, which connects the tri- 

 angulation systems of the United States and 

 of Mexico. In the United States the arc of 

 primary triangulation extends from the north- 

 western part of Minnesota southward along 

 the ninety-eighth meridian to the Bio Grande, 

 and Mexico had extended an arc of primary 

 triangulation along the ninety-eighth meridian 

 from its Pacific coast to the Bio Grande. Mr. 

 E. H. Pagenhart, of the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, and Mr. Silverio Aleman, of the Mex- 

 ican Geodetic Commission, in April and May, 

 made the observations from towers erected on 

 both sides of the river and the work was suc- 

 cessfully completed. The length of the com- 

 pleted arc is 2,270 miles. This is a notable 

 event in the history of geodesy and will make 

 it possible to have the maps of the two coun- 

 tries harmonize at the border. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Last December, the University of Blinois 

 purchased for its School of Pharmacy, prop- 

 erty at the corner of Wood and Flournoy 

 Streets, with two substantial brick buildings. 

 One of these is a four-story college building 

 containing a large auditorium, several lecture 

 and recitation rooms as well as offices, micro- 

 scopical laboratory and several smaller labo- 

 ratories. This building was formerly occu- 

 pied by a medical college. The second build- 

 ing was constructed for a hospital and is now 

 being remodeled as a laboratory building in 

 which will be located the qualitative analytical 

 laboratory, the laboratory for organic chemis- 

 try and the pharmaceutical laboratory. The 

 college building was occupied by the school on 

 June 1. The trustees of the university have 

 appropriated $32,000 for refitting the build- 

 ings, providing new heating, lighting and 

 plumbing, as well as new furniture and equip- 

 ment for lecture halls and laboratories. 



