26 SCIENCE 
several collaborators. A large territory was 
covered in the first book and judging from the 
large map of the eastern United States, the 
parts of this country most densely populated 
by the aborigines must have been the basins 
of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and the 
southern shores of the Great Lakes, although 
there are indications of many settlements on 
the Atlantic coast, especially in Florida. A 
large map showed all the locations, and smaller 
maps, of which there was one for each state, 
indicated the nature of each site by a special 
symbol. In the cartographic list, one found 
the meanings of the symbols readily; a single 
house drawn in outline represented a wooden 
lodge, while two houses represented a village; 
a grave was indicated by a special figure; a 
mound by the same figure reversed, and so on; 
enabling one, with a little study, to see at a 
glance exactly what was located at a certain 
point. It is not expected that the prospective 
work on Indian antiquities will be issued for 
many months. Following the precedent of 
the old report, the new one in completion, will 
show, to even a greater and more extensive 
end, all available information. It is proposed 
to classify the former Indian remains by 
states and counties, and to illustrate the pub- 
lication with maps, photographs and drawings. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
Tue University of Edinburgh has received 
from the trustees of the estate of Mr. Robert 
Irvine the sum of £30,000, to establish a chair 
of bacteriology. 
Tue Cambridge council has voted the 
closing of the streets which cross the fifty 
acres of land fronting on the Charles River 
which the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
ogy proposes to purchase. 
A New plan for the administration of the 
College of Agriculture, Cornell University, has 
been enacted by the university board of trus- 
tees to go into effect on January 1, 1912. 
The management of the college will be sub- 
ject to the general supervision and control of 
the full board of trustees, and the immediate 
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supervision, instead of being in the hands of 
the executive committee of the board, as now, 
will be entrusted to a special committee of 
eleven persons to be known as the Agricul- 
tural College council. Director Bailey has 
consented to remain at the head of the college 
long enough to put the new plan in substan- 
tial operation. 
Tue Annual Farmers’ Short Course at the 
University of Missouri will be given this year 
beginning January 8 and continuing through- 
out the week. It is planned to give six short 
courses on soils and farm crops, animal hus- 
bandry, farm management, dairy husbandry, 
horticulture and poultry husbandry. The 
class rooms and laboratories of the Agricul- 
tural College will be thrown open during this 
week to the farmers of Missouri. The entire 
teaching force of the college, consisting of 
more than forty men, will, by lecture and 
demonstration, give instruction in the subjects 
and will describe the experiments conducted 
by the Experiment Station. The state board 
of agriculture, cooperating with the college, 
has provided for the evening lectures. Presi- 
dent K. L. Butterfield, of Massachusetts; 
Dean H. L. Russell, of Wisconsin; Jos. E. 
Wing, of Ohio; A. N. Abbott, of Illinois; 
Herbert Krum, of Kentucky; Uriel W. Lam- 
kin, of Missouri, and many others will ad- 
dress the farmers. The annual Farmers’ 
banquet, given by the College of Agriculture 
and consisting largely of products grown on 
the college farm, will be given Friday night, 
January 12. The beef will be from an inter- 
national prize winner, the cream and butter 
from the Dairy Department and fruits and 
vegetables from the Department of Horticul- 
ture. Governor Herbert S. Hadley will be 
present during the week. 
Tue minister of education has laid before 
the Hungarian parliament a bill which pro- 
vides for the erection of two new universities 
in Hungary, in the cities of Pressburg and 
Debreczin. 
Proressor BE. G. Montcomery, of Nebraska 
University, has been appointed professor of 
