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annual value of £250. The usual tenure is 
for three years, but the trustees have power 
in exceptional cases to grant an extension for 
one year. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
Mr. Jacos H. Scuirr has given $100,000 to 
Cornell University to promote studies in Ger- 
man culture. 
Tue million dollar fund for the further en- 
dowment of the Medical School of Western 
Reserve University has been completed. 
De Pauw Untversiry has just brought to a 
successful close the campaign to raise $400,- 
000 to meet the conditional gift of $100,000 
from the Rockefeller Educational Board. 
The subscriptions total a little more than 
$440,000. This will make the productive en- 
dowment of the university something above 
$1,000,000. 
On December 13 an anonymous gift of 
£30,000 was made to the University of Lon- 
don, to be devoted to the erection at Univer- 
sity College of the buildings for the new 
school of architecture, resulting from the 
amalgamation of the architectural depart- 
ment of University College and King’s Col- 
lege. Any balance is to be used for providing 
studios for the teaching of sculpture and the 
rearrangement of the school of fine art and for 
the department of applied statistics, includ- 
ing the laboratory of eugenics. 
Tue Supreme Court of Illinois, on the final 
day of its fall term, failed to hand down a de- 
cision in the case involving the validity of the 
appropriation made by the legislature for the 
Medical School of the University of Illinois. 
FoLLowine the custom of recent years, the 
United States government has sent officers of 
the army and navy to the Massachusetts Insti- 
tute of Technology to receive instruction in 
electrical engineering. These are in addition 
to the graduates of the Naval Academy who 
are sent to take a course in naval architecture. 
This year the Naval Academy is represented 
by Ensign G. K. Calhoun, who was graduated 
from Annapolis in 1908. He has recently 
been stationed at the United States Naval 
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Observatory at Washington where he has done 
considerable original work in wireless teleg- 
raphy, ship propulsion, gyroscopic compasses 
and chronometers. The army is represented 
by Captain Edward Canfield, West Point, 
1901, and First Lieutenant F. Q. C. Gardner, 
West Point, 1904. Both officers have been con- 
nected with the Coast Artillery Corps, Cap- 
tain Canfield being stationed at Puget Sound 
and Lieutenant Gardner at Fortress Monroe. 
Both men will pursue a special course in elec- 
trical engineering. 
Tue council of the University of Paris has 
sanctioned a scheme for an exchange of stu- 
dents between the universities of Paris and 
London. 
Tue Veterinary School of Lyons, France, 
said to be the oldest in the world, will cele- 
brate the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 
its foundation next May. 
Dr. Crype A. Duntway, of the University 
of Montana, has been informed by the Board 
of Control that he will not be reappointed as 
president of the university. It is understood 
that this action has been taken because Presi- 
dent Duniway refused to appoint a local poli- 
tician as dean of the law school of the uni- 
versity. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
WHAT IS BIOLOGY AND WHAT IS A “ BIOLOGICAL 
SURVEY ” ? 
THE occasion for the present note is found 
in the recent publication of “A Biological 
Survey of Colorado.”* Probably most stu- 
dents of plants and animals have long wished 
that the word “biology” had never been 
coined. It is so often misunderstood by the 
non-scientific person. In the days of the old 
taxonomy and of the former rigid morphology 
there were few people really interested in both 
plants and animals. With the advent of ecol- 
ogy, and more recently of genetics, botanists 
and zoologists have been brought together and 
1Tssued as ‘‘North American Fauna,’’ No. 33, 
as a publication of the Bureau of Biological Sur- 
vey, Washington, 1911. The author, Merritt 
Carey, is stated to be ‘‘ Assistant Biologist, Bio- 
logical Survey.’ 
