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vard University $1,000 for the library and all 
his prehistoric and archeological objects, and 
his books and pamphlets relating to such sub- 
jects. To the Boston Society of Natural His- 
tory is given his fossils, minerals and other 
objects of natural history. To Harvard Col- 
lege is given, for its classical department, 
Mr. Haynes’s Etruscan, Greek and Roman 
vases and his ancient coins and medals. The 
Boston Museum of Fine Arts is to receive his 
Egyptian antiquities, except those relating to 
the age of stone in Egypt, which go to the 
Peabody Museum. 
THE dedication of the New York State Edu- 
cation Building will take place on October 15— 
17. It is expected that educational officers of 
other states will attend the exercises and that 
the leading institutions—including libraries 
and museums as well as universities, colleges 
and schools—of this and other countries will 
be represented by delegates. 
TueE entrance requirement to the College 
of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati 
will be advanced to include two premedical 
years in science, after June 1, 1913. 
ANNOUNCEMENT is made that at the Univer- 
sity of Pittsburgh instruction in geology, 
paleontology and physiography will hereafter 
be given under the direction of the college 
instead of the School of Mines faculty, courses 
being offered in the department of geology by 
the following-named professors and instruc- 
tors: Drs. C. R. Eastman (chairman), A. E. 
Ortmann, O. E. Jennings and Messrs. H. N. 
Eaton and Earl Douglass. 
Prorressor H. R. Smiry, in charge of the 
animal husbandry work in the University of 
Nebraska, and Professor F. H. Stoneburn, 
professor of poultry husbandry in the Con- 
necticut Agricultural College, have been called 
to the University of Minnesota. 
Mr. C. W. Howarp, of Cornell, known in 
connection with grasshopper work in South 
Africa and at present with the Rockefeller 
Institute, has been appointed to an instructor- 
ship in the division of entomology, University 
of Minnesota. Mr. O. G. Babcock, of College 
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Park, Maryland, has been appointed as as- 
sistant to the entomological division in charge 
of the insectary. These two appointees take 
the places of Mr. C. S. Spooner and Mr. H. B. 
Scammell, respectively. The former goes to 
Georgia, accepting an offer from the state 
entomologist there, and the latter has been 
elected county inspector of nurseries 
orchards in Colorado. 
Dr. B. W. Van River, of Nebraska Wesleyan 
University, has been elected assistant pro- 
fessor of philosophy in Boston University. 
At Smith College Elizabeth Kemper Adams 
has been promoted from associate professor of 
philosophy and education to professor of edu- 
eation; Aida Agnes Heine, from instructor to 
associate professor of geology, and Helen Ash- 
urst Choate, from assistant to instructor in 
botany. 
and 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
THE PRIBILOF FUR SEAL HERD 
In Science of February 2, 1912, Mr. Me- 
Lean, of the Campfire Club’s Committee on 
Game Protection, says, among other things 
about the diminishing fur seal herd, that “ the 
best remedy is to let it absolutely alone.” 
Nature’s methods are wasteful, 
So careful of the type she seems, 
So careless of the single life. 
Civilized countries practise artificial fertili- 
zation of fish eggs, and rearing of the fry in 
hatcheries, because a greater proportion of 
eggs can be fertilized, and vastly more young 
brought to maturity, than by nature’s meth- 
ods. The domestication and control of useful 
animals is universally practised for similar 
reasons. 
That the fur seal tribe would slowly increase 
if “let absolutely alone” may be true. So 
would most other beings we are at such pains 
to cultivate. Pelagic sealing is responsible for 
the present abnormal condition of the seal herd. 
The state department’s bill for the ratification 
of the treaty for the suppression of such seal- 
ing, gives the female seals the first chance they 
have had for twenty-five years. The fact that 
we have forty thousand breeding females on the 
