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ptarmigan and other game used to abound. 

 In the whole journey of nearly 60 miles, how- 

 ever, not a ptarmigan, fox or reindeer, except 

 skeletons and rotting carcasses, was seen. 

 Dr. Bruce strongly condemns the wholesale 

 extermination of animal life carried out in 

 Spitzbergen, not only by gun and trap but by 

 poison. Norwegian hunters, he says, habitu- 

 ally put down poisoned bait for bears, foxes 

 and other animals, and he holds that strict 

 measures should be taken to protect the fauna 

 of Spitzbergen, which at present is being 

 rapidly and ruthlessly destroyed. A great 

 development of the coal mines, chiefly under 

 the auspices of American capital and enter- 

 prise, and of other mining activities financed 

 by British capital, was observed. There is 

 activity also on the part of the Norwegians, 

 who are developing means of communication 

 by post and wireless telegraphy. 



The Colorado Geological Survey has had 

 three parties in the field during the summer 

 of 1912. One party, under the direction of 

 Assistant Professor Kalph D. Crawford and 

 Mr. Philip G. Worcester, has continued the 

 work begun last season in the Goldbrick dis- 

 trict. A second party, under the direction of 

 Professor H. B. Patton, of the Colorado School 

 of Mines, has spent the summer in the Bon- 

 anza Mining district near Villa Grove. A 

 third party, directed by Dr. George I. Finlay, 

 of Colorado College, has been at work on an 

 investigation of the water resources of the 

 Arkansas Valley region. 



Charles Eichmond Henderson, head of the 

 department of practical sociology in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has been given leave of 

 absence by the university trustees during the 

 autumn quarter of 1912 and the winter 

 quarter of 1913, to act as the Barrows 

 lecturer in India. The Barrows lectures are 

 given every three years in the principal cities 

 of India, on the foundation established by 

 Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell. The general pur- 

 pose of the lectureship is to consider the rela- 

 tion of Christianity to other religions. Pro- 

 fessor Henderson will lecture in some of the 

 cities of Japan and China on his return to 



this country. His predecessor on the Barrows 

 Foundation was Charles Cuthbert Hall, for- 

 mer president of Union Theological Semi- 

 nary, New York. Professor Henderson's lec- 

 tures in India will be issued in book form by 

 the University of Chicago Press. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 At the September meeting of the Tale Cor- 

 poration it was announced that since the last 

 meeting three wills have been filed for probate 

 from which the university should receive dur- 

 ing the year about $750,000. These include 

 $250,000, unrestricted, by bequest of Matthew 

 C. D. Borden, Yale, 1864; $25,000 from Cy- 

 prian Brainerd, of the class of 1850, for the 

 use of the medical department, with ulti- 

 mately an additional $40,000 after the death 

 of certain beneficiaries, and the McPherson 

 fund of between $400,000 and $500,000, " to he 

 employed in assisting worthy indigent stu- 

 dents." This bequest is due to the death of 

 Aaron S. Baldwin, executor of the will of the 

 widow of Senator McPherson, of New Jersey. 

 Mrs. McPherson's will provided for this be- 

 quest. Announcement was also made that 

 $10,000 had been received from the Misses 

 Kingsbury as a history publication fund in 

 memory of the late Frederick John Kings- 

 bury, of Waterbury, for many years a member 

 of the Yale Corporation; also $5,000 from 

 Mrs. Arthur Eyerson, widow of the late 

 Arthur Eyerson, Yale, 1871, to establish the 

 Arthur Larned Eyerson scholarship in Yale 

 College in memory of her son; also $3,000 

 from Francis D. Hurtt, 1907, Law School, to 

 establish the Sarah Ives Hurtt scholarship in 

 the Law School. 



Professor William D. Harkins has re- 

 moved from the University of Montana to 

 the University of Chicago, where he will have 

 charge of the research work in general chem- 

 istry, and will give courses in inorganic and 

 general chemistry. His position as professor 

 of chemistry in the University of Montana 

 has been given to Dr. E. H. Jesse, instructor 

 in chemistry in the University of Illinois. 

 Mr. W. G. Bateman, former professor of 

 chemistry in the Imperial Chinese University, 



