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the life of his fellow-countrymen — a life that 

 retains so many characteristics of the middle 

 ages but is now rapidly passing away. Ex- 

 cursions were made to the numerous ruins of 

 Wisby, and to several of the churches and 

 archeologieal remains on the island. 



It is stated in Nature that the geological 

 department of the British Museum (Natural 

 History) has recently received a valuable gift 

 of Wealden fossils from the Eeverends P. 

 Teilhard and F. Pelletier, S.J., who made the 

 collection during a four years' residence near 

 Hastings. A large proportion of the speci- 

 mens are small teeth from bone-beds which 

 had previously been very little examined, and 

 among them is the unique mammalian tooth 

 described under the name of Dipriodon val- 

 densis by Dr. Smith Woodward in 1911. 

 There are numerous teeth of the dwarf croco- 

 dile Theriosuchus, which has hitherto been 

 known only from the Purbeck Beds. The 

 series of plant-remains is also important and 

 will shortly be described by Professor A. C. 

 Seward in a communication to the Geological 

 Society. 



The experiments on orchard fertilization 

 and cultural methods, started six years ago 

 by Dr. J. P. Stewart, experimental pomologist 

 of the Pennsylvania State College, are at- 

 tracting attention from both official and prac- 

 tising horticulturists. Parties from foreign 

 countries as well as from our own and .neigh- 

 boring states have recently visited a number 

 of these experiments in company with Dr. 

 Stewart. These parties have included Dr. 

 Girolamo Molon, the leading horticulturist of 

 Italy; Professor Niels Esbjerg, director of the 

 Pomological Experiment Station at Esbjerg, 

 Denmark; Professor J. W. Crow, head of the 

 department of pomology at the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College at Guelph, Canada; Pro- 

 fessors Price and Drinkard from the Virginia 

 Experiment Station; and Mr. W. T. Creasy, 

 president of the State Horticultural Associa- 

 tion of Pennsylvania. This association held 

 its summer meeting in one of the experi- 

 mental orchards at which Mr. H. W. Colling- 

 wood, editor of The Rural New-Yorher, was 



present, besides representatives of other agri- 

 cultural journals and several hundred prac- 

 tical fruit-growers and farmers. 



VNIVESSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Mr. George E. Agassiz has given Harvard 

 University $25,000 for the general use of the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology; it is not to 

 be used for anything connected with under- 

 graduate instruction. An anonymous friend 

 has given $10,000 to be used to rebuild the 

 front portion of the central section of the Gray 

 herbarium. 



On October 6, Augustana College and the 

 theological seminary. Rock Island, 111., came 

 into the possession of endowment funds 

 amounting to $117,000. Of this amount $46,- 

 000 was given by the will of the late Senator 

 C. J. A. Ericson, of Boone, Iowa, on condi- 

 tion that an equal sum in cash be raised. 

 Mr. C. A. Smith, of Minneapolis, Minn., gave 

 $25,000 to be used as a fund for purchasing 

 books for the Senkman Memorial Library. 



The arrangements for the administration 

 of the Graham Bequest have been completed 

 by the University of London. Dr. Charles 

 Bolton has been elected director of research 

 and Mr. H. G. Butterfield, Graham scholar. 

 By means of the bequest 15 workers in the 

 research laboratories of the school are in re- 

 ceipt of grants; a quantity of valuable appa- 

 ratus has also been purchased and a special 

 library furnished for the use of research 

 workers. 



At the last meeting of the board of trus- 

 tees of the University of Illinois it was defi- 

 nitely decided that the College of Literature 

 and Arts, and the College of Science should 

 be consolidated into one college to be known 

 as the College of Arts and Sciences. Although 

 the board of trustees acted favorably upon the 

 question nothing definite in regard to the de- 

 tails of the consolidation has been done. 



Mrs. Huntington Wilson, of Washington, 

 D. C, has established a lectureship on eugen- 

 ics at the University of Virginia. Professor 

 H. E. Jordan, of the university, has been se- 

 lected as the lecturer. 



