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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIX. No. 1253 



Michigan has been asked to make a detailed 

 survey of the reservations, and it is planned 

 to extend this survey over an indefinite num- 

 ber of years. Field laboratories will be pro- 

 vided by the foundation, and the museum will 

 send specialists on the groups represented in 

 the preserves to these laboratories at different 

 times. The object of the field work will be to 

 obtain a complete inventory of the plants and 

 animals and to secure data upon the causes 

 of fluctuations in numbers of individuals, that 

 the fauna and flora may be maintained as 

 nearly as possible in the primitive condition. 

 At the same time it is expected that ecological 

 data and information on. the original biota 

 will be obtained which will be of scientific in- 

 terest. The specimens will be deposited in the 

 Museum of Zoology and the Chamberlain 

 Memorial Musemn, and the published results 

 of the work will appear from the Museiim of 

 Zoology under a common title. 



Future generations will not fail to appre- 

 ciate the good judgment and public spirit 

 which have led to the recognition of the de- 

 sirability of insuring the perpetuity of the 

 wild life of these areas and the establishment 

 of the preserves. 



Alexander G. Euthven 



Museum or Zoolost, 



XJNIVEBSITT OF MICHIGAN 



THE ORGANIZATION OF YALE UNIVERSITY 

 AND THE SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL 



Meeting in extraordinary session on Decem- 

 ber 16, with but one member absent, the Yale 

 Corporation reviewed the whole subject of uni- 

 versity rteeonstruetion, and voted fundamental 

 changes wihich, when carried through, will 

 radically alter the university organization. 

 The important votes are as follows: 



1. Voted, That the recommendation of the 

 governing 'board of the Sheffield Scientific 

 School that the undergraduate course " be 

 lengthened from tliree to four years " be ap- 

 proved. 



2. That in the oprinion of the corporation the 

 reasons which led to the establishment and 

 maintenance of a course of " Selected studies 

 in language, literature, history and the natural 

 and social sciences" under the administration 



of the faculty of the Sheffield Scientific School 

 are no longer valid. 



3. That the governing board of the Sheffield 

 Scientific School be requested to appoint a com- 

 mittee, of which the director shall be chair- 

 man, to prepare plans for the immediate estab- 

 lishment of a four-year undergraduabe course 

 and the discontinuance of the " select " course; 

 reporting at the same timp to the corporation 

 whether, in the opinion of this committee, it is 

 desirable to establish a scientific course in prep- 

 aration for business. 



4. That this committee be directed to confer 

 with a similar committee to be appointed by 

 the permanent officers of Yale College regard- 

 ing the inter-departmental problems created by 

 the proposed changes, in order that properly 

 qualified students in either school may be given 

 access to the courses of instruction offered by 

 the other. 



5. That the president be directed to call 

 meetings of the two committees thus created, 

 together with the chairman of the entrance ex- 

 amination committee, to devise means for 

 carrying more fully into effect the policy of 

 joint administration of entrance requirements 

 for the two schools; with authority to recom- 

 mend, for the consideration of the respective 

 governing 'boards and the approval of the cor- 

 poration, such changes as shall appear to them 

 desirable in the scope of the entrance require- 

 ments themselves, and an the organization of 

 the freshman year. 



6. Tliat in the opinion of the corporation it 

 is practicable, as recommended by the execu- 

 tive board of the graduate school, to place the 

 administration of all advanced degrees and 

 certificates in science, comprising at present 

 the degree of master of science, the certificate 

 in public health, and the higher engineering 

 degrees, under the jurisdiction of the graduate 

 school, without interfering with the develop- 

 ment of the departments of study concerned or 

 their pro]jer articulation with the undergradu- 

 ate courses which lead up to them; and that 

 under these circumstances the administration 

 of the courses leading to these degrees should 

 be transferred to the graduaite school at the 

 close of the present academic year. 



