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extension of time will enable the commission to 
- complete its labors satisfactorily. The Secretary 
of State, of the Treasury of the United States, 
has written stating that he regrets that the in- 
vitation to send an American delegate was not 
received in time for the detail of an officer of 
the Marine Service Hospital to accompany the 
expedition. 
A CORRESPONDENT of Industries and Iron of 
London, for whom its editor youches as a com- 
petent judge, gives the following hindrances to 
introduction of the Nernst lamp: (1) There is 
no automatic heating arrangement to the small 
power lamps, and they each require about eight 
seconds in artificial heating to be brought to 
incandescence; (2) No small lamps of small 
candle power have yet been produced; (8) 
There are three wires to each, and the lamps 
cannot therefore be connected without incon- 
venience to existing standards; (4) Excepting 
mere laboratory tests there is no practical ex- 
perience of the life of the lamp; (5) It has 
never yet been attempted to manufacture the 
lamp on a commercial scale, and not one lamp 
on the Nernst principle is yet in commercial 
use; (6) More than one firm of eminence have 
adopted the opinion that the principle of the 
lamp has been anticipated by the Jablochkoff 
candle, thus impeaching the validity of the 
Nernst patent. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
WE are glad to be able to give a correct ac- 
count of Mrs. Hearst’s plans for the University 
of California. Mrs. Hearst has not made any 
official announcement, and is not likely to do so, 
because she intends to superintend the use of her 
gifts herself. But the following may be consid- 
ered as certain: She has by will devoted her for- 
tune to the University—this in case of her death. 
But she intends to give during her lifetime all 
or the greater part, and from time to time 
as necessary to carry out her plans. She in- 
tends to commence next spring to put up two 
buildings, one of which is to be the mining 
building. It is not certain what the other will 
be. Besides there are good grounds for the 
belief that other wealthy residents of Califor- 
nia, incited by Mrs. Hearst’s example, will 
next year put up three other buildings. Mrs. 
SCIENCE. 
[N.S. Von. X. No. 249. 
Hearst has determined to live in Berkeley in 
order to be in closer touch with the University. 
It is expected that M. Bénard, the architect, 
will go to Berkeley to superintend the work. 
Negotiations to that effect are going on. Finally, 
it may be stated that Mrs. Hearst understands 
perfectly well that buildings require a corre- 
sponding endowment. 
CORNELL UNIVERSITY opens with an enter- 
ing class membership above 600. Sibley Col- 
lege has a freshman class of about 200 and 
many new men in the upper classes and grad- 
uate departments. 
THE third course in advanced agricultural 
chemistry, in the School of Graduate Studies, 
of the Columbian University, Washington, D. 
C., will begin September 27th, under the direc- 
tion of Dr. H. H Wiley. Graduates of agricul- 
tural colleges and other institutions of good 
standing, are eligible for admission to this 
course. Under certain restrictions graduates 
are admitted to the chemical laboratory of the 
department of agriculture. Advanced courses 
in soil studies, agricultural technical chemistry 
and in the study of food will be begun at once 
with laboratory practice. This school offers. 
special advantages to the graduates of agricul- 
tural colleges who wish to complete their ad- 
vanced studies in agricultural sciences. 
A CHAIR of the theory, art and practice of 
education has been established in Owen’s Col- 
lege, Manchester, and Mr. H. L. Withers, now 
principal of the training college at Isleworth, 
has been called to be the first incumbent. 
Dr. C. B. DAVENPORT, of Harvard University, 
has been called to the zoological department of 
the University of Chicago to fill the place left 
vacant by the removal of Professor Wheeler to 
the University of Texas. 
W. D. MERRILL, PH.D. (Chicago), has been 
appointed instructor in biology, with special 
reference to botany, in the University of Roch- 
ester. 
Dr. CHARLES G. SHAW has been appointed 
to the position in the department of philosophy 
in New York University made vacant by the 
resignation of Dr. J. H. McCracken, to accept 
the Presidency of Westminster College, at Ful- 
ton, Mo. 
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