MarcH 29, 1901.] 
ported to the trustees at their meeting on Feb- 
ruary 18th, recommending that some system be 
adopted for freeing the pages of the volumes 
from bacilli. Dr. Kuflewski exhibited several 
glass tubes filled with germs taken from the 
pages of library books. The bacilli represented 
a hundred different poisons and germs of dis- 
ease. He said that all the fifty books ex- 
amined by him during the investigation were 
found to be more or less infected. He said 
there was no doubt that disease was spread by 
the books. He advised that a system of steril- 
izing the volumes by the dry process be adopted 
immediately. 
THE New York Evening Post reports that 
the Hon. John Dryden, Ontario Minister of 
Agriculture, recently announced in the Legis- 
lature that a complete change of policy had 
been decided upon in regard to the efforts to 
stamp out the San José scale. It had been found 
that cutting down infected orchards would 
prove far too costly to be continued. To con- 
tinue it would have meant an expenditure of 
nearly $500,000 as a partial compensation to 
fruit growers. The new policy is to educate 
fruit-growers to destroy the pest without cutting 
down the trees. Experiments indicated that by 
systematic work this could be accomplished. 
THE collection of mounted birds at the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, including nearly fifteen 
hundred specimens, has been rearranged. The 
birds that are native of Michigan are in three 
eases on the east side of the bird room. Those 
in the case farthest north are birds to be found 
north of Ann Arbor, those in the middle case 
birds in the neighborhood, and those in the 
third case birds living to the south of Ann Arbor. 
The west side of the bird room is occupied with 
cases containing specimens from many differ- 
ent parts of the world. These are scientifically 
arranged. Besides the specimens in the cases, 
thirty-six bird groups have been arranged. 
These are mounted in their natural surround- 
ings, often with nest, eggs and young. Each 
group is a picture of bird life. In addition to 
the mounted specimens in the bird room of the 
museum, the University possesses nearly four 
thousand skins for use in scientific study in the 
class room. 
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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
- SiR WILLIAM McDonaLp has made another 
large gift to McGill University, namely $150,- 
000, for endowments for the chair of chemistry, 
now held by Professor Harrington, and for the 
chair of botany, now held by Professor Pen- 
hallow, and for an addition to the endowment of 
the chair of physics now held by Professor Cox. 
TEACHERS College, Columbia University, has 
received an anonymous gift of $100,000 for a 
building for its experimental school. The 
building will provide for 50 children in the 
kindergarten and 240 in the elementary grades, 
with special classes in sewing, cooking, manual 
training and music. There will also be a gym- 
nasium, baths, library, reading rooms and ac- 
commodations for evening classes, club meet- 
ings and social gatherings for the people of the 
community. This experimental school of the 
Teachers College is, of course, in addition to 
the Horace Mann school for which a new build- 
ing is in course of construction. 
THE present Legislature of the State of Cali- 
fornia has passed measures of importance for 
the two great universities of the State, and these 
have been signed by the Governor. Thesum of 
$200,000 was appropriated for the support of 
the University of California, and a further con- 
tingent appropriation of $50,000 was made. 
Stanford University was, as we have already 
noted, given additional power to accept and 
hold funds, and its property was in part ex- 
empted from taxation. 
THE last session of the State Legislature voted 
to place the North Dakota Agricultural College 
upon a permanent and fixed income in place of 
the heretofore uncertain bi-annual appropri- 
ation. One-fifth mill is assessed upon all tax- 
able property in the State for the support of the 
College. Anappropriation of $50,000 was made 
for needed buildings and improvements, and 
$18,000 to meet current expenses until the mill 
tax becomes available. A new chemical lab- 
oratory is to be built during the present season. 
Ir is reported that German-American citizens 
of Baltimore will collect $100,000 toward the 
endowment of the Johns Hopkins University, 
and that $600,000 of the million dollar fund 
haye been secured. 
