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‘destructive of human life than are wild animals, 
but the reverse is true of the destruction of 
cattle. In 1899 no fewer than 89,238 cattle 
were destroyed by wild animals, and 9,449 by 
snakes. Of the former 37,986 fell victims to 
leopards, and 34,321 to tigers. The leopard is 
even more destructive to cattle than the tiger 
in Bengal. This province is the greatest suf- 
ferer from the ravages of wild animals and 
snakes, its loss being 30,539 cattle. Assam 
lost 17,010, Madras 15,592, Burma 11,016, and 
the Central Provinces 11,689. The number of 
wild animals destroyed was 18,887 and the 
amount paid for their destruction was 107,476 
rupees. The number of snakes killed was 
94,548, and the rewards paid for service 
amounted to 4,151 rupees. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
THE Washington State Legislature has ad- 
journed after having made liberal appropria- 
tions for the support of education. The State 
University gets $270,000, the State Agricultural 
College $94,800, the three normal schools $93, - 
800, $45,000 and $40,000, respectively. 
THE Indiana Legislature has appropriated 
$100,000 for a science building for Indiana 
University. 
THE Ontario Government, in addition to the 
aid contained in the Toronto University Bill 
now before the Legislature, which involves the 
payment of about $20,000 a year for the science 
department, salaries and maintenance, has 
decided to erect a new building for the science 
department on the site of the old Wycliffe Col- 
lege, at a cost of about $200,000. 
By the will of the late George T. Bliss, of 
New York City, who died on March 24th, 
Yale University receives $50,000. 
Mr. JouN D. ROCKEFELLER has offered to 
give Richmond College, a Baptist institution of 
Virginia, $75,000, on the condition that the 
College shall collect $25,000. 
THE sum of $12,000 per annum has been 
subscribed for the conduct of the experimental 
school of Teachers College, Columbia Univer- 
sity. It will be remembered that a building is 
about to be erected for this school with a gift 
of $100,000. 
SCLENCE. 
[N. S. Vox. XII. No. 327. 
THE Lord Mayor of London presided at a 
meeting on March 21st, when the Harl of Rose- 
berry delivered an address on commercial edu- 
cation. The object of the meeting was to call 
attention to the importance of higher commer- 
cial education in relation to the present position 
and prospects of British trade, and to take the 
preliminary steps to raise a fund for the estab- 
lishment of additional higher commercial teach- 
ing in connection with the new London Univer- 
sity. Toward this fund, Messrs. N. M. Roths- 
child & Sons have contributed £5,000. 
AN influential committee has issued an appeal 
with the object of raising £150,000 in celebra- 
tion of the jubilee of Owens College, Manches- 
ter. Fifty thousand pounds are needed to dis- 
charge debts that have been contracted and 
£100,000 for additional endowment. Among 
the objects the promoters have in view are the 
extinction of the debt of £22,000 on the build- 
ing of the medical school; special endowments 
for existing chairs, including French, chem- 
istry, education, anatomy and philosophy ; the 
establishment of new chairs of English literature, 
Hebrew and architecture ; the establishment of 
an institution for bacteriological investigation 
and for the study of hygiene, and of research 
fellowships; and the creation of a pension 
fund for members of the teaching staff. 
FoLLowine the action recently taken by the 
University of Michigan, the Faculty of the Col- 
lege of Science, Literature and the Arts in the 
University of Minnesota has voted to recom- 
mend to the Board of Regents that only one 
degree, that of bachelor of arts, be given here- 
after. Under the present arrangement three 
courses are offered in the college, leading to the 
degrees of bachelor of arts, bachelor of litera- 
ture and bachelor of science. 
For the remainder of the college year, Mr. 
S. M. Coulter takes the position of instructor 
in botany in Washington University, vacated 
by the appointment of H. F. Roberts as pro- 
fessor of botany in the Kansas Agricultural 
College. 
Dr. V. L. LEIGHTON, instructor in organic 
chemistry at Tufts College, has been called to 
an associate professorship of chemistry at the 
College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts, at 
Kingston, R. I. 
