May 17, 1901.] 
accumulate at the rate of 15 to 20 a year, and 
the total number in the institute would not ex- 
ceed 60, an ample number for a staff of nine 
teachers in research work. In order that the 
scheme may be set on foot, Mr. Tata’s gener- 
ous benefaction needs a supplement of about 
£5,000 from the Government of India. As the 
Viceroy and several members of his Council 
have promised favorable consideration, it may 
be hoped that this modest grant will be forth- 
coming. ‘‘ I can imagine few ways,’’ says Pro- 
fessor Ramsay, ‘‘in which a contribution from 
the State is likely to have such substantial and 
far-reaching results on the prosperity of the 
whole people. For the establishment of indus- 
tries would result not merely in giving employ- 
ment to the small number of experts for whom 
this Institute is designed, but to a vast army of 
clerks, artisans, workman and also merchants, 
whose object would be the disposal of the man- 
ufactured articles produced from the raw ma- 
terials existing in the country ; whereas, by ex- 
porting the raw materials as such, the country 
is impoverished, for their extraction gives em- 
ployment only to navyies and to the railway 
companies.”’ 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
THE Legislature of Minnesota has recently 
appropriated $25,000 for a new laboratory of 
agricultural chemistry, and $25,000 for the 
erection and equipment of a building for in- 
struction in, and investigation of, veterinary 
science. 
PHILLIPS ACADEMY, of Andover, Mass., has 
established a department of archeology with a 
fund of $150,000. A museum is about to be 
erected. Dr. Charles Peabody, of Haryard, is 
hon. director, and Mr. W. K. Moorehead is 
curator. There are about 40,000 specimens 
with which to begin study. They were col- 
lected during the past six years by Mr. Moore- 
head for the founder, whose name, at his own 
request, is withheld from publication. 
Mr. H. M. Hanna has given to Western Re- 
serve University $12,000 to establish a research 
fellowship in its medical school in the depart- 
ments of physiology and pathology. 
SCIENCE. 
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THE alumni of Columbia University are mak- 
ing efforts to collect $400,000 for a hall for the 
college. It is hoped that the building may be 
erected by the time of the celebration of the 
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the found- 
ing of the University in 1904. 
EFFORTS are now being made to promote the 
better equipment of Queen’s College, Belfast. 
It appears that the chair of pathology has been 
endowed and thata laboratory of physics and 
engineering has been promised by Mr. Pirrie. 
The sum of £5,000 has been given by Sir James 
Musgrave. 
GROUND has been broken for the new Ad- 
ministration and Science Building of Colorado 
College. The sum of $160,000 has been 
secured for its erection and equipment, of which 
sum Dr. Pearsons, of Chicago, and Mr. W. S. 
Stratton have each contributed $50,000. 
The building will contain laboratories in all 
departments of science, lecture and recitation 
rooms, and a large natural history and geolog- 
ical museum. 
THE Kent Laboratory of Chemistry at Yale 
University is now being enlarged in accordance 
with the bequest of $50,000 by A. E. Kent. 
THE courts have decided that the Loomis 
laboratory must be relinquished by New York 
University. It would in this case go to the 
Cornell University Medical College, but we 
understand that the litigation will be continued. 
AT the conference of the Presidents of the 
State Universities held at the University of 
Illinois, on May 1st, 2d and 3d, the following 
subjects were brought up for discussion : 
1. What can be done to stimulate publication among 
university teachers and graduate students without 
over-stimulating it? 
2. Is a uniformity of system in keeping the records 
and making the reports of State universities desirable 
and practicable ? 
. 3. How does one get rid of a professor who is in- 
dustrious and attentive to his duties, who has good 
sense, whose influence upon students is good, but who 
by lack of. ability and training is paralyzing the in- 
struction of his department ? 
4. Should entrance requirements for colleges of agri- 
culture be lower than for other colleges? What tech- 
nical courses might be offered in agriculture without 
entrance conditions? 
