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SCIENCE. 



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collections were obtained, some of the material 

 being new to science. Visits were made to a 

 number of the type localities of fossils. A 

 good series of photographs was made to illus- 

 trate the topography and vegetation of the 

 region. Professor T. D. A. Cockerell con- 

 ducted an expedition to Florissant, Colo., 

 where he obtained a valuable series of fossil 

 insects and plants from the Tertiary lake- 

 beds of that vicinity. A beginning of such a 

 collection for the University of Colorado was 

 made the year before, but at that time com- 

 paratively few specimens were obtained. The 

 revival of interest in the fossils of Florissant 

 is auspicious. Some of the known species 

 have never been described, others have been 

 improperly referred to European species from 

 which they are distinct. The university has 

 issued a pamphlet containing brief articles in 

 popular language describing the geology, bot- 

 any and paleontology of the Florissant region. 

 The Bulletin of the American Geographical 

 Society states that the Service Geographique 

 de I'Armee, to which is entrusted the topo- 

 graphic survey work of the country, is making 

 excellent progress with the new map of 

 France in eight or nine colors, which is being 

 published on the scale of 1 : 50,000. The sur- 

 veys are being conducted in the field on a 

 scale of 1 : 10,000 in regions of moderate re- 

 lief and of 1:20,000 in mountainous regions. 

 Surveys on these scales are to form the basis 

 of the new cartography of France. It is 

 probable that the next publications will be 

 maps of the environs of the other large cities 

 of the country. It is estimated that the cost 

 of producing the entire map will be $6,000,000 ; 

 and as the appropriations thus far voted are 

 small, it is likely that the progress of the map 

 will be slow. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Georgia legislature has appropriated 

 $100,000 to erect and equip a building for 

 the Agricultural College. 



The New York State College of Agricul- 

 ture at Cornell University has received a gift 

 of $30,000 for the foundation of six agricul- 

 tural scholarships. Tuition in the college is 

 free to students from New York State, and 



the scholarships will be a substantial help 

 toward living expenses. 



The University of Florida, in accordance 

 with plans determined upon a year ago and 

 mentioned in Science, October 13, 1905, has 

 been removed during the summer from its 

 former location at Lake City to new grounds 

 and new buildings at Gainsville, Fla. The 

 school year opened at the new location on 

 September 26. The new grounds comprise a 

 tract of five hundred acres just outside the 

 city limits of Gainsville. Two three-story 

 brick buildings have been completed, one 300 

 feet long by 30 feet wide, the other 240 feet 

 long by 30 wide; a one-story brick building 

 has been put up also to serve as shop; experi- 

 ment station, barns and greenhouse are in 

 process of construction. 



The senate of Oxford University on Oc- 

 tober 25 adopted, by 206 to 169 votes, the 

 recommendations of the special board for 

 mathematics, involving the abolition of the 

 publication of the names of students in the 

 mathematical tripos in the order of merit. 

 There will consequently hereafter be no senior 

 wrangler. 



Professor L. B. Judson, professor of horti- 

 culture in the University of Idaho, has been 

 appointed assistant professor of horticulture 

 in Cornell University, to take charge of sub- 

 tropical pomology with some related courses. 

 He has spent the past six weeks in traveling 

 on the Pacific coast and the gulf states, and 

 will assume his duties in Cornell on No- 

 vember 1. 



The following instructors have been ap- 

 pointed in the Michigan Agricultural College: 

 William E. Lawrence, botany; J. R. Kelton, 

 zoology; E. N. Bates and W. L. Lodge, phys- 

 ics; F. J. Kayfmann, Arthur J. Clark and 

 Herbert S. Bailey, chemistry; Jos. H. Taylor 

 and W. B. Wendt, civil engineering; H. F. 

 Schmidt and J. A. Palson, mechanical engi- 

 neering. 



Dr. Heinrich Rubens, professor of physics 

 in the Berlin Technical Institute, will for the 

 present assume the direction of the physical 

 laboratory in succession to the late Professor 

 Paul Drude. 



