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SCIENCE. 



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relationships; and some fish remains. This 

 material when worked out will add very ma- 

 terially to our knowledge of the marine Cre- 

 taceous fauna, and especially to our knowledge 

 of the plesiosaurs of America. 



Yale University has appropriated a sum 

 sufficient to cover the cost of publishing in 

 book form the Mathematical Society's col- 

 loquimn in New Haven last September. This 

 is to be issued as a Yale publication. Copies 

 will be forwarded to all subscribing members 

 of the society and the remainder of the edition 

 will be placed at the disposal of the librarian 

 of the university for exchange and other pur- 

 poses. 



With the view of bringing together the 

 cattle and most of the deer in the London 

 Zoological Gardens the authorities have con- 

 structed a range of buildings in the south 

 garden, between the lion-house and the pheas- 

 antries. The former deer-sheds have been 

 improved and others built at the eastern end, 

 the latter being furnished with paddocks cor- 

 responding to those of the older structure. 

 South of this, but imder the same roof, the 

 new cattle-sheds have been put up, and the 

 land cleared by pulling down the old ones has 

 been thrown into the five large paddocks. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 President John E. Goucher, of the Wo- 

 man's College, Baltimore, Md., has deeded to 

 the college his private residence for use as an 

 administration building. 



An anonymous gift of $50,000 has been re- 

 ceived by Yale University to establish the 

 John Slade Ely professorship in the medical 

 school in memory of Professor Ely, who died 

 in the spring. 



A NEW science hall at the University of 

 Mississippi is in process of construction. This 

 will be a large three-story building, and it is 

 hoped that it v,?ill be completed in time for 

 the geological and other collections to be trans- 

 ferred next summer. Other buildings under 

 construction are a hospital and four residences 

 for professors. 



The annual meeting of the trustees of the 

 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 

 Teaching was held at the offices of the founda- 

 tion in New York on November 20. The ex- 

 ecutive officers of the foundation are Dr. 

 Henry S. Pritchett, president, and T. Morris 

 Carnegie, treasurer, while the general officers 

 of the board itself are: Chairman, President 

 Eliot ; vice-chairman, President Jordan ; sec- 

 retary. President Thwing. 



We learn from the Harvard Bulletin 

 that the Harvard Graduate School of Ap- 

 plied Science, which was established last 

 spring, begins its work this fall with an en- 

 rolment of thirty students. Courses are of- 

 fered leading to degrees in the following sub- 

 jects: civil engineering, mechanical engineer- 

 ing, electrical engineering, mining, metallurgy, 

 architecture, landscape architecture, forestry, 

 physics, chemistry, zoology, geology. The 

 school will differ from the Lawrence Scientific 

 School in that a bachelor's degree will be re- 

 quired for admission, and original work will 

 be done, as is true of the Graduate School, in 

 relation to the department of arts and sciences. 

 The new institution will give to Harvard stu- 

 dents five-year courses in both departments, 

 the first three in each case being undergrad- 

 uate. 



The resignation of Professor James Lee 

 Love as secretary of the Lawrence Scientific 

 School of Harvard University was received 

 and accepted, to take effect November 12, 

 1906. 



The establishment of a chair of economic 

 geology in the Sheffield Scientific School of 

 Yale University is announced, with the ap- 

 pointment of Professor John Duer Irving, 

 professor of geology at Lehigh University, as 

 the first incumbent; Dr. G. R. Wieland has 

 been appointed lecturer in paleobotany. 



Dr. Herbert J. Webber, director of plant- 

 breeding investigations in the Department of 

 Agriculture, has been appointed professor of 

 plant biology in the College of Agriculture 

 of Cornell University. 



The council of King's College, London, has 

 appointed Mr. Arthur Whitfield, M.D., pro- 

 fessor of dermatology. 



