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tured to express the hope that, now the matter 

 was decided, all would work together for the 

 common good. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 In addition to her i-eceut gifts of $100,000 

 and $10,000 which we have recently announced, 

 Mrs. Jane K. Sather, of Oakland, has pre- 

 sented to the University of California real 

 estate worth $150,000. 



Mr. William "Waldorf Astor has con- 

 tributed $50,000 to the benefaction fund of 

 Cambridge University, England. 



Columbia University has received a further 

 anonymous gift of $10,000 for the purchase of 

 books. 



At the annual meeting of the Council of New 

 York University it was reported that the gifts 

 to the institution during the year had amounted 

 to $348,000. 



At a recent meeting of the Board of Trus- 

 tees of Columbia University the committee on 

 buildings and grounds was authorized to select 

 a site and prepare plans for a college hall. 



The main building of the Cornell University 

 Veterinary College was partly burned on Tues- 

 day. The apparatus destroyed was worth $10,- 

 000 ; the total loss is $30,000. 



The YaleTorestry School has opened with an 

 enrollment^of seven regular students and seven- 

 teen from other departments of the University. 

 The residence^of the late Professor O. C. Marsh 

 is° used as a school building. In addition to 

 lecture rooms, a library, laboratory and a her- 

 barium room have been furnished with such 

 equipment as is necessary for the present re- 

 quirements of the school. A considerable 

 amount of museum material has already been 

 acquired by the school and is being classified and 

 arranged as rapidly as possible. The grounds 

 about the building, 10 acres, are already covered 

 with a great variety of trees and shrubs, both 

 native and foreign, and it is the intention to plant 

 a considerable number of varieties which are 

 not represented. A forest nursery will be es- 

 tablished on the grounds, but the regular forest 

 planting will be done on waste laud on the out- 



skirts of New Haven. The New HaVen Water 

 Company has offered to the school the use of 

 several hundred acres of woodland for the prac- 

 tical field work of the students, and several other 

 owners have expressed their desire to devote 

 their wood-lots to this purpose. The degree of 

 master of forestry will be given to such gradu- 

 ates of the school as have previously received 

 the bachelor's degree from collegiate institu- 

 tions of high standing. 



A BOTANICAL school is being erected at a 

 cost of $20,000 in Shealey Park, Pittsburg. It 

 is intended especially for children in the 

 schools, as it is believed that they can carry on 

 the study of botany to greater advantage in a 

 special laboratory than in the school-room. 



Trinity College for the higher education of 

 women, near the Catholic University at Wash- 

 ington, will be dedicated towards the end of the 

 present month. Its educational work has al- 

 ready begun. 



Mr. T. Nelson Dale, geologist of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, has resigned his instructor- 

 ship in geology and botany at Williams College 

 and his curatorship of the College Museum. 



The following appointments have been made 

 at Columbia University : W. W. Comstock, as- 

 sistant in physics ; Hardy Chambiss and W. E. 

 Dryfus, assistants in chemistry ; Charles E. 

 Banker, assistant in normal histology, and 

 Cai'lton P. Flint, assistant in demonstrative 

 anatomy. 



Mr. I. H. Derby, B.A. (Harvard, 1899), 

 and F. C. Koch, M. A. (Illinois, 1900), have been 

 appointed instructors in chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. At the same university, 

 Mr. E. W. Ponzer, B.A. (Illinois, 1900), has 

 been appointed instructor in mathematics. 



Dr. Alfred L. T. Schaper, formerly assist- 

 ant professor of histology at the Harvard Med- 

 ical School, has been appointed professor ex- 

 traordinary of anatomy, and director of the 

 division for embryology and bio-mechanics at 

 the University of Breslau. 



Professor Georg Meissner, director of the 

 Physiological Institute at Gottingen, will retire 

 at the end of the present college term on ac- 

 count of ill health. 



