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SCIENCE. 



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financial necessities of each case. The rest of 

 the work of the field parties has been more of 

 the character of investigations — as, for instance, 

 the examination of the influence of forest cover 

 on waterflow which was made on the watershed 

 of the Arrowhead river in southern California, 

 the studies of the habits of growth and repro- 

 duction of the two most important lumber 

 trees of the Pacific coast — the Red Fir and the 

 Redwood, and the survey of the results of tree- 

 planting undertakings which have been carried 

 on in the northern part of the Mississippi Val- 

 ley. During the coming winter the agents of 

 the Division will spend most of their time in 

 working up the results of the summer's surveys 

 and in preparing reports on them, although 

 there will doubtless be some field work as well. 

 The total exports from the United States 

 during the month of October, as shown by the 

 records of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, 

 were $163,093,597. The total for ten months 

 ending with October, 1900, is $1,194,775,205, 

 or practically double that of the ten months 

 ending with October, 1894. Exports exceeded 

 imports during the ten months ending with 

 October by $499,667,936, while in the corre- 

 sponding ten months of 1894 imports exceeded 

 exports by $96,663,369. The exports of last 

 month were far in excess of any previous 

 month, exceeding those of March of the present 

 year, which hitherto had the highest record, by 

 nearly $30,000,000. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Yale University has received $68,152 from 

 the estate of the late John De Kovey. 



In an address to the students of Colorado 

 College, Dr. D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago, an- 

 nounced that on January 1, 1901, he would 

 make the college a gift of $50,000 toward the 

 cost of completing the new scientific building 

 now in course of construction. 



Under the will of the late Dr. D. J. Leech 

 professor of materia medica and therapeutics 

 in the Owens College, Manchester, that college 

 will eventually receive £10,000, for endowing a 

 chair of materia medica and therapeutics. 



The University of Wisconsin has received 

 $1,000 from Charles F. Pfister and a like amount 



from Fred Vogel, both of Milwaukee, to be ex- 

 pended in the purchase of books for the School 

 of Commerce. 



The Yale University treasurer has bought 

 an additional piece of property on Cedar Street 

 in New Heaven, by which, with earlier pur- 

 chases, a continuous front of about 200 feet 

 opposite the New Haven Hospital is secured 

 for a new site for the Medical School, at a total 

 cost of about $60,000. 



Dr. de Wilde, minister from the Argentine 

 Republic, is interested in the establishment of 

 ten agricultural and mechanical colleges in that 

 country after American models. To this end 

 there are twenty-eight students of the Republic 

 now attending colleges in this country, both in 

 the East and the West. 



In a letter to the Times Mr. T. Clifibrd Al- 

 butt states that in spite of constant efforts dur- 

 ing the last two years the Chancellor of Cam- 

 bridge University has received no more than 

 £62,500, one half of which amount comes from 

 the Chancellor himself, Lord Rothschild and 

 Mr. Astor. ' ' These funds are now being ex- 

 pended on the laboratories and museums of 

 geology, botany, and pathology, which are most 

 needed ; but they will not meet the cost even 

 of these ; the botanical and pathological depart- 

 ments alone will cost more. Again, among the 

 ofiices still vacant here for lack of funds are 

 twenty-three of the readerships prescribed by 

 the Commission as necessary. The normal sal- 

 ary of a reader is £400 a year ; I should be sur- 

 prised to hear that the average income of our 

 present readers is more than £200. Our reve- 

 nue on paper seems large no doubt, but the 

 bulk of it is in trust for specific purposes, some 

 of which are and some are not of paramount 

 importance ; every penny, however, that could 

 be set free for development was so freed by the 

 Royal Commission. * * * Unless the public by 

 donation or bequest be more generous, we can 

 hardly hope to keep in the van of modern 

 education ; yet for Oxford and Cambridge to 

 fall back would be a national misfortune." 



J. Shirely Eaton, the statistician of the 

 Lehigh Valley Railroad, has been elected to 

 a chair of domestic commerce and transporta- 

 tion at New York University. 



