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SCIENCE. 



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America, and selection and cross-breeding will 

 be tried to improve the yield of the old varie- 

 ties, not by increasing the size, biit by increas- 

 ing the number of grains in the ear. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



By the will of Mrs. S. C. Warren, about 

 $150,000 is given for educational and charitable 

 purposes, including $5,000 to Harvard Univer- 

 sity for the Peabody Museum of Archeology 

 and $5,000 to Williams College. 



Palmer College, at Le Grand, Iowa, has re- 

 ceived $30,000 from Mr. F. A. Palmer, of New 

 York, making $50,000 given to the institution 

 in the last six months. 



A CABLE despatch to the New York Sun an- 

 nounces that the Chinese government has de- 

 cided to present to Columbia University a 

 compilation of Chinese literature, history, 

 maps, illustrations and official papers in ac- 

 knowledgment of the establishment of a chair 

 of Chinese history, language, customs and 

 manners in that institution. The recommen- 

 dation that such action be taken was made by 

 Liu Kun Yi, the Viceroy of Nankin. 



The Philadelphia correspondent of the New 

 York Evening Post records the buildings to 

 be erected at the University of Pennsylvania, 

 as follows : Engineering building and ma- 

 chinery, $500,000; gymnasium building and 

 ground, $400,000; medical laboratories, $500,- 

 000; veterinary building, $150,000; and vari- 

 ous sums for additions to the chemistry and 

 physics laboratories. About one-half of this 

 sum has been secured, and the plans for the 

 new engineering building have already been 

 completed. The equipment will cost over 

 $200,000, and the building $300,000. The site 

 for the new medical laboratories has been 

 cleared and work begun on the foundations. 

 The trustees plan to have the laboratories 

 ready for use by the opening of the next col- 

 lege year. 



Mrs. George Holt and Miss Holt have en- 

 dowed a fellowship in physics in Uni- 

 versity College, Liverpool, to be associ- 

 ated with the name of Dr. Oliver Lodge, 

 formerly professor of physics at the College, 

 and now principal of Birmingham University. 



Its annual value will be £100 or more. A prize 

 to be called the 'Oliver Lodge Prize' has also 

 been established by Dr. Lodge's friends and 

 late colleagues, to be awarded annually to the 

 best student in physics in the third year of 

 the honors coxirse. 



Cornell University will hereaftSr confer 

 the degree of 'Porest Engineer,' in place of 

 'Bachelor of the Science of Forestry.' The 

 arguments presented in favor of this change 

 are as follows: (1) The degree 'Forest Engi- 

 neer' expresses more adequately than the 

 academic degree now conferred, and according 

 to precedent in other technical arts, the fact 

 that not a science, but an art of technical char- 

 acter has been studied to a certain degree, 

 namely the degree of entering the student into 

 the profession. (2) It expresses the kind of 

 work — namely, the application of technical 

 scientific knowledge to a business end in a 

 productive industry — for which the student 

 has been prepared as a professional man. (3) 

 It does not, as does the academic degree B. S. 

 F., place the scientific basis and the literary 

 accomplishment before the professional re- 

 sult. (4) It is, in the eyes of the world, a 

 prima facie title of practical attainments, 

 fitting for employment in practical rather than 

 literary or scientific work. (5) There is suffi- 

 cient precedent, not only in other technical 

 arts for the form of title, but in the art of 

 forestry, wherever a title has been given out- 

 side of this country, it has assumed the form 

 of Engineer. 



At its next session the Legislature of Penn- 

 sylvania will be asked to establish a School of 

 Forestry. 



Professor Luther Foster has resigned his 

 position of vice-director of the experiment 

 station and professor of agriculture in con- 

 nection with the LTniversity of Wyoming at 

 Laramie, in order to accept the presidency of 

 the New Mexico College of Agriculture and 

 Mechanic Arts located at Mesilla Park, and 

 the directorship of the agricultural experiment 

 station at the same place. Professor Foster 

 was elected to his new position unanimously by 

 the board of regents of the college and station 

 on November 22, and assumed charge of the 

 duties of the position on December 1. 



