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enacted to prevent this, the Forestry Society 

 calls attention to the fact that, according to 

 the official report of the forestry department 

 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, 

 the Crown forests furnished a revenue of 17,- 

 600,000 rubles ($9,064,000) in 1890 and 48,- 

 000,000 rubles ($24,720,000) in 1899. It is 

 claimed that this advance in nine years could 

 not be due to the natural increase of tim.ber 

 growth, and it is urged that the Government 

 set an example in moderation. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Laboratory of Engineering, presented 

 to the Stevens Institute of Technology by Mr. 

 Andrew Carnegie, at a cost of $55,000, was 

 dedicated on February 6. Mr. Carnegie made 

 a speech and was presented by President Mor- 

 ton with a silver box containing a piece of 

 the first 'T' rail ever made, the rail that was 

 invented by Robert L. Stevens and was made 

 in 1830 by Sir John Guest at his works in 

 Wales, under the personal supervision of Mr. 

 Stevens. 



The new Hall of Liberal Arts of the State 

 University of Iowa, erected and equipped at 

 a cost of about $200,000, was dedicated on 

 January 23. 



Waynesburg College celebrated its semi- 

 centennial anniversary in November last at 

 which time gifts to the endowment amounting 

 to $36,000 were announced. Col. J. M. Guffey, 

 of Pittsburg; J. V. Thompson, Esq., of Union- 

 town, and Timothy Ross, John Rose and T. J. 

 Wisecarver, of Waynesburg, contributed $5,- 

 000 each. The enrolment of students last year 

 was 391. 



Mr. Waeeen a. Wilbur, of South Bethle- 

 hem, Pa., has given an additional $5,000 for 

 the equipment of the new mechanical labo- 

 ratory at Lehigh University. 



The midwinter edition of the Cornell Uni- 

 versity Register, just published, gives the first 

 official and precise census for the current year. 

 The figures are the following: Trustees, 39; 

 teachers, 387; students, graduate department, 

 183; graduate students in undergraduate de- 

 partments, 186; academic department, 817; 

 law school, 197 ; medical college, 415 ; college 



of agriculture, 86 ; veterinary college, 51 ; col- 

 lege of forestry, 38 ; college of architecture, 

 50; college of civil engineering, 212; Sibley 

 college (mechanical, including railway, elec- 

 trical, marine, etc.), 784. The total of all 

 classes and courses is 2,792 in the regular lists 

 and about 500 in the sununer schools. Of the 

 total 1,679 come from New York State, the re- 

 mainder from every State in the Union and 

 from all parts of America and of the British 

 Empire, from China, Japan, Russia, Switzer- 

 land, Austria, Turkey and Korea. Of the 784 

 students in the undergraduate courses of Sib- 

 ley College, 62 are graduate students; there 

 are also 14 candidates for the Master's degree 

 and 2 graduate students not candidates for a 

 degree. There are 4 candidates for Ph.D., 

 taking their' major work in M.E., and one 

 D.Sc, making a total for 1901-2 of 805 stu- 

 dents in all classes and courses. 



The Wesleyan University Summer School 

 of Chemistry and Biology will be organized in 

 July, 1902, and will be open for a period of 

 four weeks. It will be in charge of Professors 

 W. O. Atwater, W. P. Bradley and H. W. 

 Conn, aided by a number of assistants. 



Peofessor Willlam L. Robb, of Trinity 

 College, has been appointed head of the new 

 department of electrical science in the Rens- 

 selaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. 



Dr. George E. De Schweinitz, of Jefferson 

 Medical College, has been appointed professor 

 of ophthalmology in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania to succeed the late Dr. W. F. Norris. 

 Miss Susan M. Hallowell has resigned the 

 professorship of botany at Wellesley College, 

 and has been made professor emeritus. Miss 

 Hallowell was appointed professor of natural 

 history on the opening of the College in 1875. 

 At Cambridge University Professor T. H. 

 Middleton has been elected professor of agri- 

 culture in the place of Dr. Somerville. 



Dr. David Welsh, the senior assistant to 

 the professor of pathology in the University 

 of Edinburgh, has been elected the first pro- 

 fessor of pathology in Sydney. 



The Senior Mathematical Scholarship at 

 Oxford has been awarded to Arthur W. Con- 

 way, B.A., Corpus Christi College. 



