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144 and 250 feet, respectively, without refer- 

 ence to several thousand feet of drops from 

 the Indian villages to the Colorado's channel. 

 Many plans have- been mooted for developing 

 the marvelous power of the Colorado, a stream 

 which rises as much as 100 feet in flood time 

 within the canyon. Floats equipped with 

 great paddle wheels have been suggested, but 

 it is probable that the river will some day be 

 harnessed by means of tunnels that will 'pick 

 up' the fall of the stream. One such tunnel, 

 at a point near Bass's Trail, and not over half 

 a mile in length, driven through black granite, 

 would cut off 12 miles of river channel, aver- 

 aging not less than 12 feet of fall to the mile. 

 Dr. A. J. Chandler, of Mesa, Arizona, is engi- 

 neering the latest Grand Canyon power plant. 

 Dr. Chandler is the manager of the southwest- 

 ern interests of Bowen & Ferry, the Detroit 

 capitalists, and has made a success of a power- 

 generating plant near Mesa. He has found 

 an ideal location for power-generating works 

 on the Kanal, "Wash., not far from its union 

 with the inner canyon of the Colorado about 

 TO miles north of Williams. It is stated that 

 even 5,000 feet of fall can be found in a dis- 

 tance a little over a mile. The water supply 

 is said to be ample and of remarkable regular- 

 ity of flow. The only question seems to be 

 that involving the carriage of the necessary 

 heavy machinery down into the canyon and 

 across the river, unless it be hauled southward 

 from some Utah railroad point and lowered 

 over the precipitous cliffs. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The University of Toronto has arranged 

 its academic course leading to the B.A. de- 

 gree, so that when the student has completed 

 four years of work he may have fulfilled the 

 requirements of the first two years of medi- 

 cine. He can then enter the third year of 

 medicine and graduate in two years, thus mak- 

 ing it possible to obtain the degrees of Bache- 

 lor of Arts and Bachelor of Medicine after six 

 years of study. 



A LABOEATORY of experimental psychology 

 will be opened next winter at King's College, 



London. It will be under the general super- 

 vision of the professor of physiology. Dr. Hali- 

 burton, and the special conduct will be en- 

 trusted to Dr. W. G. Smith, formerly of Smith 

 College, Northampton, Mass. 



The University of Jena will celebrate its 

 three hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 

 1908. Arrangements are already in progress 

 for the preparation of a history of the univer- 

 sity based on unpublished documents. 



Cornell University, through the generosity 

 of Abraham Abraham of Brooklyn, has ac- 

 quired the Egyptological and Assyriological 

 library of the late Professor August Eisenlohr 

 of Heidelberg. 



The registration at the summer school of 

 Columbia University is this year 643 as com- 

 pared with 589 in 1901 and 417 in 1900, when 

 the school was first established. 



The State University of Iowa has created a 

 chair of psychology and elected to it Dr. C. 

 E. Seashore, at present assistant professor in 

 philosophy. Dr. Seashore took his doctor's 

 degree at Yale in 1895 and was assistant in 

 the Psychological Laboratory from 1895 to 

 1897. 



Egbert S. Shaw, professor of agriculture in 

 Montana, has been elected to the chair of agri- 

 culture in Michigan Agricultural College. He 

 graduated at Guelph, Ontario, in 1892, man- 

 aged his father's farm for four years, and 

 took his father's classes for one year in the 

 University of Minnesota. 



L. B. Walton, A.M. (Brown, 1900), Ph.D. 

 (Cornell, 1902), has been appointed instructor 

 in biology at Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio. 

 He held last year the Goldwin Smith fellow- 

 ship in zoology at Cornell University. 



At Purdue University J. E. McColl, now of 

 the University of Tennessee, a graduate of 

 the Michigan Agricultural College, has been 

 appointed associate professor of thermo- 

 dynamics, and Mr. Fritz B. Ernst, now on 

 the editorial staff of the Railway Age and a 

 graduate of Purdue University, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant in car and locomotive design. 



