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the whole irrigation has been profitable not 

 only to the cultivator, but also to the general 

 taxpayer, for up to the end of 1900-1901 the 

 total gain to the State amounted to £11,250,- 

 000. The gain would have been much greater 

 but for the expenditure in earlier days on some 

 of the works expected to be remunerative. 



The Paris Academy of Medicine dedicated 

 on November 25 the new building provided 

 for it by the government. The president of 

 the republic was present and speeches were 

 made by Dr. Eiche, president of the academy; 

 M. Chaumie, minister of education, and Dr. 

 Jacoud. 



VNIYERSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 We noted recently that the University of 

 California will begin at once the construction 

 of a special laboratory of physiology for Dr. 

 Jacques Loeb. It is now announced that the 

 $425,000 lately given to the University will 

 be used for the construction of a Hall of 

 Physiology to be completely equipped with 

 research laboratories, salt water aquaria, etc. 

 Professor Loeb will begin his work at the 

 University of California in January. 



By the will of Benjamin Barge of Mauch 

 Chunk, a bequest of $80,000 is made to Tale 

 University, $75,000 of which is to establish a 

 chair in the romance languages and literature. 

 Lafayette College receives $2,500. 



Mr. Morris K. Jesup, president of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, has 

 given $10,000 to Princeton University to be 

 added to the fund that he has established for 

 the benefit of the library. 



Mr. William S. Hubbard, of Indianapolis, 

 has promised to give the last $5,000 needed to 

 purchase the United States Arsenal grounds 

 in that city as a site for the National Tech- 

 nical Institute. 



The library building, given to Trinity Col- 

 lege, Durham, N. C, by Mr. James B. Duke, 

 will be opened in January. The dormitory 

 given by Mr. B. N. Duke, is already occupied. 

 It will be remembered that last spring Mr. 

 B. N. Duke established four new chairs at 



Trinity College, including a chair in applied 

 mathematics, to which Mr. L. C. Nicholson 

 has now been called. 



The new buildings of Wooster University 

 erected at a cost of over $400,000, were dedi- 

 cated on December 11. It will be remembered 

 that the buildings of the university were 

 almost completely destroyed by fire about a 

 year ago. The chief contributors to the new 

 university buildings are Andrew Carnegie, 

 $100,000; Louis H. Severance, Cleveland, 

 $75,000, and H. C. Prick, Pittsburgh, $35,000. 



In his last report. President Wheeler, of the 

 University of California, stated that among 

 the most urgent needs of the university were 

 buildings for botany, physics- and physiology. 



Me. G. W. Palmer, M.P., has given $1,000 

 towards the physiological laboratory of the 

 L^niversity of London. 



The delegates in attendance at the con- 

 ference of the Association of American Uni- 

 versities to be held at Columbia University 

 during convocation week will be entertained 

 at a dinner on the evening of December 30. 

 Alumni of the fourteen universities repre- 

 sented in the association are invited to sub- 

 scribe to the dinner, the cost of which will 

 be $5.00. Application for tickets may be 

 made to the chairman of the committee. Pro- 

 fessor D. B. Woodward, Columbia University. 



At a recent meeting of the corporation of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 Mr. Elihu Thomson, of Lynn, was elected 

 non-resident professor of applied electricity 

 and Mr. Percival Lowell, director of the 

 Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., non- 

 resident professor of astronomy. 



At McGill University, Dr. A. H. Gordon 

 has been appointed demonstrator and Dr. H. 

 W. Thomas fellow in pathology. 



Professor Knight has resigned from the 

 chair of moral philosophy at the University 

 of St. Andrews, after having discharged the 

 duties of the office for twenty-seven years. 



Dr. W. a. Tilden, professor of chemistry 

 in the University of London, has been elected 

 dean of the faculty of science in the Univer- 

 sity of London. 



