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in the methods of timbering employed and a 

 consequent decrease in the death rate. The 

 report concludes with important recommenda- 

 tions for securing in future continuity of 

 organization from exhibition to exhibition, and 

 more effective representation at any exhibition 

 in -which the government may take part. 



We learn from The Harvard University 

 Gazette that the session at the Bermuda Sta- 

 tion this summer extended from June 21 to 

 August Y. The new station is located on 

 Agar's Island, near the entrance to Hamilton 

 Harbor. This island contains about three 

 acres of land, and has numerous substantial 

 buildings. It was formerly used by the British 

 government for the storage of munitions of 

 war, and for the accommodation of the neces- 

 sary garrison. It has been secured by the 

 Bermuda Natural History Society for the pur- 

 poses of a public aquarium and a station for 

 biological research. The powder magazine is 

 being converted into an aquarium of the 

 grotto type, and other buildings have been 

 adapted to laboratory, lodging, and dining re- 

 quirements. The following Harvard men were 

 enrolled at the station this year : Professor E. 

 L. Mark, director; Dr. H. W. Band (Ph.D. 

 1900), in charge from June 21 till July 5; Dr. 

 A. M. Banta (Ph.D. 1907), professor of biol- 

 ogy at Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio; Pro- 

 fessor Webster Chester (university scholar), 

 Colby College, Waterville, Me.; Dr. C. O. 

 Esterly (Ph.D. 1907), professor of biology in 

 Occidental College, Los Angeles, Cal. ; Pro- 

 fessor H. M. Kelly (A.M. 1893), Cornell Col- 

 lege, la.; Mr. J. A. Long (G. B. Emerson 

 Scholar) ; and Mr. J. W. Mavor (Thayer 

 Scholar). 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 By the, wiU of Mrs. Sarah E. Potter, of 

 Boston, for some years a member of the com- 

 mittee to visit the Gray Herbarium, Harvard 

 University received in June a bequest of $50,- 

 000 to be used in connection with the her- 

 barium, and to be called the Sarah E. Potter 

 endowment fund. As one of a number of 

 residuary legatees, the university has now re- 

 ceived an addition to this endowment of 

 $130,000. 



Harvard University has also received from 

 Miss Maria Whitney, of Cambridge, the sum 

 of $5,000, the income thereof to be applied to 

 the care and increase of the Whitney Library 

 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Clark Hall, of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, the new building named after 

 Col. William S. Clark, an enthusiastic botan- 

 ist and one of the first presidents of the insti- 

 tution, was dedicated on October 2. Professor 

 D. P. Penhallow, D.Sc, E.E.S.C, of McGiU 

 University, gave an address on " William 

 Smith Clark: his place as a scientist and his 

 relation to the development of scientific agri- 

 culture " ; and Professor John M. Tyler, Ph.D., 

 of Amherst College, read a paper entitled 

 " Eeminiscences of Col. W. S. Clark." 



According to data published by the Ministry 

 of Education, the attendance of regular stu- 

 dents at the summer semester was as follows : 

 Total number of students, 21,504; of whom 

 9,535 were in law, 7,525 in philosophy, 3,100 

 in medicine and 1,344 in theology. Vienna 

 had 7,360, the Prague Bohemian University 

 3,417, the Prague German University 1,407, 

 Lemberg University 3,097, Krakov 2,622, 

 Gratz 1,700 and Innsbruck 1,026. 



Dr. Harry L. Whittle has been appointed 

 instructor in physiological chemistry in the 

 University of Maryland. 



Dr. H. M. Tory, professor of mathematics 

 at McGill University, has resigned to take the 

 presidency of the newly-established provincial 

 university at Alberta. 



Sir Arthur Eijcker has intimated his in- 

 tention to resign the principalship of the Uni- 

 versity of London in September next. 



Mr. Howard Marsh, formerly surgeon to 

 St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and since 1903 

 professor of surgery in the University of 

 Cambridge, has been elected master of Down- 

 ing College in succession to Dr. Alex HiU, 

 who had held the post since 1888. 



Mr. Leonard T. Hobhouse has been ap- 

 pointed to the professorship of sociology in 

 London University, recently endowed by Mr. 

 Martin White. 



