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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVI. No. 674 



Mr. Sutton, recorder of the faculties, re- 

 ports as follows for the University of Cali- 

 fornia: 



Our registration for November 1, 1907, as com- 

 pared with that of the corresponding date in 1906, 

 shows an increase of forty-five in the graduate 

 school, of eighty-two in the undergraduate body 

 in arts, science and engineering, and of one hun- 

 dred and eight in the professional schools. The 

 downward drift which has been observed for about 

 ten years in the enrollment in the professional 

 colleges in San Francisco has apparently been 

 checked, as manifested by an increase of twenty- 

 five students in law and thirty-four students in 

 dentistry. The colleges of medicine and pharmacy, 

 however, do not yet share in this reaction. Both 

 of these colleges are undergoing some readjustment 

 in their matriculation requirements. In the col- 

 leges at Berkeley — arts, science, agriculture, com- 

 merce and engineering — ^there is a fairly uniform 

 advance, excepting only the college of letters, 

 which requires both Greek and Latin for the bach- 

 elor's degree. In spite of the steady growth of 

 the university as a whole, the number of students 

 in the college of letters is less to-day than ten 

 years ago. 



Among the more important items of the univer- 

 sity's growth during the past collegiate year are 

 the following: 



The Hearst memorial mining building, erected 

 by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst in memory of the late 

 Senator George Hearst, has been completed and 

 was formally dedicated on August 23. The build- 

 ing and its equipment have cost to date about five 

 hundred thousand dollars. 



By grant of the state legislature, the university 

 has come into possession of a farm at Davisville, 

 California, a tract of some seven hundred acres, 

 purchased by the state to facilitate the work of 

 experimental agriculture in the university. The 

 cost of the farm with its equipment to date is 

 approximately one hundred and fifty thousand 

 dollars. 



John W. Mackay, Jr., has given the university 

 one hundred thousand dollars for the endowment 

 of a chair of electrical engineering and for the 

 support of research work in the laboratories of 

 electrical engineering and mechanics. 



The Bancroft library of American — particularly 

 of west-coast — ^history, which was purchased by 

 the university at a cost of two hundred and fifty 

 thousand dollars before the San Francisco earth- 

 quake and fire, has been brought from San Fran- 

 cisco, where it escaped all damage, to the third 



floor of California Hall, a fireproof building in 

 which are housed the administrative ofiices of the 

 departments at Berkeley. The regents of the uni- 

 versity have entrusted the control and adminis- 

 tration of the Bancroft collection to the council 

 of the Academy of Pacific Coast History, an or- 

 ganization recently formed imder the auspices of 

 the University of California. The secretary and 

 executive ofiicer of the academy is Professor Henry 

 Morse Stephens, sometime professor of modern 

 European and English history in Cornell Univer- 

 sity, and now professor of history in the Univer- 

 sity of California. 



A little over a year ago the university estab- 

 lished a students' infirmary at Berkeley. During 

 the past year the university has founded in San 

 Francisco, using for this purpose one of the build- 

 ings of the College of Medicine, a university hos- 

 pital, in which students of medicine will have an 

 excellent opportunity for clinical work of the most 

 varied sort. To get this project xmder way, friends 

 of the university donated something over twenty- 

 five thousand dollars. 



The university's art college, an aSiliated school 

 formerly known as the Mark Hopkins Institute of 

 Art, and now designated the San Francisco Insti- 

 tute of Art, found it necessary to suspend its 

 work during 1906-07 on account of, the destruction 

 of its buildings. The school has resumed its work 

 in a new building erected for it upon the site of 

 the former building on the California street hill 

 in San Francisco, and it already has an enroll- 

 ment of sixty-nine students. 



The Greek theater, the university's open-air 

 auditorium in the eucalyptus grove on the campus 

 at Berkeley, has been the scene of a long list of 

 musical and dramatic events, in addition to the 

 more formal university celebrations, such as char- 

 ter day, classday and commencement. Perhaps 

 the most novel production of the past year was the 

 Sanskrit play, " The little clay cart," translated 

 from King Shudraka (a.d. 600) by Dr. Arthur 

 W. Ryder, instructor in Sanskrit in the university. 



The foundations of the Doe library building are 

 now in process of construction. For this building 

 the late Charles F. Doe bequeathed to the univer- 

 sity about six hundred thousand dollars. The 

 foundations are to be completed at once and the. 

 superstructure built in sections, each section to 

 be occupied as soon as completed. The cost of the 

 entire structure will probably be one million 

 dollars. 



Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Brandegee, of San Diego, 

 have donated their entire botanical collection and 

 library to the university. As a result of this gift. 



