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luneheon each day. The headquarters for the 

 meeting will be in Rockefeller Hall, the new 

 physical laboratory of the University. Those 

 having' mail forwarded should have it sent 

 to Room 125, Rockefeller Hall, or to their 

 hotel. 



The Italian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science ("Societa per ilProgresso delle 

 Scienze ") has been subdivided into the follow- 

 ing fourteen sections : I. Mathematics, As- 

 tronomy, Geodesy; II. Physics, Geophysics, 

 Meteorology ; III. Mechanics and Engineering, 

 Electrotechnic ; IV. Chemistry; V. Agronomy; 

 VI. Geography; VII. Mineralogy, Geology, 

 Paleontology; VIII. Botany; IX. Zoology and 

 Comparative Anatomy; X. Anthropology, 

 Ethnography, Palethnography ; XI. Anatomy, 

 Histology; XII. Physiology; XIII. Pathology, 

 Hygiene, Bacteriology; and XIV. Statistics 

 and Economics. 



It is stated in the English papers that the 

 Kashmir electric scheme is expected to produce 

 20,000 h.p., and to be the most important un- 

 dertaking of the kind in India. The current 

 will be utilized to light Srinagar, as also to 

 heat the silk factory there, which is said to 

 be the largest in the world. It will likewise 

 operate the dredging fleet on the Jhelum, will 

 work the wool factory, and other concerns. 

 There will then remain a balance of 8,000 to 

 10,000 h.p., for sale in the Punjab for lighting 

 Abbottabad and Rawalpindi, as also for rail- 

 way traction purposes. The dredging of the 

 River Jhelum will tend to prevent the disas- 

 trous floods in the Kahmir Valley and will 

 convert many thousands of acres of swamp 

 into fertile land. 



UNIVERSITY AlSfD EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Under the will of Lyman F. Rhoades of 

 Boston, bequests of $100,000 go to various 

 educational and charitable institutions, among 

 which are Boston University, which is to re- 

 ceive $20,000, and the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, which is to receive $6,000. 



The Oxford congregation has by a vote of 

 152 to 20 established a professorship of engi- 

 neering science. 



In pursuance of the policy of the Schools 

 of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry of Co- 

 lumbia University to have the regular courses 

 of instruction supplemented by specialists, the 

 following course of lectures, supplemented by 

 laboratory demonstrations, has been arranged 

 by Professor Adolph Black, of the department 

 of civil engineering, in connection with the 

 regular instruction in sanitary engineering to 

 the third- and fourth-year students in civil 

 engineering : 



" Biological Examination of Drinking Waters, 

 with Special Reference to Organisms other than 

 Bacteria: Tastes, Odors, etc., Their Causes, Cure 

 and Prevention," by Professor G. N. Calkins, 

 Columbia University. 



" Bacteriological Examination of Drinking 

 Waters, and Standard Routine Laboratory Prac- 

 tise," by Dr. Daniel D. Jackson, Mt. Pleasant 

 Laboratory, Brooklyn. 



" Typhoid Fever in its Relation to Sanitary 

 Engineering," by George C. Whipple, Assoc. 

 M.A.S.C.E. 



" Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering in Aus- 

 tralia: Water Supply, Water Purification, Sewage 

 Disposal, Treatment of Special Problems," by 

 Allen Hazen, M.A.S.C.E. 



" Laboratory Demonstrations — Plating out ; Dif- 

 ferent Culture Media, including Bile Salt Inhib- 

 itive Medium, Bacterial Count, etc.; Using Water 

 before and after Filtration, Impure Water, etc.," 

 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, by 

 Dr. P. H. Hiss, Jr., assisted by Professor Black. 



Professor Richard C. Maclaurin, of Vic- 

 toria College, Wellington, New Zealand, has 

 been elected professor of mathematical physics 

 at Columbia University, filling the chair va- 

 cant by the resignation of Professor R. S. 

 Woodward to accept the presidency of the 

 Carnegie Institution in 1905. 



Professor C. F. Curtis Riley, of the Kan- 

 sas State Manual Training Normal School, 

 has been appointed director of the biological 

 laboratory and curator of the museum of the 

 Minnesota State Normal School, Mankato, 

 succeeding Professor F. L. Holtz, who has 

 become head of the biological department of 

 the Training School for Teachers in Brooklyn, 

 N. T. 



Mr. a. E. Collinge has resigned the chair 

 of economic zoology at Birmingham. 



