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not associated with sl^ins, these being picked 

 up in the field for the study of the variations 

 in individual specimens. Word has recently 

 been received of the killing by Mr. Eoosevelt 

 of two specimens of the white rhinoceros, an 

 adult female and calf. These will be of par- 

 ticular value to the museum which has no 

 representative of this species in its collection. 

 Consul-General Eichaed Guenther, of 

 Frankfort, writes that the Kosmos Associa- 

 tion of Naturalists in Stuttgart, the Duerer 

 League and the Austrian Imperial Association 

 for Ornithology in Vienna have united in an 

 address to the public calling for subscriptions 

 to create a Natural Protective Park. This 

 address was published last spring and since 

 then has been followed up by a convention in 

 Munich well attended by naturalists and sci- 

 entific men from all parts of Germany. An 

 organization was effected, called the Verein 

 Naturschutzpark, with headquarters in Stutt- 

 gart. The plan is to create three large parks, 

 one in the Alpine Mountain Eange, one in the 

 highlands of central Germany and the third 

 in the low country of the north. The main 

 object is to preserve and increase certain spe- 

 cies of animal and plant life. The parks are 

 expected to become centers of attraction and 

 recreation for millions of people, natives and 

 foreign visitors. The fee for membership to 

 this park association will be quite low, to 

 encourage hundreds of thousands to join. 



UmVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The trustees of Columbia University pro- 

 pose to remove the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons from its present location on West 

 Fifty-ninth street to a commanding site on 

 Morningside Heights, adjacent to the other 

 schools of the university. A large part of the 

 necessary land has been obtained by the gift 

 of Messrs. William K. Vanderbilt, George J. 

 Gould, Frank A. Munsey and a fourth anony- 

 mous contributor. 



Mr. J. S. HuYLEE, of New York, has given 

 $20,000 to Syracuse University. 



The Commonwealth Edison Company of 

 Chicago and the General Electric Company 

 of Schenectady have jointly presented to the 



department of electrical engineering of the 

 University of Illinois a 125-kilowatt steam 

 turbo-generator. The turbine of this unit is 

 to be non-condensing. The generator is to be 

 designed for 3-phase, 60-cycle currents, to be 

 delivered at 2,300 volts. With the addition of 

 this machine the electrical laboratory will be 

 prepared to deal extensively with problems in- 

 volving single-phase, quarter-phase and three- 

 phase currents. 



A MUSEUM of Industrial Chemistry has 

 been established at the University of Illinois 

 under the division of applied chemistry. 



The trustees of Cornell University have 

 voted to meet the congestion in the depart- 

 ment of chemistry by an extension of North 

 Morse Hall westward a distance of about 40 

 feet, and the building committee was in- 

 structed to have the enlarged building ready 

 for occupancy in September. 



The statement to the effect that Mrs. 

 Phoebe A. Hearst has decided to erect for the 

 University of California a museum of anthro- 

 pology is incorrect. Mrs. Hearst explicitly de- 

 nied the report the day after it appeared in the 

 paper which first published the story. 



An anonymous donor has given to the Uni- 

 versity of Paris an annual income of 30,000 

 francs to found ten fellowships at foreign 

 universities. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the council of the 

 University of Paris and the Pasteur Institute 

 have agreed to construct, at the joint expense 

 of the two institutions, a laboratory for the 

 study of the phenomena of radioactivity and 

 their therapeutic applications. The projected 

 laboratory will comprise two parts : one for 

 scientific researches under the direction of 

 Mme. Curie, the other for medical applications 

 under the direction of the Pasteur Institute. 

 The latter will contribute towards the expenses 

 of construction and equipment of the institu- 

 tion 400,000 francs, from the Osiris legacy. 



Dr. William Huntington, president of Bos- 

 ton University, proposes to retire at the end 

 of the present academic year. 



