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and planting the seedlings and caring for the 

 growing trees is regarded as well worth while. 

 We learn from Nature that the late Mr. E. 

 Marcus Gunn, the eminent ophthalmic sur- 

 geon, who devoted much of the leisure of his 

 vacations to making a collection of fossils, has 

 left them to the British Museum (Natural 

 History). He worked especially in the Juras- 

 sic formations of Sutherland, and at the time 

 of his death was engaged in the preparation 

 of a memoir on the Jurassic flora of Brora, in 

 collaboration with Professor A. C. Seward, 

 who is now completing the undertaking. He 

 obtained many fish-remains, Mollusca and 

 other fossils, which form a valuable addition 

 to the national collection. Mr. Gunn also 

 collected from the Old Red Sandstone of 

 Caithness, and will always be remembered for 

 his discovery of the problematical fossil fish 

 Palcespondylus gunni, which was named after 

 him by Dr. Traquair. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Tdfts College has been made the residuary 

 legatee under the will of John Everett Smith, 

 and will, it is said, receive on the death of 

 Mrs. Smith the sum of $500,000. 



Charles Alfred Hasbrouck, a well-known 

 civil engineer, who died in California on Feb- 

 ruary 1, bequeathed to Cornell University, 

 from which he graduated in 1884, the farm 

 at Forest Home, near Ithaca, on which he was 

 born. His bequest to the university was made 

 as a memorial to his wife, Mary Fobes Has- 

 brouck. In his will he expressed a wish that 

 the property be used for the benefit of the 

 women students of the university. 



The corporation and the board of overseers 

 of Harvard University have created the de- 

 partment of university extension, and ap- 

 pointed in it the following officers : Dean, 

 Professor Ropes; members of the administra- 

 tive board for 1909-10, Professor Ropes, Pro- 

 fessor Royce, Professor Hanus, Professor 

 Hart, Professor Moore, Professor Osterhout, 

 Professor Hughes and Professor Munro. 



It is announced that extension teaching on 

 a large scale will be undertaken next year by 

 Columbia University. The field to be covered 



will be broad. There will be classes organ- 

 ized in languages, literature, history, eco- 

 nomics and politics," in various scientific sub- 

 jects, including electrical and mechanical en- 

 gineering; in architecture; in music and fine 

 arts; in preventive medicine and sanitary 

 science; in manual training and the household 

 arts; in teaching, and in law. For this work 

 a large staff of professors and lecturers will be 

 appointed, chosen in part from the present 

 teaching staff of the university. Professor 

 James Chidester Egbert, director of the sum- 

 mer session, has been appointed director of 

 extension teaching. 



The faculty of the University of Minnesota 

 has inaugurated a movement to secure the 

 erection of a suitable tribute from the people 

 of the state of Minnesota to President Cyrus 

 Northrop. It was decided that the tribute 

 should take the form of a men's building to 

 be erected upon the campus at a cost of not 

 less than $400,000. 



The new recitation hall of Eastern College 

 at Manassas, Va., erected at a cost of $35,000, 

 was dedicated on February 22. Addresses were 

 made by Dr. Elmer E. Brown, U. S. Commis- 

 sioner of Education, Congressman Jones, of 

 Virginia, and Dr. Hervin U. Eoop, the presi- 

 dent of the college. 



Professor John S. Shearer, of the depart- 

 ment of physics of Cornell university, is acting 

 as a member of the Columbia University fac- 

 ulty during the rest of the present college year. 

 Professor Wm. H. Hallock, head of the depart- 

 ment of physics of Columbia University, wiU 

 spend the period in Europe. 



Dr. Louis T. More, professor of physics, has 

 been elected dean of the College of Liberal 

 Arts of the University of Cincinnati. 



Mr. Frank M. Leavitt, now at the head of 

 the department of manual training of the 

 Boston city schools, has been appointed asso- 

 ciate professor of industrial education in the 

 School of Education of the University of 

 Chicago. 



Mr. S. Brodetsky, bracketted senior wrang- 

 ler in 1908, has been elected to the Isaac 

 Newton studentship at Cambridge University. 



