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hibit of tetanus germs and otlier bacilli to be 

 made by tbe institute. 



Dr. H. W. Wiley delivered a lecture at 

 Lehigh University on April 15, on the ' Work 

 of the Bureau of Chemistry,' and before the 

 Sigma Xi Society of Yale University on April 

 16, on ' Food Adulterations and how to Study 

 their EfFects.' After the lecture a smoker vras 

 held at the Graduates Club. 



Professor E. Eutherford, of McGill Uni- 

 versity, lectured on ' Radium ' to a large audi- 

 ence at the Ohio State University on April 

 12. The lecture was given under the auspices 

 of the Society of the Sigma Xi. 



Sm Henry Thompson, the distinguished 

 surgeon, has died at the age of eighty-four 

 years. 



The Carnegie Institution has made a grant 

 of $1,500 in continuation of last year's grant 

 aiding the new reduction of Piazzi's 160,000 

 star observations. This work, under the di- 

 rection of Dr. Herman S. Davis, Gaithers- 

 burg, Md., is now well advanced, previous 

 assistance having also been rendered by Miss 

 Bruce and by the National Academy of Sci- 

 ences which continues its aid. A reobserva- 

 tion of all the southern stars of Piazzi's cata- 

 logue by Professor Tucker has recently been 

 issued as Vol. VI. of the Lich Observatory 

 Publications and a similar work for all the 

 northern stars by Professor Porter will be an 

 early publication of the Cincinnati Observa- 

 tory. Other cooperators, both in this country 

 and in Italy, are expected to complete the en- 

 tire work in five years or less. It has now 

 been in continuous progress nearly eight years. 



A BILL is before Congress appropriating one 

 million dollars to be used in the erection of a 

 building for the United States Geological 

 Survey. 



Plans have been prepared for a new hospital 

 for New York City to cost $11,000,000. 



The State Cancer Laboratory at Buffalo will 

 receive its annual appropriation of $15,000 

 from the New York legislature. The chairman 

 of the senate finance committee, who cut the 

 item out, finally agreed that it be retained in 

 the supply bill. 



The large collection of North American 

 Diptera which was presented to the American 



Museum of Natural History recently by Pro- 

 fessor William M. Wheeler, curator of inverte- 

 brate zoology, has been combined with the col- 

 lection formerly the property of the museum 

 and is ready for use by students. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The Iowa legislature has inade the follow- 

 ing appropriation : 



IOWA STATE COLLEGE. 



Annual support fund $50,000 



Iowa Agrl. Exp. Station, annually 15,000 



Engineering Experiments 6,000 



For the completion of the central bldg. . . . 95,000 



For central heating plant 54,500 



For good roads experimentation 7,000 



For dairy building and equipment, and farm 84,500 

 For additional support for repair fund, 



annually , , . . 4,500 



IOWA STATE XJNrVEESITT. 



Annual support fund $25,000 



For the repair and contingent fund, 



annually 7,500 



$143,000 divided as follows: 



Library 20,000 



Equipment and supplies 20,000 



Paving for tunnel and extension 18,000 



Land 25,000 



Engineering building 50,000 



For dam and water power 10,000 



IOWA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. 



Annually hereafter, increase support fund. $35,000 

 For the following purposes ($13,000) : 

 Librarian and two assistants for 



library 5,000 



Improvement of grounds 3,000 



For fuel, engineer and fireman 5,000 



At the recent convocation of the University 

 of Chicago, President Harper acknowledged a 

 gift of $5,000 for special investigation in the 

 department of physics, by the president of 

 the Board of Trustees, Mr. Martin A. Eyerson, 

 and a gift of $10,000, by Miss Helen Snow as 

 a memorial to George W. Snow, her father, to 

 rebuild the horizontal telescope at Yerkes Ob- 

 servatory, which was injured by fire. 



Dr. Thomas L. Watson, since 1901 pro- 

 fessor of geology in Denison University, has 

 resigned to accept the chair of geology in the 

 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, at Blacksburg, 

 Virginia. 



