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desirable to place before the public, by means 

 of a small bulletin, an account of its organiza- 

 tion and work and the results it has achieved. 

 Copies of this bulletin will be distributed at 

 St. Louis and other copies may be obtained 

 by application to the director of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. The 

 bulletin, which is No. 22Y of the survey series, 

 is entitled, ' The United States Geological 

 Survey: Its Origin, Development, Organiza- 

 tion and Operations.' 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Ohio legislature has appropriated for 

 the next biennial period for the Ohio State 

 University the following amounts : 



Current expenses $635,000 



New chemical building 100,000 



Ceramic and mining building 85,000 



College of Agriculture 75,000 



Equipment of chemistry and physics 



buildings 25,000 



Emergency fund 15,000 



Total $935,000 



This is about 50 per cent, increase over the 

 largest preceding appropriation. The uni- 

 versity has other sources of income which will 

 yield approximately $200,000 for the biennial 

 period. 



The will of the late A. C. Hutchinson, ac- 

 cording to which the Medical College of Tu- 

 lane University receives nearly $1,000,000, has 

 been sustained by the Supreme Court of the 

 state of Louisiana. 



New Tore University has received an 

 anonymous gift of $12,500 for the Medical 

 College. 



The reorganized Board of Regents having 

 charge of the educational affairs of the State 

 of New York held its first meeting at Albany 

 on April 28 when Dr. Whitelaw Eeid was 

 elected chancellor. The following appoint- 

 ments were announced: First Assistant Com- 

 missioner, Howard J. Eogers, Albany; Second 

 Assistant Commissioner, Edward J. Goodwin, 

 New York City; Third Assistant Commis- 

 sioner, Augustus S. Downing, New York City; 

 Director of Libraries, Melvil Dewey, Albany. 



A ' Joint Announcement of Field Courses 

 in Geology,' for the summer of 1904, has lately 



been issued by several universities, with the 

 object of placing concisely before American 

 students the opportunities for practical study 

 of this science in different parts of the coun- 

 try. Fifteen universities were invited to take 

 part in the announcement : four responded 

 with statement of courses for the current year ; 

 others stated that they would probably co- 

 operate in the plan of joint announcement if 

 it were repeated in 1905. Chicago and Har- 

 vard each offer four courses; five courses in 

 the Eoeky Mountain region, two in the upper 

 Mississippi Valley, and one in New York 

 State. Johns Hopkins gives opportunity for 

 professional work in connection with the 

 Geological Survey of Michigan. Columbia 

 has a brief spring course, limited to her own 

 students. Scholarships are available in con- 

 nection with some of the courses. The cir- 

 cular can be had on application to the geolog- 

 ical department of any of the universities 

 concerned. 



Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, assistant in 

 charge of scientific inquiry in the U. S. 

 Bureau of Fisheries, has been asked to give a 

 course of lectures on fish culture and game 

 protection to the seniors of the College of 

 Forestry of Yale University. The course will 

 consist of lectures and field work and will be 

 given during the fortnight beginning May 9, 

 at Milford, Pa., where the class will be en- 

 gaged in field studies. 



There will be a vacant instructorship in 

 physics at Purdue University next June. The 

 salary for the first year will be eight hundred 

 dollars. 



Dr. John Dewey, of the University of Chi- 

 cago, has been elected professor of philosophy 

 at Columbia University. 



Dr. Charles E. Bardeen, associate pro- 

 fessor of anatomy at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, has accepted the chair of anatomy at 

 the University of Wisconsin. 



Assistant Professor Victor Lenher, 

 Charles Elwood Mendeniall and William 

 Swan Miller, of the University of Wisconsin, 

 were made associate professors by the action 

 of the regents of the university at their April 

 meeting. 



