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osity of Hon. Simon Guggenheim, of Denver, 

 a large collection of birds' eggs and nests 

 gathered by the late Dennis Gale, of Boulder. 

 The collection embraces eggs of nearly all the 

 species known in the vicinity of the univer- 

 sity, and in many cases there are specimens 

 taken from nests at six or more different alti- 

 tudes. The collection also contains many 

 nests from the sub-alpine and alpine disxricts 

 which are seldom found in museums. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The temporary building occupied by the 

 veterinary department of the University of 

 Pennsylvania was destroyed by fire on July 

 6, entailing a loss of upward of $10,000. The 

 university authorities are about to construct a 

 building for the veterinary department at a 

 cost of $200,000. 



The University of Illinois has organized a 

 School of Education, the purpose of which is 

 to provide for special preparation of three 

 classes of workers in the public school system, 

 namely, first, the high school teacher, includ- 

 ing the high school principal; second, the 

 supervisor of special subjects, such as manual 

 training, domestic science, music, drawing 

 and physical training, and third, the school 

 superintendent. The director of the school is 

 Dr. Edwin Grant Dexter, and the faculty in- 

 cludes thirty-one instructors of various aca- 

 demic ranks. Besides this, the five normal 

 school presidents of the state, together with 

 Hon. Alfred Bayliss, state superintendent of 

 public instruction, constitute a board of spe- 

 cial lecturers, who, during the year, will dis- 

 cuss at the university topics of educational 

 interest. 



The University of Southern California, at 

 Los Angeles, has begun the erection of a two- 

 story north wing and a similar south wing to 

 the building used by the College of Liberal 

 Arts. The improvements will cost about 

 $50,000. The north wing will be devoted 

 mainly to the biological sciences. It will add 

 110 feet of north light to the present labora- 

 tories and comprises a zoological laboratory, 

 45 X 34 ft. ; a laboratory for physiology and 

 bacteriology, 46 x 26 ft., and a botanical labo- 



ratory, 45 X 30 ft. Besides these there will be 

 a special laboratory 16 x 13 ft., an office, and 

 a lecture room with a seating capacity of 200. 

 Apparatus costing about $2,000 will be added 

 to the present equipment. The south wing 

 will be equipped in a similar manner for the 

 departments of chemistry and physics. 



The daily papers state that Attorney-Gen- 

 eral Mayer has decided to bring an action to 

 deprive Cornell University of 30,000 acres of 

 timber land between Tupper and Upper Sara- 

 nac Lakes, in the Adirondacks. He will en- 

 deavor also to break a contract whereby Cor- 

 nell has permitted the Brooklyn Cooperage 

 Company to cut timber on the tract. This 

 tract was purchased by Cornell with $165,000 

 out of an appropriation of $500,000 made by 

 the legislature of 1898 for a forestry experi- 

 ment, to last thirty years. Governor Odell in 

 1903 declined to permit any more money to 

 go out for the experiment, and that came to 

 an end. 



Dr. Nicholas Senn has been elected pro- 

 fessor of surgery in the University of Chicago. 



Professor H. B. Dates, dean of the engi- 

 neering school of the University of Colorado, 

 has accepted a professorship of electrical en- 

 gineering at the Case School of Applied Sci- 

 ences. 



Mr. Charles Brooks, assistant in botany 

 in the University of Missouri, has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in botany in the College of 

 Agriculture of New Hampshire. 



Dr. William I. Chamberlain, president of 

 the Arcot Mission College in India, has ac- 

 cepted the chair of logic and mental philos- 

 ophy in Rugers College. 



Miss Ann Eebecca Torrence, for the past 

 two years assistant in botany in Wellesley 

 College, has been appointed supervisor of the 

 fifth and sixth grades and teacher of nature 

 study in the State Normal School, New Paltz, 

 New York. 



Dr. Eugen Grandmougin has been ap- 

 pointed professor of chemistry in the Poly- 

 technic Institute of Zurich in the room of 

 Professor E. Bamberger, who has retired, ow- 

 ing to ill-health. 



