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was used. Cutting for cooperage purposes is 

 far more wasteful than is ordinary lumbering. 

 The Forest Service in taking up this question 

 aims to make its investigations of practical 

 value to the cooperage industry and its oper- 

 ators. It is planned to bring together in- 

 formation regarding the supply of raw ma- 

 terial, and the best methods of manufacture, 

 and the ill effects of wasteful methods on the 

 forest and possible remedies for them. Par- 

 ticular attention will also be given to a study 

 of the properties of woods, with the view of 

 recommending substitutes which are more 

 abundant than the species now used for cooper- 

 age. 



A Parliamentary paper has been issued con- 

 taining the report of his majesty's astronomer 

 at the Cape of Good Hope to the secretary of 

 the admiralty for the year 1904. According 

 to an abstract in the London Times the report 

 makes a sympathetic reference to the death of 

 Mr. Prank McClean, to whose generosity the 

 observatory owes the Victoria telescope, with 

 its observatory, dome and inany valuable ad- 

 juncts. After referring to the work in con- 

 nection with the new transit circle and the 

 new sidereal clock, the report states that owing 

 to an unfortunate accident, which occurred 

 during the absence of the regular observers, 

 the driving worm and sector of the Victoria 

 telescope were damaged, and the moving por- 

 tion of the instrument, including the Polar axis 

 and telescope tubes, had to be raised in order 

 to remove the daniaged sector. The driving- 

 worm of the sector and slow-motion gear were 

 sent to Sir Howard Grubb for alteration and 

 repair early in November. Sir Howard Grubb 

 promised to send off the repaired sector by the 

 end of January, together with an electro- 

 motor giving ' quick slow motion ' in R.A., a 

 much-needed adjunct for facilitating the pla- 

 cing of the image of the star on the slit. In 

 consequence of this accident the new objective 

 prism had not yet been tested. Details of 

 astronomical observations are given, and the 

 report says that the astronomer has, at the re- 

 quest of the Colonial governments, generally 

 superintended the geodetic survey of South 

 Africa and taken a prominent part in the 

 preparation of arrangements for the establish- 



ment of a central office to complete the geodetic 

 and topographic survey of British South 

 Africa south of the Zambesi. The negotia- 

 tions for that purpose are now nearly com- 

 pleted, and the whole will be placed under the 

 charge of Colonel Morris, whose name has so 

 long and so honorably been connected with 

 the survey of South Africa. Though the 

 admiralty is not connected with this impor- 

 tant work, details of the proceedings of the past 

 year are included in this report, as no other 

 record of its progress is issued. 



VNIVER8ITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Dr. Eli McClish has resigned the presi- 

 dency of the University of the Pacific. 



Mr. C. M. Jansky, of the Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, formerly of the University of Michigan, 

 has been appointed professor of electrical en- 

 gineering at the University of Oklahoma. 



Mr. Albert S. Eitchey, of Indianapolis, 

 Ind., has been appointed assistant professor 

 of railroad engineering at the Worcester Poly- 

 technic Institute. 



Dr. J. E. Ives, of the De Porest Wireless 

 Telegraph Company, has been appointed as- 

 sistant professor of physics in the University 

 of Cincinnati. 



Dr. W. M. Twitchell has been appointed 

 professor of geology in South Carolina Col- 

 lege. 



The Psychological Bulletin states that Dr. 

 Williston S. Hough, formerly of the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of philosophy in George Washington 

 University. 



Dr. Thomas W. Mitchell, instructor in 

 accounting and finance in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, has been appointed assistant 

 professor of finance and accounts in the School 

 of Commerce in New York University to suc- 

 ceed Professor Henry W. Mussey, who go§s 

 to Bryn Mawr College. 



Mr. George P. Lamb has been appointed 

 professor of biology in Mt. Union College, 

 Ohio, 



Dr. Wilhelm Deeke has been promoted to 

 a chair of mineralogy at Grief swald. 



