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SCIENCE. 



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formation from well owners and drillers re- 

 lating to these wells. 



We learn from the London Times that since 

 May, 1904, correspondence has been proceed- 

 ing between the Bengal government, the gov- 

 ernment of India and the Secretary of State 

 upon the subject of the establishment of a 

 school of mines in India, or, in lieu thereof, 

 the making of provision for mining instruc- 

 tion at the Sibpur Engineering College, Cal- 

 cutta, with practical instruction in the mining 

 districts. The latter proposal was, on the ad- 

 vice of a representative committee of educa- 

 tional and mining experts, recommended by 

 the Bengal government and has been sanc- 

 tioned by the secretary of state. The course 

 is to be for five years, including 18 months' 

 training in the mining districts, where the 

 students will work under the instruction of 

 managers of mines. A professor of mining 

 engineering is to be appointed from England 

 at a salary of Rs.750 per mensem, rising an- 

 nually by increments of Rs.50 to Es. 1,000, 

 which is equivalent to £800 per annum. A 

 peripatetic mining instructor, with a native 

 assistant, is also to be appointed, at the same 

 salary, but without exchange compensation 

 allowance. His work will be to give instruc- 

 tion to persons already engaged in mining 

 work who desire to obtain certificates of com- 

 petency. Such instruction is in all cases to 

 be gratuitous, in view of the fact that ' owing 

 to the extensive ignorance usually prevailing 

 the mines are now for the most part worked 

 upon unsystematic and wasteful lines, and 

 that the absence of technical knowledge is a 

 constant source of danger to the laborers.' 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



By the will of the late General Isaac J. 

 Wistar, the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and 

 Biology of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 founded by him, will receive the residue of 

 his estate, thought to amount to about 

 $400,000. 



At the opening of Smith College it was 

 announced that Mr. Andrew Carnegie had 

 promised the sum of $125,000 to the college, 

 providing that friends of the institution raise 

 an equal amount. The money is to be used 



for the erection and maintenance of a new 

 biological laboratory. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $30,000 

 to Wittenberg College, Springfield, O., for a 

 science hall, provided an additional $30,000 

 is raised for the upkeep of the building. 



According to the report of the city comp- 

 troller of New Haven the property of Yale 

 University exempted from taxation is valued 

 at more than $9,000,000, an increase of nearly 

 $2,000,000 in the past three years. This does 

 not include the Hill House property, recently 

 acquired at the cost of some $500,000. 



On the occasion of the opening of Columbia 

 University on September 27, the cornerstone 

 of the new College Hall was laid, and the 

 newly erected dormitories were open to in- 

 spection. 



The library given by Mr. Andrew Carnegie 

 to Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, was 

 dedicated on September 13. Bishop Henry 

 Spellmeyer, of Cincinnati and Hon. Johnson 

 Brigham, of Des Moines, state librarian of 

 Iowa, delivered the addresses. The building 

 cost a little more than fifty thousand dollars. 

 It is strictly fire proof and is built in the old 

 colonial style of architecture. The capacity 

 is 70,000 volumes. 



On September 1, 1905, by the unanimous 

 action of their respective boards of trustees 

 the Medical College of Indiana was made the 

 Medical Department of Purdue University 

 with the title of * Indiana Medical College 

 School of Medicine of Purdue University.' 



Cooperation between the University of Chi- 

 cago and a number of railroad ofl&cers has re- 

 sulted in the establishment of a four-year 

 course in railway ediication. 



Dr. Henry S. Drinker will be inaugurated 

 as president of Lehigh University on October 

 12. 



Appointments at Brown University have 

 been made as follows: J. Ansel Brooks, as- 

 sistant professor of mechanics and mechanical 

 drawing ; James F. Collins, assistant professor 

 of botany; Henry B. Drowne, instructor in 

 civil engineering; Charles W. Brown, instruc- 

 tor in geology and mineralogy. 



