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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 563. 



and a State College for Girls. It is required 

 that the university be located at some central 

 point in the state, both geographically and as 

 to population, and with due consideration for 

 the lands, grounds and buildings already in 

 the possession of the state; and that the girls' 

 college be located on the site of some one of the 

 abolished institutions. The actual selecting 

 of sites for these two institutions is left in the 

 hands of the board of control in Joint action 

 with the state board of education. The or- 

 ganization and future management of the two 

 institutions is left to the board of control, 

 subject to the approval of the board of educa- 

 tion. 



Both institutions have been organized and 

 it is announced that they will open to receive 

 students on September 27. The girls' college 

 has been located at Tallahassee, on the site of 

 the former Florida State College. The city of 

 Gainsville was selected by the boards in joint 

 session as the permanent location of the uni- 

 versity. It has been decided, however, that 

 the new university shall continue on the site 

 of the abolished university for one year, or 

 until the grounds at Gainsville are ready for 

 its reception. 



The state university, as established, consists 

 of: A department of agriculture, mechanical 

 and industrial arts; a science and classical 

 department ; a normal department ; and ' such 

 other departments as may from time to time 

 be determined upon and added at any joint 

 meeting of the state board of education with 

 the board. of control.' The state experiment 

 station retains its connection with the uni- 

 versity. 



The Buckman bill carries an appropriation 

 of $150,000 for the maintenance of the four 

 institutions under the management of the 

 board of control for the ensuing two years. 

 The city of Gainsville has donated a tract of 

 five hundred acres of land as a site for the 

 university and experiment station, and $40,- 

 000 to be used in the erection of hjiildings, 

 and has offered $30,000 to the state for the 

 buildings formerly occupied by the East 

 Florida Seminary. The agricultural depart- 

 ment and the experiment station receive the 



benefit of the government funds accruing to 

 them from the Morrill and Hatch acts. 



Dr. Andrew Sledd, Randolph-Macon Col- 

 lege, Harvard and Yale Universities, and 

 president of the former University of Florida, 

 has been secured as president. The heads of 

 the science departments, all of whom occupied 

 their respective positions in the abolished 

 University of Florida, are as follows: Edward 

 E. Flint, Massachusetts Agricultural College 

 and Gottingen, chemistry; Karl Schmitt, Ber- 

 lin and Marburg, mathematics; C. M. Connor, 

 Michigan Agricultural College and University 

 of Missouri, agriculture; F. M. Rolfs, Iowa 

 State College and Colorado Agricultural Col- 

 lege, botany and horticulture; M. T. Hoch- 

 strasser, Georgia School of Technology, me- 

 chanical engineering; J. R. Benton, Trinity 

 College and Gottingen, physics and civil en- 

 gineering; E. H. Sellards, University of 

 Kansas and Yale University, zoology and 

 geology. 



STATIONS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF 

 THE VARIATIONS OF LATITUDE. 



Since the plan to make observations to de- 

 termine the variations of latitude in the 

 southern hemisphere in addition to those being 

 made in the northern hemisphere was an- 

 nounced in Science, the Central Bureau of 

 the International Geodetic Association has 

 definitely selected the two stations to be occu- 

 pied and the observations will begin on Jan- 

 uary 1, 1906. 



One station is in South America, at Onca- 

 tivo, a village in the Argentine Republic, on 

 the Argentine Central Railway, 72 kilometers 

 from Cordova and 622 kilometers from Buenos 

 Ayres. It is located on a plain with favorable 

 topographic and climatic conditions. The 

 temperature ranges from — 6° to -|- 40° 

 (Centigrade) and the mean cloudiness during 

 the year is expressed by 4 on the customary 

 scale. The rainy season occurs in summer, 

 when the rainfall amounts to 700 mm. Dr. 

 Luigi Camera has been appointed observer. 



The other station is in Australia, at Bays- 

 water, a town 6 kilometers northeast of Perth, 

 the capital of West Australia. There the 

 annual range of temperature is between 0° 



