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of the minimum flow. It was obvious that 

 when the whole of the machinery was in work- 

 ing order the appearance of the falls would be 

 startling. Taking into account the water used 

 for the Welland Canal and Chicago drainage 

 and other canals projected the total diversion 

 of water would be at least 41 per cent, of the 

 minimum flow. Nor was the end of projects 

 for the diversion yet in sight, so that there 

 seemed likely to be a fulfillment of Lord Kel- 

 vin's prophecy that before long Niagara would 

 be a dry ravine. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Sir Donald Currie has offered £20,000 to 

 Queen's College, Belfast, on condition that an 

 equal sum is otherwise raised. A large por- 

 tion of the necessary sum has already been 

 promised. 



Mr. Basil McCrea, of Belfast, has given 

 £6,000 to found a chair of experimental phys- 

 ics in Magee College, Londonderry, and to 

 provide two scholarships in connection there- 

 with, on condition of the subscription of funds 

 for a suitable laboratory within a certain 

 period. 



The trustees of the Carnegie Foundation to 

 provide pensions for college professors will 

 hold their first meeting in New York City on 

 the afternoon of November 15. 



The president of the Louisiana State Uni- 

 versity announces that as the yellow fever 

 quarantines are still in force, it is deemed 

 best not to open the university until Novem- 

 ber 1. The session will close on June 27, 

 1906. Perhaps it wovild be safe to open at an 

 earlier date, but the university authorities 

 wish to be sure of avoiding all danger, not only 

 of infection in the school, but of detention of 

 students by quarantine. There have been 

 seven sporadic cases of yellow fever in Baton 

 ■ Rouge since September 4, but there has been 

 no yellow fever at the university, and no seri- 

 ous sickness of any kind. 



There have this year registered at Stanford 

 University 590 new students as compared with 



488 last year. They are distributed among 

 the departments as follows : 



1904. 1905. 

 Greek 4 8 



Latin 18 23 



German 27 28 



Romanic Languages 8 14 



English 69 87 



Psychology — 4 



Education 5 11 



History 27 38 



Economics 27 29 



Law 52 97 



Drawing 3 6 



Mathematics 14 14 



Physics 3 3 



Chemistry 24 31 



Botany 3 6 



Physiology 17 12 



Zoology 12 10 



Entomology 1 2 



Geology and Mining 53 41 



Civil Engineering 49 47 



Mechanical Engineering 37 33 



Electrical Engineering 35 47 



There are this year 713 students in the 

 freshman class of Harvard University, as com- 

 pared with 788 students last year. 



An instructorship in the department of 

 physics of the University of Pennsylvania is 

 vacant. Applications may be addressed to 

 Professor Arthur W. Goodspeed. 



Professor Nathaniel Butler has been ap- 

 pointed dean of the College of Education of 

 the University of Chicago to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the resignation of Professor H. E. 

 Locke. 



Austin Cary, A.B., has been appointed as- 

 sistant professor of forestry at Harvard Uni- 

 versity, and R. T. Eisher, A.B., has been pro- 

 moted to an assistant professorship in the 

 same subject. 



Professor A. Emch, of the University of 

 Colorado, has been appointed professor of 

 mathematics at the Cantonal College of Solo- 

 thurn, Switzerland. 



Dr. Th. Paul, director of the scientific 

 department of the Bureau of Health at Ber- 

 lin, has accepted a call to the professorship 

 of pharmacology and applied chemistry at 

 Munich. 



