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SCIENCE. 



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limit will be September 15. Stop-overs will 

 be allowed west of the Missouri River and St. 

 Paul on both the going and return trips. As 

 has already been announced, the department 

 of superintendence will hold its next meeting 

 in Louisville, Ky., February 27 and 28 and 

 March 1. Superintendent John W. Carr, 

 president of the department, is formulating 

 the program which it is expected will be issued 

 early in December. 



The next meeting , for the Australasian 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 will be held in Adelaide during January, 1907. 



The next meeting of the German Society 

 of Experimental Psychology will be held at 

 Wiirzburg on April 10 to 13. Reports will be 

 presented on the following subjects: (1) the 

 relations between experimental phonetics and 

 psychology, by E. Krueger; (2) experimental 

 esthetics, by 0. Kiilpe; (3) the psychology of 

 reading, by F. Schumann; and psychiatry and 

 individual psychology, by R. Sommer. 



The International Congress on Milk Supply 

 will hold its third congress at The Hague in 

 19Q7. 



An American Bison Society has been organ- 

 ized in New York City to take steps to prevent 

 the extermination of the buifalo. The New 

 York Zoological Society is prepared to give a 

 herd of buffalos to be placed on the Wichita 

 forest reserve in Oklahoma. 



The Nicholas Senn Club for Scientific Re- 

 search has been incorporated in Chicago by 

 Drs. Byron Robinson, Orville W. Mackellar 

 and Arthur McNeal. 



The second session of the Graduate School 

 of Agriculture will be held in the summer of 

 1906 at the agricultural college of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, under the auspices of the 

 Association of American Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations and the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. 



The Keep Commission is now investigating 

 the Crop Department Bureau of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, of which no chief has 

 been appointed since the resignation of Mr. 

 John Hyde. It is said that the bureau may 

 be abolished, its work being divided between 

 the Weather Bureau and the Census Office. 



At the instance of Professor Robert 

 Fletcher, director of the Thayer School of 

 Civil Engineering, and of the president and 

 faculty of Dartmouth College, a series of lec- 

 tures has been delivered to the engineering- 

 students on ' The Economics of Transporta- 

 tion and on Physical Hydrography,' by Pro- 

 fessor Lewis M. Haupt, Sc.D., in which it was 

 shown that the annual freight bill paid for 

 overland transportation in the United States, 

 exclusive of waterways, amounted to the 

 enormous sum. of $2,600,000,000, and that 

 although the United States has the lowest 

 average tariff per ton-mile in the world, yet 

 the European railways are able to charge from 

 two to three times as much, with greater 

 profits and still compete with this country for 

 the foreign commerce of the world, because of 

 their improved system of waterways. These 

 facts serve to impress the benefits to all classes 

 of carriers and producers resulting from the 

 utilization of water routes for the raw and 

 bulky materials of low values — not yet sufii- 

 ciently appreciated by traffic managers of this 

 country. The annual saving which might be 

 effected by the betterment of the common 

 roads as feeders was estimated to be enough to 

 pay all the expenses of the government and 

 the desirability of a much more rapid ex- 

 pansion of commercial channels to keep pace 

 with the growth of vessels was forcefully pre- 

 sented. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



By the will of the late Stephen Salisbury 

 the Worcester Polytechnic Institute receives a 

 bequest of $200,000. This money comes with- 

 out restrictions of any kind on the part of the 

 testator. In addition to this bequest Mr. 

 Salisbury, at the time of his resignation a 

 few weeks ago from the presidency of the 

 board of trustees, made an additional gift to 

 the institute of $100,000, to be paid imme- 

 diately. 



Formal announcement of the $250,000 leg- 

 acy to the Sheffield Scientific School from the 

 estate of the late M. D. Viets, of Granby^ has 

 been made by Professor Russell H. Chitten- 

 den, director of the school. The bequest will 



