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[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 580. 



President James, of the University of 

 Illinois, announces the establishment at 

 TJrbana of a new school of railway engineering. 

 Jt will be opened for',wprk next September. 

 The school will have three departments, in- 

 tended to cover the entire range of railway 

 "work. Aside from the faculty in the various 

 •departments, prominent railway oiEcials will 

 .give special courses to emphasize the value and 

 the practical features of the curriculum. 



At the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 

 State Board of Agriculture, on January 24, 

 public announcement was made of a change 

 in the organization of the agricultural work 

 of the Pennsylvania State College which, it is 

 understood, has been in contemplation for some 

 ■time. The investigations in animal nutrition 

 with the respiration calorimeter which have 

 been carried on by the Experiment Station for 

 the past seven years in cooperation with the U. 

 :S. Department of Agriculture are, under the 

 3iew arrangement, to constitute a separate de- 

 partment of the college, to be called the Insti- 

 i;ute of Animal Nutrition. Dr. H. P. Armsby 

 is to be the director of the new department and 

 is to be relieved of executive duties so as to 

 enable him to devote his entire time to this 

 special line of work. The duties of the direc- 

 i;or of the Experiment Station and of dean of 

 "the School of Agriculture are to be combined 

 .and the dual position filled by a new appoint- 

 ment, which, it is expected, will be announced 

 in the near future. 



The recently completed Agricultural Hall of 

 •the University of Nebraska was formally dedi- 

 cated on January 23, 1906. The principal 

 .address was given by the Honorable William 

 'G. Whitmore, regent of the university. The 

 building is of gray brick construction, with 

 solid oak finishing internally. It contains the 

 .agricultural library, an auditorium, and class 

 rooms and laboratories for most of the depart- 

 ments in the University School of Agriculture. 

 'The administration building is nearing com- 

 -pletion. Its construction is of plain brick 

 with ornamental terra cotta finish. It is to 

 •contain the ofiices of the chancellor, deans of 

 the colleges, university registrar, treasurer. 



secretary, superintendent of grounds and build- 

 ings, etc. 



The new administration building of the 

 University of California, for which the last 

 legislature made an appropriation of $250,000, 

 has been dedicated with addresses by President 

 Wheeler, Governor Pardee and others. 



The entire main building (including the 

 library and the physical and chemical labora- 

 tories) of the Fifth District Agricultural 

 iSchool of Alabama, was destroyed by fire on 

 January 5. Nearly all the laboratory appa- 

 ratus and the Experiment Station library 

 were saved. The academic operations are con- 

 tinued as before in other quarters. The loss 

 is about half covered by insurance. 



The position of research assistant in serum 

 pathology in Indiana University for 1906-1907 

 is open for applicants. Candidates must have 

 completed at least two years' work in a med- 

 ical school of high grade, and must have a 

 fair knowledge of bacteriology, of general 

 pathology and of volumetric and gravimetric 

 methods of quantitative chemistry. Prefer- 

 ence will be given a medical graduate. Ad- 

 dress : Department of Pathology and Bacteriol- 

 ogy, Indiana University, Bloomington, In- 

 diana. 



Abraji W. Harris, president of the Jacob 

 Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Md., has been 

 elected president of Northwestern University, 

 to succeed Dr. Edmund Janes James, now 

 of the University of Illinois. 



The president of the board of education has 

 appointed Professor W.W. Watts, M.A., F.E.S., 

 of Birmingham University, to the professor- 

 ship of geology, at the Eoyal College of Sci- 

 ence, South Kensington, vacant by the retire- 

 ment of Professor Judd. 



The council of King's College, London, has 

 elected Mr. Harold A. Wilson, D.Sc, M.A. 

 (Cambridge), as professor of physics in suc- 

 cession to Professor W. A. Adams, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.E.S. 



Dr. F. Himstedt, professor of physics, has 

 been elected prorektor of the University of 

 Freiburg. 



