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nounce that the chancellor of the exchequer 

 had recently intimated his intention of making 

 the building grant for the year £10,000, in- 

 stead of £5,000 as originally contemplated. It 

 was also stated that the Goldsmiths' Company 

 had made a donation of £1,000 with the re- 

 quest that it should be devoted to some spe- 

 cific object. 



Minister Wilson, of Brussels, transmits a 

 Belgian invitation for American scientific 

 men and geographical societies to participate 

 in the proposed formation of an international 

 association for the exploration of the polar 

 regions. Among the inclosures from the 

 minister is a circular letter from Mr. G. 

 Lecointe, scientific director of the Royal Ob- 

 servatory of Belgium, who furnishes a report 

 of a special committee of the Congress of Mons 

 relative to the study of the polar regions. This 

 committee was appointed during a session of 

 the congress in September, 1905, under the 

 auspices of His Majesty King Leopold II., and 

 the presidency of Mr. Beernaert, minister of 

 state, to formulate plans for the formation of 

 an international polar-region association. The 

 Belgian government is not as yet officially 

 identified with the proposed association. The 

 present purpose of the committee having the 

 matter in charge, is simply to invite an 

 exchange of views between scientific organiza- 

 tions, official or otherwise. The minister also 

 incloses a pamphlet entitled 'Projet d'une ex- 

 ploration systematique des regions polaires,' by 

 Henryk Arctowski, a member of the recent 

 Belgian expedition to antarctic regions. 



At the annual meeting of the Audubon So- 

 ciety of the state of New York, which was held 

 at the American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City, on Friday, March 16, 1906, 

 Mr. Frank M. Chapman presiding, the follow- 

 ing resolutions were unanimously carried by 

 the members present: 



Whereas, The legislature of the state has by 

 wise enactments provided that no game of any 

 kind shall be sold during the closed season, and 



Whereas, The court of appeals has unanimously 

 pronounced such legislation necessary in order to 

 protect the native game of the state, and 



Whereas, The said court of appeals has also 

 unanimously pronounced such legislation consti- 

 tutional, therefore be it 



Resolved, That the Audubon Society of the 

 state of New York protests most emphatically 

 against the passage of any bill to modify or 

 change the present law or that will permit any 

 corporation or persons to sell foreign game in 

 this state during the closed season, and 



Resolved, That the Audubon Society is opposed 

 to any special legislation for the benefit of a few 

 persons at the expense of and against the inter- 

 est of the majority of the citizens of the state, 

 and 



Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be 

 sent by the secretary to the Forest, Fish and 

 Game Commission, the members of the legislature 

 and to the press of the state. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Adelbert College, Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity, has received $150,000 from the grand- 

 children of Joseph Perkins, formerly a trustee 

 of the college. The money is to be used for a 

 department of sociology and a chemical labo- 

 ratory. 



Plans have been completed for the con- 

 struction of the new buildings for the mining 

 department of the University of Idaho at 

 Moscow. It is estimated that the two build- 

 ings will cost $40,000, exclusive of apparatus. 

 The appropriation was made by the last Idaho 

 legislature for this purpose. The metallurg- 

 ical building, 96 x 68 feet, will contain ten 

 ore bins, giving a total capacity of fifty tons. 

 The ore wiU be conveyed by automatic appa- 

 ratus to the crushing and sampling depart- 

 ments. 



In August, 1908, the University of Jena 

 will celebrate the three hundred and fiftieth 

 anniversary of its foundation. 



Dk. Edw. Anthony Spitzka, fellow and dem- 

 onstrator of anatomy. College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons (Columbia), has been elected 

 professor of general anatomy at Jefferson 

 Medical College, Philadelphia. 



Dr. Hugh M'Lean, senior assistant in 

 physiology, has been appointed lecturer in 

 chemical physiology, in Aberdeen University. 



