June 8, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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have been displayed by our neighbors in the 

 entertainment of guests from this country. 

 The members of the Iron and Steel Institute 

 have on two occasions been entertained by their 

 confreres on the other side of the Atlantic. 

 The 200 members or so who went to the United 

 States, the expedition being headed in the first 

 instance by Sir James Kitson and in the sec- 

 ond by Mr. Carnegie, found the pleasures 

 spread for their delectation so profuse, and 

 every one possessed with so consuming a de- 

 sire to afford them entertainment, that they 

 had little leisure for the calm and collected 

 examination of those productive resources in 

 the American iron and steel industry the in- 

 spection of which were the ostensible purpose 

 of the journey. The American Society of 

 Engineers are assured of the heartiest welcome 

 in this country. We can not hope to emulate 

 their hospitality on the scale upon which it 

 was extended to the members of the Iron and 

 Steel Institute; for a tour of 12,000 miles 

 within the area of our shores is impossible 

 unless it were conducted in a circular direc- 

 tion. But in spirit we can fairly vie with 

 our American colleagues, and the heartiness 

 of our welcome to them will not be inferior to 

 that given by them to our own countrymen." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 It is announced that Mr. David Rankin, of 

 St. Louis, has decided to give $2,000,000 to 

 found an industrial and manual training 

 school in St. Louis. 



The college of agriculture of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, the attendance of which 

 has increased very greatly during the past two 

 years, is to receive two important additions in 

 the form of an agronomy building and agri- 

 cultural engineering building. The plans for 

 both structures have just been completed, and 

 the contracts, which are about to be made, 

 provide for their completion before the be- 

 ginning of the short course in agriculture 

 next winter. 



At the commencement exercises of the Uni- 

 versity of Nevada, May 31, 1906, President 

 Stubbs announced that Mr. Clarence H. 



Mackay and his mother, Mrs. John W. 

 Mackay, have together given $50,000 for the 

 immediate erection of a building for the Col- 

 lege of Mines. This building is to home the 

 department of mining and metallurgy and 

 that of geology and mineralogy and has been 

 planned according to the recommendations of 

 the heads of these departments. A recent 

 state appropriation for the metallurgical 

 laboratory has provided the university with a 

 new ore-treating equipment which will be suit- 

 able for installing in the new quarters. The 

 building will also contain a geological mu- 

 seum. Furthermore, Mr. F. M. Smith has 

 arranged to provide an income of $1,000 a 

 year to be used for the support and encourage- 

 ment of students in the Mining School. This 

 will in general be divided into five annual 

 scholarships of $200 each to be known as the 

 F. M. Smith scholarships open to deserving 

 students irrespective of citizenship or resi- 

 dence. 



The preliminaries for the establishment of 

 a Hindu University are making progress. 

 Offers of service are coming in from the prin- 

 cipals and professors of the leading colleges 

 of India, and the Munshi Madho Lai, who 

 gave $100,000 to the endowment, has been 

 conferring on the details of the foundation. 

 A deputation will be sent to collect subscrip- 

 tions throughout India. 



Nature states that steps are being taken for 

 the provision of a permanent endowment to 

 place the Balfour library in a secure position. 

 The library owes its origin to the generosity 

 of the family of the late Professor F. M. Bal- 

 four, who after his death in 1882 presented 

 his scientific books to Cambridge University 

 for the U5e of the zoological laboratory. The 

 library so constituted was housed in a room 

 adjacent to the laboratory, and has ever since 

 been freely open to all members of the uni- 

 versity and to others qualified to make use of 

 it. The library has been maintained hitherto 

 out of the fees paid by students attending the 

 classes ; and the burden which it thus places 

 upon the resources of the laboratory is unde- 

 sirable. A committee has, therefore, been 

 formed for the purpose of collecting subscrip- 



