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fever,' and of fowls, are kept for the same 

 purposes. The ticks, Ornithodoros mouhara 

 and Argas miniatus, which transmit the two 

 last-named diseases, are likewise bred in the 

 laboratories, and stocks of the Irodes reduvius 

 and Bhipicephalus anrvulatus, those transmit- 

 ting the piroplasms of ' red water ' in cattle, 

 kept. The equipment of the laboratories is 

 not elaborate or showy, but everything is 

 available which is required to permit full ad- 

 vantage to be taken of the material at dis- 

 posal. The present director is Dr. J. L. Todd, 

 who during the past twelve months has had 

 some dozen research students working with 

 him. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mk. John D. Eockefeller has given the 

 University of Chicago $2,700,000 for its per- 

 manent endowment, and $217,000 for current 

 expenses and special purposes. Among the 

 special provisions of this latter gift are: To 

 provide permanent increases in the salaries of 

 instructors, $40,000; for additional cost of 

 drinking water systems, $21,610; for the im- 

 provement of the campus, $15,000; for the 

 Alice Freeman Palmer chimes, $5,000; for 

 special equipment in various departments, 

 $5,000; for greenhouses for the department of 

 botany, $2,500. Mr. Kockefeller's gifts to the 

 University of Chicago are said to amount to 

 more than $20,000,000. 



At the opening exercises of the new year 

 President Warfield, of Lafayette College, an- 

 nounced that $325,000 had been subscribed 

 toward the $500,000 endowment which is being 

 raised to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary 

 of Lafayette College. Of this sum Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie has given $50,000 for a mechanical 

 engineering course. He will give an addi- 

 tional $50,000, provided the half million is 

 secured. 



A GIFT of $50,000 from Mr. Andrew Car- 

 negie is announced by President George C. 

 Chase, of Bates College. Mr. Carnegie's offer 

 of this amount stipulated that friends of the 

 institution should subscribe $100,000, and this 

 amount has been secured. 



The Chemical Library of Harvard Univer- 

 sity has recently received from the class of 

 1881 an addition of $1,500 to the $3,000 pre- 

 viously given, thus making a fund of $4,500, 

 the income of which is to be used for the pur- 

 chase of books. 



We learn from the Experiment Station 

 Record that plans are being perfected for a 

 jubilee week next spring to celebrate the fif- 

 tieth anniversary of the opening of the Michi- 

 gan College, the first agricultural college in the 

 United States. It is now proposed to hold the 

 jubilee on May 28-31. A program is being 

 arranged so that the delegates to the Associa- 

 tion of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations, which it is hoped will 

 meet in Lansing at that time, may attend all 

 the more important sessions of the jubilee. 

 President Eoosevelt will speak on May 31, and 

 the college is planning to entertain from 10,000 

 to 15,000 people on that day. 



The Harvard Cfraduates Magazine gives a 

 classification of the students according to the 

 divisions of the faculty of arts and sciences 

 under which their studies chiefly lie. The 

 predominance of the languages and humani- 

 ties continues marked; only chemistry among 

 the sciences shows a great growth in recent 

 years. Semitic, none; ancient languages, 28; 

 modem languages, 99; history and political 

 science, 85 ; philosophy, 31 ; education, 21 ; fine 

 arts, 5; music, 6; mathematics, 24; engineer- 

 ing, 5; forestry, 1; physics, 10; chemistry, 33; 

 biology, 15 (botany, 2 ; zoology, 13) ; geology, 

 7; mining and metallurgy, 1; anthropol- 

 ogy, 5. 



Me. R. C. Bryant, in charge of the coopera- 

 tive work of the ofiice of Forest Extension, 

 of the Bureau of Forestry, has resigned to 

 assist in organizing the work in connection 

 with the chair of practical forestry and liun- 

 bering at the Yale Forest School. 



There is a vacant instnictorship in chem- 

 istry at Lehigh University, paying $1,000 an- 

 nually. Applications should be sent to Pro- 

 fessor W. B. Schober, South Bethlehem, Pa. 



Peofessoe a. Mollee has been appointed 

 director of the Forestry School at Eberswald. 



