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SCIENCE 



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It was decided to establish a sanitary research 

 laboratory and sewage experiment station on 

 the main trunk sewer of the south metro- 

 politan system of the city of Boston. Pro- 

 fessor Sedgwick was made director of the 

 work, Mr. Winslow was installed as biologist 

 in charge of the laboratory and station, and 

 Mr. Phelps as research chemist and bacteri- 

 ologist. The report now made by them is not 

 final, for experiments are still in progress, 

 the donor of the original gift having con- 

 sented to continue the work for the fourth 

 and fifth years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Announcement has been made that Mr. 

 John D. Eockefeller will endow the University 

 of Chicago with $3,000,000 to maintain a pen- 

 sion fund, the institution having been ex- 

 cluded from the scope of the Carnegie Foim- 

 dation, owing to its denominational control. 



It is also reported that Mr. Rockefeller has 

 agreed to give $2,000,000 for the endowment 

 of a university for Louisville, provided a sim- 

 ilar amount is raised by those interested in 

 the new institution. A plan has been prac- 

 tically agreed upon whereby the University 

 of Louisville will unite with the proposed 

 universities of the Baptist and Methodist 

 churches, and property now occupied by the 

 House of Eefuge will be donated by the city 

 as the site for the university. The Methodist 

 church has already at hand $250,000. The 

 Baptist church has promised $260,000, and the 

 University of Louisville has pledges for over 

 $200,000. 



The chair of chemistry at the University 

 of Pennsylvania, held by Dr. Edgar F. Smith, 

 vice-provost of the university, has been an- 

 onymously endowed by a gift of $100,000. 



Mr. Samuel W. Bowne has given to Syra- 

 cuse University, of which he is a trustee, a 

 chemical laboratory, costing $100,000. 



The packing interests of Chicago have of- 

 fered to the University of Illinois the sum of 

 $250,000 with which to establish in that city 

 a veterinary college. 



The vice-chancellor of the University of 

 Cambridge announces recent contributions to 



the benefaction fund: £5,000 from the Gold- 

 smiths' Company to the library; £2,500, part 

 of the sum received in response to the appeal 

 on behalf of the library; £1,600, resulting 

 from the general appeal of the Cambridge 

 University Association to general university 

 purposes; £904 for the building fund for the 

 new Museum of Archeology and Ethnology. 

 Also subscriptions of £12,325 (including £5,- 

 000 from the Drapers' Company, and £1,000 

 each from six individual contributors) to- 

 wards the building fund of the department of 

 agriculture. 



Glasgow University has received £6,500 

 from Mr. John S. Dixon, to raise the lecture- 

 ship in mining to the status of a chair; and 

 £5,000 from the Graham Young trustees to- 

 wards the endowment of a lectureship in 

 metallurgical chemistry. 



The professorship of pure and applied 

 mathematics in the University of Otago is 

 vacant. Particulars can be obtained from the 

 High Commissioner for New Zealand, 13 Vic- 

 toria Street, London, S.W. 



Professor B. E. Pernow, formerly director 

 of the New York State College of Forestry 

 at Cornell University, has been appointed to 

 organize a forest department in the State 

 College of Pennsylvania on the same lines as 

 the Cornell institution, making it a first-class 

 undergraduate forestry school. 



Me. J. F. Breazeale, of the Bureau of Soils, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of ex- 

 perimental agronomy at the Pennsylvania 

 State College. He will make a study of the 

 rotation fertilizer plots which have been con- 

 ducted by that station for twenty-four years. 

 Mr. C. L. Cook and Mr. F. R. Eeid have been 

 assigned by the Bureau of Soils to assist in 

 these and make other soil investigations. Mr. 

 C. F. Shaw has been appointed instructor in 

 agronomy and Mr. J. H. Barron assistant in 

 experimental agronomy. 



Professor Ernest Eutherpord, Macdonald 

 professor of physics in McGill University, has 

 been appointed to succeed Professor Schuster 

 as Langworthy professor and director of the 

 physical laboratories at the University of 

 Manchester. 



