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SCIENCE 



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country. Under the heading of businesses, 

 professions, and employments, it appears that 

 there were assessed 456,571 persons with 

 gross incomes amounting to $624,349,605; 

 57,244 firms with a gross income of $420,- 

 244,765; 30,129 public companies with a gross 

 income of $1,204,046,240, and 9,582 corpora- 

 tions and other local authorities (assessed for 

 profit or interest) with a gross income of 

 $99,068,330. The total gross income was $2,- 

 347,708,940. Dealing with the incomes of in- 

 dividuals the report shows that there were as- 

 sessed in Great Britain 6,137 persons with 

 incomes over $5,000 and not exceeding $10,- 

 000; 1,405 with incomes of over $10,000 but 

 below $15,000; 533 with incomes over $15,000 

 and below $20,000; 304 over $20,000; 442 with 

 incomes over $25,000 but not exceeding $50,- 

 000; 212 with over $50,000 but not exceeding 

 $250,000; and 24 whose incomes exceeded 

 $250,000. 



According to a foreign journal. Dr. Erich 

 Zugmayer, a young naturalist who has already 

 gained some experience as a traveler during 

 a journey in Western Asia, described in his 

 book, ' Eine Eeise durch Vorderasien,' has 

 lately undertaken an expedition to Tibet, 

 which he hopes to cross from north to south, 

 returning through India. He had reached 

 Polu, on the southern border of Chinese 

 Turkestan, in June, 1906, having traveled by 

 the newly opened trans-Aral railway to Tash- 

 kend, and thence proceeded via Kashgar, 

 Yarkand, and Khotan. Erom the last-named 

 place he had executed a route survey, making 

 also astronomical and meteorological observa- 

 tions in addition to those relating to his more 

 special subject, natural history. He had 

 already sent back from Polu three cases full 

 of the collections made diiring the earlier 

 part of the journey. From Polu he hoped to 

 cross the Shu-bashi pass, and to examine an 

 area hitherto blank on the map before striking 

 the route of Dutreuil de Ehins. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Through the recent death of the last child 

 of the late John C. Erye, a Boston produce 



merchant. Tufts College comes into a bequest 

 of $200,000. 



It is announced that the late Dr. Gustave 

 Schorstein bequeathed 500L to the regius jiro- 

 fessor of medicine at the University of Ox- 

 ford for the pathological department of the 

 medical school to the London hospital, and a 

 sum, which will amount to some 10,000L, in 

 trust to the University of Oxford, subject to 

 certain life interests. 



Nature says : " The report of the Board of 

 Education for the year 1905-6 is of an en- 

 couraging nature. There is plenty of evidence 

 provided that our national system of technical 

 education continues steadily to improve. The 

 report points out that much attention has 

 been paid throughout the country to the ex- 

 tension and improvement of the facilities pro- 

 vided for continuative education. There has 

 been marked activity in the establishment of 

 courses of instruction affording special tech- 

 nical training, and the effective character of 

 the many courses organized under varied con- 

 ditions shows that local circumstances have 

 received the consideration necessary for suc- 

 cess in this kind of educational work. Tech- 

 nical institutions affording whole-time train- 

 ing for those who can give two or more years 

 to study after completing a secondary school 

 course have im.proved and multiplied their 

 courses of technical instruction. The multi- 

 plication of courses, requiring the whole time 

 of students is a gratifying indication of the 

 growing appreciation of the value of the work 

 of the technical school; but this appreciation 

 is not confined to whole-time instruction. 

 The improved organization of the varied in- 

 stitutions engaged in supplementing the train- 

 ing which a youth receives in the oiEce or 

 workshop has borne fruit in many practical 

 developments, demonstrating the extent to 

 which such further education may become a 

 recognized element in the lives of our youths. 

 The report, which runs to 106 pages, deals 

 fully with every department of elementary, 

 secondary and technical education, and shows 

 conclusively that, political controversy not- 

 withstanding, valuable work is being accom- 

 plished in the schools." 



