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fort. Eich citizens are said to have collected 

 funds for the purpose, but since the creation 

 of universities belongs exclusively to the state 

 and not, as in America, to private initiative, 

 the funds will be given to the government if 

 it approves of the objects of the contributors. 

 Frankfort has for a long time possessed the 

 nucleus of a medical faculty; the old Senck- 

 enberg Institute, founded by a vpealthy citizen, 

 contains a number of well-furnished chemical, 

 physical, anatomical and other laboratories; 

 the Royal Institution for Experimental 

 Therapy under the direction of Professor 

 Ehrlich attracts every year a great many 

 graduates from other parts of Germany and 

 from abroad; the hospitals of Frankfort are 

 of the first rank, and contain an immense 

 amount of clinical material which has not 

 hitherto been used for teaching purposes. 

 The establishment of a university will, there- 

 fore, be easy, so far as the m^edical faculty is 

 concerned. No new universities have been 

 founded in Germany for about a century, ex- 

 cept at Strasburg, where the old university 

 existing previously to the French occupation 

 was reestablished in 18Y2. 



A DEPARTMENT of forestry, professional in 

 character, has, as we have already noted, been 

 organized at the Pennsylvania State College, 

 the first registrations having been made for 

 the spring session of 1907. The department 

 is organically arranged in the School of Agri- 

 culture, the studies of the first year being in 

 common. An announcement by Dr. B. E. 

 Femow, professor of forestry, says: "The 

 profession of forestry, although practised in 

 Europe for more than a century and a haK, 

 is quite new in this country, the first profes- 

 sional school having been established less than 

 a decade ago, yet the need of foresters has 

 grown more rapidly than the several schools 

 which followed the first have been able to 

 provide. At present the largest demand is 

 made by the federal forest service, but the 

 various states, and especially the state of 

 Pennsylvania, as well as private owners and 

 corporations, are bound to call for the services 

 of fully equipped foresters in large numbers, 

 as the needs and advantages of a better treat- 



ment of our woodlands becomes recognized. 

 The state of Pennsylvania has set aside state 

 forest reservations to the extent of nearly one 

 million acres, and adds annually more. It is 

 only fair to assume that graduates of the 

 Pennsylvania State College must ultimately 

 find a field of usefulness in their manage- 

 ment." 



The Hungarian government is said to have 

 under consideration the foundation of a new 

 university at Pressburg. The existing uni- 

 versities of Hungary are those of Buda Pesth 

 and Klausenburg. 



The Senate of London University have ac- 

 cepted an invitation from the University of 

 Paris to send eighty representatives of the 

 university to visit Paris. 



The University of Virginia will this year 

 conduct a summer school. 



The classes for workingmen of New Haven, 

 inaugurated by the Sheffield Scientific School, 

 held their first session on January 17. Over 

 150 men appeared at the first classes, over- 

 flowing the rooms originally assigned. 



A PRINCIPAL is to be chosen in March for 

 the Dunn County School of Agriculture. 

 The salary is $2,000. Candidates are to write 

 to the present principal. Dr. F. C. Davis, 

 Menomonie, Wis. The school is said to be 

 the first of its kind to be established in 

 America, and has made a valuable place for 

 itself by the instruction of the young men 

 and women of the vicinity along agricultural 

 and other economic lines. Also by carrying 

 on some twenty-five lines of useful work for 

 farmers, such as testing cows for butter fat — 

 testing herds for tuberculosis, etc., and by 

 holding many farmers' institutes each year. 

 Dr. Davis leaves the place in June to become 

 dean of the new state school of agriculture 

 at Canton, N. T. 



Dr. John W. Harshberger has been pro- 

 moted to be assistant professor of botany in 

 the University of Pennsylvania. 



Professor Kuenen has resigned the Harris 

 chair of physics in University College, Dun- 

 dee, and accepted the new chair of physical 

 chemistry in the University of Leyden. 



