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hundreds of icebergs and heavy pack-ice and 

 sustained considerable damage. The Scotia 

 Bay station was established by the Scottish 

 Antarctic expedition of five years ago, and was 

 taken over in 1905 by the Argentine Govern- 

 ment, which is continuing the meteorological 

 and magnetic observations begun by the Scot- 

 tish expedition. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that it is almost settled that 

 the Ontario Medical Library Association, the 

 Toronto Clinical Society, the Toronto Medical 

 Society and the Toronto Pathological Society 

 will merge into the Academy of Medicine, 

 Toronto. The academy will be managed by 

 a council of twelve, and the first council will 

 be composed of the officials of the Ontario 

 Library Association and the presidents and 

 secretaries of the other three societies. These 

 will choose their own officers, while succeeding 

 councils will be composed of nineteen mem- 

 bers. The academy has a house in Queen's 

 Park, and a library and auditorium to cost 

 $50,000 will be added. Dr. J. F. W. Eoss is 

 president of the Ontario Medical Library As- 

 sociation ; Dr. H. B. Anderson, of the Toronto 

 Clinical Society; Dr. E. D. Eudolf, of the 

 Toronto Medical Society, and Dr. J. A. 

 Amyot, of the Toronto Pathological Society. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Columbia Univeesity has received a gift of 

 $30,000 from an anonymous source to be used 

 for pressing needs of the university. 



Mr. Andrew Caenegie has offered $50,000 

 toward the building fund of the McGill Uni- 

 versity College of British Columbia, condi- 

 tional on a similar sum being collected. 



Announcement is made that a graduate 

 school of agriculture will be conducted at Cor- 

 nell during the summer of 1908, under the 

 management of the Association of American 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- 

 tions. Sessions were held at the Ohio State 

 'University in 1904, and at the University of 

 Illinois in 1906. 



Various bills have been introduced in the 

 Massachusetts legislature, which would tax the 



residences of college and university professors 

 owned by the institutions. One of these 

 bills provides for reimbursing the town or city 

 by the state. President Eliot and other repre- 

 sentatives of universities and colleges were 

 expected to appear before the legislative com- 

 mittee on taxation on March 13. 



A COURSE in anthropology was offered at 

 Minnesota for the first time last autumn by 

 Professor A. E. Jenks, then beginning work 

 in the department of sociology, and it was 

 elected by six students. The course was of- 

 fered again the second semester, beginning on 

 February 4, and has been elected by eighty- 

 three students. An advanced course was also 

 offered the second semester which has been 

 elected by eighteen students. 



The trustees of Columbia University at 

 their last meeting promoted a number of 

 officers of instruction, including the follow- 

 ing: From adjunct professor to professor — 

 Earl B. Lovell, civil engineering; Henry C. 

 Sherman, chemistry. From lecturer to pro- 

 fessor — Dickinson S. Miller, philosophy. 

 From instructor to adjunct professor — Wil- 

 liam Campbell, metallography; William P. 

 Montague, philosophy; James H. McGregor, 

 zoology. From tutor to instructor — Tracy E. 

 Eazen, botany; Floyd J. Metzger, chemistry; 

 Charles P. Berkey, geology; Bergen Davis, 

 physics; Cavalier H. Jouet, chemistry; Victor 

 J. Chambers, chemistry. From lecturer to 

 tutor — Samuel E. Williams, physics; Pauline 

 H. Dederer, zoology. From assistant to tutor 

 • — William N. Berg, physiological chemistry; 

 Marion E. Latham, botany. 



Mr. William Spens, B.A., has been elected 

 director of natural science studies and fellow 

 of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 



Professor Josef Pompeckj, recently called 

 to Konigsberg, has now accepted the chair of 

 geology and mineralogy at Gottingen, as suc- 

 cessor of Professor von Koenen. 



Errata: In Science xxv., p. 293, second 

 column, the fourth word of line 12 should be 

 spikelets, the fifth word ligule. In line 18, 

 the first word should be Commutata. 



