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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXV. No. 641 



to the middle and northern counties, in Water- 

 Supply and Irrig-atiori Paper No. 183, both of 

 which are free publications. In the course of 

 glacial investigations made under the direc- 

 tion of Professor T. C. Ohamberlin during 

 the last five years, Mr. Leverett collected a 

 large amount of data on water supplies. These 

 investigations resulted in a partial acquaint- 

 ance with conditions in about 200 separate 

 flowing-well districts and brought out matters 

 of such exceptional importance that arrange- 

 ments were made to examine each of the flow- 

 ing-well districts in the state sufficiently to 

 determine its essential characteristics, present 

 state of development, and probable capacity 

 for future development. It was arranged also 

 that attention should be given to the quality 

 of various classes of waters, both surface and 

 underground, as well as water supplies of the 

 cities and villages. By special arrangement 

 with Dr. A. C. Lane, the state geologist, the 

 large amount of material which had accumu- 

 lated at his office relative to other classes of 

 water supply was embodied in these reports. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



By the will of Mr. William C. Eggleston, 

 Yale University has received $100,000 as an 

 additional endowment for the library. By 

 the Eoss legacy the university has $75,000 for 

 maintenance in addition to the sum of about 

 $200,000 used for the building. Yale Uni- 

 versity has also received about $95,000 as 

 residuary legatee, after the death of his widow, 

 of the late William L. McLane. 



Mr. Benjamin Thaw, of Pittsburg, has 

 given $50,000 to the fund for the new building 

 of the Western University of Pennsylvania. 



We reg-ret to learn that the Macdonald en- 

 gineering building of McGill University was 

 completely destroyed by fire on April 5, in- 

 volving a loss of about $750,000, of which 

 $450,000 is covered by insurance. 



The College of the City of New York will 

 celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of its 

 foundation on May 7. 



The University of Iowa will this year cele- 

 brate the sixtieth anniversary of its founda- 



tion. Secretary Taft will give the commence- 

 ment address on June 12. 



The University of Berlin will celebrate the 

 centenary of its foundation in the autunm 

 of 1910. As part of the ceremonies a monu- 

 ment will be unveiled in memory of its first 

 rector, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the philos- 

 opher. 



The Divinity School of Yale University 

 has, proposed changes in its curriculum, its 

 scope "and its relations to other departments 

 which have been adopted by the corporation. 

 The new curriculum provides, in addition to 

 the regularly recognized courses of theological 

 study, two other main groups of electives in 

 which the study of Hebrew is not required for 

 the degree of B.D. Sciences and philosophy 

 are to be specialized in one of these groups of 

 study and elementary law and sociology in the 

 other. These subjects will be pursued by the 

 divinity students for the most part in other 

 departments of the university. 



Professor B. E. Fernow, lately called to 

 the professorship of forestry at State College, 

 Pennsylvania, which he had temporarily ac- 

 cepted, has been appointed dean of the Faculty 

 of Forestry at the University of Toronto. It 

 is proposed to organize the most complete sys- 

 tem of forestry education on this continent, 

 the university undergoing now a reorganiza- 

 tion and broadening of its policy generally. 

 It is expected that a large forest reservation 

 will be set aside for use of the school, and 

 university extension work of the broadest kind 

 is contemplated. 



At Teachers College, Columbia University, 

 Dr. Maurice A. Bigelow has been promoted 

 from adjunct professor to professor of biology. 



The vacancy in the chair of biology in Lake 

 Forest College, caused by the removal of Pro- 

 fessor James G. Needham to Cornell Univer- 

 sity, has been filled by the election of Dr. 

 Cornelius Betten, previously assistant pro- 

 fessor in the same department. 



Mr. W. Muir Edwards, lecturer in mathe- 

 matics and civil engineering at McGill Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed assistant professor 

 of civil engineering. 



