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The National Society for the Promotion of 

 Industrial Education will hold a meeting in 

 Chicago on January 23, 24 and 25. A full 

 program has been arranged. Among the sub- 

 jects that will be discussed are the apprentice- 

 ship system, the trade school, the wage-earners 

 benefit from industrial education, and the ideal 

 of a public school system that aims to benefit 

 all. Among the speakers are Dr. Pritchett, of 

 the Carnegie Foundation, president of the 

 society; President Eliot, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, and President Wheeler, of the University 

 of California. 



The fourth annual report of the education 

 department of New York State has been trans- 

 mitted to the legislature. The amount ex- 

 pended for the common schools for the year 

 was $47,077,720, an increase of $1,694,168. 

 There were employed in the public elementai-y 

 schools during the year 37,280 teachers — 3,292 

 Men and 33,988 women. The average annual 

 salary paid was $756.10, an increase of $10.61. 



The New York Evening Post states that 

 plans for beautifying the surroundings of the 

 Harvard Medical School have been accepted 

 by the Medical School and the Street Depart- 

 ment of Boston. Starting from a terminal 

 point in the Eenway near a small lagoon, the 

 new avenue in honor of Louis Pasteur will 

 lead up to the middle of the Medical School 

 quadrangle. This avenue will run through the 

 center of a parkway 120 feet wide. An en- 

 trance will be constructed at the junction of 

 the parkway with the quadrangle of the school. 

 The new laboratory on Long-wood Avenue, 

 near the Medical School — being built by the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington for the 

 study of nutrition — will be completed on Feb- 

 ruary 1. 



The Baltimore Association for the Promo- 

 tion of the University Education of Women 

 offers a fellowship of $500 for the year 1908- 

 1909 available for study at an American or 

 European university. Applications must be 

 in the hands of the chairman of the com- 

 mittee, Dr. Mary Sherwood, The Arundel, 

 Baltimore, before March 20. 



Mr. E. M. Griffith, the state forester of 

 Wisconsin, will give a course of sixteen lec- 



tures on forestry to the students of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin during the second 

 semester. The lectures are intended for those 

 who expect to manage timber lands or take up 

 forestry as their profession; for students in 

 the agricultural college, to afford informa- 

 tion in regard to the management of wood 

 lots ; and for students in the college of engi- 

 neering who are interested in soil reclamation 

 and the protection of stream flow and water 

 powers. The subjects included in the course 

 are the effects of deforestation, conservative 

 lumbering, artificial and natural reforestation, 

 the reservoir system on the headwaters of the 

 Wisconsin, the forest fire problem, taxation of 

 timber lands, forestry for farmers, and forestry 

 legislation. 



At a recent meeting of the board of trus- 

 tees of the Iowa State College Mr. C. A. 

 Scott, of the United States Forest Service, 

 was elected to the chair of forestry, to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the resignation of Professor 

 H. P. Baker, who accepted a position at the 

 Pennsylvania State College. Mr. Scott is a 

 graduate of the Kansas State Agricultural 

 College and a student of the Yale College of 

 Forestry. Mr. Scott has been continuously 

 in the employment of the Forest Service since 

 graduation and during this period of seven 

 years has gradually advanced through all 

 stages of the work from that of student assist- 

 ant to forest supervisor, which position he 

 resigned to accept the chair of forestry at the 

 Iowa State College. 



The corporation of Harvard University has 

 appointed Herbert Leslie Burrell, now pro- 

 fessor of clinical surgery, John Homans pro- 

 fessor of surgery. 



Dr. George T. Jackson has been appointed 

 professor of dermatology in Columbia Univer- 

 sity to succeed Dr. George H. Fox, who has 

 resigned. 



Correction: In the report of the general secre- 

 taiy of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science there is an error on page 43. 

 Sections A and D joined with the Chicago section 

 of the American Mathematical Society in the dis- 

 cussion of the teaching of mathematics to engi- 

 neers, not A and B, as appears in the report. 



