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of the tree planting. A special study has 

 been made of Lord Fitzwilliam's estate which 

 was planted to timber fifty years ago. A pop- 

 ular objection to reforestation in Ireland has 

 been that forest plantations offer less employ- 

 ment to labor than equal areas of agricultural 

 land. It was shown, however, that Lord Fitz- 

 william's forest, although planted on poor soil, 

 not valuable for agriculture, had employed 

 four times as much labor as has been em- 

 ployed upon the agricultural land and was 

 more profitable to the owner. Within the past 

 year timber to the value of $50,000 has been 

 sold, and much remains to be cut. 



According to Consul-general William H. 

 Michael, of Calcutta, it is proposed by the 

 British India government to link the five 

 rivers — the Indus, Jelum, Chenab, Beas, Ravi 

 and Sutlej — together in such manner as to 

 equalize the flow of water when one river or 

 more is in flood and thus supply the whole 

 canal system connected with these rivers. Mr. 

 Michael continues : " By this arrangement the 

 Punjab (the meaning of Punjab is five rivers) 

 will be given a water supply for irrigation 

 sufiicient at all times. The decision of the 

 government of India to adopt the northern 

 alignment for the Sind-Bombay connection 

 railroad, partly on military grounds and partly 

 owing to the objections raised by the Eao of 

 Cutch to the southern alignment, puts an end, 

 for the present at least, to cooperation between 

 the irrigation department and the railway 

 company, which was expected to effect great 

 benefit in that part of the Punjab through 

 which the lines would have run. In time, 

 when the great irrigation projects in the Pun- 

 jab, now in course of construction, shall have 

 been completed, the irrigation department will 

 take up the scheme of drawing and rendering 

 fit for cultivation the lowlands and salt 

 marshes which make up what is known as the 

 Eunn of Cutch. It is claimed that the irriga- 

 tion department has work in hand on plans 

 that have been adopted to engage its time, 

 energies and available capital for thirty years. 



The collection of anthropoid apes in the 

 Regent's Park Gardens is, says the London 

 Times, the finest ever brought together. 



Within the last few days it has been further 

 increased by the kindness of Dr. J. C. Gra- 

 ham, who has presented a fine orang {Simia 

 saiyrus), probably about six years old. The 

 animal, which has been a pet, is in good con- 

 dition, and already on friendly terms with its 

 keeper, whose experiences with anthropoids 

 goes back to the arrival of the first gorilla in 

 1887 and the experiments of Professor Ro- 

 manes in teaching Sally, the famous chimpan- 

 zee, to count. Jacob, as the Lew arrival was 

 called by its former owner, is not as yet on 

 exhibition, but is kept in the basement, owing 

 to want of room in the upper hall, which con- 

 tains only four large cages, though their divi- 

 sion has been discussed. Although somewhat 

 upset by the process of transfer from the 

 traveling box to the temporary cage, he soon 

 resigned himself to the new surroundings, and 

 feeds well. He has for a near neighbor Delia, 

 a young orang presented by Dr. Graham in 

 1905, and well known to visitors from its being 

 taken out to exercise in fine weather by the 

 keepers. The name Delia is not in this case 

 feminine, as one might be inclined to consider 

 it, but geographical, having reference to the 

 district of Deli, in the northeast of Sumatra. 

 In the hall is Sandy, the very iine orang pre- 

 sented by Dr. Ridley, which arrived early in 

 September, 1905, and had lived for seven years 

 in the Botanical Gardens at Singapore. In 

 addition to these orangs the society .possesses 

 nearly a dozen chimpanzees and four gibbons. 



UNIVER8ITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Harvard University has received $25,000 

 from Mr. Larz Anderson, '88, of Brookline, 

 and Mrs. Anderson, for the building fund 

 of the Dental School. Work on the new 

 building will be begun very shortly. 



At the inaug-uration on March 4 of Dr. 

 Edward Dwight Eaton as president of Beloit 

 CoUege, he announced that Mr. Andrew Car- 

 negie had given the institution $50,000 to 

 insure the gift of $150,000 from the general 

 educational board, and to endow a chair of 

 political economy and finance. 



By the will of Mrs. Louisa S. Baker, be- 

 quests of $6,000 and $4,000 are made to the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College and Am- 



