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vice to carry on a series of tests to determine 

 the relative value of the commercial timbers 

 of the state. All the tests will be made at the 

 university in accordance with the methods 

 used by the government, and at least once a 

 year a testing engineer of the Forest Service 

 will make a careful inspection and report upon 

 the progress of the work. These tests wiU be 

 of considerable value in ascertaining for what 

 purposes and uses the timbers of Idaho are 

 best adapted. Bridge stringers will be tested 

 to determine the fitness of different species for 

 the construction of trestles and bridges; the 

 spike-holding power will also be investigated 

 to determine just what species can be advan- 

 tageously used for railroad ties and tests will 

 be made to determine the relative hardness, 

 which property is very important in material 

 used for paving blocks. The Forest Service 

 at other laboratories in various parts of the 

 country is making tests on important timbers 

 from other sections, and by cooperating with 

 the service the university will secure results 

 which will furnish an accurate basis for com- 

 paring Idaho timber with timber from other 

 states. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The regents of the University of Nebraska 

 have established a .College of Education for 

 the preparation of teachers, and have tend- 

 ered the deanship to Dr. Fordyce, professor 

 of zoology in Wesleyan University. 



The University of Cincinnati and the Cin- 

 cinnati General Hospital will soon employ 

 jointly a pathologist, with the title of pro- 

 fessor of pathology in the former institution, 

 and head pathologist in the latter, who will 

 give his whole time to research and instruc- 

 tion in his science. The determination is the 

 result of several years' effort. Plans for the 

 new hospital, now being erected, include an 

 elaborate equipment for the study of pathol- 

 ogy- 



President Frederick M. Tisdel has been 

 deposed by the trustees of the University of 

 Wyoming, the board adopting resolutions 

 which, after charging that he had been guilty 

 of maladministration, insubordination and 



untruthfulness in university affairs, adds : 

 Resolved, That Frederick M. Tisdel be and is 

 hereby removed from the office of the presi- 

 dent of the University of Wyoming; that 

 he be informed at once of his removal, and 

 that all salary and rights appurtenant to such 

 office shall upon such notification immediately 

 cease." President Tisdel has charged the 

 trustees with destroying the usefulness of the 

 university by political machiiiations. 



In reorganizing the work of some of its 

 departments the Northwestern University 

 Medical School has made these important ad- 

 ditions to its faculty: Dr. Arthur W. Meyer, 

 of the University of Minnesota, has been 

 called to the chair of anatomy, including 

 histology and embryology in the department, 

 and Dr. Albert N. Richards, of Columbia 

 University, has been called to the chair of 

 pharmacology. Dr. Meyer was graduated 

 from Wisconsin, and took his doctor's degree 

 at Johns Hopkins, where he afterwards gave 

 instruction in anatomy. During the past year 

 he has been the head of that department in 

 the University of Minnesota. Dr. Eichards 

 is an alumnus of Yale, and took later the 

 doctor's degree at Columbia. After spending 

 three years at research work in the Rocke- 

 feller Institute he became instructor in phar- 

 macology in Columbia, which position he 

 holds at the present time. 



The Harvard Corporation has confirmed the 

 appointment of the following as Austin teach- 

 ing fellows for the ensuing year: William 

 Robert Davey, Semitic languages; John Will- 

 iam Hotson, botany; Arthur Merle Hurlin, 

 music; Paul Weidemeyer Graff, botany; 

 Herbert Hugene Merwin, mineralogy and 

 petrogTaphy ; Horace Upham Ransom, applied 

 mechanics ; Mason Thacher Rogers, civil engi- 

 neering; Herbert Joseph Spinden, anthro- 

 pology. 



Dr. Anathon Aal, decent for philosophy 

 at Halle, has accepted a call to a professor- 

 ship in the University of Christiania. 



M. Camille Matignon has been appointed 

 professor of inorganic chemistry in the Col- 

 lege de France as successor of H. Le Cha- 

 tellier. 



