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the same value will be offered, open only to the 

 alumni. These prizes are biennial and alter- 

 nate annually. They are supported by funds 

 in the hands of the Association of the Alumni 

 and are to be given in perpetuity. 



The next meeting of the Association of 

 American Universities will be held at the 

 University of Chicago in November, 1911. 



The oificers of Section D of the American 

 Association have sent a notice to the members 

 and others interested stating that the rapid 

 advance in the navigation of the air during 

 the past year has attracted serious attention 

 to scientific aeronautics. The construction of 

 dirigible balloons and flying machines is es- 

 sentially a mechanical problem and as such 

 merits consideration by Section D, especially 

 since no engineering society has yet taken this 

 action. Accordingly at the Minneapolis meet- 

 ing, December 27-31, 1910, papers are invited 

 relating to aerodynamics and other branches 

 of aeronautics, and also discussing possible 

 course of instruction in colleges and technical 

 schools. Attention is also directed to the fact 

 that some papers on the science of road build- 

 ing and related topics have been promised, and 

 that others are desired to complete the pro- 

 gram for a session of the section devoted to 

 this subject. 



The third annual meeting of the Associa- 

 tion of Official Seed Analysts was held at the 

 Shoreham, Washington, D. C, on November 

 -14 and 15. The following papers were pre- 

 sented : 



Some Germination Studies of Seeds of Forage 

 Plants — Dr. L. H. Pammel, Miss Charlotte M. 

 King and Jlr. H. S. Coe. 



Germination Studies of the Seeds of the Umbel- 

 liferoe — ^Mr. Geo. T. Harrington. 



Agricultural Value of Hard Seeds in Alfalfa 

 and Clover — Professor H. L. Bolley. 



Notes on the Morphology of Hard Seeds — Mr. 

 Geo. T. Harrington. 



The Essentials of Agricultural Seed Analysis — 

 Mr. F. H. Hillman. 



Seed Conditions in Indiana — Professor G. I. 

 Christie. 



At the business session a constitution was 

 adopted and the following officers were elected : 



President — Dr. E. H. Jenkins, of Connecticut. 



Vice-president — Dr. L. H. Pammel, of Iowa. 



Secretary — Mr. E. Brown, of Washington, D. C. 



Additional members of the Executive Committee 

 — Professor H. L. Bolley, of North Dakota, and 

 Professor W. H. Barre, of South Carolina. 

 The president appointed the following com- 

 mittee and referees : 



Committee on Seed Legislation — Dr. C. D. 

 Woods, of Maine, chairman, and Dr. L. H. Pammel, 

 of Iowa. 



Referees: Sampling — Dr. C. D. Woods, of 

 Maine. Purity — Professor H. Garman, of Ken- 

 tucky. Germination — ^Mr. E. Brown, of Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



UNITES8ITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Trinity College, in Durham, N. C, will re- 

 ceive from Mr. Benjamin N. Duke, four new 

 buildings which are designed to form a quad- 

 rangle on the campus. The Duke family has 

 now given the institution almost a million and 

 a haK dollars. 



CoxcEETE foundations for the new horticul- 

 tural building at the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, which is to cost $60,000, are completed, 

 and the work on the structure will be pushed 

 as rapidly as weather conditions will permit. 

 The new building will comprise a basement, 

 two floors and an attic, and will furnish 

 offices, class rooms and laboratories for the 

 horticultural and plant pathology departments. 

 It is to be a fire-proof structure of brick, 

 trimmed in stone, with a tile roof. 



The collections of the chemical department 

 of the University of Wisconsin, which have 

 been recently brought together to form a 

 museum in the corridors of the chemistry 

 building, now include thirteen different de- 

 partments of chemistry and its related 

 branches. 



The officers of the department of physics of 

 the University of Illiuois gave a reception on 

 Saturday evening, November 19, to the fac- 

 ulty of the imiversity and their friends in the 

 physics building. The building was in normal 

 working condition and the instructors and 

 students in the department were on hand to 

 show visitors through the building and to ex- 

 plain apparatus and methods. The guest of 

 honor was Professor iUbert A. Michelson, of 



