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SCIENCE 



[N.S. Vol. XXXII. No. 835 



" Some Successes and Failures of the Amer- 

 ican College." 



Lectures at the University of Wisconsin by 

 Professor W. II. Davis, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, will be given as follovrs: Two lectures 

 on the Art of Geographical Description — Fri- 

 day, January 20, " The Range of the Colorado 

 Rockies"; Saturday, January 21, "A Study 

 of the Italian Riviera." Two lectures on the 

 Disciplinary Value of Geography — Monday, 

 January 23, " The Nature of Proof " ; Mon- 

 day, January 23, " The Art of Presentation in 

 Contrast with the Science of Investigation." 

 Before the Science Club — Friday evening, 

 January 20, " The Lessons of the Grand 

 Canyon of the Colorado." 



The Colleges of Engineering of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois and Purdue University ar- 

 range each year a series of exchange lectures 

 delivered by the members, of the faculty of 

 each institution. The first lecture delivered at 

 Illinois this year was by Professor C. R. 

 Moore, of Purdue, on " Power Manufacture 

 and its Dangers." 



Dr. J. A. L. Waddell, the bridge engineer 

 of Kansas City, recently delivered two lec- 

 tures before the faculty and students of the 

 College of Engineering of the University of 

 Illinois, one a technical talk on " Materials of 

 Bridge Engineering and Foundations " and 

 the other a general lecture on bridge construc- 

 tion. 



The death is announced of Captain G. E. 

 Shelley. After a short service in the Grena- 

 dier Guards, Captain Shelley retired from the 

 army and devoted himself entirely to ornithol- 

 ogy, especially to that of Africa. 



The seventeenth annual meeting of the 

 New York Zoological Society will be held in 

 the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, on Tuesday, Jan- 

 uary 10, at 8.30 o'clock p.m. Moving pictures 

 showing the roping and capture of wild ani- 

 mals will be exhibited, and a series of colored 

 slides showing whaling in Japanese seas will 

 be presented by Mr. Roy C. Andrews. 



In addition to the £2,500 voted to Captain 

 Scott for his Antarctic expedition by the Aus- 

 tralian commonwealth, a sum of equal amount 



has been contributed by a private donor in 

 New Zealand, where Captain Scott has also 

 met with liberal gifts in the form of stores. 



A DESPATCH from Paris tells of the burning 

 of the branch of the Pasteur Institute at 

 Garches, near Paris, on December 7. The 

 branch was located in the Chateau Villeneuse 

 I'Etang. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Public benefactions aggregating $370,000 

 are provided in the will of the late Mrs. Wil- 

 liam O. Moseley, of Newburyport, Mass. 

 Two hundred thousand dollars are left to the 

 Anna Jaques Hospital, of Newburyport, and 

 $60,000 to Harvard University for the estab- 

 lishment of two fellowships to enable medical 

 students of marked ability to pursue their 

 medical studies abroad. 



The next New Hampshire legislature will 

 be asked to appropriate $163,000 for the State 

 College, including $80,000 for a new engineer- 

 ing building and $40,000 for general expenses. 

 The board of trustees are unanimously in 

 favor of changing the name of the college 

 from the " New Hampshire College of Agri- 

 culture and the Mechanic Arts " to the " Uni- 

 versity of New Hampshire." 



On December 13, the board of trustees of 

 the University of Illinois held their quarterly 

 meeting at which the heads of the various 

 university departments presented their re- 

 quests for legislative appropriations for the 

 biennium 1911-13. Large amounts were 

 asked for buildings by the College of Agri- 

 culture, by the School of Education and Col- 

 lege of Engineering, and for a school of Com- 

 merce. 



A GIFT of $500,000 to Dartmouth College by 

 Mr. Edward Tuck, has been announced. The 

 donor states the object of his gift in the fol- 

 lowing words : 



I present these securities to the college to be 

 addett to the present Amos Tuck endowment fund. 

 I desire the income from them to be applied as 

 was the purpose of my original foundation of the 

 fund of 1899, to the improvement of the existing 



