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state and territory in the Union for said purpose; 

 and 



Resolved further. That the governor of this 

 state is hereby requested to forward a copy of 

 the foregoing resolutions to our senators and 

 representatives in congress and to the executives 

 and legislatures of each of the other states and 

 territories, inviting them to cooperate with us in 

 this meritorious enterprise. 



According to a statement by Mr. Eay 

 Priestley published in the papers before the 

 departure of the Terra Nova for the Antarctic, 

 an important geological discovery was made 

 during Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition. 

 Mr. Priestley, who is now engaged with Cap- 

 tain Scott's Antarctic expedition, and who 

 had for some months been collaborating 

 with Professor David at Sydney in arranging 

 a memoir of the geological work of Sir Ernest 

 Shackleton's expedition, states that he discov- 

 ered a small piece of rock on the Beardmore 

 Glacier which now upon full examination 

 proves to belong to the Cambrian limestones. 

 It appears that a similar formation has in 

 recent years been discovered in South Aus- 

 tralia by Mr. Griffith Taylor, who is also a 

 member of Captain Scott's scientific staff. 

 The fossils found both in the latter and in the 

 Antarctic specimens are identical, and the 

 inference is that at a not very distant past the 

 Antarctic was united to the continent of Aus- 

 tralia. The fossils referred to are the im- 

 mediate predecessors of corals and sponges. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



A GIFT of $300,000 by Mrs. Eussell Sage to 

 Cornell University is announced. The money 

 is to be used for a new dormitory for women 

 students, to be known as the " Prudence Eisley 

 Hall " in honor of Mrs. Sage's mother. 



The old Philadelphia Dental College at 

 Eleventh and Clinton Streets, which was pur- 

 chased several months ago by Jefferson Med- 

 ical College for $45,000, after remodeling will 

 become the Daniel Baugh Institute of An- 



An increase in the income and in the build- 

 ing fund of the University of Wisconsin on 

 the basis of a growth of 23 per cent, in the 

 number of students in the last two years and 



of the constantly growing demand on the part 

 of the people of the state for expert assistance 

 from the university, is provided for in a bill 

 introduced in the state legislature. It pro- 

 vides for changing the present two sevenths 

 of a mill tax on the assessed valuation of all 

 property of the state for maintaining the 

 university to three eighths of a mill. This 

 will increase the general university income 

 approximately from $750,000 a year to $1,000,- 

 000 a year. Eor new academic buildings and 

 permanent improvements the proposed legis- 

 lation appropriates $300,000 a year, of which 

 $50,000 annually is set aside for the purchase 

 of books, furniture, apparatus and equipment. 

 The remaining $250,000 a year is to be used 

 for the construction of academic buildings, in 

 the order of their greatest need and for the 

 enlargement and repair of present buildings. 

 For the construction and equipment of wo- 

 men's and men's dormitories the university 

 bill provides for an annual appropriation for 

 four years of $250,000. Out of this $1,000,000 

 a woman's dormitory is to be built first, then 

 a commons and union for men, and finally 

 dormitories for men. The university exten- 

 sion would have $100,000 next year and $125,- 

 000 the following year. This is an increase 

 of $50,000 a year over the present appropria- 

 tion. For agricultural extension, including 

 traveling schools of agriculture and lectures 

 and demonstrations throughout the state, $40,- 

 000 is provided, an increase of $10,000 over 

 the present amount. 



The regents of the University of Michigan 

 have applied to the legislature for a grant of 

 $250,000 for a science building. The need 

 for more adequate accommodations for the 

 natural sciences has been felt for a number of 

 years, and was the subject of a memorial to 

 the regents, by the departments of botany, 

 zoology, geology, mineralogy and forestry, in 

 1907. The congestion of that time has stead- 

 ily become worse with the increase of students, 

 and only slight possibility of expansion with 

 present buildings. In 1908 the faculty of 

 the entire literary department unanimously 

 adopted a resolution to the effect " that in the 

 opinion of this faculty, the greatest present 



