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the English parliament, delivered an address 

 before the faculty and students of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin and the members of the 

 state legislature last week on " The State, the 

 University and the Farmer." He also held a 

 conference with the members of the faculty 

 of the college of agriculture on conditions of 

 agriculture in America. 



The Eational Geometry of Professor George 

 Bruce Halsted has been translated into 

 French and will be published by the firm 

 Gauthier-Villars. 



We regret to note the death of Professor 

 Edwyn Carlos Eeed at Concepcion, Chile. 

 He was director National Museum at Con- 

 cepcion and had for many years studied the 

 flora and fauna of Chile. His work in 

 natural history was largely devoted to the 

 popularization of scientific knowledge and to 

 the spread of economic ideas in economic 

 zoology. He leaves one son, Carlos S. Eeed, 

 who is now professor in the School of Viticul- 

 ture. 



Colonel E. M. Beddome, known especially 

 for his publications on the ferns of India, 

 died in London, on February 23, at the age of 

 eighty-three years. The deaths are also an- 

 nounced of Dr. C. Alexander MacMunn, of 

 Wolverhampton, known for his research work 

 in physiological chemistry, and of Dr. William 

 Williams, of South Wales, an authority on 

 sanitation. 



A BILL has been introduced into the general 

 assembly of Illinois that provides for the es- 

 tablishment of a State Board of Forestry and 

 a state forester. It is provided that the office 

 of the state forester shall be located at the 

 State University and that the forester shall 

 teach at the university. 



A SOCIETY for the erection and maintenance 

 of an institute for the treatment of cancer 

 and for research, has been founded at Munich. 

 The president is Prince Ludwig Ferdinand, 

 doctor of medicine. 



The Vallauri prize of the Turin Academy 

 of Sciences will for the coming three-year 

 period be awarded for a work in Latin litera- 

 ture, for the following three-year period, from 



January 1, 1915, for the most important work 

 published in the physical sciences. The value 

 of the prize is $5,000. 



The Field Museum of Natural History an- 

 nounces its thirty-fourth free lecture course as 

 follows : 



March 4 — "Precious Stones, how they are 

 Found and Manipulated," Dr. George F. Kimz, 

 New York City. 



March 11— "The Glacial History of the Great 

 Lakes," Professor Prank Carney, Denison Uni- 

 versity, Granville, Ohio. 



March 18 — "The Sugar Maple and Maple 

 Sugar Making," Professor L. R. Jones, Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin. 



March 25 — "Peking," Dr. Berthold Laufer, 

 associate curator of Asiatic Ethnology, Field Mu- 

 seum. 



April 1 — "Picturesque Sweden," Professor 

 James H. Gore, Washington, D. G. 



April 8 — "The Real Filipino," Professor Ar- 

 thur Stanley Riggs, New York City. 



AprU 15 — "Photographing the Heavens," Pro- 

 fessor G. W. Ritchey, Mount Wilson Solar Ob- 

 servatory, Pasadena, Cal. 



April 22 — "Recent Discoveries of Petroleum in 

 the United States and Mexico," Dr. David T. 

 Day, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 



April 29 — "Turkestan; the Heart of Asia," 

 Mr. William E. Curtis, Washington, D. C. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The sum of $7,000 has been received by the 

 University of Michigan from the estate of 

 Emma J. Cole, of Grand Eapids, Michigan, to 

 constitute a scholarship fund for graduate stu- 

 dents in botany. 



The regents of the University of Wisconsin 

 have accepted as a trust the sum of $30,000 

 for the establishment and maintenance of a 

 chair to be known as the Carl Schurz 

 memorial professorship. The chair is to 

 be filled by professors from the universities ' 

 of Germany. The present size of the fund 

 will make it possible to secure a German 

 professor for one semester every second year. 

 President Van Hisc has been authorized to 

 open negotiations with German authorities 

 with a view to establishing a system of ex- 

 change professors between German universi- 

 ties and the University of Wisconsin. The es- 



