April 14, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



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vision, under the act of April 21, 1910, vesting 

 control in the hands of the secretary of com- 

 merce and labor. The fur-seal and salmon 

 fisheries have been for years under federal 

 control, and are now taken out of the division 

 of scientific inquiry, unifying under one head 

 the whole Alaskan service. The new division 

 has a total personnel of 25 persons and an 

 annual salary appropriation of $41,530. Of 

 the personnel, eleven positions are new ones 

 and consist of the chief, an assistant chief, 

 three clerks, one assistant salmon agent, one 

 warden and four deputy wardens. The in- 

 creases apply mainly to the fur-bearing ani- 

 mals and the salmon fisheries, the fur-seal 

 service having received in the year preceding 

 additions to its personnel, made necessary by 

 the espiration of the lease of the Pribilofs and 

 the taking over by the government of the en- 

 tire business of taking and selling seal-skins. 

 The chief of the Alaska Fisheries Service will 

 be Dr. Barton W. Evermann, for eight years 

 chief of the Division of Scientific Inquiry. 

 Dr. H. F. Moore, for eight years principal 

 scientific assistant in the Division of Scientific 

 Inquiry, succeeds Dr. Evermann as chief of 

 that division. Mr. M. C. Marsh remains as 

 chief Alaska salmon agent and Mr. Walter I. 

 Lembkey as chief fur-seal agent. 



VNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, 

 Cal., has received for endowment four gifts 

 aggregating a quarter of a million dol- 

 lars. The largest is $150,000, there is one of 

 $50,000, and there are two of $25,000 each. 

 The income becomes available after July 1, 

 1911. 



Mk. James A. Patten has added $50,000 to 

 the $200,000 which he had given to the North- 

 western Medical School for the study of 

 tuberculosis. 



A BUREAU of research in municipal govern- 

 ment is to be established at Harvard Univer- 

 sity, to be maintained by a gift of $2,500 a 

 year for ten years offered by Mr. Frank 

 Graham Thomson, of the class of 1897, and 

 Mr. Clarke Thomson, of the class of 1899, 

 both of Philadelphia, Pa. Professor W. B. 



Munro is to direct the work of the bureau. In 

 connection with this bureau material bearing 

 on national and state government is to be col- 

 lected, the work to be maintained by an 

 anonymous gift of $1,000 a year for five 

 years; Dr. Arthur N. Holcombe, instructor in 

 government, is to be in charge. 



Miss Mary Anne Ewart has bequeathed 

 £20,000 to ISTevmham College, Cambridge, for 

 scholarships for women students and £10,000 

 to Somerville College, Oxford, for like pur- 

 poses. 



Northwestern University has arranged an 

 architectural competition for the development 

 of the university campus. It is proposed to 

 erect at once dormitories costing $150,000 and 

 in the near future an academic building cost- 

 ing about $180,000. 



The upper wall of the west tower of the 

 William Eainey Harper Memorial Library, in 

 course of construction at the University of 

 Chicago, has fallen, demolishing the interior 

 of the tower from top to bottom. The loss, 

 which falls on the contractors, is estimated at 

 $50,000. 



Plans for the first summer session of the 

 Johns Hopkins University have been an- 

 nounced. Work will begin on July 5 and will 

 last six weeks. 



The Nebraska legislature, reversing a previ- 

 ous vote, has permitted the University of Ne- 

 braska to apply for admission to the benefits 

 of the Carnegie Foundation. 



BowDoiN College proposes to adopt a plan 

 for admission to college similar to that of 

 Harvard. Students are required to present a 

 record of their school studies and to pass an 

 examination in four subjects only. 



Dr. L. H. Murlin, president of Baker Uni- 

 versity, has accepted the presidency of Boston 

 University. 



Mr. William J. Duppert, of the United 

 States Forestry Service, has been appointed 

 instructor in forestry at the University of 

 Nebraska to take part of the work of the late 

 Professor Frank J. Phillips. 



