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and six cylindrical objects — ^beads or pend- 

 ants — ^made of tlie columella of the conch. 

 They indicate trade or expedition as far as the 

 sea. Two groups, each of more than one 

 hundred gravel mounds, on terraces in the 

 Assiniboine Valley, were found to be of nat- 

 ural origin, although resembling artificial 

 burial mounds in appearance. No mounds 

 were found in the valley of the Little Sas- 

 katchewan, and slight evidence of habitation. 

 Near Arden, Mr. Nickerson explored a long 

 mound, consisting of two dome-shaped ends 

 with a connecting grade, and a broad, dome- 

 shaped mound, in which were found parts of 

 three human skeletons, a perforated disc made 

 of shell, and two objects made of bone, prob- 

 ably used as bracelets. A third mound, within 

 the village of Arden, had been previously dis- 

 turbed. Several camp sites were found at the 

 foot of the Assiniboine HiUs at springs form- 

 ing small streams, also in the vicinity of 

 Arden, along the White Mud Eiver. Mr. 

 Nickerson took seventy-five photographic 

 films in connection with this work and secured 

 a number of gifts for the Dominion collections. 



UNIVEBSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



As was noted in Science last week, Co- 

 lumbia University received by the wiU of 

 Amos F. Eno the residuary estate. It also re- 

 ceives a revisionary interest in certain be- 

 quests. In addition, the General Society of 

 Mechanics and Tradesmen receives $1,800,000, 

 and bequests of $250,000 each are made to 

 New York University, The American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, the Metropolitan 

 Museum of Art and the New York Associa- 

 tion for Improving the Condition of the Poor. 



Me. and Mrs. Norman W. Harris, of Chi- 

 cago, have increased their gift of $25,000 to 

 Mount Holyoke College made at the time of 

 the seventy-fifth anniversary, to $50,000, for 

 the endowment of the chair of zoology. Mrs. 

 Harris is a graduate of the college of the 

 class of 1870. 



The date for the dedication of the new 

 buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology has been fixed by the executive 



co mm ittee of the corporation for June 14, 

 1916. Practically all the stonework of the 

 buildings has been completed and nearly all 

 the carving, which in addition to the decora- 

 tive features of capital, cornice and portico, 

 will include the names of the founders of sci- 

 ence incised about the towers. In the interior 

 the floors are in process of finishing, this be- 

 ing done by means of electric polishers, which 

 are carrying on the work at the rate of 2,500 

 square feet a day. The rough plumbing is 

 practically all in place and the installation of 

 fixtures is under way. In ten of the build- 

 ings the steam heating system is ready and 

 later this month, when the boiler house is com- 

 pleted, the buildings will be dried out by steam 

 heat. 



At the University of Minnesota efforts are 

 being made to bring faculty and regents into 

 closer personal relations. At a general as- 

 sembly of the whole teaching staff held Sep- 

 tember 27 ten of the twelve regents of the uni- 

 versity were present and made brief addresses. 

 The president of the board, Mr. Fred B. Sny- 

 der, emphasized the fact that the regents re- 

 garded the faculty members not as employees 

 but as colleagues responsible for the really im- 

 portant work of the university. He made an 

 appeal for the hearty cooperation of all con- 

 cerned for the welfare of the institution. On 

 the evening of November 3 the new members 

 of the faculty were invited to meet the regents 

 at the house of the president of the university. 

 For December 14 a dinner is being arranged 

 by a faculty committee. On this occasion 

 there will be an informal discussion in which 

 it is expected that both faculty and regents 

 will express their views about university ideals 

 and policies. 



Professor T. W. Galloway, Ph.D., who has 

 occupied the chair of biology at James Milli- 

 kin University at Decatur, HI., since the es- 

 tablishment of that institution in 1903, has 

 been appointed professor of zoology at Beloit 

 College, Beloit, Wisconsin. A. A. Tyler, Ph.D. 

 (Columbia, '97), for some years professor of 

 biology in Bellevue College, Omaha, Nebraska, 

 has been appointed to the chair of biology at 



