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of delivery of goods in the different ways. 

 It will include all questions which concern 

 electric trucks, including the influence of the 

 different kinds of city pavements on cost of 

 delivering goods, and the effects of different 

 routings of the vehicles. The investigation 

 will be partly theoretical, but it will be 

 planned to determine practically what it ordi- 

 narily costs to deliver goods under city condi- 

 tions. This part of the investigation will be 

 accompanied by actual observations extended 

 over a period of many months. At least a 

 year wiU be occupied in this work, and Mr. H. 

 F. Thomson has been appointed research asso- 

 ciate to carry on the work under the direction 

 of Professor Pender. 



UNIVEESITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The physical laboratory at Gottingen has 

 received gifts of $125,000 from Herr Krupp 

 von Bohlen-Halbach and $40,000 from Herr 

 von Boettinger. 



We learn from the Experiment Station 

 Record that the legislature has renewed for 

 another period of five years the mill tax for 

 the erection of buildings for the Iowa College 

 and Station. It is estimated that over $1,- 

 000,000 will be available for this purpose dur- 

 in the next six years. A library to cost $22.5,- 

 000 and a stock-judging pavilion to cost $20,- 

 000 are among the buildings definitely author- 

 ized. Special appropriations were also made 

 of $60,000 for equipment of the domestic tech- 

 nology building, gymnasium and veterinary 

 hospital, $6,000 for improvement of the 

 grounds, $43,000 for the heating plant, $50,- 

 000 for general instruction, $18,000 for exten- 

 sion work, $15,000 for the station and $5,000 

 each for the engineering experiment station, 

 the roads work and the two-year course. 



The state board of education of Utah has 

 provided that every accredited high school in 

 the state must teach agriculture in order to 

 participate in the maintenance fund provided 

 for high schools. 



The University of Athens will celebrate its 

 seventy-fifth anniversary on March 25, 1912, 



at which time the International Congress of 

 Orientalists will meet in the city. 



The Consul General of Buenos Aires re- 

 ports that a school of aviculture is to be estab- 

 lished at La Plata as an annex to the zoolog- 

 ical garden, to give instruction in poultry and 

 bee keeping and in the rearing of rabbits and 

 pigeons, the latter for consumption and as 

 carriers. 



The committee appointed recently by the 

 board of regents of the University of Mich- 

 igan to consider and report upon the organiza- 

 tion of the Graduate School has been consti- 

 tuted as follows: President Hutchins, Regents 

 Sawyer, Beal and Hubbard, Professor John O. 

 Reed, dean of the faculty of literature, science 

 and the arts; Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, dean of 

 the faculty of medicine; Professor Pred N. 

 Scott, chairman of the administrative council 

 of the graduate school (at present a committee 

 of the faculty of literature, science and the 

 arts) ; Professor Alexander Ziwet, president of 

 the Research Club ; Professor R. M. Wenley, 

 head of the department of philosophy. The 

 committee will not convene till October. 



The following appointments have been 

 made in the medical department of Leland 

 Stanford Junior University: Dr. Thos. Addis, 

 Carnegie research scholar and fellow of the 

 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, to 

 the position of assistant professor of medicine 

 to have charge of the work in clinical chemis- 

 try; Dr. Jas. Eaves, of Edinburgh and of 

 Guy's Hospital, London, instructor in sur- 

 gery to have charge of surgical pathology. 

 The following assistants were appointed to 

 the medical dispensary: Dr. Geo. Lyman, Dr. 

 W. H. Banks, Dr. W. R. P. Clark, Dr. Walter 

 Schaller, Dr. P. H. Luttrell, and in the surgi- 

 cal dispensary Drs. W. W. Winterberg and I. 

 W. Thorne. Provision has also been made for 

 the appointment of an academic professor of 

 obstetrics and gynecology. 



Mr. D. B. Rosenkrants, recently of Upper 

 Iowa University, has been appointed in- 

 structor in botany at the North Carolina Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



