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SCIENCE 



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The Geographical Journal has received ac- 

 counts of the progress of Dr. Zugmayer's ex- 

 pedition in Baluchistan. He went westward 

 by Sumiami to Bela, and thence to Gondrani 

 (where he examined the remarkable cave- 

 dwellings), reaching Ormara on April 20, 

 He found the people of this region extremely 

 primitive in their mode of life. Gwadur was 

 reached towards the end of May, and the sec- 

 ond stage of the journey, the crossing of 

 Baluchistan in a northeasterly direction, 

 then began. Intense heat was experienced, 

 temperatures of 127° F. in the shade and 

 158° in the sun being registered. Particularly 

 trying were the hot sand-storms, during which 

 travel is quite impossible, the human body 

 losing more than a liter of water per hour by 

 evaporation when they are at their height. 

 In spite of all difficulties, Dr. Zugmayer was 

 able to secure valuable collections of animals 

 and plants, and also to make important zo- 

 ogeographical observations in a region which 

 is the meeting-point of the European, Inner 

 Asiatic and Polynesian realms. Crocodiles 

 were met with up to the Persian frontier, but 

 land-snails and Salmonidw were absent. Rata 

 also were entirely wanting, though epidemics 

 of plague are frequent. The traveler is in- 

 clined to connect the epidemics with the ar- 

 rival from the north of vast flights of ducks, 

 and he endeavored to obtain evidence as to the 

 possible role of these as disseminators of 

 plague, and also to find a reason for the visit 

 of such birds in summer to such a burning 

 region. On June 22 the caravan reached the 

 small garrison of Turbat, and the worst of the 

 heat was then left behind. Climbing a pass, 

 the party reached the interior plateau of 

 Baluchistan, attaining an altitude of over 

 3,000 feet, with a proportionately lower tem- 

 perature, at Shakrok. The inhabitants of 

 this interior region presented a marked con- 

 trast with those of the coast lands in their 

 higher culture. The date-palm here supplies 

 the staple article of diet, and its harvest is 

 celebrated by festivals. Panjgur was reached 

 on July 6, and was made a center for collect- 

 ing trips and haunts. Dr. Zugmayer expected 



to be back at Karachi at the end of October, 

 traveling by way of Kelat and Quetta. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The will of Miss Emma Carola Woerishoffer 

 leaves $750,000 to the trustees of Bryn Mawr 

 College, of which she was a graduate. 



The estate of John S. Kennedy is even 

 larger than has been previously announced. 

 The share of Columbia University is $2,429,- 

 943. The New York Public Library receives 

 $2,779,790; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 

 $2,929,943; the Presbyterian Hospital, $1,514,- 

 086; New York University and the Presby- 

 terian Board of Aid for Colleges, each $976,- 

 647; Robert College, Constantinople, $1,847,- 

 295. The specific bequests, not dependent on 

 the size of the estate, include $100,000 each 

 to Yale, Amherst, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Ham- 

 ilton and Glasgow. 



WiLLUMs has received a gift of $35,000 

 from the estate of Mrs. Frances E. Curtis for 

 the endowment of the Edward Brust professor- 

 ship of geology and mineralogy. 



About $1,000,000 has been collected for es- 

 tablishing a residential Hindu University at 

 Benares with an adequate European staff. 



Ground was broken last week for the Wol- 

 cott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory of Harvard 

 University. This building, designed for re- 

 search in physical and inorganic chemistry, 

 will cost when completed about $72,000. It 

 was given and endowed by Dr. Morris Loeb, 

 Mr. James Loeb and many other friends of 

 Dr. Gibbs and the university. 



The Association of American Universities 

 met at the University of Chicago on October 

 26 and 27. 



The budget of Oberlin College for the en- 

 suing year contains a special appropriation to 

 be used in defraying the expenses of adminis- 

 trative officers, professors and associate pro- 

 fessors who wish to attend meetings of educa- 

 tional and scientific societies. 



New laboratories, completely equipped for 

 post-graduate medical instruction and re- 

 search, have been organized and opened at the 



