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results. Mr. Samuel J. Guernsey carried on 

 archeological researches in New Brunswick for 

 the museum. The museum had a party in 

 Ohio under the direction of Mr. B. W. Mer- 

 win, and the long-continued exploration of the 

 ancient cemetery at Madisonville, as well as 

 the famous Turner Group of Mounds in the 

 same region, has been completed. 



VNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 It is announced that the sum of $1,526,965 

 has been collected for McGill University. In- 

 cluded in the sum are three subscriptions of 

 $100,000 each from Dr. James Douglas, of New 

 York, Mr. Robert Reford and the Birks fam- 

 ily, of Montreal. 



Last year Mr. John D. Rockefeller ofEered 

 to give $250,000 to a special endowment fund 

 of the Medical Department of Western Re- 

 serve University on condition that a total 

 fund of a million dollars was given. At that 

 time Mr. H. M. Hanna gave $250,000 as part 

 of the required amount. It is now announced 

 that the sum of $429,000 has been given, leav- 

 ing $71,000 to be collected before December 31. 



Dartmouth College will eventually receive 

 what is believed to be approximately $200,000 

 by the will of Elijah M. Topliff, of Man- 

 chester, N. H. 



New greenhouses have been erected at the 

 University of Vermont at a cost of $Y,000. 

 The buildings consist of a head house 24 X 

 84 feet, a story and a half high, and three 

 parallel glass houses each 20 X 60 feet. These 

 houses are for the combined use of the depart- 

 ment of horticulture, botany and plant pathol- 

 ogy: one of the houses is entirely for experi- 

 mental work, and will be occupied by the 

 experiment station men; the other two houses 

 are for teaching purposes. 



The registration of students in several of 

 the larger universities is reported to be as fol- 

 lows : Columbia, 7,429 ; Chicago, 6,466 ; Minne- 

 sota, 5,965; Wisconsin, 5,538; Pennsylvania, 

 5,389; Michigan, 5,381; Cornell, 5,104; Uli- 

 nois, 5,118; Harvard, 5,028; Nebraska, 4,624; 

 California, 3,450; Missouri, 3,141. 



Recent appointments in St. Louis Univer- 

 sity School of Medicine are: A. S. Pearse, 

 Ph.D. (Harvard), associate professor of biol- 

 ogy, in charge of the department; H. G. Bris- 

 tow, A.M. (Missouri), instructor in chemistry; 

 A. M. Brown, A.M. (Washington University), 

 assistant in biology; L. F. Shackell, B.S. (St. 

 Louis), instructor in pharmacology. 



Dr. Charles Sheard has resigned as pro- 

 fessor of preventive medicine in the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto. 



M. Ranvier, professor of general anatomy 

 at the College de France, has, at his own re- 

 quest, been allowed to retire. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE 



the FRANCIS GALTON LABORATORY FOR NATIONAL 

 EUGENICS 



To THE Editor of Science: In examining 

 the correspondence of the late Sir Francis 

 Galton I find very many appreciative letters 

 concerning his work from Americans distin- 

 guished in science or social activities. Sir 

 Francis held the faith — and did much to dem- 

 onstrate it — that man both mentally and phys- 

 ically was the product of his ancestry, and that 

 accordingly when this was once fully recog- 

 nized, man could achieve a greater future by 

 encouraging the multiplication of the fit, and 

 restricting the production of the unfit. He 

 devoted most of the later years of his life to 

 preaching this gospel and left the residue of 

 his fortune to maintain the staff of the labo- 

 ratory which bears his name. The science of 

 eugenics, defined as " the study of agencies 

 under social control that may improve or im- 

 pair the racial qualities of future generations 

 either physically or mentally," has been his 

 creation. The idea that we can study at the 

 university what makes for or mars national 

 welfare is not a narrow one, it is essentially 

 international in character. And that view of 

 it is emphasized by Sir Francis Galton's 

 world-wide correspondence. That correspond- 

 ence leads me to believe that in America, and 

 elsewhere, there may be men and women will- 

 ing to aid us in founding a worthy memorial 



