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their friends, including ladies. The visitors 

 will be given an opportunity of inspecting the 

 installations and work of the bureau. 



The annual meeting of the American An- 

 thropological Association in affiliation with 

 Section H of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science and the American 

 Polk-Lore Society will be held December 27- 

 30 in Eoom 28, U. S. National Museum (new 

 building), Washington, D. C, instead of in the 

 Public Library as previously announced. 



Nearly a hundred students from the Col- 

 lege of Engineering of the University of Wis- 

 consin are now on their yearly tour of inspec- 

 tion of great engineering plants of the east. 

 Engineering plants in Chicago, Milwaukee, 

 Niagara Palls, Pittsburgh, Schenectady, N. T., 

 and New York City will be visited. These 

 tours are required of students of engineering 

 during their junior and senior years and are 

 arranged to cover industries that illustrate the 

 work of the course pursued by the student. 

 Professors A. G. Christie, George J. Davis, 

 J. R. Price and A. L. Goddard accompany the 

 students on the trip. 



A SITE for the Memorial Institute for In- 

 fectious Diseases, Chicago, to be built with 

 funds bequeathed by Mrs. Annie W. Durand, 

 has been selected and purchased at the corner 

 of Wood and York Streets with a ground area 

 of 100 by 126 feet. The building will be four 

 stories and a basement in height and will cost 

 with its equipment about $200,000. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Williams College will receive approxi- 

 mately $100,000 by the will of Miss Sarah H. 

 Pattison, of Ossining, N. Y. The money is 

 to be used for the library. 



Theoop Polytechnic Institute, at Pasa- 

 dena, California, through the generosity of an 

 anonymous donor, has announced two annual 

 prizes — a senior scholarship prize of $750, to 

 be used for a trip to Europe, and a freshman 

 scholarship prize of $250, to be used for a trip 

 through some of the principal cities of the 

 eastern United States. The senior prize will 

 be awarded to the student who has the best 



record in scholarship for the junior and senior 

 year, " the faculty taking also into account, in 

 assigning the award, considerations of deport- 

 ment or good manners and ability for original 

 work." The freshman prize will be awarded to 

 the freshman who has the best scholarship 

 record for the year, " good manners and the 

 quality of initiative being also taken into ac- 

 count." 



The official list of changes in the instruct- 

 ing stail of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology shows that there have been forty- 

 three replacements of last year's professors or 

 instructors plus five additions, forty-eight new 

 men. Chemistry and electric engineering are 

 the departments in which the largest additions 

 have been made. In chemistry the changes in- 

 clude the promotion of five instructors or as- 

 sistants and the addition of six. In electrical 

 engineering three additional instructors may 

 be noted. 



The following appointments have been made 

 at Cornell University: Herbert A. Hopper, 

 assistant professor in extension work in ani- 

 mal industry; T. E. Sehreiner, assistant in 

 the department of poultry husbandry; G. H. 

 Miller, assistant in pomology for the winter 

 course; William C. Hooey, assistant in chem- 

 istry. 



Dr. M. T. Cook has resigned as plant pathol- 

 ogist in the Delaware Station to become pro- 

 fessor of plant pathology in Rutgers College 

 and plant pathologist in the New Jersey Col- 

 lege Station. 



Mr. Frank E. Hermanns has been made the 

 head of the structural engineering department 

 at the Stevens Institute of Technology. 



At Cornell University the work in farm 

 management has been organized as a separate 

 department, with G. P. Warren as head, K. C. 

 Livermore as assistant professor and A. L. 

 Thompson as instructor. The work in farm 

 crops has been united with the department of 

 farm practise and is in charge of Professor J. 

 L. Stone. 



Mr. H. a. Wadsworth has been appointed 

 assistant professor of forestry in the school of 

 forestry of the University of Idaho. 



