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United States because the prevailing winds 

 are from the land and the sand is blown into 

 the sea. On the west coast the situation is 

 more serious. The most notable example of 

 reclaimed sand areas there is furnished by 

 Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, where 

 grasses, acacias and, later, trees and shrubs 

 have converted sand wastes into pleasure 

 grounds of great beauty. The attention of 

 the Palestine colony is called to the wonderful 

 reclamation of the landes, France, where a 

 wealth-producing forest of maritime pine, the 

 source of the French turpentine, has been 

 grown to take the place of shifting dunes. 

 The American foresters also give the address 

 of the French seedsman who furnished this 

 government with the maritime pine seed which 

 has been used in planting experiments on the 

 Florida national forest, near the Gulf coast. 

 The Secretary of Agriculture has signed an 

 agreement with the state of North Carolina 

 for a cooperative study of forest conditions 

 in the eastern piedmont region. The work 

 will be carried on by the forest service and by 

 the state geological and economic survey with 

 one half of the cost paid by each. The study 

 wUl determine the distribution and proportion 

 of forest lands, and the relative value of lands 

 for timber and for agriculture. It will take 

 into account the present status of lumbering, 

 the causes and effects of forest fires, and will 

 recommend a system of fire protection and of 

 forest planting. The study arranged supple- 

 ments two already completed in the more 

 mountainous regions of the state. The first, 

 a study of forest conditions in the Appala- 

 chians, has been published as a state report. 

 A study of the forests of the western piedmont 

 region was completed recently and the results 

 are being prepared for publication. Wlien 

 the study of the eastern piedmont region is 

 finished it is planned to proceed to a similar 

 study of the coastal plain region, so that 

 eventually the entire state will be covered by 

 a forest survey. 



VNIVEESITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Governor Tener, of Pennsylvania, has, 



after revision, approved the following state 



appropriations made at the last session of the 



legislature: The Pennsylvania State College, 

 $1,240,000, in addition to income from Land 

 Grant Fund and congressional appropriation 

 to Land Grant Colleges; University of Penn- 

 sylvania, $820,000; University of Pittsburgh, 

 $400,000 and Temple University, $100,000, 

 making the total state appropriation for 

 higher education $2,560,000. 



Franklin College, Indiana, has secured 

 pledges aggregating two hundred and fifty 

 thousand dollars for additional endowment. 

 Three sixteenths of this amount is from the 

 General Education Board. 



MiDDLEBURT COLLEGE has received $30,000 

 as the residuary legatee of the late Henry M. 

 Barnum. 



Sir William Eamsay, emeritus professor in 

 University College, London, has given the 

 college £500 for books and journals for the 

 chemical library. 



The medical department of Tulane Univer- 

 sity will hereafter be known as the Tulane 

 College of Medicine and will be divided into 

 four schools, each with a separate dean and 

 staff, namely: the School of Medicine and 

 Pharmacy, dean. Dr. Isadore Dyer; the Post- 

 Graduate School, dean. Dr. Charles Chassaig- 

 nae; the School of Hygiene and Tropical 

 Medicine, dean. Dr. Creighton Wellman, and 

 Dentistry, dean. Dr. Andrew Friedrichs. The 

 following elections and changes have been 

 made in the Post-Graduate School : Dr. Henry 

 Dickson Bruns, transferred from the emeritus 

 to the active list, as professor of diseases of 

 the eye; Dean Creighton Wellman, elected 

 professor of tropical diseases and preventive 

 medicine; Dr. J. T. Halsey, elected professor 

 of clinical therapeutics; Dr. C. C. Bass, elected 

 professor of clinical microscopy; Dr. W. W. 

 Butterworth, elected professor of diseases of 

 children, and Dr. George S. Bel, elected pro- 

 fessor of internal medicine. 



Professor W. A. Stocking, Jr., of the dairy 

 department of the New York State Agricul- 

 tural College at Cornell University, has been 

 appointed to succeed Dr. L. H. Bailey as act- 

 ing director of the Agricultural College. 



Mrs. Ella Flagg Toung has withdrawn her 

 resignation as superintendent of the Chicago 



