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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
Mr. THomAs McK@an, of Philadelphia, has 
given $100,000 to the University of Pennsyl- 
vania for a building for the law school. 
Mr. Joun D. RocKFELLER, of New York, 
has given an additional $10,000 towards the 
erection of a hall at Mt. Holyoke College, and 
if the conditional gift of Dr. Pearson is included 
the sum of $175,000 has now been collected for 
the endowment fund. 
Brown UNIVERSITY has received $5,000 by 
the will of the late Eustace Fitz, of Chelsea, 
Mass. 
FERRY HALL, one of the buildings of the 
State Agricultural College, Pullman, Washing- 
ton, has been destroyed by fire, causing a loss 
of about $40,000. 
THE registration in Harvard College is this 
year 1,814, an increase of 6.2 per cent. over last 
year. The number of students in the Lawrence 
Scientific School is 407, an increase of 9.5 per 
cent. 
Ir is stated that the decree excluding foreign 
students from the medical classes of the Faculty 
of Medicine of Paris will shortly be withdrawn. 
Dr. TH. Currius, professor of chemistry at 
Bonn, has been called to Heidelberg as suc- 
cessor to Victor Meyer. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS AT ITHACA FOR MEM- 
BERS OF THE SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
SINCE the publication of the official announce- 
ment of the Society the Ithaca Hotel has been 
sold, and the new owners have closed it for 
extensive repairs. That hotel will not be open 
for guests nor for the annual dinner. The other 
hotels will be open. The Clinton House can 
accommodate from 50 to 75 and the new Hol- 
lister from 30 to 40 guests. 
The annual dinner announced for the Ithaca 
Hotel will be held at the dining rooms in Cas- 
cadilla Place, these being the largest and 
pleasantest dining rooms upon the University 
campus in Ithaca. The time and cost will be 
as in the announcement. 
SCIENCE. 
[N. S. Vox. VI. No. 153. 
A limited number of ladies can secure rooms 
and board at Sage College. Rates can be had 
upon application to the Local Secretary. There 
are numerous pleasant rooms in the near neigh- 
borhood of Cascadilla Place, which, with board 
in the house or at Cascadilla Place, would cost 
from 75 cts. to $1.50 per day. The Local Sec- 
retary will secure rooms for any who apply to 
ae S. H. GAGE, Chairman, 
W. W. RowLes, Secretary, 
of the Local Committee. 
ITHAcA, N. Y., 
November 30, 1897. 
THE CAIRN ON THE ENCHANTED MESA, 
To THE EpiTor of Science: I have just read 
Professor Libbey’s letter, in your issue of the 
26th instant, in which he intimates that the 
lichen-covered cairn on the summit of the En- 
chanted Mesa was erected by himself. It now 
only remains for Professor Libbey to say that 
the ancient potsherds scattered through the 
talus, the artifacts found on the summit, the re- 
mains of the ancient ladder-trail and all the 
other evidences of the former occupancy of the 
summit of the mesa are the result of his own 
ingenuity. The last word will then have been 
said. 
F. W. HopeGe. 
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, 
WASHINGTON, November 29, 1897. 
[As Professor Libbey states that the cairn was 
erected by him Mr. Hodge should certainly 
correct his mistake. Whether or not the Mesa 
was formerly inhabited is another question. 
Ep. SCIENCE, 
A POSSIBLE SOLUTION OF THE SEALING PROB- 
LEM. 
TO THE EDITOR OF SCIENCE: In the article 
in ScreNcE last week on the Sealing Confer- 
ence, and in the innumerable articles that have 
been published since the question became promi- 
nent, I have not noticed any mention of what 
seems to an outsider the most natural solution. 
It is absurd for the United States to claim that 
it has any right to control the action of Canada 
on the high seas on the ground of humanity to 
animals or of commercial interests. Great 
