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The New York State College of Forestry has 

 secured its 30,000-acre demoustratioa area of 

 Adirondack forest. The terms of sale are 

 agreed on, and only a survey delays the formal 

 turning oyer of the property. The tract lies in 

 Franklin county, to the south of Saranac Lake, 

 and partly upon the lower slope of Mt. Seward. 

 It contains some virgin forest, some from which 

 lumbermen have taken the choice timber, and 

 some from which forest fires have taken all the 

 timber. The College can, therefore, at the 

 start demonstrate all sides of forestry, from 

 planting bare tracts to lumbering and getting 

 the logs to market. 



The Ludwig Institute coui-ses of free lec- 

 tures are now being given on the evenings of 

 Mondays and Thursdays at the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences. Dr. Edward J. 

 Nolan has given two lectures on the literature 

 of natural history. Mr. Witmer Stone and Pro- 

 fessor Henry A. Pillsbury are at present giv- 

 ing courses respectively on vertebrate zoology 

 and on the oj'ster and the clam. After Christ- 

 mas Dr. Benjamin Sharp will give a course 

 on comparative anatomy and physiology. Dr. 

 Henry Skinner a course on entomology, Mr. 

 Stewardson Brown a course on botany and Dr. 

 Seneca Egbert a course on hygiene. 



A CABLEGRAM to the New York Eoening Post 

 states that Mr. George Murray's deep-sea ex- 

 pedition, to the plans of which we recently 

 referred, has completed its work in the North 

 Atlantic. Its main object was to obtain fur- 

 ther information regarding the vertical range 

 of life in the sea, especially to test Professor Ag- 

 assiz's theory that the intermediate depths of 

 ocean are uninhabited, life being confined to 

 the uppermost 500 fathoms and the lowest 100 

 fathoms. Depths of 1,370 and 1,835 fathoms 

 were reached, samples of typical globigerina 

 ooze being brought up from the latter. The 

 full bearing of the results of the expedition 

 must await many months of sorting and cata- 

 loguing of collections, but the general impres- 

 sion of the members of the expedition is that 

 the Agassiz theory will not be maintained. 



A SPECIAL despatch from Yeniseisk, on the river 

 Yenissi, in eastern Siberia, announces the arrival 

 at the mouth of the river of an expedition that 



had gone in search of Herr Andr6e,the aeronaut. 

 The expedition was wrecked while crossing 

 from the delta of the river Lena to the river 

 Olenek, which flows into the Arctic Ocean 

 southwest of Bennett and Delong Island, but 

 managed to reach an uninhabited island about 

 120 miles from the mouth of the Olenek. The 

 party was ice-bound for seventeen days before 

 it was succored. 



M. Thibeaut, Charg6 d' Affaires of France, 

 has notified Secretary Hay that the French 

 government is about to adopt precautionary 

 measures against the introduction from this 

 country of the San Jos6 scale, and that decrees 

 will be issued prohibiting the importation of 

 trees, shrubs and plants from the United States 

 and requiring an inspection of all fruits, fresh 

 and dried, at the point of landing in France. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard 

 University, has received $10,000 from Mr. J. 

 H. Jennings, of the class of '77, for the estab- 

 lishment of a scholarship. The scholarship for 

 the current year goes to Mr. T. F. Sanborn. 



James Stillman, of New York, has given 

 $50,000 to Harvard College to cover the cost of 

 land and buildings for a projected Harvard In- 

 firmary, which will bear the name of the donor. 

 In addition, Mr. Stillman will contribute $2,500 

 annually for four years. 



The will of the late Charles P. Wilder, of 

 Wellesley Hills, bequeathes $102,000 to Mount 

 Holyoke College, and the trustees of "Wellesley 

 College announce a gift of $50,000 made by Mr. 

 Wilder before his death. No conditions are at- 

 tached to the gift. 



The Catholic University of Washington has 

 received the information that by the will of 

 Daniel T. Leahy, of Brooklyn, it receives 

 $10,000. No instructions accompany the be- 

 quest. 



We have been able to record recently two 

 important gifts to the University of Cincinnati, 

 including the gift of a library building by Mr. 

 Asa Van Wormer. The University has now 

 been presented by Mr. William A. Proctor with 

 the library of Mr. Robert Clarke, containing 

 6,704 volumes valued at over $50,000. 



