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funds on a smaller number of stations and 

 fewer lines of work. Until April, 1903, there 

 were nine of these branch stations, but at 

 that time six of them, viz., the Hokuriku, Too, 

 Tokai, Shikoku, Sanio and Sanin branch sta- 

 tions, were turned over to the control of the 

 local government, and the funds and staffs 

 of these institutions were transferred to the 

 Central Agricultural Experiment Station, and 

 the three remaining branch stations, i. e., 

 those at Kashiwabara, Idzumimura and 

 Hanadatemiira. The funds available for 

 the Central Station and its three branches 

 for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1904, 

 amount to $91,920. The total budget of the 

 ministry of agriculture and commerce for the 

 year is $3,386,713. The local stations referred 

 to above now number thirty-nine. They re- 

 ceive subsidies from the ministry of agricul- 

 ture and conunerce amounting to $65,000 a 

 year and also funds appropriated by the local 

 governments. The annual expenditures of 

 these stations vary from $2,2.00 to $11,232. 

 In addition to the stations supported by public 

 funds, there are three private experiment sta- 

 tions. The island of Formosa supports three 

 agricultural experiment stations and a tea 

 experiment station, all of which are under the 

 control of the Bureau of Industries of For- 

 mosa. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, the proprietor of 

 the New York World, has given $1,000,000 

 to Columbia University to establish a school 

 of journalism, and will add a second million 

 when the school is in successful operation at 

 the end of three years. President Butler an- 

 nounces that the school will take rank with 

 the existing professional schools of law, medi- 

 cine, engineering, architecture and education, 

 and that a building will be erected at once 

 at a cost of about $500,000. 



The Experiment Station Record states that 

 the total appropriation for the Pennsylvania 

 State College made by the state legislature 

 at its recent session was $250,805.55. Of this 

 amount $100,000 is for the purpose of assist- 

 ing in the erection, equipment and furnishing 

 of a building for the department of agricul- 



ture of the college, while $150,000 additional 

 is virtually pledged by the attachment of a 

 proviso requiring the trustees of the college 

 to file with the auditor-general plans, specifi- 

 cations and estimates satisfactory to him 

 showing that the entire cost of the building 

 and equipment will not exceed $250,000. 



By the will of Mary P. Eakin, of New Lon- 

 don, Tale University receives one third of her 

 estate, about $5,000. It is given without re- 

 strictions as a memorial to her late son, W. 

 S. Eakin, of the class of 1892. 



Dr. Waldemar Koch, Ph.D. (Harvard, 

 1900), has been elected assistant professor of 

 physiological chemistry and pharmacology in 

 the University of Missouri. Dr. Koch is 

 spending the summer at Strasburg and will 

 spend the autumn months in England. He 

 assumes his duties in the University of Mis- 

 souri on January 1. 



Dr. J. E. MuRLiN has resigned from Ursinus 

 College to become instructor in physiology 

 at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical 

 College. 



Professor Chaeles K. Francis, who has 

 been junior professor of chemistry in the 

 Georgia School of Technology for some time, 

 has resigned to accept the chair of chemistry 

 in Converse College, Spartanburg, S. C. 



Mr. Howard Marsh, surgeon to St. Bar- 

 tholomew's Hospital, London, and formerly 

 professor of pathology and surgery at the 

 Koyal College of Surgeons of England, has 

 been elected to the professorship of surgery 

 at Cambridge University, which has been 

 vacant since the death of Sir G. M. Hum- 

 phry, F.E.S. 



M. Andoyee has been appointed professor 

 of physical astronomy and M. Painleve pro- 

 fessor of mathematics at the University of 

 Paris. 



M. Pade has been made professor of me- 

 chanics at Bordeaux and M. Leboeuf, professor 

 of astronomy at Besancon. 



Dr. Arthur Korn has been elected associate 

 professor of theoretical physics and Dr. von 

 Weber associate professor of mathematics at 

 the University of Munich. 



