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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVU. No. 428. 



mer school for teachers at Sharon, Mass., will 

 experiment in forestry on a tract of 300 acres 

 of woodland, which it purposes making into 

 a model forest. Application has been made 

 to the Bureau of Forestry for a working plan. 

 The director of the school. Dr. Geo. W. Field, 

 is an instructor in the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Barnard College, Columbia University, has 

 received from an anonymous donor about 

 $1,000,000 to purchase the three blocks of 

 land adjoining the college on the south. 



The Indiana legislature has passed bills 

 increasing the tax levy for the higher edu- 

 cational institutions. The income of Indiana 

 University will thereby be increased by about 

 $45,000 annually with a proportionately larger 

 increment from the increase in the value of 

 taxable property. 



Harvard University will receive ultimately 

 $10,000 for the establishment of a scholarship 

 and $5,000 for the Semitic Museum by the 

 will of Jacob A. Hecht. 



The Carnegie Trust of the Scottish uni- 

 versities has made public an announcement 

 in regard to scholarships, fellowships and 

 grants. The value of the scholarships is £100 

 and of the fellowships £150, the former being 

 given to afford an opportunity in training for 

 research and the latter to those who are com- 

 petent to undertake independent research. 

 The number to be awarded is not yet deter- 

 mined, depending on the demand. The grants 

 are to be made only to teachers in Scotland 

 or graduates of Scottish universities resident 

 in Scotland. The recipients of grants may 

 publish their work where they see fit, and in- 

 struments of permanent value purchased by 

 means of the grant are to be placed at the 

 disposal of the institution in which the re- 

 search has been conducted. 



The Privy Council has recommended the 

 creation of a University of Liverpool and a 

 University of Manchester, and it is expected 

 that the university colleges of Leeds and 

 Sheffield will be united in a university for 

 Yorkshire. 



It was announced to the court of governors 

 of the University of South Wales in Mon- 

 mouthshire on February 19 that the council 

 had recommended that compulsory Latin for 

 the matriculation should not be required of 

 students in applied science. 



The Association of Public School Science 

 Masters sent a delegation to Oxford Univer- 

 sity on October 14 to urge that the examina- 

 tion for entrance scholarships in science at 

 the universities of Oxford and Cambridge be 

 made more uniform. They also recommended 

 the abolition of compulsory Greek. 



The government of Nicaragua will send 

 fifteen students annually to colleges of agri- 

 culture in the southern states. 



Professor E. F. Nichols, of Dartmouth 

 College, has been elected to a chair of physics 

 in Columbia University. At the same uni- 

 versity Mr. Charles A. Strong has been pro- 

 moted to a professorship of psychology and 

 Dr. Livingston Farrand, adjunct professor of 

 psychology, has been made professor of an- 

 thropology. 



At Barnard College, Columbia University, 

 Dr. H. M. Eichards has been promoted to 

 an adjunct professorship of botany, and Miss 

 Margaret E. Maltby to an adjunct professor- 

 ship of botany. 



Dr. Frederick DeForest Heald, now pro- 

 fessor of biology in Parsons College, Iowa, 

 has been elected to the position of adjunct 

 professor of plant physiology and general 

 bacteriology in the University of Nebraska. 

 He will assume office during the summer, and 

 will take part in the work of the university 

 summer session, having charge of the classes 

 in botany. 



Miss Margaret F. Washburn, assistant pro- 

 fessor of psychology and dean of women in 

 the University of Cincinnati, has been ap- 

 pointed associate professor of philosophy in 

 charge of psychology in Vassar College. 



Dr. Eugen Oberhummer, associate pro- 

 fessor of geography at Munich, has been 

 called to the chair of geography at Vienna, 

 and Dr. Robert Singer has been made asso- 

 ciate professor of geography at the same uni- 

 versity. 



