June 12, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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investigations in these states will cover all 

 those areas in vchich artesian waters are 

 known to occur, as well as adjacent portions 

 of Illinois and the Upper Peninsula of Mich- 

 igan. Mr. A. R. Shultz will have charge of 

 the work and will probably have one or more 

 assistants. Michigan — The work in this state 

 is conducted in cooperation with Dr. A. C. 

 Lane, state geologist, the field work being in 

 charge of Mr. W. F. Cooper, who will spend 

 a considerable part of the summer in investi- 

 gation of the underground waters of the state. 



VNIVEIiSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



At the meeting of the board of trustees of 

 the Leland Stanford, Junior, University, held 

 on June 1, Mrs. Leland Stanford resigned 

 and surrendered all the powers and duties 

 vested in her by the terms of the grant found- 

 ing the university, under which she had com- 

 plete control. That control is now vested in 

 the board. Mrs. Stanford will be elected a 

 trustee, and will be elected president. 



The total appropriation made to The Penn- 

 sylvania State College by the legislature of 

 1903 and recently approved by the governor 

 was $350,805.55. Of this amount $100,000 

 is for the purpose of assisting in the erection, 

 equipment and furnishing of a building for 

 the Department of Agriculture, while $150,000 

 additional are virtually pledged by the attach- 

 ment of a proviso requiring the trustees of 

 the college to file with the auditor general 

 plans, specifications and estimates satisfactory 

 to him showing that the entire cost of the 

 building and equipment will not exceed $250,- 

 000. 



The plans of Messrs. Cram, Goodhue and 

 Ferguson, of Boston, have been accepted for 

 the new buildings of the West Point Military 

 Academy, which are to number twenty-one. 



Lord Iveagh has given £40,000 to Trinity 

 College, Dublin, for building and equipping 

 scientific laboratories. 



. According to the London Times, after a 

 great deal of consideration and many con- 

 sultations with the colleges at Manchester 

 and Liverpool, the council of the Yorkshire 

 College have at last agreed upon the principles 



upon which the charter for the proposed new 

 Yorkshire University should be based. 

 These are that the Yorkshire College be 

 merged in the university; that the university 

 be founded on a non-federal basis, but that 

 it be empowered to affiliate other institutions ; 

 and that the university be governed by a court 

 of governors and by an executive council. 

 Substantial agreement has been arrived at be- 

 tween the three colleges on some important 

 matters, such as that of a common matricula- 

 tion examination for all the three universities 

 of Yorkshire, Manchester and Liverpool, and 

 provision has been made for a joint board to 

 be constituted from the three universities to 

 deal with such questions. With regard to 

 affiliated institutions, it is provided that at- 

 tendance at courses of study in such institu- 

 tions may be accepted by the university in 

 place of such part of the attendance or courses 

 of study at the university as may from time 

 to time be determined. It is considered that 

 the additions to the staff and equipment of 

 the college essential to the proper carrying 

 on of an independent university will require 

 a minimum additional expenditure of about 

 £Y,000 a year, while extensive additions will 

 also be required to the college buildings for 

 the proper housing of some of the depart- 

 ments. The coal-owners of Yorkshire have 

 decided to erect a separate building for the 

 mining department, and have collected a sum 

 of £5,500 for the purpose. The council of the 

 college are desirous also of completing the 

 main block of the college, and it is estimated 

 that this would cost about £60,000. Though 

 a canvass for the necessary funds has not yet 

 been instituted, three friends of the college 

 have each promised £5,000, while a fourth 

 has promised £2,000. The Clothworkers' 

 Company of London, who have already proved 

 munificent benefaetors of Yorkshire and the 

 Yorkshire College, have added to their pre- 

 vious generosity by offering to transfer to 

 the new university as its absolute property 

 the whole of the buildings and equipment 

 of the textile industries dyeing and art de- 

 partments, which are at present held in trust 

 by the college for the Clothworkers' Company, 

 and which have cost that company about £70,- 



