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SCIENCE. 



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a plan for tlie conducting of scientific forestry 

 in the tract of 30,000 acres in the Adirondacliis 

 which the state had assigned to the College 

 of Forestry for that purpose. The plan grew 

 out of the actual condition of the tract in ques- 

 tion. It was a scheme to substitute valuable 

 soft woods for old and rotten hard woods. 

 This meant denudation and replanting. But 

 there is a general prejudice against cutting 

 even old trees and an impatience to wait as 

 long as fifty years for new ones to take their 

 place. Both feelings have been invoked by 

 critics of Director Fernow's work in the 

 Adirondacks. And without going into further 

 detail, the result now is that the state, speak- 

 ing through its organized authority, desires 

 to have the work stopped. The university 

 stands by its expert. But the university 

 has not the means, even if it had the power, 

 in the absence of state appropriation, to carry 

 on the work of the College of Forestry. 



" What is to be done under these circum- 

 stances? The President believes that the 

 wishes of the state in regard to the Adi- 

 rondacks tract which it has placed in charge 

 of the college should be observed as soon as 

 these wishes can be ofiicially ascertained. 

 All that the university need insist upon is 

 indemnity against liability assumed as agent 

 of the state in the contract with the Brooklyn 

 Cooperage Company. If the state, on mature 

 consideration, disapproves of the plan of for- 

 estry adopted by Director Fernow, the uni- 

 versity has no interest in attempting to force 

 that plan upon the state, however excellent it 

 may be in itself or however extensively it may 

 be practised in Europe or America. Not a 

 cent of state money has inured to the benefit 

 of Cornell University, though the state work 

 in forestry has entailed heavy burdens and 

 anxieties upon the president, treasurer and 

 trustees. It is a hardship to deprive so many 

 students of the opportunity of completing 

 their course, and a matter of regret that the 

 first college of forestry in the United States 

 should be suspended or discontinued, but the 

 action of the state authorities seems to give 

 the trustees no alternative." 



SCIENTIFIC ISrOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. Carl Gegenbauer, the eminent anat- 

 omist, since 1863 professor at Heidelberg, 

 died on June 15, at the age of seventy-seven 

 years. 



A MONUMENT in honor of Pasteur was un- 

 veiled on June 7 at Chartres, near which Pas- 

 teur carried on his experiments on anthrax. 

 Addresses were made by M. Ohauveau, repre- 

 senting the Paris Academy of Sciences and 

 M. Chamberland, representing the Pasteur 

 Institute. The monument is by Dr. Paul 

 Richer, who is both a sculptor and physician. 



Professor J. H. van't Hopf and Professor 

 Robert Koch, of Berlin, have been elected 

 honorary members of the Vienna Academy of 

 Sciences, and Sir William Ramsay and Pro- 

 fessor Georg von ISTeumayer corresponding 

 members. 



M. MuNiER Chalmas has been elected a 

 member of the Paris Academy of Sciences in 

 the section of mineralogy in the room of the 

 late M. Hautefeuille. Professor H. A. Lor- 

 entz, of Leiden, has been elected a correspond- 

 ent of the academy in the section of physics. 



The Honorable Arthur Balfour, the Brit- 

 ish premier, has accepted the presidency of 

 the British Association for the meeting to 

 be held in Cambridge in 1904. 



Dr. D. C. Gilman, president of the Carnegie 

 Institution, gave the address at the recent 

 convocation at the University of Chicago. 

 The university conferred its LL.D. on Dr. 

 Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Co- 

 lumbia University. 



Tufts College has conferred its LL.D. on 

 Dr. Carroll D. Wright, U. S. Commissioner 

 of Labor. 



Rutgers College has conferred the degree 

 of LL.D. on Dr. C. M. Ellenwood, president 

 of the Cooper Medical School, San Francisco, 

 and the degree of D.Sc. on Joseph F. Hills, 

 professor of agricultural chemistry in the 

 University of Vermont. 



The degree of Sc.D. was conferred by the 

 Western University of Pennsylvania upon 

 Mr. William Harris Ashmead, the curator of 

 the entomological collections of the United 



