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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XX. No. 505. 



The New York Times states that the Inter- 

 state Park, for which the people of New York 

 and New Jersey have had to fight so hard, is 

 now an assured fact. It will extend fourteen 

 miles along the west bank of the Hudson. 

 This is the result of the agitatioh against the 

 blasting- away of the Palisades, which tower 

 to the height of from 300 to 600 feet from 

 Fort Lee to Piermont. Already the commis- 

 sion has expended $344,264 in laying out this 

 park. In order to carry out the plans of the 

 commission it will be necessary to acquire 

 175,000 acres, but there is a large sum still 

 in the treasury, and the two states have agreed 

 to bear an equal amount of the additional 

 expense that will be necessary to make this 

 park one of the most beautiful in the country. 

 Work is just being begun on a boulevard that 

 will extend the entire length of the park. 



Our consul at Frankfort writes to the De- 

 partment of Commerce that there are 220 

 agricultural cooperative associations in Rus- 

 sia. Some of them receive subsidies from the 

 government or the district council. These 

 associations purchase, at wholesale, agricul- 

 tural implements and machinery, seeds, breed- 

 ing stock, etc., which are sold on credit or on 

 the instalment plan to the individual farmers. 

 Agricultural exhibitions are held and lecturers 

 are employed who go from place to place in- 

 structing the farmers in all branches of hus- 

 bandry. Grounds are also set apart for ex- 

 perimenting by cultivating new plants. In 

 many other ways the cooperative associations 

 result beneficially for the Russian peasant. 



U^UVER8ITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Wellesley College has received $10,000 

 and a collection of paintings by the will of 

 A. W. Stetson, of Braintree. 



Columbia University will celebrate the hun- 

 dred and fiftieth anniversary of its foundation 

 as King's College on the last four days of 

 October. There will be a public reception on 

 the afternoon of Friday, October 28, with all 

 the university buildings open for inspection, 

 and receptions within the larger reception, 

 at which the otfiers of the different depart- 

 ments will entertain. On Monday morning 

 corner stones of four new buildings will be 



laid: the university chapel, the School of 

 Mines building. Hartley Hall and a second 

 university dormitory; and if the completion 

 of the building is accomplished, the new 

 Thompson physical education building of 

 Teachers College will be dedicated. On Mon- 

 day afternoon there will be the formal uni- 

 versity convocation with a commemorative 

 address by President Butler. There will also 

 be lectures by foreign guests, but the details 

 have not yet been announced. 



According to the daily papers the treasurer 

 of the Catholic University, Washington, has 

 become financially embarrassed. It is said that 

 he has invested $876,000 of the university's 

 funds for it, paying the iiniversity 6 per cent, 

 interest. He gave on July 25 a deed of trust 

 for this amount to the university, but several 

 banks have filed a petition in bankruptcy 

 against him and seek to set aside the deed of 

 trust as void. 



Dr. Edmund J. James, president of North- 

 western University, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the University of Illinois, succeeding 

 Dr. A. S. Draper, now superintendent of State 

 Instruction in the State of New York. 



Elias p. Lyon, assistant professor of phys- 

 iology in the University of Chicago, has ac- 

 cepted the professorship of physiology in St. 

 Louis University. Other members of the staff 

 will be C. H. Neilson, associate professor of 

 physiological chemistry and O. H. Brown, in- 

 structor in physiology, both coming from the 

 physiological department of the University of 

 Chicago. 



Mr. Ciiancey Juday has been appointed in- 

 structor in zoology at the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



Mr. Loye H. Miller has been appointed 

 teacher of biology in the State Normal School 

 at Los Angeles, California. 



Dr. Robert E. Moritz, of the University of 

 Nebraska, has been elected professor of mathe- 

 matics in the University of Washington to 

 succeed Professor Arthur Ranum who has re- 

 signed. 



Dr. Bottger, docent for physical chemistry 

 in the University of Leipzig, has been called 

 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



