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malaria in Nortliern Africa; trypanosomiasis 

 in Algeria. 



The Oeographical Journal states that a 

 railway is projected from Turin to Martigny. 

 The line would have a total length of 157 

 kilometers (97^ English miles), with a maxi- 

 mum gradient of one in twenty, while the 

 traction would be electric, power for this pur- 

 pose being supplied by waterfalls. Breaking 

 off from the line connecting Modane with 

 Turin, the new line would cross the plains of 

 the Canavese to Pont, entering the valley of 

 the Oreo, and passing by a tunnel under the 

 Paradis massif; then, mounting halfway up 

 the left flank of the Aosta valley, it would 

 pass Morge and Courmayeur, whence, by tun- 

 nel under the Col de Ferret, it would run in 

 Swiss territory along the Dranse to Martigny. 

 The new line, it is pointed out, would have the 

 advantage over the Mount Cenis, St. Gothard, 

 and Simplon lines as the shortest route 'be- 

 tween northwestern Italy and the countries 

 of central Europe. 



Los Angeles, Cal., has 3,000 acres of brush 

 land called Griffith Park, which it intends 

 to convert into a commercial forest. This is 

 said to be the first instance of a city in the 

 United States creating a forest. The prac- 

 tise is common in Europe, where the forest- 

 jsarks have not only contributed to the pleas- 

 ure of the people, but have been more than 

 self-supporting through their timber output. 

 Under its cooperative offer the Bureau of 

 Forestry had last summer at Los Angeles 

 four of its experts, making a comprehensive 

 planting plan for the forest. This plan was 

 completed at the end of September. The idea 

 is to convert a waste piece of land into a 

 productive forest, which will not only pay for 

 its creation and care through the sale of ma- 

 ture timber, but will be a place of recreation 

 for the citizens of Los Angeles. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is said that the Sheffield Scientific 

 School, of Tale University, will receive $238,- 

 000 and land of unknown value under the 

 will of the late Levi C. Viets. 



Messrs. Palmer and Hornbostel, of New 

 York, have, as the result of a competition, 



been appointed architects for the Carnegie 

 Technical Schools at Pittsburg. It is said 

 that $5,000,000 will be spent on them. 



Ground has been broken for the new physics 

 and biology building at Rochester University, 

 which will cost $150,000. 



At the twenty^first anniversary of Univer- 

 sity College, Cardiff, on October 14, it was 

 stated that Lord Tredegar had promised £5,000 

 towards the cost of the new buildings shortly 

 to be erected in Cathays Park; other sums 

 were also promised amounting in all to 

 £13,000. Between £70,000 and £80,000 are 

 now available for the erection of the new 

 buildings. 



The registration of Harvard University is 

 as follows : College, 2,002 ; Lawrence Scientific 

 School, 524; graduate school, 358; divinity 

 school, 42; law school, 731; medical school, 

 298; dental school, 109; making in all, 4,064; 

 not counting Eadcliffe College and the sum- 

 mer school. These figures represent a loss of 

 about 200 students as compared with last year. 



Registration figures at Cornell University 

 show a total of 2,857, against a total last 

 year of 2,656, a gain of 201. The distribution 

 among the various colleges is : Arts, 648 ; law, 

 213; civil engineering, 377; Sibley, 1,040; 

 agricultiire, 178; veterinary, 104; medicine, 

 82; architecture, 68; graduates, 147. The 

 greatest increase is 90 in Sibley College. 

 These figures do not include the medical 

 school in New Tori?: City. 



Dr. p. S. Luther, since 1883 professor of 

 mathematics at Trinity College, was installed 

 as president of the instittition on October 26. 

 On the same day Dr. W. E. Huntington was 

 installed as president of Boston University. 



J. Culver Hartzell, Ph.D. (Munich), has 

 been ajipointed professor of geology in the 

 University of the Pacific. 



Foster P. Boswell, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1904), 

 has been appointed assistant in psychology; 

 and Edwin Lee Norton, instructor in philos- 

 ophy, in the University of Wisconsin. 



Mr. H. M. Macdonald, F.E.S., has been ap- 

 pointed professor of mathematics in the Uni- 

 versity of Aberdeen. 



