November 25, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



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the Public Forest Lands to Grazing; (3) The 

 Lumber Industry and the Forest; (4) Im- 

 portance of the Public Forest Lands to Min- 

 ing; (5) Forestry in Relation to Railroad Sup- 

 plies; (6) National Forest Policy; (Y) State 

 Forest Policy. 



The twelfth National Irrigation Congress 

 held its annual session last week at El Paso, 

 Texas, under the presidency of Senator Clark. 



At a meeting of the council of the Michigan 

 Academy of Sciences, held on November 12, 

 the date of the next meeting was set at March 

 31 to April 1, and the place Ann Arbor. 



At the 23d annual meeting of the Natural 

 Science Association of Staten Island the fol- 

 lowing were elected officers for the ensuing 

 year: President, Howard R. Bayne; secretary, 

 Arthur Hollick; treasurer, J. Blake Hillyer; 

 curator and librarian, C. A. Ingalls. 



The fourth volume of Professor Moritz 

 Cantor's ' Vorlesungen iiber Geschichte der 

 Mathematik ' will contain the history of 

 mathematics for the period of forty years, 

 from 1759 to 1799. The preparation of the 

 volume is divided up among different au- 

 thors as follows: (1) 'Geschichte der Mathe- 

 matik, Klassikerausgaben Worterbiicher,' von 

 S. Giinther (Miinchen) ; (2) ' Lehrbiieher der 

 Elementargeometrie, Praktische Geometrie 

 (Feldmesskunst), Elementargeometrische Ein- 

 zeluntersuchungen Parallelenlehre,' von V. 

 Bobynin (Moskau) ; (3) ' Trigonometrie, 

 Polygonometrie, Tabellen (trigonometrische, 

 logarithmische und andere)' von A. v. Braun- 

 miihl (Miinchen) ; (4) ' Rechenkunst und 

 Buchstabenrechnung, Algebra (Lehre von den 

 Gleiehungen) Zahlentheorie,' von F. Cajori 

 (Colorado Springs) ; (5) ' Reihen, Kombina- 

 torik, Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung Imagi- 

 nares,' von E. Netto (Giessen) ; (6) ' Analyt- 

 isehe Geometrie der Ebene und des Raumes,' 

 von V. Kommerell (Reutlingen) ; 'Darstellende 

 Geometrie,' von G. Loria (Genua) ; (7) ' Lehr- 

 biieher der Infinitesimalrechnung, Einzelun- 

 tersuchungen der. Infinitesimalrechnung, Be- 

 stimmte Integrale Transzendenten,' von G. 

 Vivanti (Messina) ; (8) ' Totale und partielle 

 Differentialgleichungen, Variationsrechnung 

 Differenzen- und Summenrechnung,' von 0. R. 



Wallner (Miinchen) ; (9) ' Entwickelung der 

 Mathematik zwischen 1759 und 1799, Ge- 

 schichte der Ideen in diesem Zeitraume,' von 

 M. Cantor (Heidelberg). 



The statutory annual meeting of the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh was held in the Royal 

 Institute, Edinburgh, on October 31, Lord 

 M'Laren presiding. The following members 

 of the new council were elected: President, 

 Lord Kelvin; vice-presidents. Professor James 

 Geikie, Lord M'Laren, the Rev. Professor 

 Flint, Dr. Robert Munro, Sir John Murray 

 and Dr. R. H. Traquair; general secretary. 

 Professor George Chrystal; secretaries to or- 

 dinary meetings. Professor Crum Brown and 

 Professor D. J. Cunningham; treasurer, Mr. 

 P. R. D. Maelagan; curator of library and 

 museum. Dr. Alex. Buchan; councilors, Dr. 

 John Home, Mr. C. G. Knott, Professor R. 

 Stockman, Professor James Walker, Professor 

 Andrew Gray, Mr. Robert Kidston, Dr. D. 

 Noel Paton, Professor John Chiene, Professor 

 J. Graham Kerr, Mr. William Peddie, Dr. 

 Leonard Dobbin and Professor J. C. Ewart. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The daily papers state that it is proposed 

 to move the Western University of Pennsyl- 

 vania from the suburbs of Allegheny to Pitts- 

 burg proper, near the new Carnegie Technical 

 School. About fifty acres of ground, suflicient 

 for twenty large university buildings, is being 

 secured at a cost of about $2,000,000, and the 

 work of construction will be begun before 

 long. Fifty citizens of Pittsburg have agreed 

 to give each from $40,000 to $100,000 for the 

 school. The contribution of Mr. Carnegie has 

 not been announced. 



The general assembly of the state of Ver- 

 mont has appropriated $60,000 for the use of 

 the agricultural department of the university. 

 The money is to be expended in the erection 

 and equipment of a building to be known as 

 Morrill Agiicultural Hall, in memory of the 

 father of the agricultural colleges of the 

 country, the late Senator Justin S. Morrill. 

 The building will be devoted to instructional 

 and experimental work in agriculture. 



