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SCIENCE. 



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Largely through the agency of the ' Semper- 

 virens Society ' the State of California has ap- 

 propriated $250,000 to purchase and preserve 

 the grove of redwoods near Santa Cruz. 



The exhibits of the German chemical indus- 

 try at the Paris Exposition, valued at $150,000, 

 has been presented to the Technological Insti- 

 tute of the University of Berlin. 



Mr. Carnegie has offered $50,000 to Bur- 

 lington, Vt., for a library building on the usual 

 conditions. He has also offered a building for 

 Montrose, Scotland. 



The French Society for Colonial Expansion 

 in France has instituted a special branch de- 

 voted to the assistance of doctors and chemists 

 who desire to emigrate. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



By the will of Mrs. Louise Frisbie, bequests 

 amounting originally to $28,000, but which may 

 now amount to much more, are left to Smith, 

 Vassar and Wellesley Colleges. 



Mrs. D. Bandy, who recently gave $25,000 

 to Eureka College, Illinois, has given the insti- 

 tution land valued at $60,000, subject to a life 

 interest on the part of her daughter. 



Professor W. von Zehender, of Munich, 

 has given his valuable ophthalmological library 

 to the University of Bern. 



It is reported in the medical journals that 

 the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary De- 

 partment will be moved to Thirty-ninth and 

 Woodland avenue, instead of to the Flower 

 Farm, on the West Chester Pike, as formerly 

 intended. The reason assigned for the change 

 in the plans is that the department would be too 

 inconvenient for the public on the West Chester 

 Pike, and too far from the university for the 

 students. It is also stated that the work on 

 the new $60,000 buildings will begin in Oc- 

 tober. 



The Technical Education Board of the Lon- 

 don County Council has directed the higher 

 education subcommittee to inquire and report (a) 

 as to the need and present provision for special 

 training of an advanced kind in connection 

 with the application of science (especially chem- 



istry and electricity) to industry ; (6) as to what, 

 if any, developments are needed to secure effi- 

 cient training in these subjects for senior county 

 scholars and other advanced students who desire 

 to qualify themselves to take leading positions 

 in scientific industries. 



A committee of the Birmingham City Council 

 has recommended the council to make a grant 

 to the Birmingham University of the proceeds 

 of a halfpenny rate, which would jprovide an 

 annual sum of about $25,000. 



The University of Zurich has enlarged its 

 anatomical building. A dissecting room with 

 overhead light to accommodate two hundred 

 students has been added and on the floor below 

 a microscopical room of the same size. There 

 is also a demonstration room with overhead 

 light, a laboratory for anthropology, and a lab- 

 oratory for advanced embryological study, to- 

 gether with rooms for the director. The old part 

 of the building will be rearranged for a large lec- 

 ture room, a reading and study room for the 

 students, a museum, and the laboratories for 

 assistants. 



The University at Erlangen announced a 

 summer school for clergymen on the lines of the 

 summer schools for teachers. It appears, how- 

 ever, that not sufficient clergymen felt the need 

 of instruction, and the plan has been abandoned. 



J. E. Lough, Ph.D. (Harvard), for the past 

 four years professor of psychology at the State 

 Normal School at Oshkosh, Wis., has been ap- 

 pointed to the professorship of psychology in the 

 School of Pedagogy, New York University. 



N. O. Booth has resigned his position as 

 horticulturist in the University of Missouri to 

 accept a position in the New York Agricultural 

 College at Geneva. 



Mr. Eolla E. Eamsey, Ph.D., Cornell, '01, 

 has been appointed instructor in physics in the 

 University of Missouri. Dr. Eamsey is a gradu- 

 ate of the University of Indiana and has held 

 graduate scholarships at Clark and Cornell. 

 He has also been assistant in physics at Cornell 

 and instructor at Indiana. 



Dr. Victor Uhlig, professor of paleontology 

 at Vienna, succeeds Professor Ed. Suess in the 

 chair of geology. 



