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sterling. This is the purely financial result of 

 irrigation, regarded as an investnaent, and the 

 figure quoted has no reference to its economic 

 value in increasing food supplies, in preventing 

 famine, and in strengthening the position of the 

 owners and occupiers of the land. Neither 

 does it take into account the increase of land 

 revenue received by the State, as a result of 

 bringing waste tracts under cultivation. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Severance Chemical Laboratory of Ober- 

 lin College was dedicated on September 26, 

 the address being made by President Ira Rem- 

 sen, of the Johns Hopkins University. At the 

 conclusion of the dedicatory exercises it was 

 announced that Mr. Lewis Severance, of New 

 York City, the donor of the laboratory, had 

 given the sum of $40,000 for an endowment for 

 the chair of chemistry. 



The University of Southern California at Los 

 Angeles has obtained the $100,000, of which 

 $25,000 was offered by Mrs. Anna Hough on 

 condition that the balance be given. Mrs. 

 Hough has now offered $40,000 towards a 

 second $100,000. 



By the will of the late Mrs. Martha Calla 

 han, $20,000 is bequeathed to Tuskegee Nor- 

 mal and Industrial Institute of Tuskegee, Ala. 



Professor Gold win Smith has given $10, - 

 000 to the library of the University of Toronto. 



At a recent meeting of the corporation of 

 Yale University it was decided that the house 

 which Professor O. C. Marsh bequeathed to the 

 University and which is now occupied by the 

 Forest School shall be known officially as 

 Marsh Hall, and the grounds about it as the 

 Yale Botanical Garden. 



At the spring meeting of the trustees of 

 Colby College, Waterville, Me., the depart- 

 ment of geology was abolished, and it was de- 

 cided that henceforth the teaching of geology 

 should be by the assistant in chemistry. The 

 determination was taken suddenly, the reason 

 assigned for the action being purely a financial 

 one. The abolition of the department neces- 

 sarily legislates Dr. W. S. Bayley from the po- 

 sition which he has held during the past twelve 

 years. 



Dr. Sturgis, of the Connecticut Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, Professor Brinton, 

 the State entomologist, and Professor Hopkins, 

 of West Virginia University, have been ap- 

 pointed special lecturers in the Yale Forest 

 School. 



Mr. Eugene L. Lehneet, of Clinton, Mass., 

 has been elected professor of veterinary medi- 

 cine at the Agricultural College at Storrs. 



At the Western Reserve University, Dr. F. 

 W. Reichmann, of the University of Chicago, 

 has been appointed instructor in physics ; Dr. 

 O. F. Tower has been promoted to be associate 

 professor of chemistry. 



Dr. Charles M. Hazen has been appointed 

 professor of biology in Richmond College, at 

 Richmond, Va. 



The following appointments have been made 

 at the Illinois College, Jacksonville, 111. : J. 

 Bishop Tingle, Ph.D. (Munich), instructor of 

 chemistry at the Lewis Institute, Chicago, to 

 be professor of chemistry. J. B. Overton, Ph.D. 

 (Chicago), graduate assistant in botany in the 

 University of Chicago, to be professor of biology. 

 J. H. Hall, Ph.D. (Yale), assistant in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, to be assistant professor of 

 physics. 



Miss S. M. Hallowell, professor of botany 

 at Wellesley College, has been given leave of 

 absence for the year and the work of the de- 

 partment will be under Miss Clara E. Cum- 

 mings, assistant professor of botany. 



Edward C. Schneider, Ph.D. (Yale, 1901), 

 has been been appointed to take charge of the 

 work in biology at Tabor College, Tabor, Iowa. 



Mr. R. M. Ferrier, B.Sc. (Glasgow), M.Sc. 

 (Durham), has been appointed to the chair of 

 engineering at University College, Bristol, in 

 succession to Dr. Stanton, who has received the 

 appointment of superintendent of the engineer- 

 ing department in the National Physical Lab- 

 oratory. 



Dr. Rokuro Nakaseko, who has been the 

 recipient of a University Fellowship at Yale 

 during the past two years, has returned to 

 Kyoto, Japan, to take charge of the instruction 

 in physiological chemistry in the Scientific 

 School there. 



