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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Main Building op the School of Agriculture. 



tion on a bluff overlooking the Missis- 

 sippi, but plans have been drawn to 

 remodel the entire arrangement of the 

 buildings with a view to taking ad- 

 vantage of its fine site. 



Land, buildings and equipment, stu- 

 dents and teachers in large numbers, 

 the university will surely have. It is 

 now a big university and will become 

 much bigger. Whether it will become 

 one of the great universities of the 

 world will depend on whether it can 

 find great men for its chairs. This is 

 tiie question before all our universi- 

 ties: it should be the dominant con- 

 cern of Minnesota at the present time. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 

 Presidents of the national scientific 

 societies have been elected as follows: 

 The Airerican Society of Naturalists, 

 Professor H. S. Jennings, of the Johns 

 Hopkins Univer ity; The American 

 Chemical Society, Professor Alexander 

 Smith, of the University of Chicago; 

 The Botanical Society of America, 

 Professor W. G. Farlow, of Harvard 



University; The Geological Society of 

 America, Piofessor W. M. Davis, of 

 Harvard UniversKy; The Association 

 of American Geographers, Professor 

 Ralph S. Tarr, of Cornell University; 

 The American Paleontological Society, 

 Professor William B. Scott, of Prince- 

 ton University; The Society of Biolog- 

 ical Chemists, Professor L. B. Mendel, 

 of Yale Univer-ity; The American 

 Anthropological Association, Dr. J. 

 Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology; 1'ne American 

 Psychological Association, Professor 

 (J. E. Seashore, University of Iowa; 

 the American Phi'osophical Associa- 

 tion, Professor Frederick J. E. Woo 1 - 

 bridge, of Columbia University. 



The Nobsl prizes, amounting to 

 about $40,000 each, have been distrib- 

 uted by the Kin 3 of Sweden with the 

 usual ceremonies. Th° prize-winners 

 in science — Professors Vrn der Waals 

 (physics), Wallach (chemistry) and 

 Kossel (medicine) — were present to 

 receive their prizes and give the statu- 

 tory lectures. 



