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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXI. No. 526. 



The American Forest Congress, which met 

 at Washington from January 2 to 6, passed 

 resolutions as follows: Urging on Congress 

 and all legislative bodies full protection and 

 preservation of the forest, especially protection 

 from fire; advising reduction of taxation on 

 lands held for forest reproduction, so as to 

 induce forest conservation; urging the repeal 

 of the timber and stone act; advising the 

 guarded sale of timber growing on public 

 lands; favoring in case of lieu land selections 

 an exchange for lands of equivalent value or 

 of similar condition of forest growth; advo- 

 cating the immediate consolidation of all gov- 

 ernment forest work, including the adminis- 

 tration of the National Forest Keserves, in 

 the Department of Agriculture; favoring the 

 passage of a law which will authorize the sale 

 of all non-mineral products of the forest re- 

 serves, the proceeds to be applied to the 

 management and protection of the reserves 

 and to road and trail construction within 

 them; that Congress appropriate adequate 

 sums for the promotion of forest education 

 ana experiment work in all agricultural col- 

 leges and experiment stations in the United 

 States; that opportunities be increased for 

 general forest education in schools and col- 

 leges, and for professional training in post- 

 graduate schools; urging the establishment of 

 national forest reserves in the Southern Ap- 

 palachians and in the White Mountains; that 

 Congress declare forfeited all right-of-way 

 permits not exercised promptly on issuance, 

 and secure to all industries engaged in lawful 

 business and which will promptly use their 

 permits, the possession of necessary rights of 

 way similar to those of railroads and irriga- 

 tion companies, reasonable payment to be ex- 

 acted for the use of rights of way on forest 

 reserves and other public lands; that all state 

 legislatures provide laws and financial aid to 

 consolidate the rural schools in units suffi- 

 ciently large that forestry, agriculture and 

 home economics may be successfully taught 

 by precept, example and practical work; and 

 protesting against the attempted reduction of 



the area of the Minnesota National Forest 

 Reserve. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. HrRAM W. Sibley, of Rochester, has 

 given $5,000 to Hobart College. 



By the will of the late W. H. Baldwin, Jr., 

 Harvard University receives $2,000 and 

 Tuskegee Normal Industrial Institute $1,000. 



A Chinese viceroy has provided five scholar- 

 ships for Chinese students at the University of 

 California. 



McGiLL University, Montreal, received dur- 

 ing 1904 from a friend resident in the United 

 States renewal of his donation of $400 for a 

 fellowship in electricity. 



The University of Missouri has issued a 

 bulletin showing the growth of the university 

 from December 31, 1890, to' December 31, 1903. 

 The statistical summary is as follows : 





1890. 



1903. 



Seminary fund (endowment) 



$540,000 



Sl,240,000 



From U. S. Government (yearly) 



829,150 



$38,438 



Annual Income (for all purposes) 



$122,255 



$479,835 



Buildings, books, and equipment 



$360,000 



$1,600,000 



Students enrolled 



510 



1,649 



Professors, Assistant Professors, 



and 





Instructors 



38 



100 



Dr. James B. Axgell, president of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, has presented his resigna- 

 tion to the regents of the university, but they 

 have unanimously declined to accept it and 

 offer to supply him with such assistance as 

 he may need. Dr. Angell, celebrated his 

 seventy-sixth birthday on January 7. 



Dr. Paul L. Serrel has been appointed to 

 an assistant professorship of mathematics at 

 the College of the City of New York. 



Professor G. Bodlander, of the Technolog- 

 ical Institute of Brunswick, has been called 

 to the chair of physical chemistry at Got- 

 tingen, vacant by the removal of Professor 

 Nernst to Berlin. 



Professor Joseph Partsch, professor of 

 geography at Breslau, has been called to 

 Leipzig. 



Dr. Fmil Wiechert has been promoted to a 

 professorship of geophysics at Gottingen. 



