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ages, or bottled or sold in bulk as table waters. 

 It is because of the economic value of the in- 

 dividual springs that the eastern counties are 

 so well represented in the spring records kept 

 by the United States Geological Survey and 

 published in Water Supply and Irrigation 

 Paper No. 102, entitled ' Contributions to the 

 Hydrology of Eastern United States, 1903.' 

 Analyses are given of spring waters at South 

 Wellfleet, Danvers, Arlington, Chelmsford, 

 Coldspring, Framingham, Quincy, Sharon, 

 Hanson, Ilingham, Marshfield, Norwell, 

 Scituate, Whitman and Hubbardston. Many 

 interesting details are also added regarding 

 the characteristics of these various waters. 

 Owing to the cooperation of ^Ir. F. A. 

 Champlin, a driller, the records of Massa- 

 chusetts wells are also unusually complete. It 

 is hoped that other drillers in this state and 

 other states may care to keep a record of the 

 wells they drill, and be willing to supply the 

 survey with data showing the date on which 

 each well was drilled, the situation of the 

 well, how the water was obtained, the depth 

 of the open portion of the well, the depth of 

 the drilled portion, the total depth of the well, 

 the depth to water, the depth to rock, the 

 supply per minute, the use to which the water 

 is put, and the cost of the work. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



In his last report President Eliot recom- 

 mends the collection of $2,500,000 as an en- 

 dowment for the college of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, and it is said that the ahunni are making 

 efforts to collect this sum before the next com- 

 mencement day. The class of 1880 expects 

 to contribute $100,000 on the occasion of its 

 twenty-fifth anniversary. 



Mr. Andhew Carnegie has given to the 

 Kensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy 

 $125,000 toward rebuilding the main building 

 which was burned last June. He has also 

 given $100,000 to Tufts College for the erec- 

 tion of a library building. 



The trustees of Stevens Institute of Tech- 

 nology in Hoboken have decided to proceed 

 with the constriiction of the proposed Morton 

 Memorial Chemical Laboratory as soon as 

 possible. The sum of $91,000 has been raised 



and $4,000 is available in unpaid subscrip- 

 tions. It had been planned to spend $100,- 

 000 for the building and site. The proposed 

 building will contain a memorial room in 

 which will be placed souvenirs of the late 

 president and other members of the faculty 

 who have died. 



CoLUiiEiA University has established a 

 course in chemical engineering leading to 

 the degree of chemical engineer. The uni- 

 versity has received a gift of $10,000 to equip 

 a laboratory of electro-chemistry. 



Mr. Edward Whitley, of Trinity College, 

 Oxford, has given £1,000 to the university 

 towards the endowment of a chair of pathol- 

 ogy. 



The Johnston Scholarships, founded at the 

 Johns Hopkins University by the late Mrs. 

 Harriet Eane Johnston, in memoiy of her 

 husband and two sons, have been awarded for 

 the current academic year as follows : The 

 Henry E. Johnston scholarship to Solomon 

 Farley Acree, B.S. (Texas), Ph.D. (Chicago), 

 in chemistry; the James Buchanan Johnston 

 scholarship to Henry S. Conard, A.M. (Haver- 

 ford), Ph.D., in botany; the Henry E. Johns- 

 ton, Jr., scholarship to Isaac Woodbridge 

 Riley, A.B., Ph.D. (Yale), in philosophy. 

 The stipend of each of these scholarshijjs is 

 the income of $30,000. They are offered pri- 

 marily to young men who have given evidence 

 of the power of independent research, and 

 the holders are expected to devote themselves 

 to advanced study and to research in the Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



^\r. Omar Ray Gullion has resigned his 

 position as assistant in physiology at the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri to accept an instructorship 

 in pharmacology at Cornell University. 



The University of Wisconsin will next year 

 give instruction in meteorology under Mr. 

 James L. Bartlett, observer at the University 

 station of the U. S. Weather Bureau. 



The new chairs of helminthology and proto- 

 zoology at the London School of Tropical 

 Medicine have been filled by the appointment 

 of j\Ir. Robert Thomson Leiper to the former 

 and Mr. W. S. Perrin to the latter. 



