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SCIENCE. 



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The Adams prize for 1906 is offered for an 

 essay on ' The Inequalities of the Moon's Mo- 

 tion Due to the Direct Action of the Planets.' 

 The prize, which is of the value of £225, is 

 open to the competition of all persons who 

 have at any time been admitted to a degree in 

 the University of Cambridge. 



The Bureau of Forestry has published a 

 circular giving information regarding employ- 

 ment on the national forest reserves. This 

 circular explains how appointments to the 

 Forest Service on the reserves are made, states 

 the salaries of its members and indicates the 

 knowledge and experience required of rangers 

 and supervisors and the duties each must per- 

 form. The future organization will include 

 forest supervisors at $1,800 to $2,500 a year, 

 deputy forest supervisors at $1,500 to $1,700, 

 forest rangers at $1,200 to $1,400, .deputy 

 forest rangers at $1,000 to $1,100 and assistant 

 forest rangers at $800 to $900. The law re- 

 quires that every applicant for a position in 

 the Forest Service pass a civil service exam- 

 ination. Legal residence in the state or ter- 

 ritory in which employment is desired is gen- 

 erally necessary, since only where examina- 

 tions fail to secure thoroughly satisfactory 

 men are vacancies filled by the examination 

 of applicants from other states. Appoint- 

 ments of supervisors are made, so far as prac- 

 ticable, by promotion of competent rangers or 

 forest assistants. To be eligible as forest 

 ranger the applicant, must be physically sound, 

 accustomed to outdoor work, and know how 

 to take care of himself and his horse in re- 

 gions remote from settlement and supplies. 

 He must know something of surveying, esti- 

 mating and scaling timber, lumbering and 

 the livestock business. Some of the reserves 

 require a specialist in one or more of these 

 lines of work. The applicant must be thor- 

 oughly familiar with the region in which he 

 seeks employment. The entire time of rangers 

 is to be given to the service. Rangers, under 

 the direction of the forest superyisor, patrol to 

 prevent fire and trespass; estimate, survey 

 and mark timber and supervise its cutting; 

 issue mining permits, build cabins and trails, 

 enforce grazing restrictions, investigate claims 

 and make arrests for violation of reserve laws. 



Forest supervisors must have all the qualifica- 

 tions of rangers, combined with superior busi- 

 ness and administrative ability. They deal 

 with the public in all matters connected with 

 the sale of timber, the control of grazing, the 

 issuing of permits and the application of all 

 regulations for the use and occupancy of for- 

 est reserves. Knowledge of technical forestry 

 is desirable, but not essential. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is announced that Harvard University 

 has received an anonymous gift of $100,000 

 for a museum of social ethics, and $50,000 

 from Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, of New York, for 

 explorations in Palestine. 



The Ontario government has announced a 

 provisional grant of $500,000 to the University 

 of Toronto towards the proposed new buildings 

 which, it is estimated, will cost $1,600,000. 



The Drapers' Company has agreed to give 

 £5,000 for a building for the department of 

 agriculture at Cambridge, provided that an 

 equal sum be raised by voluntary contribution. 



A. S. Mackenzie, A.B. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. 

 (Johns Hopkins), professor of physics in 

 Bryn Mawr College, has been appointed to the 

 chair of physics in Dalhousie College. 



Dr. J. E. Duerden, of the University of 

 Michigan, formerly curator of the museum, 

 Jamaica, has been appointed professor of 

 zoology, at the Rhodes University College, 

 Grahamstown, Cape Colony, South Africa. 



Mr. L. R. Waldron, assistant professor in 

 the department of botany and zoology of the 

 North Dakota Agricultural College has lately 

 resigned to accept a position of superintendent 

 of the Sub-Experiment Station located at 

 Dickinson. Mr. W. B. Bell of the University 

 of Iowa has been elected to fill the vacancy. 



Austin Flint Rogers, A.B. (Kansas), Ph.D. 

 (Columbia), tutor in mineralogy in Columbia 

 University, has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of mineralogy and petrography in Stan- 

 ford University. 



The Board of Trinity College, Dublin, has 

 founded a chair of education, and Mr. Edward 

 P. Culverwell, fellow of Trinity College, has 

 been elected to the professorship. 



