Items of Interest December 24, 1904 Issue

Items of Interest

Dr. W. S. Woodward, Dean of the Faculty of Pure Science at Columbia University, New York City, has been elected president of the Carnegie Institute by the Board of Trustees to succeed Dr. D. C. Gilman.

The executive committee reports that it made 114 grants during the year, aggregating $355,071, to aid persons connected with various universities, colleges, observatories, and laboratories in all parts of the country. In addition twenty-four research assistants were appointed, with $25,000 allotted to them. Two special grants were made, one for an archaeological expedition to the TransCaspian region and the other for geophysical research.

Seven thousand farms of one hundred and sixty acres each in the Big Horn and Yellowstone valleys of Montana, with irrigation ditches prepared in advance by the Government, will be offered for sale during the coming summer. It will be the first distribution of irrigated lands, and the plan is to apportion among those who take the lands the cost of the irrigation works. It has been declared by the engineers that this is the most nearly ideal piece of territory for irrigation purposes that investigation has yet discovered. There is a sure supply of water, the grades are just right for its distribution, and the land is of great fertility.

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