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will be of benefit to the present students. Ludlow, '94, and Brayton, '93, now with Waddell, the Kansas City engineer presented a number of bridge drawings and photographs. Jay Withington, '95, drawings of the Rock Island Railroad bridge at Davenport, Iowa. Arthur Ridgeway, '92, has sent in from Pueblo railroad plans of the Denver and Rio Grande, and C. E. Springer, '88, a number of photographs of bridges and hydraulic works from Tacoma, Washington.
Last term there were only six double failures in the entire Engineering department. This is the smallest number of failures ever known in a fall term of the department.
School of Fine Arts.
The tenth recital, held last Wednesday was a popular one, on account of its large attendance.
Miss Lichtenwalter will go to Kansas City this week to see Davenport.
The Euterpe Club will be with Miss Carrie Pampell next Friday at 4:30 p.m.
The class studying Mythology, will be favored by a talk on the stars by Prof. Miller, some evening soon.
Mr. Farrell favored the class in instrumentation, with illustration on violin and violin-cello, making some very clear explanations.
The Seniors are working on their recital numbers.
Science Notes.
Mr. Stewart is studying the osteology of the remains of an Hyracodon Nebrascensis, preparatory to making a restoration of it.
The Entomological Department has put in another case. It will be devoted to the insects of Douglas County. The collection will be arranged for economic study, showing the various stages of development, the food plants and the nature of the damage of the insects.
The authorities of the Soldier's Home are combating with a strange pest that threatens to destroy their elm trees. The injury is done by a small mite which is so completely buried in the buds as to be beyond the reach of insecticides. It is interesting to know that there is no record of this insect attacking the elms in this way.
The Entomological Department has just received a new dissecting microscope with a Camera Lucida.
Prof. Williston has recently received from one of the most famous paleontologists of Europe a request that copies of the various restorations of extinct animals that have been made from specimens in the Museum be sent for exhibition in the coming International Scientific Exhibition at Brussels.
The following program was given at the second meeting of Natural History Journal Society. History of the Cusps of the Human Molar Tooth, (International Dental Journal) Mr. Stewart; Function of Somata, (Botanische Zeitung,) Mr. Stevens; Crosses Between Arctic and Common Foxes, (Natural Science Journal,) and Death From Wild Animals in India, (American Naturalist,) Mr. Gowell.
Prof. Williston will address the teachers of Ellsworth County, February 20th.
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