The record-union., 1895-09-30
UNIVERSITY NOTES.
Electrical Engineering Department in
Running Order.
The Various Cups and Medals Won
by the University Team
In the East.

The coin collection, which Ia in charge
Of the librarian of the University of Cali
fornia. has received little attention here
tofore. 1t is rare collection Of at least
$500 coins and medals. 1t is now pro-
posed to give some attention to the col
lection, which has been almost impossible
on account Of the lack of space. A valu-
able addition has just been made in the
shape Of q couple of lead pstties, plated
with silver. and used as q currency in
India before 800 A. D. They are very rare.
and were presented by Rounsevelle Wild
Rapore. One Of the new special Anglo
Chinese silver dollars. the first to reach
California, has also just been received.
A San Francisco firm has recently sent
lava obtained at Lodi 10 the civil engi-
neering department of the university at
Berkeley, to be tested to determine
whether IL can be used as building
stone. L. E. Hunt found that it gave an
average crushing strength OF 5000
pounds per square inch, demonstrating
the fact that it may be safely used in the
construction of buildings.
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University of California, under Professor
George 81. Howison, will next year es-
tablish an experimental Psychological
laboratory. This will be under the i'm
mediate direction of George Stratton, now
studying under the celebrated psycholo-
gist, Professor Wundt. at Leipsic, Ger
many. The apparatus for the laboratory.
for which an endowment has already
been made. he will bring with him from
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assistants to help him, and the work
promises to be very thorough. Problems
dealing with the time required for the
action and reaction Of nerve, brain cell
and sense organ, will be investigated.
Many will be interested to learn ''how
long it takes to think" This, Mr.. STRAIT
ton will be able to tell them.
Professor Hilgard of the State Uni
versity is investigating the bye product
of the beet sugar manufacture, with re-
gard to the use of the beet pulp and lime
refuse. The analysis was asked for by
the farmers Of Pleasanton, in order to see
If 1t would pay under present freig ht rates
TO haul she fertilizers back to the beet
fields.
The various cups and medals won by
the athletic team of the University of Cal
ifornia form q very pretentious collection
when grouped together. There are about
fifteen large silver cups, ten smaller cups
and over fifty gold medals. There is also
large silver shield about eighteen
inches high, the trophy which went to
the winner Of the Western intercollegiate
athletic championship games at Chicago.
With this latter went the honor of naming
the President of she Western Intercol-
lsgiate Athletic Association, who will of
course hail from Berkeley next year.
One of the greatest stirs that has been
made In educational circles has been the
recent visit of Professor Josiah Royce of
Harvard to bis old alma mater, the Uni
versity of California, and his four lect-
lures, In which he endeavored to give his
conception of God. This is, however, but
the forerunnsr of q much deeper move
msnt, for Professor Howison promises
thai each year hereafter some eminent
philosopher will be brought TO the coast.
The one selected for next year and whose
consent has been received is John Wat
son, professor OF philosophy in the Uni
versity of Queens College. Kingston,
Canada. He is a graduate of the univer-
sities Of Glasgow and Edinburgh and was
pupil of Professor Edward Card, now
master of Baliol College, oxford, and
successor of lowell. the famous trans
lator of Plato. Professor Watson is gem
orally recogized among experts of phllos-
sophy as the first man this side of the
Atlantic. He is q constant publisher Of
1mpOItAut DIlol W IlkluRb AuQ III Lu6 kubQOE
OF three works OF hrst-rate order: =" Kant
and His English Critics" 1.-The Philoso-
ply Of KANT and the latest book, Kant,
Mill and Spencer"
All of the new laboratories of the cleo
tricsl engineering department. OF the
State University are now in complete
running order. The dynamo laboratory
contains tweniy-four dynanos and mo-
tors, representing nearly all of the COM
rna Rial in in ho TTr,it cd
States OF the constant current and con-
stRnt potential direct current types, and
the single phase and multiphase alter
mating current generators. All of the
machines are especially arranged for
experimental work and have connections
to the main switchboard. a marvel of
electrical skill, having more than 800
completely equipped with commercial
and standard test instruments and con-
tain many standardizing sets of the most
modern and delicate construction.
For over two years Professor E. l.. Cory
has been planning the laboratories until
now his equipment, in many ways and
especially for standard determination in
eleotromagnetism, Ia the most complete
aud we'll arranged of any OF our uniyer-
sities or technical schools.
The very rapid disappearance of the
woolly aphis in the orchards of the State
Professor Woodwork of the University
OF California thinks entirely due to
fungus disease and not TO the lady bird,
found so abundantly and to which credit
has been so universally given. some
what similar disease has also destroyed
the louise on the SOW thistle. Though the
disease has been too rapid in its work to
be very closely studied, a confirmation of
its existence 10 found in the quick de-
structlon of the pest, the fact that the lady
bird is not found in the orchards, and Ia,
moreover, q vegetarian.
The black scale on individual trees
have disappeared, there being no scale
present and nothing to explain it but a
contagious disease.
OF the birds attacking scale bugs, the
only case observed has been the eating of
dead bugs. There are three diseases
found among the scale bugs, but, while
she disease may increase here, 1t will di-
minish there, and 80 it has not been as
effective AZ with the aphis. The lady
bugs. however, arc good feeders upon the
black smut. q fungus that exists on the
honey dew of the scale and lice.
BORNE TO THE GRAVE.