The record-union., 1895-05-18
UNIVERSITY NOTES.
Matters of Interest to All Friends
of Education.
How the Facilities Of the States Great
Educational Institution Are
Being Improved.

establishing q psychological laboratory
at the University of California. similar
to that of Harvard, which is now pro-
ducing some important results based
upon actual experiments. 1t is hoped
such department will be early es-
tablished, as this is to be the great
field of advancement in the coming age.
The demand upon the agricultural de-
partment Of the University of California
for the Australian salt bush is so great
that present supply is entirely exhausted.
The University work in this direction
has become known throughout the
world, the department receiving calls
for seed from Russia, India and other
foreign countries.
The University of California can now
claim the distinction shared by no other
| institution west of Chicago of co-operat-
ing in the support and manag ement Of
the American school at Athens. AT
recent meeting of the Board of Managers
in New York City the University was
placed upon the list of associated in
stitutions and Professor Clapp WAS
elected member of the managing COM
mlttee.
! The new register of the University of
students enrolled at the colleges at
Berkeley to be l.124. of which 399 are
women. This is an excess over the
sister University at Palo Alto of "a, they
having increased Is per cent while the
State University increase is 36 per cent.
Including those enrolled in the affiliated
colleges in San Francisco, the grand
| total amounts to 1,7S1.
Experiments in the agricultural de-
partment of the State University by Pro-
lessor Hllgard has proven that the alkall
on the alkali spots of the West is only
skin deep, and can easily be rendered
fertile by gypsum.
| Among the recent large invoice of
| books from Germany for the library OF
the State University there were many
valuable scientific works, and some OF
especial value, picked up by DR.. Ritter OF
the biological department, now IN Eu-
rope
The great rejecting telescope offered by
Edward Crossley of England to the Lick
Observatory of the State University will
| soon arrive in California. Through the
generosity of university friends means
for its transportation, the only condition
! binderlng It's acceptance, was readily
raised. There is no other instance on
record of present of this sort made by
an Englishman to foreign State, and the
| compliment is highly appreciated.
station of the University of California at
| Berkeley Investigations are being made
| of ten samples of oranges from Pomona,
grown by different fertilizers, in order to
ascertain what qualities in the fruit are
affected by them. Examinations already
| made seem to indicate that there is
tendency to more sugar by the use of pot
| ash fertilizers. Direct experiment will
also be conducted at the several expert
mental stations.
The number of schools on the accred-
tied list of the University of California is
| now forty eight. Nearly every section of
California is represented.
Before graduates from the State Uni
yersity are given State certificates to teach
they arc now required to take twelve
hours in the pedagogic course in that in
Stitution.
Examinations for entrance into the
University of California took place on
May 10th at Berkeley, Los Angeles,
Chico, San Luis Obispo, Arcata, Nord
hotf, Portland and Phoenix, Ariz. In
| August they will be held at Berkeley
| only.
AS the foundation of wine-making is
getting the pure yeast culture the Uni
| versity of California, through the viii
cultural department.. are about to demon
strate the Importance of pure yeast.
| They have sent to France for samples
and are now establishing laboratory to
be able to do original work with them.
! Miss NJ. w. Shinn of Niles, as con-
tinuance of her many previous gifts, has
recently donated twenty-five volumes to
the State University library. Another
recent acquisition is chalmers English
| Poets" in twenty-One volumes, which
formerly belonged to III. II. Meiggs, the
| San Franciscan, who built the famous
Meiggs' railway in Peru.
| Professor Woodwork of the State Z nj
versity has received specimens of pear
| tree leaves afflicted with the Eastern
mite. This disease has never been men
toned in description of fruit tree diseases
of this State. 1t is becoming more
trou blesome than formerly, there being
danger OF its growing to be as great a
scourge as in the East.
The agricultural department of the
State University have sent recently
large mum ber of sugar beet seed through
out the State for trial.
One Of the results of investigation by
DIR. Hayne of the State University of
mildew injecting the vineyards near
| Fresno is that he found no mildew what
ever, but slight eff1orescence of the
| leaves, no doubt due 10 evaporation and
over irrigation. 1t was capitalization
of Glauber's s salt which ran off with the
| first rain. He holds himself ready at the
disposal of the people of the State to as
sist them in determining the cause of any
| infection detrimental to vines.
| The library of the State University has
received as a gift from his majesty the
King of Siam thirty -nine-volume Siam
ese edition of the sacred writings of the
Southern Buddhists the Tripitaka
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