that if such a merger could be formed it would cause no material saving in expense to either university, and that the interests of each university and of the public will be best served by the maintenance of the two separate schools, each pursuing its own methods and standards, and so far as possible supplementing each other.

"RESOLVED, that the Secretary of this Board of Trustees transmit a copy of these resolutions to the Regents of the University of California in reply to their letter."

LOS ANGELES MEDICAL DEPARTMENT

Hereafter no new undergraduate students will be admitted to the Los Angeles Medical Department. Instruction to graduate students will continue to be given, the vast amount of clinical material available in the clinics conducted by the department furnishing excellent opportunity for further training of practitioners and for work of investigation.

Dr. W. Jarvis Barlow in April tendered his resignation as Dean of the Los Angeles Medical Department, in which capacity he has served since the school became a department of the University. In accepting Dr. Barlow's resignation, the Regents voted to express their appreciation "of the value and unselfishness of the services which he has rendered to the University."

REVISION OF DEGREES IN PHARMACY

The California College of Pharmacy, beginning with 1914-15, will offer degrees in pharmacy on a new basis, namely: Graduate in Pharmacy (Ph.G.), for a two-years course following upon two years of high school work; Pharmaceutical Chemist (Ph.C.), upon the completion of a three-years professional course in pharmacy, following upon a four-years standard high school preparation; Bachelor of Pharmacy (Phar.B.), upon the completion of the fouryears professional course, following upon a four-years standard high school preparation.

CITRUS EXPERIMENT STATION SITE

The selection of a site in Southern California for a citrus experiment station and Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture has been under consideration for a number of months. For land, the Legislature of 1913 appropriated $60,000, for buildings and equipment, $125,000.

The scores of sites suggested by various communities in Southern California have been investigated by a committee of the faculty consisting of Dean Thomas F. Hunt of the College of Agriculture, Professor H. J. Webber, Dean of the Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture, and J. E. Coit, Professor of Citriculture, and by an advisory committee of leading citrus-growers of Southern California, consisting of E. A. Chase, of Riverside; C. C. Chapman, Fullerton; C. O. Teague, Santa Paula; R. C. Allen, San Diego; and John Lindley, Azuza. A committee of the Regents consisting of Messrs. Rudolph J. Taussig, A. Lowndes Scott, and James Mills has been appointed by the Board to report upon the selection of a site.

The University plans to develop in Southern California a research institution of importance in the development of agricul tural science and for the training of graduate students in agriculture. Experiments regarding plant-breeding, the feeding and rearing of citrus orchards, frost protection, tropical agriculture, etc., are to be inaugurated on the new site which will lead, through a long series of years, to rich fruition of results.

ELWOOD MEAD RELINQUISHED TO AUSTRALIA

In consequence of an urgent appeal from the Premier of Victoria, Australia, the Regents on March 10, 1914, consented to relinquish Elwood Mead, who on September 9, 1913, had been appointed Professor of Rural Institutions. As Chairman and Chief Engineer of the Rivers and Water Supply Commission of the State of Victoria, Professor Mead is at the head of a great work of irrigation and immigration development in Australia, and the government was exceedingly anxious that he should continue the vast undertakings in which he is engaged.

SOIL SURVEY CO-OPERATION WITH THE UNITED STATES By agreement with the United States Geological Survey, the University and the national government are co-operating in soil survey work in California. A co-operative topographic survey is now in progress on Santa Rosa 15' quadrangle.

CORRESPONDENCE INSTRUCTION

The enrollment for correspondence instruction in agriculture has now passed a total of eight thousand, while some two thousand others have enrolled for new agricultural courses soon to be inaugurated. There are a thousand correspondence students enrolled in other subjects than agriculture.

CALIFORNIA HISTORY

Some years ago the Native Sons of the Golden West asked the University of California to provide instruction in California history. It was answered that the time was not yet ripe for establishing such instruction, but that the University felt it a duty to train men competent to give such teaching. The Native Sons then offered to support scholarships in California and Pacific Coast history, with the intention of endowing eventually instruction in this subject. Valuable contributions to the history of California have resulted from this generosity, and now, by the action of the Regents in appointing as Instructor in California History, Charles Edward Chapman, who has held one of these Native Sons Fellowships in California History, this study is made a part of the University curriculum.

BUDGET FOR 1914-15

The Regents on April 14 adopted a budget for 1914-15 which contemplated the expenditure of $2,830,981.60, this including $616,500 of gifts for the proposed new University Hospital, $216,178.97 for expenditures from the Permanent Building Fund, provided yearly by the State, and $11,600 of building moneys for the Library and Boalt Hall, or a total of $844,278.97 for such special improvements.

LAW LIBRARY FEE

Hereafter a Law Library fee of $12.50 a semester is to be charged all students registered in more than one professional course in law in the School of Jurisprudence, these fees being devoted to the purchase of books for the law library of the School of Jurisprudence.

SATHER CAMPANILE CORNERSTONE

The cornerstone was laid on March 18 of the Sather Campanile, for which Mrs. Jane K. Sather gave $200,000, with $25,000 additional for a set of chimes to be known as the Sather Bells. A multitude of students gathered at the foot of the great steel tower.

The cornerstone, of the glistening white California granite with which the whole exterior will be clad, save only for its pyramidal summit of white marble, was laid with addresses by President Wheeler, Mansell P. Griffiths, '14, President of the Associated Students, A. W. Drury, '14, J. L. Schoolcraft, '14, Jessie Harris,

'14, and Deborah Dyer, '14. In the cornerstone were placed newspapers of the day, photographs of the Sather Campanile in course of construction, and pictures of the campus in this day when the great Hearst Plan is beginning to take shape.

BUILDING MATTERS

An addition is being built to the Chemistry Building, north of the Chemistry Auditorium, costing, with its equipment, $40,000. It will provide laboratory accommodations for 250 students. Since the building will be in constant use, by four different sections, approximately 1000 students each week will have laboratory training in this new building, or approximately half the students enrolled in courses in chemistry.

A temporary building costing $12,000 has been built on Hearst avenue, east of the Architectural Building, to house instruction in drawing.

The Faculty Club has built an addition, at a cost of approximately $17,500, which practically doubles the size and the accommodations of the club. The club is an institution of the greatest value and usefulness to the University, through its service as a center for University life and as a meeting-place for counsel and common understanding.

A classroom building of brick has been contracted for at the University Farm, to cost $47,340.

In an electrical storm on Mount Hamilton on February 18, 1914, lightning injured the buildings and equipment of the Lick Observatory to the extent of about $300.

CHARTER DAY

The Charter Day exercises were celebrated in the Greek Theatre on March 23, with William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce in President Wilson's cabinet, as Charter Day speaker. His Charter Day address, on "The Larger Outlook," may be found in full in the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE for April, 1914. At Charter Day President Wheeler recapitulated the year's donations to the University, including the endowment given by Mrs. Sophronia T. Hooper for the George Williams Hooper School of Medical Research and the $615,750 subscribed by various benefactors for the University Hospital in San Francisco. The year's total of gifts was announced as between two and three million dollars.

COMMENCEMENT HONORS

At Commencement the honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon William Mulholland, Chief Engineer of the Los Angeles Owens River Aqueduct; James Monroe Taylor, President of Vassar College since 1886; Eugene Woldemar Hilgard, Professor of Agriculture and head of the department of Agriculture from 1874 to 1909, and George Holmes Howison, Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity in the University of California from 1884 to 1909.

President Wheeler conferred the degrees in the following words: "Eugene Woldemar Hilgard-Pioneer in the use of ordered knowledge to bring food for the peoples from the breast of the earth.

"George Holmes Howison-a masterful teacher gifted to establish the ideal as the veritable real and to make it a saving power in the lives of men.

"James Monroe Taylor-who has brought to the solution of delicate problems in education high faith, good cheer, and sturdy

common sense.

"William Mulholland-who has smitten the rock and brought streams of water to the thirsty land."

At Commencement degrees were conferred upon 893 persons as against 725 last year, 679 in 1911-12, and 540 in 1910-11; there were this year 620 Bachelor's degrees, as against 534 last year; 129 Master's degrees, as against 90 last year; 16 Juris Doctor degrees, as against 12 last year; 14 Doctor of Philosophy degrees, as against 10 last year, and 110 professional degrees of the San Francisco colleges, as against 79 last year.

The student speakers on Commencement Day were W. W. Ferrier, '12, who received that day the degree of J.D. from the School of Jurisprudence; H. C. Breck, '14; Deborah Dyer, '14, and R. G. Wadsworth, '14.

The University Medal was conferred at Commencement on Clotilde Grunsky of San Francisco, of the College of Social Sciences, who besides her excellence in scholarship had achieved much, as an undergraduate, in writing for the student publications, in winning the Junior Farce competition, as a member of the cast of various college plays, and as a leader in student life. Honorable Mention was given to Donald Hamilton McLaughlin of the College of Mining and to Ralph Gilbert Wadsworth of the College of Civil Engineering.