IT is stated in Nature that the com-mittee of users of dyes appointed to con-fer with the British Board of Trade as to a national dye scheme has come to a unanimous decision in favor of the adoption of a scheme which differs in certain important respects from those of the scheme previously made public. The proposal is to form a com-pany with an initial share capital of£ 2,000,-000, of which£ 1,000,000 will be issued in the first instance. The government will make to the company a loan for twenty-five years cor-responding to the amount of share capital subscribed up to a total of£ 1,000,000, and a smaller proportion beyond that total. The government advance will hear interest at 4 per cent. per annum, payable only out of net profits, theinterest to he cumulative only after the first five years. In addition, and with the desire of promoting research, the government has undertaken for a period of ten years to make a grant to the company for the purposes of experimental and laboratofry work up to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate£ 100,-000.

UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS UNDER the will of the late General Charles H. Pine, recently published, Yale College will eventually receive an addition of $150,000 to the $50,000 scholarship fund established by General Pine about three years ago. The will also provides for the creation of a fund of $250,000 to be devoted to manual training of Ansonia boys and girls. By the will of General William D. Gill, of Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins University is made residuary legatee after the death of his wife. The bequest is to be used for the estab-lishment of a chair of forestry. AMONG the gifts recently received by Har-vard University is one from Mrs. Samuel Sachs, of $2,500 for the purchase of a work