582 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



most interesting novelty being an account of a new species 

 of RJiizocrinus Rawsonii, by Count Pourtales. This is close- 

 ly allied to R. Loffodensis, which extends from Florida to 

 the Loffoden Islands, but is larger, and has several important 

 distinctive characteristics. 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF 



COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



At the annual meeting of the trustees of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, held in January, a committee reported 

 that to carry out the plan inaugurated by Professor Agassiz 

 a considerably larger endowment will be necessary, and that 

 the funds now on hand are not sufficient to conduct opera- 

 tions on the present scale later than the 1st of April, after 

 which, unless an additional permanent income of $15,000 can 

 be secured, it will be necessary to greatly reduce the scale 

 of work: $30,000 per annum is estimated as being the least 

 sum on which the establishment can be maintained on a sat- 

 isfactory scale. Efforts are now being made to secure an en- 

 dowment of $300,000, of which about $65,000 had been con- 

 tributed at a recent date. 



REPORT OF THE BUSSET INSTITUTION. 



A valuable contribution to scientific agriculture has been 

 furnished in the initial number of the Bulletin of the Bussey 

 Institution, a school of agriculture and horticulture, near 

 Boston, connected with Harvard University, under trusts ere- 

 ated by the will of Benjamin Bussey, of Roxbuiy, in 1835. 

 When taken possession of in 1861, the property placed in the 

 hands of the trustees of Harvard University had a valuation 

 of $413,290 60, exclusive of the Woodland Hill estate; and 

 in 1870 the actual productive income had risen to $31,000, 

 exclusive of certain annuities chargeable to the property. In 

 this' year the school was organized by the appointment of an 

 instructor in farming, and a professor of agricultural chem- 

 istry ; in subsequent years a professor of horticulture, a pro- 

 fessor of applied zoology, an instructor in entomology, a di- 

 rector of the Arnold Arboretum, and a librarian and curator 

 of collections were added. 



The Arnold Arboretum is established, in connection with 

 the Bussey Institution, on a gift of $100,000 from the late 



