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for care and depreciation is much 

 larger than the salaries paid to the 

 teachers and investigators who occupy 

 the building. The -writer has good 

 reason to remember well the old Biolog- 

 ical Hall of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. It cost perhaps $30,000; it was 

 likely not only to burn down but to 

 tumble down. Yet in that building 

 some twenty years ago worked Leidy, 

 Cope and Kyder, with two other pro- 

 fessors in the zoological sciences, two 

 professors of botany and a professor of 

 psychology, all actively engaged in re- 

 search work. Our universities doubt- 

 less need big buildings, but the need 

 of great men is far more urgent. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 

 We record with regret the deaths of 

 the Rev. Henry C. McCook, of Philadel- 

 phia, known for his publications on 

 popular entomology; of M. Louis- 



Joseph Troost, the eminent French 

 chemist; of Professor August Michel- 

 -Levy, the distinguished French geolo- 

 gist; of M. Alfred Binet, director of 

 the psychological laboratory of the 

 University of Paris; of Dr. Wilhelm 

 Dilthey, formerly professor of philos- 

 ophy in the University of Berlin; of 

 Dr. J. Hughlings-Jackson, F.E.S., emi- 

 nent English neurologist, and of Pro- 

 fessor Florentino Ameghino, the well- 

 known paleontologist and director of 

 the Museo Nacional in Buenos Aires. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given 

 $25,000,000 to the Carnegie Corpora- 

 tion of New York, incorporated by the 

 legislature last June. The objects of 

 the corporation are ' ' receiving and 

 maintaining a fund or funds and ap- 

 plying the income thereof to promote 

 the advancement and diffusion of 

 knowledge and understanding among 

 ; the people of the United States, by 



Plan of the First Floor of the Zoological Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania. 



