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Medical School, those connected with that hospital have resolved to establish a 

 memorial that " shall take the form of a Huxley Scholarship and Medal, to be 

 awarded annually at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, and that if funds 

 permit an annual lecture at the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, dealing 

 with recent advances in science and their bearing upon medicine, shall be insti- 

 tuted." Subscriptions may be sent to Dr. Watt-Black. It has further been pro- 

 posed to erect a national memorial, possibly in the form of a statue in the Natural 

 History Museum, Cromwell Road. 



Among the liberal sums so generously given to American institutions we note 

 that of an unknown donor, whose name is never to be revealed, of 250,000 dollars, 

 for the purpose of founding a library, museum, and hall for the University of the 

 City of New York. Mr. C. C. Harrison has given 100,000 dollars to the University 

 of Pennsylvania. The income from the fund, which is in memory of Dr. G. L. 

 Harrison, is to be used for the " Encouragement of Liberal Studies and the 

 Advancement of Knowledge." We learn from the Daily Chronicle that the 250,000 

 dols. subscribed for a proposed Botanic Garden in New York was really subscribed 

 by twenty-two people, and not by two millionaires, as previously reported. It now 

 remains for the City of New York to raise 500,000 dols. by bonds for building 

 purposes, etc., and to present 250 acres of land in Bronx Park. The same news- 

 paper records an offer from six men to build a Hall of Science for Syracuse 

 University at a cost of 150,000 dols., while 110,000 dols. have been offered towards a 

 new medical college. 



A SUPPLEMENTARY Charter has been granted to Durham University, and 

 enables Convocation to grant to women any degrees, excepting only degrees 

 in Divinity, which they have the power to grant to men. The degrees of the 

 University of Durham in Medicine, Science, Arts, Literature, and Music are, 

 therefore, now obtainable by women. The Medical and Science Faculties are 

 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the former in the College of Medicine and the latter in the 

 College of Science, where women students can receive instruction in the various 

 subjects of these two faculties. The first woman graduate— Miss Ella Bryant- 

 received her degree of Bachelor of Science at the meeting of Convocation, held 

 on June 24. 



The Tii'enty-ninth Annual Report of the Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate oi 

 Cambridge University has just been issued. The Syndics draw attention to the want of 

 co-operation between those responsible for old buildings and those engaged on erecting 

 new ones, which has caused much inconvenience that could easily have been avoided. 



An important change has been made in the arrangement of the Herbarium. 

 Like so many natural history collections in our larger museums this was formerly 

 subject in some degree to a topographical arrangement ; the existence of two collec- 

 tions — European and general — frequently necessitated search in two places for any 

 plant ; these two collections have now been united, and the geographical arrange- 

 ment and coloured labels in use at Kew have been introduced. We commend a 

 similar consolidation to all curators in charge of extensive collections. The 

 Samoan and Fijian plants presented to the Herbarium by Baron v. Hiiges have been 

 determined by Mr. Burkitt, who is now engaged on those from New Britain. The 

 arrangement of the alga; and mosses is also progressing. Among the chief dona- 

 tions are mentioned Bornean plants from Mr. G. D. Haviland, Indian plants from 

 the Government of Bengal, and Lapland mosses from Professor Elfving. We are 

 glad to see that some work is being done in this Herbarium, and hope it is a sign 

 that the Universities are taking greater interest in systematic botany. 



Among the important additions reported as made to the Museum of Zoology are 

 deep-sea Crustacea, presented by Dr. A. Alcock, the White Rhinoceros, to which we 

 alluded in vol. iv., p. 324, a skull of the Elephant Seal, obtained through Professor 

 Jeffery Parker, of Dunedin, N.Z., and several valuable specimens from North-east 

 Borneo, sent by C. and E. Hose. To the Termites, presented by Mr. G. D. Haviland, 



