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Doctor of Science on Professor J. Wil- 

 lard Gibbs, of Yale University. — The 

 Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, and Dr. B. F. Galloway, chief 

 of the Bureau of Plant Industry, have 

 received the degree of LL.D. from the 

 Missouri State University. — Dr. Carlos 

 Finlay, of Havana, eminent for his 

 work on yellow fever, has been given 

 the degree of Doctor of Science by Jef- 

 ferson Medical College, from which he 

 graduated in 1855. 



The Senate has passed a bill author- 

 izing the Commissioner of Fish and 

 Fisheries to establish a biological sta- 

 tion on the Great Lakes. — Plans have 

 been prepared for the erection of a 

 bacteriological laboratory in Washing- 

 ton, under the control of the Marine 

 Hospital service. — Yale University has 

 received for the Sheffield Scientific 

 School a new building for mineralogy, 

 geology and physiography. — A new 

 building, chiefly for surgery, is to be 

 erected for the Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School at a cost of $100,000.— Friends 

 of Columbia University have purchased 

 from the New York Hospital for $1,- 

 900,000 the two blocks of land facing 

 the University. It is hoped that this 

 land may be ultimately acquired for 

 the use of the University. — The final 

 appraisement of the estate of the late 

 Jacob S. Rogers shows a value of $6,- 

 063,173. After deducting the costs of 

 administration and the legacies it is 

 estimated that the residuary estate 

 which will go to the Metropolitan Mu- 

 seum of Art under the will is $5,547,- 

 922.60. — According to an official state- 

 ment recently issued the endowment of 

 the Nobel Foundation is about $7,500,- 

 000, and the value of each of the five 

 prizes to be awarded at the close of 



the present year will be nearly $40,- 

 000. 



At the annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 held on May 14, it was voted to award 

 the 'Rumford Premium' to Professor 

 George Ellery Hale, of the Yerkes Ob- 

 servatory, 'for his investigations in 

 solar and stellar physics, and in par- 

 ticular for the invention and perfec- 

 tion of the spectro-heliograph.' It was 

 also voted to appropriate the sum of 

 $750 from the income of the Rumford 

 Fund to be expended for the construc- 

 tion of a mercurial compression pump 

 designed by Professor Theodore W. 

 Richards and to be used in his research 

 on the Thomson-Joule effect. An ap- 

 propriation from the Rumford Fund 

 was also made to Professor Arthur A. 

 Noyes in aid of his research upon the 

 effect of high temperatures upon the 

 electrical conductivity of aqueous solu- 

 tions. 



In connection with the proposal to 

 enlarge the Royal Society so as to in- 

 clude representatives of the historical, 

 philological and moral sciences, or to 

 establish a new academy for these sci- 

 ences, Mr. Charles Waldstein, of 

 King's College, Cambridge, has pro- 

 posed the establishment of an Imperial 

 British Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 which would include four sections as 

 follows: The Royal Society for the 

 natural and mathematical sciences, a 

 new Royal Society of Humanites for 

 the historical, philological and moral 

 sciences, the present Royal Academy 

 for painting, sculpture, architecture 

 and the decorative arts, and a new 

 Royal Academy of literature and mu- 

 sic. 



