O. MISCELLANEOUS. 669 



the mounting of specimens ; ninth, a work and tool shop ; 

 tenth, a cabinet of collections ; eleventh and twelfth, a draw- 

 ing-room and photographic establishment ; thirteenth, a li- 

 brary ; fourteenth, a lecture-room ; fifteenth, apartments for 

 lodging animals ; sixteenth, a greenhouse and inclosure for 

 researches in vegetable physiology. In addition to these, 

 there is a provision for general office rooms, the residences 

 of the director and assistants of the director, the librarian 

 and three aids one for operations and autopsies, another for 

 biology, physics, and chemistry, and a third for microscopic- 

 al investigations and labors in zoology. It is also thought 

 probable that to these will be added a physical and chemical 

 establishment on an equally large scale. According to the 

 plans submitted, the buildings will cost $190,000, of which 

 over one third will be expended during the present year. 

 An annual allowance of $6000 will be made for the biolog- 

 ical work. 8 B, Aiyril 12, 1873, 957. 



GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE NETHERLANDS. 



A new geographical society lias recently been organized 

 at Amsterdam under the title of the Geographical Society of 

 the Netherlands. The names of the gentlemen concerned in 

 this movement are a sufficient guarantee that the new insti- 

 tution will be one of the first class. 8 (7, 3Iarch 24, 1873, 240. 



COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING IN JAPAN. . 



The recent foundation of a College of Engineering in Japan 

 in the city of Jeddo, in which the youth of that country may 

 obtain thorouorh instruction at home in the science of enori- 

 neering, civil and mechanical, is perhaps the most striking in- 

 dication of the radical advances in introducing modern ideas 

 which has been thus far afforded. The new establishment is 

 placed under the directorship of Mr. Henry Dyer, formerly 

 of Glasgow, Scotland. 



INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ORIENTALISTS. 



An international congress of those interested in Oriental 

 literature, as announced by Mr. Leon de Rosny, took place 

 at Paris on the 10th of July, 1873, numerous invitations to 

 attend it having been sent out to the learned of all parts of 

 the world, including several Americans, whose participation 



