676 ANNUAL KECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



done at the expense of Dr. Jourdonet, who makes a specialty 

 of treating diseases in rarefied or condensed atmospheres. 

 3 B, March 20, 1873, 481. 



TYNDALL ENDOWMENT. 



For some time before his departure from this country the 

 friends and associates of Professor Tyndall had been aware 

 that he contemplated leaving in the United States whatever 

 proceeds of his lectures might remain after his necessary ex- 

 penses were met, with a view of applying them in some man- 

 ner that should tend to the advantage of science ; and in the 

 lectures on light, lately issued by the Appletons, the details 

 are for the first time officially made public. The amount 

 available for the object in question is about |1 3,000, his 

 total receipts in this country, from thirtj^-five lectures, being 

 $23,100. This balance has been placed in charge of a com- 

 mittee consisting of Professor Henry, General Hector Tyndale 

 (his cousin), of Philadelphia, and Professor Youmans, of New 

 York, and these gentlemen are authorized to expend it in aid 

 of students who devote themselves to oricfinal investioation. 

 A suggestion has been made, and one Avorthy of encourage- 

 ment, that efforts be initiated to secure an increase of this 

 fund to at least $50,000, the whole to bear the name of the 

 Tyndall Fund, so that the objects of the Professor may be 

 carried out to a fuller extent. 



AID TO SCIENTIFIC RESEAKCH. 



Mr. William K. Parker, the eminent English comparative 

 anatomist, well known by his researches upon the skull and 

 shoulder girdle of the vertebrate animals, has lately received 

 assistance from a quite unexpected quarter. The London 

 Fishmonger's Company has presented to him fifty pounds 

 sterling, and made him an allowance of twenty pounds annu- 

 ally for three years to aid him in still further prosecuting his 

 inquiries into the anatomy of fishes. Nature^ in referring to 

 this action, commends it as a precedent, and hopes that some 

 of the other united comj^anies, many of which j^ossess enor- 

 mous wealth, will take pains to subsidize in a suitable man- 

 ner some specialist whose scientific researches may illustrate 

 the objects of the company. It is thought, however, that 

 quite an inadequate appreciation is shown of the value of 



