July 1898] 



NEWS 67 



this the Btatemenl that the preparation for the extension of agricultural teaching 

 under the auspices of the Cornell University lias this year Itch increased from 

 $25,000 to $35,000. 



The Rolleston Prize of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge has been 

 awarded to Richard Evans, of Jesus College, Oxford, for his memoir on "The 

 Development of Spongilla." The examiners consider the memoirs "On the 

 Coagulation of the Proteids of White of Egg," sent in by W. Ramsden, of Pem- 

 broke College, Oxford, to be of great merit, and worthy of honourable mention. 



MlSS CRUICKSHANK has presented the Aberdeen University with £5,000 for the 

 formation of a botanic garden, to be named in memory of her late brother, 

 Dr Alexander Oruickshank. 



A Chair of Agricultural Zoology has just been created at the Faculty of 

 Sciences of Marseilles, and Dr A. Yayssiere has been appointed to the Chair. 

 Publications will be issued from the laboratory, and foreign publications of 

 similar nature are solicited in exchange. 



The University of Chicago proposes to establish Doctorate Fellowships, or, 

 as we should call them, Research Fellowship, with an annual income of $750. 

 Candidates must have received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of 

 ( 'hicago, and their appointments must be approved by the officers of the depart- 

 ment or departments in which their proposed research falls. They will be ex- 

 pected to work for nine months of each year at the University, and to prepare 

 the results of their researches for publication. Appointments are to be made 

 annually, but may be confirmed for a period not exceeding five years. 



The Trustees of the British Museum have recently purchased the large 

 collection of marine animals formed by Canon A. M. Norman, and containing 

 type-specimens of many species which he has established. Part of the collection 

 is already in the Museum, the rest will go there eventually. 



The Bentham Trustees have recently presented a portrait in oils of Robert 

 Brown to Kew Gardens. 



The Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art has recently acquired the valuable 

 collection of fossils from the Upper Silurian rocks of the Pentland Hills, made 

 by the late David Hardie, of Bavelaw. It is specially rich in specimens from 

 the Eurypterid beds of Gutterford Burn near Carlops, Peeblesshire ; there are also 

 specimens, chiefly sponges, from North Esk. 



In the Museum of the Scarborough Philosophical and Archaeological Society, 

 Mr C. D. Head has been replacing the old and ruinous collection of birds by 

 cases displaying them, so far as possible, in their natural habitat, along with their 

 nests and eggs, when these can be obtained. An improvement has also been 

 made in the cases for the fossils. The Society records the capture of two 

 badgers— one at Cloughton, the other near Folkton. The record of local birds 

 has been placed upon a more satisfactory basis, every item contained in the list 

 being thoroughly authenticated. We are glad to see that the fish, both sea and 

 fresh-water, also are being studied ; Mr P. Grant records the occurrence of 

 various species not hitherto observed. Considerable attention is also paid by 

 members of the Society to the Invertebrate of various Classes, though naturally 

 the land and fresh-water Mollusca and the Lepidoptera come in for the giant's 

 share. The geologists have paid attention to the exposures during the making 

 of the Marine Drive, but not many fossils have yet been found. Other items 

 of much interest to local naturalists are contained in the Report for 1897, which 

 shows that the Society is in a more satisfactory condition scientifically than it is 

 financially. 



