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sities has developed into a veritable deluge. Mr. John D. Rockefeller heads 

 the list with a total contribution of $110,000,000. Of this vast sum 

 $60,000,000 goes to the Rockefeller Foundation, and $50,000,000 to the 

 General Education Board. In a letter accompanying this latter gift, Mr. 

 Rockefeller expressed his wish that the principal as well as the interest 

 might be used promptly and largely for co-operating with higher institutions 

 of learning in raising sums specifically deipoted to the increase of the salaries 

 of the teachers, and he further desired that his previous gift of $20,000,000 

 (recorded in these Notes only last quarter) might be used for promoting 

 medical education in Canada as well as in the U.S.A. The late Mr. Heniy 

 C. Frick left the greater part of his estate for public, charitable and educe - 

 tional purposes in the States. It is estimated that about $145,000,000 

 will be available, and of this sum Princeton University will receive about 

 $15,000,000, Harvard $5,000,000, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 $5,000,000, and the Educational Fund Commission, Pittsburgh, another 

 $5,000,000. Yale receives $200,000 for the general endowment of the School 

 of Medicine as a result of the death of the widow of the late Dr. Levi Shoe- 

 maker. 



The idea that University teachers are worthy of a reasonable wage seems 

 to be becoming quite widespread on the other side of the Atlantic, for not 

 only has Mr. Rockefeller emphasised it in the admirable manner related 

 above, but the City of Rochester raised $800,000 in less than one week for 

 increasing the salaries of the staff of its University ! 



Manchester University is appealing for ^500,000 to enable it to proceed 

 with much-needed extensions, and the Manchester College of Technology 

 asks for a further ^150,000 for the same purpose. 



It has been decided to devote the sum of ^240,000 left by the late Mr. 

 Thomas Cawthorn, of Nelson, N.Z., for the founding of a technical institute 

 in New Zealand, for the erection and endowment of a research institute in 

 that country. A site of twenty acres has been secured in a position over- 

 looking Tasman Bay, about three miles from the town of Nelson, and it 

 is anticipated that the buildings will soon be in course of erection. Prof. 

 T. H. Easterfield, of Victoria College, Wellington, has been appointed to be 

 first Director of the new Institute. 



The house and laboratory built on the banks of the Susquehanna River, 

 in Pennsylvania, for Joseph Priestley when he emigrated to America in 

 1794, has been purchased by the graduate students of the Pennsylvania State 

 College. It is a frame house, and is, even now, in so excellent a state of pre- 

 servation as to permit of its re-erection in the grounds of the College as a 

 permanent memorial of its original owner. 



In a magnificent monograph (part i, vol. xi, of the Memoirs of the Ameri- 

 can Museum), President H. F. Osborn undertakes a revision of the fossil 

 horses of North America found in rocks of Oligocene to Pliocene age. All 

 the type specimens are figured, either by reproduction of the original or 

 by new drawings. Finally, in fifty-four plates, Osborn gives a series of com- 

 parative figures which present objectively the stages of the evolution of the 

 horse from Mesohippus to Equus. The closeness of the stages, about forty 

 of which are figured in correct time or order, makes the whole work most 

 impressive, and its study of vital importance to any student of evolution 

 and biological theory. 



A new book on the Amoebic Parasites of Man (J. Pale, Sons & Panielsson) 

 has just appeared. It is written by the well-known protozoologist, Prof. 

 Clifford Dobell. The author has taken great pains completely to elucidate 

 many interesting problems associated with the amoebic fauna of man, and 

 this book will prove a valuable addition to protozoological literature. It is 

 regrettable, nevertheless, that Mr. Dobell should so summarily dismiss the 

 work of many other protozoologists. 



