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Harvard a medical ccnter. Within a radius of half a mile of 

 Harvard Medical School there are already built or under construc- 

 tion sixteen medical institutions, representing in value of buildings 

 and capitalized funds about $20,000,000. The five new hospitals, 

 two of which will move into new quarters, added to the eleven med- 

 ical institutions already constructed, will make the hospital and clin- 

 ical facilities of the school extraordinary. The buildings at present 

 under construction are the Harvard Memorial Cancer Hospital, the 

 Thomas Morgan Rotch, Jr., Building (which will house the In- 

 fant's Hospital), the Children's Hospital, the Peter Bent Brigham 

 Hospital, the State Psychopathie Hospital, the Robert Brigham 

 Hospital, and a Harvard dormitory. A medical union club house 

 will probably soon be added to the group. 



Brooklyn botanic gardcn. Excavation was recently begun for 

 the first section of the laboratory building and plant houses of the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The building, when completed, will be 

 one Story high, of brick faced with concrete, 240 feet long and 50 

 feet wide, with a maximum elevation of about 60 feet. 



Research in hiology in the tropics. The University of Porto 

 Rico announces that it plans to offer, to students, facilities for re- 

 search in botany and zoology in the American tropics. Special 

 Space will be reserved in the agricultural building now in process of 

 erection and the well-equipped physical, chemical, botanical, zoolog- 

 ical, bacteriological and plant pathology laboratories may be drawn 

 upon for supplies and apparatus. The research laboratories will be 

 equipped only with the usual essentials, but endeavor will be made 

 to meet the special needs, in the way of equipment, which the Prob- 

 lems of each Student demand. Free tables will be provided for a 

 limited number of advanced students under conditions which will 

 be explained upon communication with the director. Students who 

 desire to use the laboratories are requested to communicate as early 

 as possible, to the director, Dr. F. L. Stevens, their needs and dates 

 at which accommodation is desired, since there is often delay in pro- 

 curing supplies. 



New York State School of Agricnlture. Governor Dix has 

 signed the Harte bill providing for the establishment of a New York 

 State School of Agriculture on Long Island and appropriating 

 $50,000 for that purpose. 



