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Scripps Institution for Biologicd Research. Control of the 

 Marine Biological Station of San Diego has been transferred to the 

 regents of the University of CaHfornia. The official designation 

 under the new regime will be the Scripps Institution for Biological 

 Research of the University of California. Although, as indicated 

 by the change of name, an extension of activities is contemplated, 

 no immediate alteration of policy or work will take place. Dr. 

 William E. Ritter will continue as the scientific director. 



New hiiildings. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 has received, from a donor whose name for the present is anony- 

 mous, a gift of two and a half million dollars for the erection of the 

 buildings on its new site. 



Research lahoratories in chemistry. Columbia University has 

 recently received a gift of $30,000 from Dr. William H. Nichols 

 for instruction and research lahoratories in chemistry. 



Special funds. Endowments. The tenth yearbook of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington is of special interest, as it 

 records a further gift from the founder of $10,000,000 and re- 

 views the history of the Institution for its first ten years. The 

 endowment is now $22,000,000 in five per cent. bonds of the steel 

 Corporation, worth at least $25,000,000. The Investment in prop- 

 erty of the institution from its income is about $1,700,000 and there 

 is a reserve fund of $250,000. During the ten years the cost of 

 administration has been $400,000, of publication $300,000, and the 

 sum of $4,000,000 has been applied directly to research. There 

 have been published 201 volumes under 156 different titles. The 

 departments of biological sciences received last year grants amount- 

 ing to $90,000 and the Nutrition Laboratory had an appropriation 

 of $30,000. 



The treasurer of Columbia University recently reported to the 

 trustees that he had received about $1,550,000 from the executors 

 of the estate of the late George Crocker. Accordingly, the work 

 of Cancer research, for which Mr. Crocker gave this sum as an 

 endowment, will begin at once. The research fund will be intrusted 

 for administration to a board of managers, to consist of Mr. Rives, 

 Dr. Cheesman and President Butler representing the trustees, and 

 Dean Lambert, Professors Janeway and MacCallum, of the medical 

 faculty, together with a director of Cancer research to be appointed. 



