424 NATURAL SCIENCE [June 



imports from America, and inquire into the food-products exported from Ger- 

 many to the United States. He passed througli England a few weeks ago, and 

 will return for the Zoological Congress. 



Dr Franz v. Hauer receives a pension from the Vienna Museum, and Sir 

 George King, late custodian of the Sibpur Botanical Gardens, also has been 

 pensioned on his retirement. 



Mr J. H. Teall, of the Geological Survey, has been elected a member of the 

 Athenaeum Club, under the rule which empowers the annual election of nine 

 jDersons " of distinguished eminence in science, literature, the arts, or for j^ublic 

 .services." 



The 25th of March last was the fiftieth birthday of Dr W. K. Brooks, Pro- 

 fessor of Zoology at Johns Hopkins University. His former students and other 

 zoologists took the ojjjDortunity of presenting him with a jjortrait of himself by 

 Mr T. C. Corner. 



Science can only suppose that it is a consequence of Tammany Government 

 that Dr Tarleton H. Bean, the well-known Director of the New York Aquarium, 

 has been asked by the President of the Park Board to resign the office whicli he 

 has held with universal approval. 



Oxford University is to expend a sum not exceeding £7500 in removing and 

 reconstructing the iron laboratory at the University Museum, at present occupied 

 by the Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy, and in erecting on or near to 

 the site of that laboratory a new laboratory and lecture-room for the joint use of 

 the Professor of Botany and the Professor of Comparative Anatomy. 



The University of Paris contemplates borrowing money in order to build 

 laboratories for elementary instruction in Physical and Natural Science, also to 

 complete its laboratory of Vegetable Biology situated at Fontainebleau. 



The botanical deijartnient of the University of Pennsylvania has, says Science, 

 received a gift of a collection of dried plants and seeds from the Biltmore estate, 

 and specimens of fungi from Dr J. T. Rothrock. 



The University of Illinois has decided to organise this season a summer 

 school of field and laboratory biology in connection with the third summer 

 opening of the Biological Station on the Illinois River at Havana. Four regular 

 courses will be oftered to students, two in zoology and two in botany ; in addition 

 to these, opportunity will be given to students of experience to take independent 

 work on special subjects, and to visiting investigators to pursue their personal 

 researches at the station with the use of its ecj^uipment. 



A College of Forestry, says Science, has been established at Cornell Uni- 

 versity with an initial endowment of $10,000. The Trustees of the University 

 are authorised to purchase not more than 30,000 acres in the State Park in the 

 Adirondacks for the jaroposed College. There will be a professor, two instructors, 

 a forest manager, and several subordinates. The Director is to be Prof. B. E. 

 Fernow of the U.S. Forestry Division, 



The Botanical Survey of Nebraska, which is worked by the University of 

 that State, has now been in progress for six years, although much work in that 

 direction had been done before. The results were summarised by Prof. C. E. 

 Bessey at the last meeting of the American Association. There is a herbarium of 

 about 10,000 specimens, sjiecially intended to illustrate plant distx'ibution. Five 

 reports have been issued, and a comprehensive work, the " Flora of Nebraska," 

 of which Parts I. and II. appeared in August 1894, is in course of publication. 

 The various botanical regions and districts of the State have already been mapped 

 with some accuracy, and another map giving their physical features is almost 

 ready for publication. 



Mrs Phoebe Hearst has offered to construct and equip at her own expense a 

 building for the College of Mines at the University of California. 



