1899] NEWS 175 



and other forms of biology as bearing upon the causes, nature, prevention, and 

 treatment of disease. He has proposed to the Council of the Jenner Institute 

 (lately the British Institute) of Preventive Medicine, that the donation shall be 

 handed over to the Institute on condition that in future the control and 

 management of the affairs of the Institute shall be placed in the hands of a 

 new Board of seven trustees, three of the seven to be chosen by the Council of 

 the Institute, three by the donor, and one by the Council of the Royal Society. 

 The offer has been cordially accepted at a meeting of the Council. 



The donor further proposes that part of the new fund shall be appropriated 

 to the enlargement of the buildings of the Institute at Chelsea, part to increas- 

 ing the at present sadly inadequate salaries of the director and other members 

 of the scientific staff, part to the expenses of administration and maintenance, 

 and the remainder chiefly to founding valuable fellowships and studentships, 

 tenable for limited periods, for research either in the laboratories of the 

 Institute or in the centres of outbreaks of disease, whether at home or abroad. 



The executors of the late M. Dobree of Nantes, the shipbuilder, who left a 

 fortune of 13,000,000 francs, have, in accordance with his wishes, bought a 

 large mansion, with a park of 37 acres, and presented it to the town of Nantes 

 for the foundation of a School of Colonial Horticulture, to endow which a sum 

 of one and a quarter million francs is also bequeathed. 



The official organ of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior gives some 

 account of the work accomplished, since its constitution three years ago, by the 

 German Central Committee for the establishment of sanatoria for consumptives 

 under the patronage of the German Empress and the presidency of the Imperial 

 Chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe. The great object of the Central Committee was 

 to establish a sufficient number of sanatoria throughout the German Empire, 

 and in this they have met with much encouragement and success. 



The Rev. G. Procter, a retired schoolmaster, has bequeathed £3000 to the 

 University of Aberdeen as a contribution to the erection of an observatory at 

 King's College. 



We learn from Science that the Bussey Institute, Harvard University, has 

 received from Mr. E. D. Morgan $5000 for the equipment of a pathological 

 laboratory, of which Professor Theobold Smith is the director ; also that a new 

 greenhouse, costing $7000, has been given anonymously to the Botanical 

 Garden of the University. 



We learn from Science that the late Mann S. Valentine bequeathed to the 

 town of Richmond, Virginia, his collections of books, MSS., paintings, and 

 anthropological specimens, with his own house to serve as museum-building. 

 This is to be associated with the educational institutions of the State, to 

 publish literary and scientific papers, and to preserve objects of antiquity. 



The Thakoor of Gondal, lately a medical student at Edinburgh University, 

 has spent .£30,000 on a college " of the type of Eton," which Lord Sandhurst 

 opened the other day. 



The Free Library, Museum, and Technical School of Bootle have started a 

 Journal for the use of their visitors. It will serve, in the first instance, as a 

 quarterly supplement to the library catalogues, and should do much to help 

 readers to a right use of the library. We learn from it that the re-arrangemenl 

 of the birds in the museum, under geographical regions, is now nearly finished, 

 as also is the labelling with popular names. There will also l>e an arrangement 

 of birds in families, according to Claus's "Text-book of Zoology." The 

 arrangement is described in a threepenny handbook. In connection with this 

 a course of six lectures on birds is being given to school teachers. In the 

 same room as the birds are exhibited the invertebrates. 



The University of Pennsylvania has determined to establish an experi- 

 mental menagerie under the direction of Professor Edward .1. Conkling, where 



