Nov., 1896. NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, ETC. 343 



Mrs. E. Roby, Mr. E. A. Shedd, and Mr. C. B. Shedd, have offered the 

 University of Chicago a large tract of land around Wolf Lake for the purpose of a 

 lake biological station, and it is understood, says Science, that they will erect the 

 buildings for the purpose if the offer is accepted. 



In the Anatomical Building now being added to Chicago University will be 

 placed the psychological laboratory, and the department of neurology under 

 Professor Donaldson. 



Over half the amount required for a new science hall at Lake Erie Seminary, 

 U.S.A., has been subscribed, as well as $10,000 for equipment. 



The Johns Hopkins University Circular for May, which is devoted to a general 

 report of the courses of instruction, states that the geological library contains most 

 of the leading journals dealing with geology, and has been enriched by the addition 

 of the libraries of Professor G. H. Williams and Professor H. C. Lewis. Moreover, 

 the Peabody library is always available for the use of students. A capital practice 

 is that of bi-weekly meetings, for the more advanced students, at which the leading 

 geological journals are reviewed. In botany the students have the good fortune to 

 be allowed the use of Captain Donnell Smith's private herbarium, which contains 

 some 78,000 sheets of specimens. 



It is proposed to erect, near Honolulu, a biological laboratory for the Hawaian 

 Isles. According to the Revue scieiiiifique, the cost, some /i6o,ooo, would be 

 defrayed by Mr. C. R. Bishop, one of the richest bankers resident there. 



Part of the late Professor A. M. Butljero's collection of butterflies has been 

 presented to Moscow University, and the late Julius Flohr's collection of Mexican 

 insects has been left to the Berlin Museum of Natural History. 



A MUSEUM of natural history, geology, archaeology, and technology is proposed 

 for Hertfordshire, and a site near St. Albans has been offered by Lord Spencer, 

 upon certain conditions. A sum of at least ;^5,ooo must be raised for building and 

 endowment, and the museum is to be in the hands of the County Council. We are 

 glad to see that a curator is thought of as much importance as a building. A 

 provisional committee has been appointed, including Lord Cowper, Sir John Evans, 

 and the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



The Report of the Manchester Museum for 1895-6, notes the importance of the 

 recognition of the museum as a public institution by the Manchester City Council, 

 in that a sum of /400 has been apportioned to the museum out of the Free Library 

 Rate. The average Sunday attendance is 519, and may be considered highly satis- 

 factory, seeing that the largest attendance ever recorded on a week day was 1,079. 

 The increase in the collections and library is very marked. The arrangement of the 

 minerals by Mr. Gilbert Rigg, under the supervision of Dr. Burghardt, has been 

 completed as far as the end of the silicates, and it is hoped that a guide to this 

 collection may shortly be published. 



Whitechapel rises superior to the nation in that the following evening lectures, 

 with lantern illustrations, are being delivered in its Museum free of charge : on 

 October 13, " The Egyptian Workman, Past and Present," by W. Flinders Petrie ; 

 on November 10, " Extinct Monsters," by the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson ; on Decem- 

 ber 8, "The Meadows of the Sea," by G. R. Murray. 



An exhibition of the highest interest is being shown in the Museum d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, Paris. It comprises the collections of ethnography and natural history 

 made by Mr. Pavie and his fellow-workers during their explorations in Indo-China. 



