Dec, 1896. NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, ETC. 401 



A Nansen Fund for scientific research has been established, and nearly ;^i7,ooo 

 has already been subscribed. It is said that Nansen himself may be appointed 

 director of the fund, which will be under the care of the Christiania University, the 

 Norwegian Society of Science, and the Bergen Museum. Contributions may be 

 sent to the committee of the fund at Christiania University. 



We are glad to see that the Austrian Government is taking measures to admit 

 women next year to all faculties, except theological, of the universities, and also to 

 grant those lady physicians who had obtained degrees at foreign universities the 

 right of practising after having undergone examination m Austria. 



Those in charge of the Essex Technical Laboratories are printing in their 

 Journal papers on practical work in Animal Life on the Farm. These are simple 

 demonstrations on the parts of Invertebrata, with notes on harmless or noxious 

 characters of the animals noticed, and should be of much service to farmers and 

 others. 



A NEW Pathological Laboratory, adequately equipped at a cost of over 

 ;f 15,000, has been added to the Western Infirmary at Glasgow. Private working 

 rooms for original researches, as well as a large museum, are provided. 



The fund for establishing a Pasteur Institute in India, has, we learn from 

 Nature, reached the sum of 70,000 rupees, besides an annual income of 4,373 rupees. 

 With 50,000 rupees more, work might soon be started in a fully equipped building. 



At Algiers, France, there has been established a bacteriological laboratory, with 

 an appropriation of about ;^ioo per annum. 



We learn from Science that the building in connection with the Massachusetts 

 General Hospital, Boston, will soon be ready ; it includes laboratories for chemistry, 

 bacteriology, and histology. 



The Neild Collection of Coal-Measure fossils, collected mostly in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Oldham, has been given to the Oldham Corporation, and is to be 

 arranged in Oldham Museum, to illustrate the geology of that district, by Mr. H. 

 Bolton, of Owen's College Museum. The mineral collection is also being put into 

 order, and the whole plan allows of a typical geological collection being developed, 

 somewhat on the lines of that at Perth. 



The Manchester Museum has just acquired the collection of Lancashire Coal- 

 Measure Fossils made by Mr. George Wild, one of the most thorough and pains- 

 taking geologists of the county. It is a large collection, contains several types, and 

 almost every specimen is labelled with locality, horizon, date of collecting, etc. 

 The data are very full. The collection includes about 300 sheets of Coal plants, 

 many bearing the successive slice of coal-ball to some of those described by the late 

 Professor Williamson, who was dependent in a large measure for his material on 

 Messrs. Wild, Neild, and Butterworth. 



We are glad to hear that the Corporation of Liverpool has just voted a sum of 

 ;^72,ooo for the extension of the Derby and Mayer Museums. Since the extension 

 will be along the downward slope of the hill, it will permit the two lower floors to be 

 used for technical schools, so that the whole sum mentioned is not entirely devoted 

 to museum purposes. We have been waiting for some time to hear what was to be 

 done about the proposed Zoological Gardens in Liverpool. It is now some months 

 since, at a preliminary meeting held in Liverpool on June ri. Professor Herdman 

 moved : " That in the opinion of this meeting it is desirable, in the interests of 

 science and education in this city, to establish zoological gardens, containing a 



