466 NEWS [DECEMBER 
The list continues :—$140,000 left by Dr. Calvin Ellis, formerly Dean of 
the Harvard Medical School, to the University ; $90,000 bequeathed by Miss 
Lucy Ellis, to be added to the fund left by her brother, Dr. Ellis ; $50,000 
given by an anonymous donor to the University of Pennsylvania for the 
dormitory system ; $25,000 bequeathed to Wesleyan University, Middletown, 
Conn., by J. H. Sessions; $10,000 given to the Iowa Wesleyan University 
by ex-Senator James Harlan. 
We learn from Sczence that a large collection of water-colour paintings of 
Japanese fishes by a Japanese artist has been presented to the University of 
Michigan by Frederick Stears, of Detroit, and is at present on exhibition in the 
University Museum. 
Prof. Starr of Chicago has presented his collection illustrating the ethno- 
graphy of Mexico to the Folk Lore Society, who have offered to deposit it in 
the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Cambridge. 
£1000 has been bequeathed by the late Mr. C. P. Daly to the American 
Geographical Society for the foundation of a medal to be awarded for distin- 
guished services in geography. 
The American Naturalist notes that the sons of the late Prof. J. Marcou 
have presented his geological library to the American Museum of Natural 
History in New York. 
Over fifty students, says the American Naturalist, attended the Coldspring 
Harbour biological laboratory during the summer of this year. 
It is noted in Sezence that the expenses of the University of Chicago for 
printing and publishing during the academic year ending June 30, 1899, were 
over $44,000, while the receipts were only $17,000. It is probable that no 
other University supports its publications with such liberality. 
It is stated in the Sezentitic American that the number of women in attend- 
ance at the German Universities during the summer semester of 1899 was 355. 
There were 179 at Berlin, 45 at Bonn, 27 at Breslau, 29 at Gottingen, 13 at 
Heidelberg, and 19 at Halle. The University at Strasburg has just decided to 
admit women to its courses. Hitherto it has closed its doors to women, but 
now there is no German university where they may not pursue their studies. 
There are fifteen Universities in France, with 27,080 students, of whom 
12,059 belong to Paris. The total expenditure is 13,859,500 franes, of which 
10,524,200 has each year to be found by the State. 
The Scientific American notes that last year the regents of the University of 
California sent out invitations to the architects of Europe and the United States 
to participate in a competition whose object was to secure the best possible plans 
for new buildings for the university. A careful programme was outlined, and 
in deference to European architects, Antwerp was selected as the city where the 
first competition should be held, and 101 plans were received from architects 
in every country in Europe and from the United States as well. A represent- 
ative international jury passed on the plans. 
On September 8 they announced that the plan of M. E. Bénard, of Paris, 
was successful and would receive the $10,000 prize. Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst 
gave $100,000 for defraying the necessary expense of the competition ; she has 
also promised to bear the cost of some of the buildings. The whole scheme 
calls for $20,000,000. 
It is good news that the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee has published 
the first of a series of Memoirs on typical British marine plants and animals, 
edited by W. A. Herdman, D.Sc., F.R.S. No. 1 is on Ascidia, by Professor 
W. A. Herdman, D.Sc., F.R.S.. It has 60 pp. and 5 plates, and costs 1s. 6d. 
It is hoped that this series of special studies, written by those who are 
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