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Geology, London, on November 27, under the Presidency of the Duke of Devon- 

 shire. It was unanimously resolved that a statue should be offered to the Trustees of 

 the British Museum to be placed in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington ; 

 that a gold medal should be established as a students' prize for Biology in the Royal 

 College of Science ; and that any surplus fund should be disposed of as the executive 

 committee might think best for the promotion of Biological Science. Numerous 

 local committees are being formed for the collection of subscriptions, and it is hoped 

 that the fund will be of an international character. The promises of support from 

 abroad are remarkably numerous. 



On December 16, Professor T. G. Bonney received a well-merited compliment 

 at University College, London. His former students, both in Cambridge and 

 London, presented him with a portrait of himself. 



Mr. E. S. Goodrich, of Merton College, Oxford, has been elected to the Bio- 

 logical Scholarship at Naples for the year 1S95-96. 



The Walsingham medal has been awarded by Cambridge University to 

 Mr. J. L. Tuckett, fellow of Trinity College. Essays for the next award are to be 

 sent in to Professor Newton by October 10, 1896. 



On October 30, 1895, Mr. John D. Rockefeller gave a million dollars to the 

 University of Chicago, and has promised to go as far as another $2,000,000 in 

 equalling any contributions that may in future be promised by others. Mr. Rocke- 

 feller's donations to this institution now amount to about $7,600,000. 



According to Science, the University of Minnesota has five new buildings nearly 

 completed. They are (1) Medical Laboratories ($40,000 ) ; (2) Armory ($100,000) ; 

 (3) Dairy Laboratories ($30,000) ; (4) Dining-hall and Dormitory for School of 

 Agriculture ($30,000) ; and (5) Astronomical Observatory ($10,000). The new die- 

 testing works ($25,000) are this year opened for experimental work. 



We have before (vol. vi., p. 430, June, 1895) alluded to the energetic field-work 

 in geology carried out by Kansas University. A regular Geological Survey was 

 started in the spring of last year in connection with the University, and receiving 

 money from the State through that channel. Professor Haworth is at the head of 

 the Survey. The legislature has also created a State Board of Irrigation, of which 

 the Professor of Geology in the University is ex officio a member, and this places 

 additional funds at the disposal of the University. During the summer of 1S95, 

 some dozen men were employed, five working on the water problems in the western 

 part of the State, two mapping the Cretaceous, one studying the salt deposits, one 

 the glacial phenomena in north-eastern Kansas, and others working on the strati- 

 graphy of the Carboniferous rocks. On the last subject a volume is now ready for 

 publication, as well as a preliminary report on the water supply of West Kansas. As 

 yet, however, no provision has been made for the publication of this and other 

 material. Meanwhile, Professor Haworth has given an account of the stratigraphy 

 of the Kansas Coal-measures in the December number of the American Journal of 

 Science. 



Toronto University has just completed a new museum, which was opened on 

 November 15 last. 



The late Mr. James Carter has left his collection of fossil Crustacea to the 

 Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge, in which his collection of local fossils has long 

 been deposited. 



