July 1898] NEWS 67 
this the statement that the preparation for the extension of agricultural teaching 
under the auspices of the Cornell University has this year been increased from 
$25,000 to $35,000. 
Tue Rolleston Prize of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge has been 
awarded to Richard Evans, of Jesus College, Oxford, for his memoir on “The 
Development of Spongilla.” The examiners consider the memoirs “On the 
Coagulation of the Proteids of White of Egg,” sent in by W. Ramsden, of Pem- 
broke College, Oxford, to be of great merit, and worthy of honourable mention. 
Miss CRUICKSHANK has presented the Aberdeen University with £5,000 for the 
formation of a botanic garden, to be named in memory of her late brother, 
Dr Alexander Cruickshank. 
A Cuair of Agricultural Zoology has just been created at the Faculty of 
Sciences of Marseilles, and Dr A. Vayssi¢re has been appointed to the Chair. 
Publications will be issued from the laboratory, and foreign publications of 
similar nature are solicited in exchange. 
THE University of Chicago proposes to establish Doctorate Fellowships, or, 
as we should call them, Research Fellowships, with an annual income of $750. 
Candidates must have received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of 
Chicago, and their appointments must be approved by the officers of the depart- 
ment or departments in which their proposed research falls’ They will be ex- 
pected to work for nine months of each year at the University, and to prepare 
the results of their researches for publication. Appointments are to be made 
annually, but may be confirmed for a period not exceeding five years. 
Tue Trustees of the British Museum have recently purchased the large 
collection of marine animals formed by Canon A. M. Norman, and containing 
type-specimens of many species which he has established. Part of the collection 
is already in the Museum, the rest will go there eventually. 
THE Bentham Trustees have recently presented a portrait in oils of Robert 
Brown to Kew Gardens. 
Tuer Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art has recently acquired the valuable 
collection of fossils from the Upper Silurian rocks of the Pentland Hills, made 
by the late David Hardie, of Bavelaw. It is specially rich in specimens from 
the Eurypterid beds of Gutterford Burn near Carlops, Peeblesshire ; there are also 
specimens, chiefly sponges, from North Esk. 
In the Museum of the Scarborough Philosophical and Archaeological Society, 
Mr C. D. Head has been replacing the old and ruinous collection of birds by 
cases displaying them, so far as possible, in their natural habitat, along with their 
nests and eggs, when these can be obtained. An improvement has also been 
made in the cases for the fossils. The Society records the capture of two 
badgers—one at Cloughton, the other near Folkton. The record of local birds 
has been placed upon a more satisfactory basis, every item contained in the list 
being thoroughly authenticated. We are glad to see that the fish, both sea and 
fresh-water, also are being studied; Mr F. Grant records the occurrence of 
various species not hitherto observed. Considerable attention is also paid by 
members of the Society to the Invertebrata of various Classes, though naturally 
the land and fresh-water Mollusca and the Lepidoptera come in for the giant’s 
share. The geologists have paid attention to the exposures during the making 
of the Marine Drive, but not many fossils have yet been found. Other items 
of much interest to local naturalists are contained in the Report for 1897, which 
shows that the Society is in a more satisfactory condition scientifically than it is 
financially, 
