1894- NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, ETC. 233 



;^3,ooo more, for athletic sports ; and a chair of Public Health, for endowing which 

 the late Mr. A. L. Bruce has left ;^5,ooo. 



The Milroy Lecturer to the Royal College of Physicians this year was Dr. 

 J. Berry Haycraft. His lectures on " Weismannism, Disease, and Race Progress " 

 ■were given in the Examination Hall at the Savoy on February 15, 20, and 22. 



At the annual meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 the secretary presented his annual report with a few remarks upon the enlarged 

 activities of the Institution, referring especially to the work in physical science and 

 to the increased number of correspondents of the Institution, now numbering about 

 24,000, more than half of them being without the United States, and scattered over 

 the whole globe. 



The Ohio Academy of Science is organising a Natural History Survey of 

 the State. Professors Claypole, Kellerman, and Kellicott have been appointed 

 directors, their duty being to enlist and organise volunteers, to direct them in the 

 choice of fields, and to aid them in the prosecution of their labours. Each worker 

 will, however, independently present his results to the Academy, and be himself 

 responsible for them. 



A FREE course of lectures on General Archaeology, entitled " Man before 

 History," has been delivered by Dr. Daniel G. Briaton, at the Lecture Hall of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, during the winter session. " The Aims 

 and Methods of Archasolcgy " formed the subject of the first lecture; those of the 

 second, third, fourth and fifth respectively were Africa, Asia, Europe, and America 

 in the semi-historic and pre-historic periods ; that of the sixth and final lecture, to 

 be given on March 8, " The Island World in the Semi-historic and Pre-historic 

 Periods," including geographical distribution. The detailed results of this suggestive 

 series will, we trust, be eventually published in the same form as Dr. Brinton's 

 previous course on " Races and Peoples." 



The Biological Station at Plon, which was started about a year ago for the 

 special investigation of Fresh-water Biology, seems to be doing well. In the second 

 part of its FoyschungsbericJitc (Berlin, 1894), I^r. Zacharias gives a map of the East- 

 Holstein fresh-water areas in the Plon district. Dr. W. Ule contributes a sketch of 

 the geology of the district, and Dr. Krause a sketch of the botany. Graf Castracane 

 and Professor Brun describe the diatomacea} of the Ploner See, and Dr. Zacharias 

 figures and describes ten new infusoria. 



We understand that " The British Institute of Preventive Medicine," to which 

 we referred in our February number of last year, has acquired land for the erection 

 of buildings close to Chelsea Bridge, from the Duke of Westminster. The com- 

 mittee have received ;^i2o,ooo to enable them to carry out their scheme. 



The Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge, has recently been enriched by a large 

 collection of fossils, mostly Cretaceous, the gift of the Rev. Professor T. Wiltshire. 



The Royal Botanic Society (London) is appealing to Government for a grant 

 towards the support of their gardens in Regent's Park. The Society has done good 

 work in the past in affording help, in the form of living specimens, to botanical 

 students in the medical, pharmaceutical, and veterinary schools of the metropolis. 

 We can ill afford to lose such institutions as the Regent's Park Garden or the 

 Apothecaries' Garden at Chelsea ; at the same time, they should be made as 

 available as possible for the use of the interested public. There has been no doubt 



