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SCIENCE. 



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During part of the year 1866 lie was in 

 charge of the Museum while Professor Agassiz 

 was absent in Brazil. In 1869, on his return 

 from a three years' residence at Calamut, he 

 was appointed Assistant in charge of Radiates, 

 but without salary. Early in 1874 he was 

 made a member of the Faculty of the Museum, 

 Curator, and a member of the Board of Trus- 

 tees. In 1876 the Museum was transferred to 

 the University by its Trustees. Mr. Agassiz 

 has never received any salary as Curator. 



Between September 1, 1871, and September 1, 

 1897, Mr. Agassiz expended forthebenefit of the 

 Museum from his private means, without mak- 

 ing any communication on the subject to the 

 President and Fellows, over seven hundred and 

 fifty thousand dollars, including his expendi- 

 tures on objects now formally transferred to 

 the Corporation, beside contributing about 

 fifty thousand dollars to other University ob- 

 jects in gifts known at the time to the President 

 and Fellows. 



The great sum expended for the Museum is 

 divisible into the following items which are 

 taken from Mr. Agassiz's private accounts : 



Land, Buildings and Fixtures $219,007.00 



Cases, Collections and care of same. . 223,867.00 



Publications 118,127.00 



Subscriptions to Agassiz Memorial 

 Fund and for State grants fcondi- 



tional) 65,000.00 



Library 26,695.00 



Salaries 27,051.00 



Deficits Humboldt Fund (Students). 8,260.00 



Fuel - 7,807.00 



Interest 9,568.00 



Laboratory Supplies 3,100.00 



Naples Table 1,473.00 



Wood's Hole Fish Commission Tables 500.00 



F. C. Gray Bust 355.00 



Not analyzed ; old accounts not ac- 

 cessible 41,008.28 



§751,818.28 

 Of the total expenditure about $107,000 was 

 for current expenses, or expenses which cannot 

 now be specified ; the remainder is represented 

 to-day by important parts of the land, building 

 funds, collections, cases, fixtures, publications 

 and library. 



The Corporation record here their gratitude 

 for these great gifts, distributed over a period 



of twenty-six years, and for devoted services 

 rendered to the Museum in various capacities 

 ever since 1860, with one interval of three 

 years, 1866-1869. 



THE CLIMATOLOGICAL LABOEATOEY OF THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO. 



During the past two years the University of 

 New Mexico has been carrying on some work 

 looking toward a scientific investigation of the 

 climatology of the plateau, especially with re- 

 spect to its beneficial effects in cases of tuber- 

 culosis and analogous diseases. Statistical in- 

 formation has been collecting, and special 

 studies in the variation in vital capacity among 

 students in the University and the public 

 schools of the Territory have been carried on. 

 The biological and bacteriological departments, 

 under the special direction of President Herrick 

 and Professor Weinzirl, have taken up the 

 study of air and water and the conditions 

 of sepsis, etc. It has been hoped to extend 

 this investigation to include the physical and 

 chemical characteristics of the climate and 

 also a study of the blood changes due to alti- 

 tude, with special reference to the virulence and 

 curtailment of the diseases in question. 



A few weeks since Mrs. Walter C. Hadley 

 made to the University a proposition to donate 

 to the institution the sum of $10,000, to be used 

 toward the erection of a building to contain the 

 laboratories for this and allied research. This 

 gift was conditioned upon the raising of $5,000 

 for the comiDletion of the building and a similar 

 sum for equipment. The Regents have agreed 

 to establish the chair necessary to continue and 

 prosecute the research, and are making an 

 earnest effort to secure the subscription of the 

 amount requisite to secure Mrs. Hadley's dona- 

 tion. The location of the University is prob- 

 ably unsurpassed for such research, and the 

 faculty already contains a corps of bacteriolo- 

 gists and biologists acquainted with the lines of 

 work to be opened, several of whom have per- 

 sonal familiarity with the beneficial results of 

 the climate. 



One interesting result of the studies so far 

 made is the evidence that a residence on the 

 plateau during the growing years of later child- 

 hood serves in a large measure to correct the 



