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ernment to respect the customs of the uative 

 peoples, and we certainly should not fail to do 

 this in a case where their customs are better 

 than our own. 



An appropriation of $170,000 has been passed 

 by the Massachusetts House for the extermina- 

 tion of the Gypsy moth. 



The German Reichstag has made a grant of 

 60,000 Marlvs for Professor Robert Koch's ap- 

 proaching expedition to the tropics to investi- 

 gate the nature and origin of malaria. 



It is said that Mr. Andrew Carnegie is pre- 

 pared to give the Pittsburg Carnegie Library 

 $1,000,000 endowment and $500,000 additional 

 for improvements when the city authorities 

 have appropriated $3,500,000 for Shenly Park. 



By the death of Mrs. A. H. Colson a bequest 

 of $25,000 for the library of Stafford, Conn., 

 becomes available. 



The Ohio State University announces for the 

 summer of 1899 the maintenance of a lake lab- 

 oratory at Sandusky, the purpose of which is 

 to provide laboratory facilities to any who may 

 wish to engage in the study of the numerous 

 forms of life there accessible. No courses of 

 instruction are designed and no laboratory fees 

 are charged, the special purpose being to pro- 

 vide opportunities for investigation. Still, the 

 opportunities for mutual improvement among a 

 circle of earnest workers, by comparison of 

 methods, discussion of results and exchange of 

 ideas, are too evident to need mention. The 

 variety of life accessible is unsurpassed, as the 

 lake, river, extensive bays and marshes afford 

 a basis for life conditions of great richness. 

 The laboratory is provided with tables, aquaria, 

 boat and other essentials, and necessary seines, 

 dredges, nets, etc., will be available when 

 needed. Rooms and board may be had con- 

 venient to the laboratory at very moderate 

 prices, and as, aside from the attractive loca- 

 tions along shore, the beauties of Kelley's, and 

 Put-in Bay Islands are readily accessible by 

 boat the opportunities are most favorable to 

 combine a few weeks of earnest study with the 

 recreations of a summer outing. Each investi- 

 gator will be expected to provide his own mi- 

 croscope, microtome and such special appli- 

 ances as he may need in his particular investi- 



gation, unless otherwise arranged, but will be 

 supplied with the usual reagents, glassware, 

 etc., and will be given entire freedom in the 

 matter and method of his investigation, except 

 for such necessary arrangements concerning use 

 of boat, assignment of table aquaria, etc., as 

 may be necessary to secure equal advantages to 

 all. The laboratory will be open from June 

 15th to August 15th, or, possibly, till September 

 1st, if desired by a number of workers. Ad- 

 vanced students, instructors or any persons 

 qualified to use the facilities offered are cordi- 

 ally invited to avail themselves of the oppor- 

 tunity here provided. Further particulars may 

 be had by addressing Professor Herbert Osborn, 

 Department Zoology and Entomologj', Ohio 

 State University, Columbus. 



VNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



We recently announced that Mr. Robert S. 

 Brookings had offered to give $100,000 to Wash- 

 ington University, St. Louis, on condition that 

 $400,000 be subscribed by others. This sum 

 has now been given and the $500,000 has been 

 added to the endowment fund of the under- 

 graduate department. This is in addition to the 

 $450,000 given for buildings within the past six 

 weeks as described recently in this Journal. 



The Woman's College, of Baltimore, will 

 receive between $25,000 and $50,000 as the re- 

 siduary legatee of the late George R. Berry, of 

 that city. 



The Teachers' College, Columbia University, 

 will erect, at a cost of $350,000, a bulding for its 

 model school, the Horace Mann School. This 

 will give, in its present buildings, more ample 

 accommodations for the regular courses. 



Six new scholarships of $100 each have beeu 

 established in the Sheffield Scientific School of 

 Yale University. They will be awarded to 

 members of the graduating class who stand 

 highest in scholarship. 



Mr. W. J. Blankinship has been appointed 

 professor of botany in the Agricultural College 

 of Montana. 



Mr. R. C. Maclaurin, Fellow of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, has been called to the chair 

 of mathematics in Victoria College, New Zea- 

 land. 



