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SCIENCE. 



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$15,000 toward an art building for the uni- 

 versity, providing a $100,000 building shall be 

 erected on the campus within six years. 



By the will of the late Susan S. Clark, of 

 Hartford, Conn., just admitted to probate. 

 Trinity College is to receive $10,000 for the 

 support for two scholarships. 



The library of the University of Missouri has 

 received a gift of about 2,000 volumes, chiefly 

 on physics and chemistry, from Dr. A. Linton, 

 of St. Louis. 



A Fellowship, to be called the Geoffrey 

 Fellowship, of the value of £100 a year for 

 three years, has been presented to Newnham 

 College, Cambridge, and will be awarded in 

 June, 1898. The Geoffrey Fellow will be re- 

 quired to reside at Newnham College, and to 

 pursue independent study in some department 

 of learning, letters or science. 



The committee of the Charing-cross Hospital 

 Medical School has passed the following resolu- 

 tion: "That the committee of the Charing- 

 cross Hospital Medical School respectfully urges 

 the government to introduce, early in the ensu- 

 ing session, a bill on the lines of the London 

 University Commission Bill, 1897. Further, 

 the committee hopes that on this occasion the 

 government will give sufficient time and sup- 

 port to the bill to insure its passing through 

 both Houses of Parliament. ' ' 



An election to the Isaac Newton studentship 

 of Cambridge University will be held in the 

 Lent term, 1898. The studentship, which is of 

 the annual value of £200, is for the encourage- 

 ment of study and research in astronomy (es- 

 pecially gravitational astronomy, but including 

 other branches of astronomy and astronomical 

 physics) and physical optics. The persons 

 eligible are Bachelors of Arts of the University 

 who will be under the age of 25 years on Jan- 

 uary 1, 1898. 



The University of Zurich has 713 students, 

 of whom as many as 333 are foreigners. 135 

 of these are from Russia. There are more 

 women than men in the medical department. 



The Quain professorship of physics in Uni- 

 versity College, London, will be vacant at the 

 end of the present session by the resignation of 



Professor Carey Foster. Candidates for the 

 chair should send their applications by Tues- 

 day, March 1st. ' The Curators of Patronage ' 

 of the University of Edinburgh announce that 

 candidates for the chair of moral philosophy, 

 vacant by the death of Professor Henry Calder- 

 wood, must send in their applications not later 

 than March 31st. 



DISC088I0N AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



WATER SURFACE TEMPERATURES OF LAKE 

 TITICACA. 



To THE Editor op Science: A few observa- 

 tions of the temperature of the surface waters- 

 of Lake Titicaca, made during a recent trip 

 across the lake, may be of interest to the readers 

 of Science. 



Lake Titicaca lies on the elevated plateau of 

 Titicaca, partly in Peru and partly in Bolivia, 

 at an altitude of 12,505 feet above sea-level. 

 Its large size, its altitude, and the climatic 

 conditions of the region in which it is situated, 

 together with the historical associations con- 

 nected with it, combine to make it in many 

 respects the most interesting lake in the world. 

 The following observations — unfortunately very 

 incomplete — were made during the steamboat 

 trip from Puno, situated on the Bay of Puno, 

 at the western end of the lake, to Chililaya, a 

 small village near the southern extremity of the 

 lake. Chililaya, the landing place for pas- 

 sengers and freight going to La Paz, is about 

 100 miles from Puno, and 36 miles by carriage 

 road from La Paz. 



The steamer left Puno at 8 a. m., November 

 26th, and reached Chililaya at 7:30 p. m., the 

 same day. At 8 a. m., before leaving the 

 wharf at Puno, the air temperature was 56.0° 

 and the water 60.9°. There were at that time 

 scattering cirrus clouds, and a gentle breeze 

 from NE. The air and water temperatures 

 during the remainder of the day were as fol- 

 lows: 9 a. m., air, 50.0° ; water, 59.5°. 10 a. 

 m., air, 53.2°; water, 59.0°. 11 a. m., air, 

 51.8° ; water, 57. 2°. 12m., air, 51.2°; water, 

 57.7°. 1 p.m., air, 50.9°; water, 57.9°. 2 p. 

 m., air, 54.2°; water, 58.2°. 3 p. m., air, 54.8°; 

 water, 58.3°. 4 p. m., air, 54.1° ; water, 57.9°. 

 5 p. m., air, 49.8° ; water, 57.9°. 6:15 p. m.^ 



