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opinion, be the height of folly to run the smallest 

 risk of introducing the disease into British 

 Central Africa, where its presence would be an 

 irreparable disaster. Knowing the mechanical 

 way in which such work is carried out by native 

 officials in India, I do not think that any stipu- 

 lation as to locality is of the smallest value. 

 Whatever was stated to the contrary, the first 

 parcel of seed would, in all probability, come 

 from a plantation reeking with disease. The 

 present request is the more unnecessary as, ac- 

 cording to a coffee planter in Nyassaland who is 

 well acquainted with coffee cultivation in Cey- 

 lon, a local African tree, Alhizza fastigiata, is 

 admirably adapted for a shade tree for coffee. 

 If this is not sufficient, the rain tree, Pithecolo- 

 bium saman, might be tried. The seed can be 

 obtained in abundance from Jamaica, and this 

 would be perfectly safe." 



Messes. G. P. Putnam's Sons will begin 

 ear^ in the present year the publication of a 

 new series of scientific books, ' The Science 

 Series,' edited by Professor J. McKeen Cattell, 

 Columbia University, with the cooperation of 

 Frank Evers Beddard, Esq., F. E. S., in Great 

 Britain. It is expected that the following will be 

 among the earlier volumes to be in readiness : 

 The Stars. By Peofessob Simon Newcomb, U. S. 



N., Nautical Almanac Office and Johns Hopkins 



University. 

 The Earth as a Planet. By Peofessoe C. A. Young, 



Princeton University. 

 The Measurement of the Earth. By PeissidENT T. C. 



Mendenhall, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 



formerly Superintendent of the U. S. Coast and 



Geodetic Survey. 

 Earth Structure. By Peofessoe James Geikie, 



F.E.S., University of Edinburgh. 

 Volcanoes. By Peofessoe T. G. Bonney, F.E.S., 



University College, London. 

 Earthquakes. By Majoe C. E. Dutton, U. S. A. 

 Physiography : Tlie Forms of the Land. By Peofessoe 



W. M. Davis, Harvard University. 

 Tlie Groundwork of Science. By De. St. Geoege 



MlVAET, P. R. S., Chilworth, Surrey. 

 The History of Science. By C. S. Pieece, Milford, Pa. 

 The Study of Man. By Peofessoe A. C. Haddon, 



Eoyal College of Science, Dublin. 

 General Ethnography. By PEOFESSOE DANIEL G. 



Beinton, University of Pennsylvania. 

 Recent Theories of Evolution. By J. Maek Baldwin, 



Princeton University. 



The Animal Ovum. By F. E. Beddaed, F. E. S., 

 Zoological Society, London. 



The Beproduction of Living Things. By Peofessoe 

 Maecus Haetoq, Queen's College, Cork. 



The Structure of Man. By A. Keith. 



Seredity. By J. Aethue Thomson, School of Med- 

 icine, Edinburgh. 



Life Areas of North America : A Study in the Distribu- 

 tion of Animals and Plants. By De. C. Haet Mee- 

 eiam. Chief of the Biological Survey, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



Age, Growth, Sex and Death. By PEOFESSOE Chaeles 

 S. MiNOT, Harvard Medical School. 



VNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The sum of $50,000, necessary to secure a 

 gift of $10,000 from the Baptist Educational 

 Society of America, has been raised by sub- 

 scription for Colby University. It is stated 

 that this money will be in part used for the 

 erection of a chemical laboratory. 



The attempt to break the will of William 



Sauser, of Hannibal, Mo., who died in 1892 and 



bequeathed all his property, valued at $200,000, 



■ to Westminster College, Hannibal, Mo., a 



Presbyterian institution, has failed. 



The Town Council of Aberdeen has voted 

 £5,000 to the University buildings extension 

 scheme, on condition that the same be com- 

 pleted. 



At the meeting of the Edinburgh University 

 Court on January 17th intimation was made 

 of a donation of £1,000 by Sir William Overend 

 Priestley, M.P., for the Universities of St. An- 

 drews and Edinburgh. The very Eev. Dr. 

 William Charles Lake, late Dean of Durham, 

 has bequeathed £1,000 to the Durham College 

 of Science, at Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



The Geological Laboratory of King's College, 

 London, has received a valuable gift of miner- 

 als and recent shells from Miss A. Mallet in aid 

 of the equipment for teaching purposes in the 

 faculty of natural science and engineering. 



At the first meeting of the governors of 

 Mason University College, Birmingham, which 

 has recently been incorporated, the President 

 of the College (the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, 

 M. P.) made an important speech on the sub- 

 ject of a Midland University. 



Dk. Frank M. McMuert, Dean of the 



