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pressing tlie claims of the Society to a grant, it 

 being over ten years since the Science and Art 

 Department had conferred on it the sum of 

 £3,000, long since expended in the erection of 

 buildings and in improvements in the gardens. 

 In last March the Aquarium House was for- 

 mally reopened by Her Excellency, the Countess 

 Cadogan. The committee, headed by Dr. Sam- 

 uel Gordon and Lord Powerscourt, having for 

 its object the erection of a memorial building to 

 bear the name of the former Honorable Secretary 

 of the Society, the late Dr. Samuel Haughton, 

 has received much public sympathy and sup- 

 port. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. Joseph F. Loubat has given to Colum- 

 bia University property valued at $1,000,000, 

 subject to a life annuity of $60,000. This great 

 sum is for the support of the library, and is to 

 be named the ' Gaillerd- Loubat Library En- 

 dowment Fund.' 



The bill has been presented in the Maryland 

 House of Delegates appropriating $100,000 to 

 the Johns Hopkins University. President Gil- 

 man has made a statement in which he ex- 

 plains how the income of the University has 

 been decreased by the failure of the Baltimore 

 & Ohio Railroad ; in 1896-97 the income exclu- 

 sive of the medical school and certain gifts 

 given for special purposes was : 



From investments $50,796 44 



Tuition 47,512 09 



Eelieffundof 1896 57,424 01 



Rents 21,432 22 



Total 1177,164 76 



Expenses of the University were $191,156. 

 The buildings, land and equipment of the Uni- 

 versity are valued at slightly over a $1,000,000. 



The Board of Trustees of Lafayette College 

 have decided to rebuild Pardee Hall, the build- 

 ing containing the scientific departments, re- 

 cently destroyed by fire, and to erect a chem- 

 ical laboratory at a cost of $25,000. Towards 

 the cost of this building $10,000 was subscribed 

 at the meeting. 



Dk. E. D. Pearsons, of Chicago, has do- 

 nated $25,000 to Pomona College, Pomona, Cal., 

 which will be used by the trustees for the erec- 

 tion of a new science building. 



The Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 

 has received, by the will of the late C. D. Shain, 

 $7,000 for scholarships and prizes. 



The annual report of the Board of Regents of 

 the University of the State of New York states 

 that the colleges and professional and technical 

 schools of the State in seven years have in- 

 creased their expenditures from $2,733,860 to 

 $5,771,325 ; the value of buildings and grounds, 

 from $15,129,028 to $28,447,974 ; the libraries 

 and apparatus, from $1,896,959 to $3,542,456, 

 and the total property owned, from $39,045,604 

 to $77,148,944. 



The London University Commission Bill was 

 introduced into the House of Lords by the 

 Lord President of the Council on February 21st. 

 It is identical with the bill of 1897, except that 

 the names of the commissioners are not in- 

 cluded. 



The Austrian governm ent has compromised 

 with the rioting university students by suspend- 

 ing the lectures for the balance of the semester, 

 but permitting them to count the time as spent 

 in residence. At the commencement of the 

 summer semester on March 21st all students 

 will be required to renew their pledge to ob- 

 serve the academic regulations. 



Professor Russell H. Chittenden, with- 

 out resigning his professorship in Yale Univer- 

 sity, has accepted the directorship of the depart- 

 ment of physiological chemistry in Columbia 

 University. Dr. W. J. Gies has been appointed 

 instructor and Messrs. A. H. Redland and H. 

 E. McDermott have been appointed assistants in 

 the department. 



President A. S. Draper, of the University 

 of Illinois, has been offered the superintendent- 

 ship of schools of New York City. 



Professor Luigi Lombardi has been ap- 

 pointed professor of technical physics at the 

 Industrial Museum of Turin, in the room of the 

 late Professor Galileo Ferraris. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE . 

 muscular disturbances in monocular 



vision. 



In a recent number of Science (February 25 



1898) Mr. Charles H. Judd recounts some in- 



