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for grants are invited. The applicant should 
state fully the purpose for which the grant is 
desired; the qualifications of the applicant 
and the general opportunities and conditions 
under which the work is to be done. The 
members of the committee are Ludvig Hek- 
toen, Chicago (1748 W. Harrison St.), 
Graham Lusk, New York, and Eugene L. 
Opie, St. Louis, Mo. 
Mr. GrorcE Henry VERRALL, formerly Con- 
servative M.P. for East Cambridgeshire, a 
former president of the Royal Entomological 
Society, who died on September 16, left his 
collection of British Diptera and the cabinets 
in which it is contained to his nephew, James 
Edward Collin, conditioned upon his offering 
to the Natural History Museum, South Ken- 
sington, three pairs of each species of which 
he possessed a full series (six pairs constitute 
a full series), and at least one pair of each 
species of which he possessed more than one 
pair; and all his real and personal estate in 
the parish of Wicken, Cambs, to the National 
Trust for places of historic interest or nat- 
ural beauty. 
Tue Biological Survey of the Agricultural 
Department has secured the cooperation of 
the National Zoological Park in experiments 
in breeding mink for the purpose of ascertain- 
ing the possibilities of rearing them in cap- 
tivity for commercial purposes. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
Girts of over half a million dollars to the 
University of California have just been con- 
summated, through the deeding of property 
by trustees for the late Mrs. Jane K. Sather, 
of Oakland. Plans have been begun for the 
Sather Campanile, a lofty bell-tower, for 
which Mrs. Sather provided some $200,000. 
Two professorships are endowed; the Jane 
K. Sather chairs in classical literature and 
history will each have an endowment of ap- 
proximately $120,000. Endowment is pro- 
vided for three book funds. 
OrFIcIAL record has been made in the city 
of Philadelphia of the transfer of the new 
tuberculosis hospital built and endowed by 
Mr. Henry Phipps to the University of Penn- 
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sylvania. The cost of the new building is 
$300,000, and the entire project will repre- 
sent an outlay of about $1,000,000. 
Tue Illinois State Supreme Court has 
rendered a decision which declares unconsti- 
tutional an act of the last legislature which 
voted an item of $60,000 for the medical 
school of the university. As many of the 
other acts of the legislature were passed in 
the same manner, there is considerable con- 
fusion in the minds of people as to what the 
outcome may be. It is thought that a special 
session of the legislature may be called to 
straighten out affairs. 
Tue departments of horticulture and plant 
pathology of the University of Wisconsin 
have moved into their new building. It is a 
two-story and basement brick structure, 48 by 
128 feet, and with attic space for laboratories, 
The cost of the building was $60,000, exclu- 
sive of the four greenhouses, potting house 
and pathologium, situated in the rear of the 
building. In the basement of the new struc- 
ture are spray laboratories, fruit rooms and 
bulb rooms, while the offices, lecture rooms 
and general laboratories of the horticulture 
department are on the first floor. The second 
floor is given over to the plant pathology de- 
partment, under Professor L. R. Jones. Pro- 
fessor J. G. Moore is at the head of the horti- 
culture department. 
THE royal commission on university edu- 
cation in London has recommended a build- 
ing for the university to be placed on a va- 
cant site of more than 100,000 square feet im- 
mediately behind the extension of the British 
Museum. The site consists of four plots, two 
on each side of the new British Museum 
Avenue, on one of which it is proposed that 
a spacious hall should be built for the univer- 
sity, the other three plots being used for ad- 
ministration, library, small lecture theaters 
and rooms for graduates. The site is part of 
the Bedford estate, and it is stated that the 
Duke of Bedford is prepared to dispose of it 
for the purposes suggested. 
Dr. ArtHuR HOLMES, assistant professor of 
psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, 
