May 3, 1912] 
at about $62,500. Of this, the city of Dresden 
will furnish $37,500; the special income of 
the museum from entrance money and fees 
for attendance at lectures, etc., is estimated 
at $20,000. The rest, it is hoped, will be sup- 
plied by gifts. The museum is to include 
three chief divisions, “ Der Mensch,” the his- 
torical division and the ethnologie division. 
‘UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
Nearby two hundred thousand dollars have 
been subscribed to the equipment fund in the 
past two weeks, according to the announce- 
ment of the Alumni Fund Committee of the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
Tue Sheffield Scientific School of Yale 
University has received from Mr. Murray 
Gugenheim, of New York City, $20,000 as a 
nucleus of a fund for additional instruction 
and equipment in the branches of mining and 
metallurgy. 
By act of legislature of the state of Penn- 
sylvania, dated April 20, a charter of incorpo- 
ration, with the power to grant degrees, was 
given to the Carnegie Technical Schools, and 
the name of the institution is changed to the 
Carnegie Institute of Technology. 
“Work has been commenced upon the con- 
struction of the new Ceramics and Mining 
Engineering Laboratories of the University 
of Illinois. These buildings are to form a 
part of the group of engineering buildings to 
be located upon ground east of Mathews 
Avenue, which has recently been acquired by 
the university. The contracts for the new 
Transportation Building and the Locomotive 
Testing Laboratory will soon be let. 
Proressor Finisert Roru, head of the for- 
estry department of the University of Michi- 
gan, who recently accepted the chair of for- 
estry at Cornell, has reconsidered his decision 
and will remain at Michigan where the regents 
have agreed to provide additional facilities for 
the forestry school. 
Proressor FreDERICK EK. Bowron, professor 
of edueation and director of the school of edu- 
cation in the State University of Iowa, has 
accepted a call to become head of the depart- 
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ment of education in the State University of 
Washington at Seattle, and will begin his 
work at that place in September. 
Dr. Ropert CHAMBERS, JR., has accepted 
an appointment as assistant professor of his- 
tology and embryology in the University of 
Cincinnati. Dr. Chambers is on the teaching 
staff of the Marine Biological Laboratory, 
Woods Hole, Mass., and has held the position 
of lecturer in the University of Toronto for 
the last three years. He now has a fellowship 
in Professor E. B. Wilson’s department. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
THE NAME AND BRAIN OF THE GAR 
To THE Eprror or Science: From my 
former pupil and assistant, Asa CO. Chandler, 
A.B., now on the staff of the University of 
California, I have recently received a copy of 
his paper, “On a Lymphoid Structure Lying 
Over the Myelencephalon of Lepisosteus,” 
constituting No. 2 of Vol. 9 of the “ Publica- 
tions in Zoology ” edited by Professors Ritter 
and Kofoid of that institution. Every such 
contribution to the knowledge of this genus 
is to be welcomed as helping to remove the 
“veproach to the comparative anatomists of 
this country that the brain of this [almost] 
exclusively American form should not have 
been fully elucidated.”* Material and litera- 
ture for the profitable discussion of the struc- 
ture and homology of the newly described 
organ are now inaccessible; but a careful 
1The sentence here quoted is from my review of 
Wiedersheim’s ‘‘Comparative Anatomy of Verte- 
brates,’’? ScrencE, N. 8., Vol. 27, May 8, 1908, 
under the caption, Fig. 159. The bracketed word 
is introduced in qualification of the too sweeping 
statement as to the distribution of the genus; 
according to Jordan and Evermann it is repre- 
sented in China by a single species, L. sinensis. 
Never having seen an example of this species, or 
even a picture or description of it, I had forgotten 
its existence not only when the sentence quoted 
was written, but also when trying to enumerate 
my errors (‘‘Some Mistakes of the Writer and 
Others,’’ ete., ScmencE, N. S., Vol. 34, July 21, 
1911). Are the other readers of this journal 
equally ignorant, or forgetful, or simply indif- 
ferent, or needlessly sparing of my feelings? 
