May 10, 1912] 
Living under these arrangements, the party 
was enabled to secure excellent meals at a 
very low cost. Besides the work in the Canal 
Zone proper, the members of the survey made 
trips into the neighboring territory in search 
of specimens and data not available within 
the actual bounds of the zone, but obtainable in 
the same faunal area or an adjoining one. One 
of these expeditions carried the party into the 
Darien country and along the banks of the Rio 
Tuyra, which lies on the Pacific side of the 
isthmus about 150 miles distant from Pan- 
ama. The fauna of this country was found 
to differ considerably from that of the Canal 
Zone. The fish collectors, unlike those con- 
cerned with some other classes of animals, 
find it impracticable to classify their speci- 
mens while in the field, and for this reason it 
is difficult to say just what has been obtained, 
other than that a good-sized collection was 
made, fully as large as that of last year. The 
fish were caught in nets and traps of several 
kinds; often in great numbers, the collectors 
selecting the best and most desired specimens 
which are at once prepared and packed in 
tanks for shipment to the National Museum. 
Among the different kinds of salt-water fishes 
secured were sharks, tarpon, jew-fish, snap- 
pers, groupers and croakers. There were also 
many of the cat-fishes which are so very 
abundant on the Pacific slope and along the 
coast of Panama. The collectors point out the 
special value of this survey in so far as con- 
cerns the fish fauna which will become com- 
pletely changed and intermixed when the 
canal is finished, and the waters of the inland 
lakes and the two oceans become intermingled. 
As is well known, many salt-water fishes as- 
cend fresh-water streams for long distances, 
and it is now seen that in this manner many 
will doubtless find their way to the great 
Gatun Lake. Some will probably remain 
here, while others will pass on into the ocean. 
At present the fish faunas of the Atlantic and 
Pacific slopes and the two coasts of the zone 
appear well defined, but it is believed that a 
subsequent survey, in from five to ten years 
time, will reveal great changes. 
SCIENCE 
735 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
Tue late Dr. Francis Bacon, a physician of 
New Haven and connected with the Yale 
Medical School, has bequeathed $100,000 to 
the New Haven County Antituberculosis So- 
ciety. He has made Yale University his 
residuary legatee, the bequest to be used as a 
scholarship fund in the college. 
Mr. A. W. OppenuyM, of New York, by his 
will created a trust fund of $275,000, which at 
his widow’s death shall go in equal parts to 
the Mt. Sinai Hospital, the German Hospital 
and Columbia University. It is provided that 
the Columbia University fund is to be used 
for the research into the cause, prevention and 
cure of cancer. 
Mr. Joun Tatuock, of New York, has given 
to Columbia University a collection of astro- 
nomical works consisting of 261 volumes and 
about 1,200 pamphlets. 
AGRICULTURAL Hatt, just built by the Uni- 
versity of California at a cost of $200,000 to 
house some portion of its teaching and in- 
vestigating in agriculture, will be completed 
by commencement, May 15, 1912. This new 
white granite building, roofed in red mission 
tile, and picturesquely set on an eminence 
looking south toward the Dana Street en- 
trance to the campus, is one of the permanent 
buildings of the Phoebe A. Hearst plan. It is 
fireproof in construction, with steel frame and 
concrete floors and roof. 
Tue bill appropriating two hundred and 
fifty thousand dollars for the development of 
work in public health and medicine at the 
site of the University of Illinois in Urbana- 
Champaign, failed of passage in the special 
session of the legislature. Although only four 
votes were recorded against it; yet owing to 
the fact that at a special session a two-thirds 
majority is necessary to pass an appropriation 
bill, involving in this case thirty-four votes, 
and at no time were more than thirty-five 
members present, it made it possible for even 
two votes to defeat the bill. The trustees will 
renew their request for an adequate appro- 
priation for scientific work in medicine at the 
next session of the legislature. 
