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tiorart in the Fayerweather will case was de- 
nied. It is reported, however, that the contest 
involving, it will be remembered, some four 
million dollars for American colleges is not yet 
settled. 
LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE has _ re- 
ceived for its physical laboratories two checks 
of $5,000 each from Mrs. George Holt and her 
daughter, Miss Emma Holt. 
ARRANGEMENTS are being made under the 
direction of Mr. H. J. Rogers, of Albany, for 
the United States educational exhibit at the 
Paris Exposition of 1900. It is planned to rep- 
resent the university system of the United 
States by letting the different universities each 
represent some special departments, so that the 
collective exhibit may not be of separate uni- 
versities, but of higher education as a whole. 
In scientific work Johns Hopkins University 
will exhibit its departments of physics, geology, 
and the medical sciences, the University of 
Pennsylvania its archeological collections, 
Columbia University its library and its work in 
education and psychology, and Harvard Uni- 
versity its astronomical observatory. ; 
THE Technical Institute at West Ham, Lon- 
don, was destroyed by fire on December 23, 
1898. The fire originated in the chemical 
laboratory. The loss is estimated at over £80,- 
000 and is only partially covered by insurance. 
The adjacent Natural History Museum, the 
gift of Mr. Passmore Edwards, which is now 
approaching completion, was fortunately saved 
as were also the books from the free library. 
THE number of new matriculations at Cam- 
bridge University was this year 893 as com- 
pared with 902 in 1898 and 884 in 1897. 
Dr. ALonzo E. TAyior, Assistant Director 
of the Pepper Laboratory of the University of 
Pennsylvania, has been appointed professor of 
pathology in the Medical College of the Uni- 
versity of California. 
Dr. ALEX. Hitt, Master of Downing Col- 
lege, in his speech to Congregation on resign- 
ing the office of Vice-Chancellor of the Uni- 
versity of Cambridge, stated, says the British 
Medical Journal, that the amount already re- 
ceived towards the Benefaction Fund instituted 
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at the meeting over which the Duke of Devon- 
shire presided at Devonshire House, amounted 
at the end of the financial year, to £50,000. It 
had thus been made possible to consider the 
erection of new buildings for law, medicine, 
botany and archeology. The response, how- 
ever, had not been sufficient to warrant any of 
the new developments of University work 
which many friends of the University de- 
sired. In the interests of national progress, 
Dr. Hill said, it was greatly to be desired 
that laboratories of applied science should 
not be isolated but should be _ estab- 
lished in connection with schools which were 
already strong in pure science. Technical 
training in any limited sense of the expression 
was impossible. In every subject of practical 
application—whether it were to a learned pro- 
fession or an industrial art—success depended 
upon breadth of knowledge of the sciences upon 
which the profession or art was based. Ad- 
vances in technology were almost invariably 
due to the application by practical men of prin- 
ciples discovered by those who carried out in- 
vestigations in pure science. Conversely, the 
strength and vitality of a school of pure science 
was largely increased when opportunities were 
afforded to students of passing on to its appli- 
cations. The remarkable progress of natural 
science in Cambridge was closely associated 
with the growth of the medical school. During 
the past twelve years a larger number of stu- 
dents had entered for the Natural Science 
Tripos than for any other examination for hon- 
ors, notwithstanding the fact that but few stu- 
dents were in a position to allow their pros- 
pects in life to depend upon the discovery in 
themselves of a special aptitude for pure sci- 
ence. Almost all those who had since distin- 
guished themselves in various branches of sci- 
ence had commenced their career by preparing 
to qualify fora profession. The majority of the 
graduates, for example, who were at present 
prosecuting researches in the physical, chem- 
ical, botanical, zoological, physiological, ana- 
tomical and pathological laboratories, making, 
to the great credit of the University, additions. 
to knowledge which were not exceeded, if they 
are equalled in amount, by any other university 
in the world, entered as medical students. 
