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Wales is represented by a series of the famous 
Celtic crosses at Llantwit Major, near Cardiff. 
A remarkably fine collection of Norman arches, 
fonts and crosses is sent from Shropshire by 
Mr. F. R. Armitage. The largest contribution 
to the collection has been made by Mr. G. 
Scamell, who has sent over a hundred photo- 
graphs, principally taken in and around Lon- 
don, of houses once occupied by well known 
men, houses which are likely to be pulled down 
soon and, most important, many of the Old 
Bailey Courts. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
By recent action of the Legislature of North 
Carolina the annual appropriation to the State 
University was increased by $12,500; $60,000 
was appropriated for the Normal and Indus- 
trial School at Greensboro, N. C.; and $40,000 
for the Agriculturial and Mechanical College, 
located at Raleigh, N. C., for payment of 
debts and buildings. 
HENRY STAFFORD LIrr_e, of Trenton, has 
offered $100,000 to Princeton University for the 
erection of a new dormitory, adjacent to Staf- 
ford Little Hall, of which he was the donor. 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY has received $5,000 
by the will of the late Jacob Wendell for a 
scholarship ‘to be awarded to a student 
of excellent standing, exclusive of financial 
needs.’ 
Work has been commenced on the new 
physical laboratory to be erected by the Un- 
iversity of Pennsylvania at a cost of $300,000. 
THE Registrar has just issued the lists of 
candidates for degrees in Sibley College and 
other departments of Cornell University. The 
former numbers about 130; of whom over 
thirty are in M.E. in electrical engineering, 
and the remainder mainly in the regular 
course for M.E., including those in marine 
and in railway engineering. There will be 
about twenty candidates for the master’s de- 
gree, M.M.E. The latter, like M.E., includes 
marine and railway as well as electrical engi- 
neers. The registration of Sibley College is 
now between 650 and 700, including students 
engaged in graduate-work and candidates for 
the second degree. Contracts have just been 
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awarded for the erection of the west central 
‘dome’ of Sibley College, to connect the exist- 
ing two wings, making a front of about 400 
feet, facing the campus from the north. It is 
to be completed early in the next academic 
year. It is another step toward the completion 
of the plans of the founder, by his son, Mr. 
Hiram W. Sibley.. The new building will in- 
clude new space for the museums and collec- 
tions and a fine auditorium. This, with acces- 
sory extensions of old structures, will add 
about 20,000 square feet of floor-space to the 
College buildings. The plans, as prepared for 
the founder before his death, include further 
additions of about 40,000 square feet, to give 
accommodations to a thousand students in me- 
chanical engineering and its subdivisions. 
PRESIDENT PATTON brought forward some 
suggestions of much importance at a meeting of 
the trustees of Princeton University on March 
15th, and these were referred to a special com- 
mittee. They include: (1) Additions to the 
faculty that will enable the University to offer 
courses in human anatomy and physiology and 
in common law, so that students may take in 
their senior year the equivalent of the first 
year in professional schools of medicine and 
law ; (2) making it possible for students doing 
additional work to secure the bachelor’s degree 
in three years; (8) offering additional lectures 
in the sophomore year. 
Ir appears that the disturbances in the 
Russian universities are continuing, it being 
reported that 700 students have been arrested 
at Moscow. 
AT Yale University the following instructors 
have been promoted to assistant professorships : 
E. W. Scripture in psychology; A. W. Evans 
in botany, and H. E. Gregory in physical geog- 
raphy. 
AT Princeton University, Dr. W. M. Rankin 
has been promoted to a full professorship of in- 
vertebrate morphology, and Dr. C. F. W. Mc- 
Clure to a full professorship of comparative 
anatomy. 
Dr. PETER GUTHRIE TAIT, since 1860 pro- 
fessor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh Uni- 
versity, has resigned his chair on account of ill 
health. 
