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and such material as could be supplied without 

 serious cost, and tlie makers furnished time and 

 labor, and, at their own cost, put in the boiler, 

 an extraordinary construction built for spec- 

 ially high pressures and actually tested to 1300 

 pounds per square inch. The engine and boiler 

 will hereafter constitute an important portion 

 of the Sibley College equipment, and is ex- 

 pected to do wonderful work. It is already 

 known to be capable of excelling the world's 

 record in economy, on saturated steam; although 

 that record is at present held by a triple-exi^an- 

 sion engine of thirty times the size of the Sibley 

 College quadruple expansion engine. A series 

 of trials has been conducted by the builders 

 and the results will be published later as a 

 thesis, by the builders, both of whom are grad- 

 uate students, candidates for advanced degrees. 

 Meantime, it is known that the engine has de- 

 veloped twenty horse-power, its rated work, 

 on a consumption of less than ten pounds of 

 steam, less than 11,000 i?. T. 17. per horse-power 

 per hour. The College will supplement this 

 work by still more elaborate trials, and in the 

 expectation of still further reducing the figure. 

 Mr. Hall, the senior of the designers and build- 

 ers, has been, for some years past, the stroke 

 oar of the Cornell ' 'Varsity ' crew. 



The annual general meeting of the Institution 

 of Mechanical Engineers was held at London 

 on January 30. The report of the council stated 

 that at the end of last year the number of 

 names in all classes on the roll of the institution 

 was 2,270, as compared with 2,222 at the end 

 of the previous year. The council had bought 

 a site at Storey's gate, Westminster, with the 

 view of providing a permanent home for the in- 

 stitution. Contracts are being prepared for a 

 building, and it was hoped that next year the 

 house would be completed. Amongst other 

 technical matters which had been dealt with by 

 the council during the year, the report men- 

 tioned a memorial to the President of the Local 

 Government Board for the repeal of existing 

 statutes so far as they prevented mechanical 

 locomotion on common roads, apart from trac- 

 tion engines. Should the appeal prove success- 

 ful the council were sanguine enough to antic- 

 ipate with confidence the speedy development 

 of a branch of mechanical engineering, which 



might even call forth an amount of enterprise 

 exceeding anything that had yet arisen in con- 

 nection with the remarkably rapid growth of 

 the cycle manufacture. 



Attention may be called to the fact that 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia holds in trust the sum of $2,. 500, given 

 by Mrs. Emma W. Hayden for a Hayden 

 Memorial Geological Fund, in commemoration 

 of her husband, the late Prof Ferdinand V. 

 Hayden, M. D., LL. D. According to the 

 terms of the trust, a bronze medal and the bal- 

 ance of the interest arising from the fund are to 

 be awarded annually for the best publication, 

 exploration, discovery or research in the sciences 

 of geology and paleontology, or in such partic- 

 ular branches thereof as -may be designated. 

 The award and all matters connected therewith 

 are to be determined by a committee to be se- 

 lected in au appropriate manner by the Acad- 

 emy. The recognition is not confined to Amer- 

 ican naturalists. 



UNIVEHSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The suit of the United States against the 

 executrix of the late Senator Stanford, for over 

 $15,000,000, has been decided by the Supreme 

 Court of the United States in favor of Mrs. 

 Stanford. The future endowment of Stanford 

 University depended on this decision. 



The will of the late Hart A. Massey, of To- 

 ronto, leaves about $650,000 to educational and 

 charitable institutions, including the following 

 bequests: Victoria College, Toronto, $200,000; 

 Wesley College, Winnipeg, Man., $100,000; 

 Mount Allison College, Slackville, N. B., 

 $100,000 ; Wesleyan Theological College, Mon- 

 treal, $50,000 ; American University, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, $50,000. 



The finance committee of the Senate of the 

 State of Virginia has presented a bill appro- 

 priating $50,000 avz-uaWy, instead of $40,000 

 as heretofore, to the University of Virginia. 



Theee has been organized at Indianapolis 

 a University of Indianapolis consisting of But- 

 ler College, the Medical College of Indiana, 

 the Indiana Dental College and the Indiana 

 Law School. These institutions have at pres- 

 ent about 1000 students. 



