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foremost place. There were communications 

 on sugar-cane experiments in Barbados, 

 Antigua, St. Kitts, Trinidad and British 

 Guiana. In Guiana an important feature has 

 been the trials of canes on an estate scale, in 

 addition to the necessary small plots. It is 

 fully realized by the officials of the Imperial 

 Agricultural Department that a strenuous at- 

 tempt must be made to raise the general 

 standard of intelligence amongst all classes ; 

 and it is in contemplation shortly to com- 

 mence the publication of a fortnightly paper, 

 the Agricultural News, containing hints and 

 advice in regard to all points of interest in the 

 islands. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is announced that Mr. James Stillman, 

 of iSTew York, has given $100,000 for the estab- 

 lishment of a chair of anatomy in the Har- 

 vard Medical School. 



The University of Wooster, Wooster, O., 

 successfully completed on February 21 a cam- 

 paign to raise $140,000 in order to secure two 

 large conditional gifts, $100,000 by Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie and $50,000 by Mr. L. H. Severance, 

 of Cleveland. In place of the building which 

 was destroyed by fire on December 11, there 

 will be erected a main building containing 

 lecture rooms, a building for chemistry and 

 physics, a building for biology and geology, 

 an academy building and a heating plant. 



It is proposed to establish in New York 

 City a branch of the Catholic University of 

 America, to be known as the Department of 

 Pedagogy. 



Me. John D. Eockepellee has given $5,000 

 to Washington and Lee University, thus com- 

 pleting the fund of $100,000 for a memorial 

 to the. late President William L. Wilson, in the 

 form of an endowment for the chair of eco- 

 nomics and political science. 



The trustees of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania have awarded the contract for the con- 

 struction of the new Medical Laboratories. In 

 the extent of the plan and in the cost of this 

 addition to the facilities of the University, it 

 is the most important agreement ever entered 

 into by the corporation. Since the study of 

 the subject was first begun, the scope of the 



purposes to be attained has so widened that 

 from the original projected cost of two hun- 

 " dred thousand dollars, three years ago, the cost 

 of the completed undertaking now entered 

 upon will be about six hundred thousand dol- 

 lars. The study of the plans has covered all 

 ' the scientific medical laboratories both in Eu- 

 rope and in this country; and the faculty of 

 medicine feel, and the members of the medical 

 committee of the trustees feel, that the result 

 as submitted by the architects, Messrs. Cope 

 & Stewardson, will repay all the attention and 

 study and pains which have been taken. The 

 building will be wholly fire-proof, and its 

 extent may be understood when it is known 

 that its front on Hamilton Walk is three hun- 

 dred and forty feet, and the depth of its west- 

 ern wing, one hundred and ninety feet. Pro- 

 vision in respect of north light and of quiet 

 and of freedom from dust has been made for 

 original work in all three of the laboratories 

 included in the building. 



Pbofessoe Josiah Eoyce, professor of phi- 

 losophy at Harvard University, and Professor 

 J. Mark Baldwin, professor of psychology at 

 Princeton University, will lecture before the 

 summer school of the University of California 

 during July. 



At Cambridge University Professor Tilden, 

 F.E.S., has been appointed an elector to the 

 chair of chemistry; Lord Eayleigh, F.E.S., an 

 elector to the chairs of chemistry and of 

 mechanism; Dr. Hill, to the anatomy chair; 

 Mr. P. Darwin, F.E.S., to the botany chair; 

 Dr. Hinde, F.E.S., to the geology chair 

 (Woodwardian) ; Sir G. G. Stokes, F.E.S., to 

 the Jacksonian and Cavendish chairs; Dr. D. 

 MacAlister, to the Downing chair of medicine ; 

 Dr. Hugo Miiller, F.E.S., to the chair of 

 mineralogy; Professor E. Eay Lankester, 

 F.E.S., to the chair of zoology and compara- 

 tive anatomy; Professor McKendrick, F.E.S. 

 to the chair of physiology; Lord Lister, F.E.S. 

 to the chair of pathology; and Professor Mar- 

 shall Ward, F.E.S., to the chair of agriculture, 



Db. Feanz Wilhelm Neger, curator in the 

 Botanical Museum at Munich, has been called 

 to a professorship in the School of Forestry at 

 Eisenach. 



