May 30, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Whitaker Expedition to Tripoli. At Mr. J. I. 

 S. Whitaker's expense Mr. E. Dodson had 

 made a successful collecting expedition into 

 Tripoli, and the specimens of mammals ob- 

 tained had been presented to the National Mu- 

 seum. Twenty-one species were referred to, 

 and, among others, a Hare (Lepus whitakeri) , 

 allied to L. cethiopicus, but of a bright pinkish 

 buffy color, and a Gundi {Ctenodactylus vali) 

 like C. gundi, but with much larger bulla, 

 were described as new. 



We learn from Nature that a meeting of 

 ■delegates representing a number of natural his- 

 tory and photographic societies was held at 

 Croydon on Friday, May 9, Mr. W. "W. Whit- 

 aker, F.E.S., being in the chair, to consider and 

 set in motion a photographic survey of Surrey. 

 It was resolved that a society be formed to be 

 •called 'The Photographic Survey of Surrey,' 

 and that its object be to preserve a record in 

 permanent photographs of buildings of inter- 

 est, antiquities, scenery, geology, natural his- 

 tory, anthropology, and of portraits of notable 

 persons, representations of passing events of 

 local or historical importance, and of old rec- 

 ords, rare books, prints, maps, so as to give 

 3. comprehensive survey of what is valuable 

 and representative in the county of Surrey. 



At a meeting at the Mansion-house on May 

 18 the Duke of Devonshire, as reported in the 

 Times, spoke as follows concerning the condi- 

 tions which have to be complied with before 

 incorporation of University College with the 

 University of London can take place: The 

 value of the site, buildings, and equipment to 

 be transftjrred under the scheme provisionally 

 settled between the authorities of the college 

 and the senate of the university is estimated 

 at £500,000, and in addition the administra- 

 tion of the income of certain trust funds, 

 which amount to nearly £300,000, will pass to 

 the university. In order to make the transfer 

 effectual certain preliminary conditions were 

 required : (1) The extinction of the debt upon 

 the college, which has been accomplished by a 

 gift of £30,000 from the Drapers' Company. 

 (2) The removal of the University College 

 School, an institution of a secondary type, in 



order to obtain the needful accommodation for 

 university teaching and research, the cost of 

 which is estimated at £60,000. (3) An ar- 

 rangement by which separate provision, in- 

 cluding class-rooms, laboratories, and a patho- 

 logical museum, can be made for advanced 

 medical studies in order to place the school of 

 medicine on a proper footing, which is calcu- 

 lated to cost another £40,000. Towards this 

 sum of £100,000, which is the immediate object 

 of the appeal, £30,000 have been given by an 

 anonymous donor, and there are other sums 

 promised to the extent of £15,000. On the re- 

 maining £55,000 being raised and the college 

 placed at the disposal of the university, the 

 £20,000 oifered by Mr. Astor for the increase 

 of the endowment of chairs becomes imme- 

 diately available for university purposes, and 

 the university will also assume direct admin- 

 istration of that part of the contribution of 

 the Technical Education Board which it has 

 hitherto entrusted to the college. Later and 

 at far greater cost, as the funds at the disposal 

 of the university increase, it is hoped that 

 further advantage will be taken of the oppor- 

 tunities presented by the acquisition of the col- 

 lege for the development of higher education. 

 Schemes for the completion of the west wing, 

 to include the space required for engineering, 

 applied mathematics, physiology and chemis- 

 try, are in contemplation, and other changes 

 that would give sufficient accommodation to 

 the departments of zoology, anatomy and 

 physics and also provide a library of adequate 

 dimensions. Eor the present, however, two 

 great objects will be gained by the success of 

 the appeal for £100,000 : (1) A fuller utiliza- 

 tion of the resources of the college as an estab- 

 lishment for the promotion of advanced 

 studies; and (2) the provision for the univer- 

 sity, which has as yet done little but create 

 administrative machinery, of the means of 

 entering fairly well equipped upon the two- 

 fold mission of instruction and research. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mr. Isaac H. Clothier, of Philadelphia, has 

 offered $100,000 to Swarthmore College on con- 

 dition that an endowment fund of $600,000 be 



