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Among the recent gifts to the TJ. S. National 

 Museum are a series of minerals from Cobalt, 

 Ontario. These include a specimen of nic- 

 colite which is an arsenide of nickel and shows 

 the rich metallic luster so characteristic of all 

 nickel ores. Another is a fine specimen of 

 breithauptite, which is a combination of nickel 

 and antimony, with strings of native silver in 

 a matrix of calcite. The slender veins of 

 these two metallic ores wandering irregularly 

 through the white limestone are most attrac- 

 tive. With these there is also from the same 

 locality a specimen of the mineral, known as 

 smaltite which in composition is a combina- 

 tion of cobalt and arsenic. It has a white 

 silvery appearance and is a good cabinet 

 specimen. 



The twenty-first session of the Biological 

 Laboratory of the Brookl3Ti Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences located at Cold Spring Harbor, 

 Long Island, will be held for six weeks be- 

 ginning Wednesday, July 6. The courses of- 

 fered comprise field zoology by Drs. H. E. 

 Walter and C. B. Davenport; bird study by 

 Mrs. H. E. Walter; comparative anatomy by 

 Drs. H. S. Pratt and A. A. Schaeffer; general 

 elnbryological and microscopical technique by 

 Miss Mabel Bishop, of Goucher College; cryp- 

 togamic botany by Dr. D. S. Johnson, of 

 Johns Hopkins University, and Mr. H. H. 

 York; ecology by Dr. H. S. Conrad, of Grin- 

 nell College. For the first time a course for 

 teachers on the principles of agriculture is 

 offered under the direction of Professor H. H. 

 Laughlin, of Missouri State Normal School, 

 at Kirksville. The usual facilities for begin- 

 ning investigation under the direction of the 

 instructors are oifered and a limited number 

 of tables and private rooms are available for 

 investigators. Those who desire to make use 

 of the facilities of the laboratory for investi- 

 gation may address the director, 0. B. Daven- 

 port, Cold Spring Harbor, N. T., from whom 

 announcements may be obtained. 



The Geographical Journal is informed that 

 a scientific expedition to Colombia is being 

 organized at Neuchatel, under the auspices of 

 the Societe Helvetique des Sciences Natur- 



elles, the leader being Dr. O. Fuhrman, pro- 

 fessor of zoology at Neuchatel University. It 

 is hoped that a start will be made in July next, 

 and the main objects kept in view will be the 

 study of the fauna of the lakes and rivers of 

 central Colombia, as well as the parasitic flora, 

 but geological and geographical observations 

 are also contemplated. Dr. Fuhrmann will be 

 accompanied, as botanist, by Dr. Mayor, of 

 Neuchatel. The Magdalena will be ascended 

 from Baranquilla to Puerto Berrio, whence 

 the party will proceed to Medellin. From this 

 and other centers excursions will be made to 

 various parts of the central Cordillera and the 

 region of the Cauca, the travelers afterwards 

 turning their attention to the Paramos of the 

 eastern Cordillera, and making excursions in 

 various directions from Bogota. Halts will 

 also be made later at Honda and Puerto 

 Berrio, during the return journey to the coast. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins has given the 

 University and Bellevue Hospital Medical 

 College $100,000 to endow the Marcellus Hart- 

 ley professorship of medicine. 



Mr. Chester W. Lyman, of New York, has 

 given $5,000 to the Sheffield Scientific School 

 of Yale University for a lectureship on the 

 subject of water-storage conservation to be 

 known as the Chester W. Lyman lectureship 

 in memory of the donor's father, who was for 

 many years professor of physics and astron- 

 omy in the Sheffield Scientific School. 



A FRIEND of the Allegheny Observatory has 

 endowed a fellowship in astronomy at that 

 institution. The fellow is to receive $500. 



It is reported in the daily papers that Mr. 

 John D. Eockefeller has given $150,000 to 

 erect buildings for the American College for 

 Girls at Constantinople. 



Mr. W. H. Levek has offered to give to the 

 University of Liverpool, property of the value 

 of £84,000, which appears to have been the 

 receipts resulting from a libel suit instituted 

 against the London Daily Mail by Messrs. 

 Lever Brothers. 



