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large central hall available for scientific dem- 

 onstrations, lectures and the like. The pro- 

 posal found warm support at the meeting 

 alluded to, and a resolution in furtherance of 

 the above-mentioned aims was unanimously 

 adopted. 



The British Medical Journal states that a 

 health resort is to be established in Lapland. 

 It is proposed to erect a sanatorium on the 

 shores of Lake Torne, a long and beautiful 

 sheet of water at Wassijauve, near the end 

 of the Ofote Railroad. That railroad, it may- 

 be mentioned, has only one station in a dis- 

 tance of 121 miles. There is no human dwell- 

 ing near that station, which is on the line 

 between Sweden and Norway, and was erected 

 solely for the requirements of the Customs 

 Office. Except for a small settlement at Was- 

 sijauve, the only sign of human existence in 

 the district is the occasional passage of a 

 few Laplanders with their herds of reindeer. 

 Apart from the scenery, the inmates of the 

 Arctic sanatorium will have no external ob- 

 ject of interest but a scientific station which 

 has been erected with the help of private sub- 

 scriptions by men of science. The work pur- 

 sued at the station includes biological, geolog- 

 ical, botanical and entomological, and other 

 investigations conducted during the summer, 

 and meteorological, magnetic and other obser- 

 vations made at all seasons. The station is 

 a solidly built block -house containing seven 

 rooms, and it is proposed to build the sana- 

 torium in the same way. 



The Scottish Geographical Magazine re- 

 ports that the ' Societe Beige d'Astronomie,' 

 has announced a scheme for the publication 

 of a monograph on volcanoes. This will con- 

 sist of an atlas containing a general map on 

 the scale of 1:40,000,000, and ten regional 

 maps on the scale of 1 :2,000,000, illustrating 

 the general distribution of volcanoes, together 

 with a notice, detailed descriptive tables and 

 block-maps in the text. It is -estimated that 

 the text and tables together will occupy about 

 300 pages, large 8vo. The undertaking will 

 be under the charge of II. Elisee Reclus. 

 In order that the success of this undertaking 

 may be assured, subscriptions are asked for 

 in advance. A subscription of 25 francs will 



entitle the subscriber to one ordinary copy of 

 the atlas, and one of 100 francs to two copies 

 printed on special paper and numbered. 

 Communications should be addressed to the 

 Society at 21 Rue des Chevaliers, Brussels. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Sir Donald Currie has given £100,000 to 

 University College and London University. 

 It is intended with this sum to build a school 

 of advanced medicine. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $50,000 to 

 Kenyon College to endow a professorship of 

 economics to be named for Edwin M. Stanton, 

 three years a student of Kenyon, who once 

 said : " If I am anything or have done any- 

 thing in the way of usefulness, I owe it to 

 Kenyon College." The gift is said to be due 

 to an interview with the late Senator Hanna 

 when sick, who himself had given $50,000 to 

 Kenyon College for a dormitory just now 

 finished. 



Mr. Caknegie has also made a conditional 

 gift of $50,000 to Mt. Holyoke College, the 

 understanding being that the friends of the 

 institution should raise a like amount before 

 June 1. No stipulations are made regarding 

 the use of the money, but it is said that a 

 new library is contemplated. 



Plans have been accepted for the science 

 building given to Rochester University by 

 Mr. George Eastman, of Rochester, at a cost 

 of $60,000, the construction of which will be 

 begun during the summer. 



The new medical laboratories of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania will be dedicated on 

 June 11. The laboratories cost $700,000. The 

 principal addresses will be delivered by Dr. H. 

 P. Bowditch, professor of physiology at the 

 Harvard Medical School; Dr. R. H. Chitten- 

 den, director of the Sheffield Scientific School, 

 Tale University; Dr. George Dock, professor 

 of medicine at the University of Michigan, 

 and Dr. Horatio C. Wood, professor of 

 materia medica and pharmacy at the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania. 



It is reported that a plan has been suggested 

 to unite the Columbian and American Uni- 

 versities of the District of Columbia and the 



