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We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that arrangements have 

 been completed for the transfer of the medical 

 department of the Newberry Library, Chicago, 

 including the Senn collection on medical his- 

 tory, to the ownership and management of the 

 John Crerar Library. This has been done 

 partly because the natural relation of these 

 books to the chosen field of the John Crerar 

 Library and the lack of such relations to that 

 of the Newberry Library make the transfer 

 in many ways mutually advantageous, and 

 partly because the medical profession of Chi- 

 cago has urged strongly the desirability of a 

 more central location. 



The Boston Transcript states that the Gray 

 Herbarium, connected with the Bussey Insti- 

 tution, has recently received from the Botan- 

 ical Museum at Copenhagen a valuable col- 

 lection of some 300 specimens of Scandinavian 

 and Iceland flora. The North American col- 

 lection has been enlarged by exchanges with 

 the Geological Survey of Canada, Mr. F. S. 

 Mathews has been added to the herbarium 

 stafl' as artist. 



We learn from The Geographical Journal 

 that in consequence of the archeological dis- 

 coveries made by Professor Griinwedel at Tur- 

 fan (Eastern Turkestan) in 1903, the German 

 government sent an expedition to the same 

 place in the following year under the direction 

 of Dr. A. von Leeoq, of the Royal Prussian 

 Ethnological Museum. Dr. von Lecoq, as- 

 sisted by Herr Bartus, arrived at Chugut- 

 chak in October, 1904, and thence traveled to 

 Kara Khoja (Dakiyanos), in the vicinity of 

 Turfan, remaining there nine months, and 

 excavating a number of caves and stupas. 

 The finds have been most abundant, some hun- 

 dred boxes of antiquities having been sent to 

 Europe. These antiquities consist of heads of 

 statues, showing Greek and Indian influence, 

 well-preserved wall paintings from ruined 

 temples, coins, and a large quantity of manu- 

 scripts in no less than seven kinds of writings, 

 namely, TJigur, Brahmi, Tibetan, Kiik Turki, 

 Manichsean (some manuscripts illuminated), 

 Syriac and Chinese. Dr. von Lecoq and Herr 

 Bartus left Turfan for Kashgar in October 



last, and at Kashgar they have been joined by 

 Professor Griinwedel and Herr Phurt, who 

 have arrived from Berlin via Russian Turke- 

 stan. The party is now preparing to go to 

 Kuchar, where systematic excavations are to 

 be undertaken. 



At a meeting of the Zoological Society of 

 London, held on February 22, it was an- 

 nounced that it had accepted an interesting 

 and valuable collection of Indian animals. The 

 collection has been made by the government 

 of Nepal for presentation to the Prince of 

 Wales, who had kindly agreed to send it to 

 the society's gardens for exhibition. The Duke 

 of Bedford, the president of the society, had 

 generously promised to defray the cost of 

 transport to England. The council expect 

 the animals to arrive in June of this year, 

 and hope to arrange for their exhibition in 

 the gardens as a separate collection during the 

 coming summer and autumn. 



Iisr its annual report to the Carnegie Trus- 

 tees, the executive committee of the trust 

 stated, as we learn from the London Times, 

 that, under the scheme of allocation for five 

 years of an annual grant of £40,000 among 

 the four Scottish universities, which became 

 operative in January, 1903, sums amounting 

 to £38,860 had been claimed and handed over 

 during the year 1905, making for the past 

 three years a total expenditure^ of £97,240. On 

 the subject of the scheme of endowment of 

 post-graduate study and research for the aca- 

 demic year 1905-6, the report stated that ap- 

 pointments were made to sixteen fellowships 

 and twenty-seven scholarships ; and -grants of 

 various amounts were made to forty-three ap- 

 plicants. The total expenditure under this 

 scheme was £4,526. In the research labora- 

 tory of the Eoyal College of Physicians, Edin- 

 burgh, the superintendent had reported that 

 during the past year thirty-six workers held 

 places and had been engaged in forty-nine in- 

 vestigations. Of these workers, thirty-two 

 were graduates of Edinburgh University and 

 nine held gTants from, or were in other ways 

 beneficiaries under the Carnegie Trust. The- 

 payment of class fees of beneficiaries had been 

 carried out as in previous years. The total 



