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uary 17, the report of the council for the 

 month of December last was read by the sec- 

 retary (Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.E.S.), in 

 which it was stated that during that month 

 150 additions had been made to the society's 

 menageries — viz, 67 by presentation, 16 by pur- 

 chase, two received in exchange, 61 received 

 on deposit, and four bom in the gardens. 

 Amongst these special attention was directed 

 to a pair of Siberian dholes (Cuon alpinus), 

 from Thian Shan, received in exchange on 

 December 2, new to the collection; to a Cape 

 hunting-dog {Lycaon pictus), from South 

 Africa, purchased on December 1; to an Ad- 

 dax Antelope {Addav naso-maculatus), from 

 North Africa, presented by the Duke of Bed- 

 ford on December 18; and to a Bubaline 

 Hartebeest (Alcelaphus hubaliwus) and a hy- 

 brid between Pere David's deer (Elaphurus 

 davidianus) and the red deer {Cervus ela- 

 phus), deposited on December 29. The report 

 further stated that the number of visitors to 

 the society's gardens during the month of 

 December had been 15,405, showing a decrease 

 of 4,112 visitors as compared with the cor- 

 responding month of the year 1905, caused 

 by the inclement weather experienced during 

 the Christmas holidays. The total number of 

 visitors during the year 1906 had amounted 

 to 896,423, or an increase of 180,943 as com- 

 pared with the total number of visitors (715,- 

 480) during the year 1905. The report also 

 stated that the total amount of money received 

 for admission at the gates had amounted to 

 £22,359 2s. 2d., against the sum of £17,469 

 6s. 4d. received from the same source during 

 the year 1905. The total number of fellows 

 elected during the year 1906 had amounted to 

 371, showing an increase of 62 as compared 

 with the total number of fellows (309) elected 

 during the year 1905. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Kensselaer Polytechnic Institute has re- 

 ceived a gift of $1,000,000 from Mrs. Eussell 

 Sage. The money will be used for the School 

 of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. 

 Mrs. Sage has also given $1,000,000 to the 

 Emma Willard School of Troy, and $250,000 



to the international committee of the Young 

 Men's Christian Association. 



The establishment and permanent endow- 

 ment of Peabody College for Teachers, at 

 Nashville, Tennessee, is now assured. The 

 Tennessee legislature has just passed a bill 

 donating to the college $250,000. The city 

 of Nashville has given $200,000 and the county 

 of Davidson $100,000, making in all from 

 these sources $550,000. These gifts have been 

 made in response to a proposition from the 

 Peabody Education Board to endow the col- 

 lege with $1,000,000 when the above amounts 

 were available All the conditions imposed 

 by the Peabody Board have now been complied 

 with and it only remains for that board to 

 organize the institution. The college will 

 thus have $1,550,000 in money. In addition 

 to this, the university of Nashville has donated 

 the campus and buildings now occupied by 

 the college, valued at $250,000. It is under- 

 stood also that gifts will be received at once 

 from other sources amounting to about $1,- 

 000,000. Should this hope be realized, the 

 college will start on its new life with an en- 

 dowment of $2,000,000. It is the purpose of 

 the authorities of the institution to solicit 

 other funds for the erection of the necessary 

 buildings. 



By the will of Arthur Mills, of Brookline, 

 Harvard Unlvei-sity will ultimately receive 

 $150,000. 



Professor Schuster has offered to the TJni- 

 versity of Manchester during the next three 

 or four years an annual sum of £350 as the 

 stipend of a reader in mathematical physics. 



Through the death of Mrs. John Daglish, 

 Armstrong College, Durham, will receive a 

 bequest of $25,000 for the establishment of 

 a traveling fellowship in mining. 



Dr. Ellis E. Lawton, instructor in Tale 

 University, has been appointed associate pro- 

 fessor of physics. 



The University council of Liverpool Uni- 

 versity has elected Mr. Percy E. Newberry to 

 the Brunner chair of Egyptology and Mr. John 

 Garstang to the John Rankin chair of methods 

 and practise of archeology, both of which 

 chairs were recently established by Sir John 

 Brunner, M.P., and Mr. John Eankin. 



