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AT the request of the daughters of George 
Bond, Professor Holden, Director of the Lick 
Observatory, has undertaken to arrange the 
manuscript material in their hands in an orderly 
form. The work will be entitled ‘Memorials of 
William Cranch Bond, Director of the Harvard 
College Observatory, 1840-59, and of his Son, 
George Phillips Bond, Director of the Harvard 
College Observatory, 1859-65,’ and will be 
sold for two dollars by C. A. Murdock &. Co., 
532 Clay Street, San Francisco, and by Lemcke 
& Buchner, 812 Broadway, New York City. 
The contents are: Chapter I., Life of 
W. C. Bond, 1789-1859; II., Life of G. P. 
Bond, 1824-1865 ; III., Selections from the Di- 
aries of George Bond; IV., Selections from the 
Correspondence of George Bond ; V., Account 
of the Scientific Work of the Bonds; Appen- 
dices, giving a complete list of their published 
writings; and Index of Proper Names. The 
book will be well illustrated. It is hoped by the 
kindness of Professor E. C. Pickering, Director 
of the Harvard College Observatory, to repro- 
duce two fine steel engravings of the Great 
Comet of 1858 and of the nebula of Orion, from 
the plates of the Annals H. C. O. 
THE British Museum (Natural History) has 
acquired, says Natural Science, the Savin col- 
lection of vertebrate remains from the Norfolk 
forest-bed and other deposits of that coast. 
A collection of gault fossils from the 300-feet 
level of the shaft of the Dover coal-fields has 
also been received, and it is understood that 
the whole of the remains from this very inter- 
esting and important shaft will be preserved 
for the national collections, as a typical refer- 
ence series for the underground geology of the 
southeast of England. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
AT the meeting of the corporation of Brown 
University on September 1st statements were 
presented by the Conference Committee and by 
President Andrews. He states that he has 
been reticent and careful in expressing views 
on the free coinage of silver by the United 
States ; that he would discountenance any pro- 
posal which, in his judgment, bids fair to place 
SCIENCE. 
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the country’s finances on a monetary basis 
of silver alone; that he has always insisted that. 
the principal and interest of our public debt 
should be paid in gold, and that he had only 
publicly advocated that form of bimetallism 
which was a part of the Republican platform in 
the last election. He states further that his 
resignation was made on account of his desire 
to regard the University’s interests and that 
the publication of the Committee’s minutes did 
not proceed from his motion. As President 
Andrews simply cleared himself from the 
charges made by the Conference Committee 
and did not attempt to defend reasonable free- 
dom of speech, we are especially glad that the 
corporation, in asking him to withdraw his 
resignation, stated that they did this ‘‘ espe- 
cially desiring to avoid, in the conduct of the 
University, the imputation even of the consid- 
eration of party questions, or of the dominance 
of any class, but that in the language of its 
charter, ‘In this liberal and catholic institution 
all members whereof shall enjoy full, free, ab- 
solute and uninterrupted liberty of conscience,” 
which includes freedom of thought and expres- 
sion, it cannot feel that the divergence of views. 
upon the ‘silver question’ and of its effects 
upon the University between you and the mem- 
bers of the corporation is an adequate cause of 
separation between us.’’ President Andrews 
has not yet made a reply to the letter from the 
corporation, but it is understood that he will 
not withdraw his resignation. 
THE executor of the will of the late Mrs. 
Lucy Fayerweather has brought suit in the 
United States Courts with a view to setting 
aside the decision of the State Courts awarding 
-the estate of the late Daniel B. Fayerweather 
to the colleges to which it was bequeathed. 
The heirs-at-law are also contesting the will 
of the late William Lampson, who left most of 
his estate to Yale University, alleging that he 
was of unsound mind. We wish thatthe moral 
insanity which leads people to make these con- 
tests disqualified them at law from inheriting 
any money. 
Dr. D. K. PEARSON has presented Beloit 
college with a dormitory costing $30,000. 
YALE University receives $5,000 by the will 
