OcTOBER 1, 1897.] 
GENERAL. 
Iv is reported that Harvard College and the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology will each 
receive about $500,000 from the estate of the 
late Henry O. Pierce, under whose will they 
are, together with three other institutions, the 
residuary legatees. The amount to be divided 
has proved much larger than had been antici- 
pated. The value of these bequests is much 
increased by the fact that they are unaccompa- 
nied by restrictions. 
THE will of the late Eliza W.S. P. Field 
gives $80,000 to the University of Pennsylva- 
nia, and makes the University residuary legatee 
of her estate. 
Mrs. EstHer B. STEELE, of Elmira, N. Y., 
has given $5,000 towards the cost of a physical 
laboratory for Syracuse University. The build- 
ing, which will cost about $25,000, will be 
erected shortly. 
FURMAN UNIversITy, at Greenville, S. C., 
has been given by Dr. and Mrs. F. A. Miles 
real estate valued at $20,000. 
Tue will of Theodore Lyman, whose death 
we were recently compelled to record, be- 
queathes $10,000 to Harvard University and a 
collection of valuable books to the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology. 
Ex-GOVERNOR FLOWER has given $5,000 to 
Cornell University for the purpose of a library 
for the Veterinary College. 
THE will of the late Henry W. Sage, lately 
President of the Board of Trustees of Cornell 
University, to which institution he had given 
about $1,250,000, disposes of property worth 
$12,000,000, but makes no public bequests. 
Dr. ELISHA GREGORY, JR., formerly demon- 
strator of anatomy at the University of St. 
Louis, has returned, after a year’s study in 
Germany, to enter upon his duties as instructor 
in histology and embryology at the Harvard 
Medical School. 
PROFESSOR PETER T. AUSTEN has left the 
department chemistry at the Polytechnic 
Institute, Brooklyn, and is succeeded by 
Professor Fay. 
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Mr. C. H. Brenepicr has been appointed 
instructor and Mr. J. M. Talmage assistant in 
chemistry in Cornell University. 
AT a meeting of the regents of the University 
of the State of California the resignation of 
Professor Colton from the staff of the Lick 
Observatory was accepted. 
THE following appointments have been re- 
cently made: Dr. Weiss, professor of mathe- 
matics in the Institute of Technology at Prague; 
Dr. Herzig, associate professor of chemistry in 
the University of Vienna; Dr. Zelinka, of Graz, 
professor of zoology in the University at Czer- 
nowitz; Dr. Zwaardemarker, professor of phys- 
siology in the University of Utrecht; Dr. Julius 
Hann, director of the Vienna College of Meteoro- 
logy, professor of meteorology at Graz, in Styria; 
Professor Joseph Pernter, professor of cosmical 
physics in Innsbruck University, appointed to 
the vacaney caused by Dr. Hann’s retirement 
from the Vienna College ; Dr. W. Ernest Thom- 
son, professor of anatomy in Anderson College, 
Glasgow, and M. Brunhes, professor of physics 
in the faculty of science at Dijon. 
THE Cambridge University Calendar shows 
that the undergraduates in residence at the 
University now number 2,928, of whom 664 
are members of Trinity College and 264 of St. 
John’s. 
THE Atheneum says that a proposal is being 
considered to establish at Swansea, as a great 
manufacturing center, a branch University Col- 
lege in association with either Aberystwith or 
Cardiff, as the Newcastle College is associated 
with Durham. The suggestion is that scientific 
and technical courses might be taken at Swan- 
sea in preparation for the Welsh University 
degree. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 
METEOROLOGY IN SOUTH AMERICA. 
To THE EpIToR oF SCIENCE: During the wri- 
ter’s present trip down the eastern coast of South 
America, he has gathered a few facts regarding 
meteorological work on this continent which 
may interest the readers of SCIENCE. 
The only complete meteorological service in 
