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Cincinnati. This sum is to be devoted to the 

 erection of a fire-proof library building. As 

 the University is the custodian of the library of 

 the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, this gift will have an added interest. 



The sum of $40,000 has been secured toward 

 the erection of the new physiological labora- 

 tories of the University of Pennsylvania, but 

 the plans and estimates for the buildings have 

 not yet been decided upon. 



The Board of Estimate and Apportionment 

 of New York City has allowed over $13,000,000 

 for education, an increase of more than one 

 million dollars over the expenditures of the 

 present year. The increase is chiefly for new 

 teachers and for increasing the salaries of those 

 teachers who are now paid the least. It is 

 satisfactory to note that the expenditure for 

 education is the largest item in the budget of 

 Greater New York and that the increase is twice 

 as great as in any other direction. It is ex- 

 pected that in January bonds will be issued to 

 defray the cost of the erection of new school 

 buildings. 



On the 28th of October the north wing of the 

 recently erected ' Mechanic Arts Hall ' was 

 opened with appropriate ceremonies by the 

 University of Nebraska. Professor Morgan 

 Brooks, who succeeds Professor Robert B. Owens 

 as the head of the department of electrical 

 engineering, gave his inaugural address, ' Elec- 

 tricity and Enlightenment.' Regent Morrill, 

 of the Building Committee, reported the com- 

 pletion of the building, a substantial brick 

 structure of modern construction, four stories 

 in height and containing thirty rooms. Chan- 

 cellor MacLean, in a brief address, dedicated it 

 to the uses of the Industrial College, whose 

 Dean, Dr. Charles E. Bessey, pledged the Com- 

 monwealth of Nebraska that the building should 

 be used ' to promote that education of the 

 people contemplated by the Act of Congress 

 which founded the College.' Governor Hol- 

 comb unveiled a commemorative tablet, and in 

 the course of his remarks expressed the hope 

 that in the not-distant future there might be 

 enough buildings on the campus to accommo- 

 date 5,000 students. A formal address in the 

 evening by President Chaplin, of Washington 



University, with brief congratulatory addresses 

 and letters, closed the exercises. 



An international commission of architects has 

 recently examined at Antwerp the plans sub- 

 mitted for reconstructing the buildings of the 

 University of California in competition for the 

 prizes offered by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. One 

 hundred and eight plans were submitted and of 

 these eleven were selected for prizes, each of 

 which was $1,200. The final plan will be 

 selected by a jury after visiting the site of the 

 University. 



The summer school at Cornell University has 

 been reorganized, being made a more integral 

 part of the University and being arranged with 

 special reference to the needs of high school 

 teachers. Instruction will next summer be given 

 by leading members of the faculty,including Pro- 

 fessors De Garmo, Titchener, Atkinson, Bailey, 

 Comstock, Roberts, Caldwell, Tarr and Fish. 



The faculty of the University of Chicago 

 seems to contain an unusually large number of 

 former college presidents and prospective college 

 presidents. The presidency of Oberlin College 

 has just been offered to Professor J. H. Barrows 

 and the presidency of the University of Cincin- 

 nati to Professor Edmund James. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 

 FISH OVA FOK EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. 



Through the medium of Science I desire to 

 announce that during the fall, winter and spring 

 months the United States Fish Commission will, 

 on request, gratuitously supply educational in- 

 stitutions with living fertilized eggs of the 

 various marine and fresh-water fishes cultivated 

 at the government hatcheries in different parts 

 of the country. The eggs of about twenty spe- 

 cies can be regularly furnished from as many 

 stations, several kinds of eggs being handled at 

 most of the hatcheries. 



The eggs can be sent in lots of 500 or 1,000, 

 and will usually arrive at their destination in 

 good condition. Most of the eggs available 

 during the colder months are those of salmonoid 

 fishes which are susceptible of shipment over 

 long distances, when placed in layers on trays 

 with wet cloth-bottoms, packed in sphagnum 

 and crated. Salmon and trout eggs so packed 



