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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. I. No. 26. 



Morris K. Jesup §2,500 



Mrs. M. P. Dodge 1,000 



Tiffany and Co 1,000 



Hugh N. Camp 500 



The act of incorporation required that 



this amount be collected for an endowment. 



The city must now raise $500,000 by bonds 



for building purposes, and provide 250 



acres of land in Bronx Park. 



THE HBLMHOLTZ MEMORIAL. 



In addition to the subscriptions to the 



Helmholtz Memorial acknowledged in the 



issue of Science of May 31, the sum of $97 

 has been collected by Prof. Eood from 

 oflBcers of Columbia College and forwarded 

 to the committee. 



Ogden N. Eood, $10 



William Hallock, 5 



H. Cushman, 5 



R. Gordon, 3 



H. C. Parker, 5 



H. S. Curtis, 2 



Asa S. Iglehart, 3 



C.C. Trowbridge, 1 



H. T. Wade, 1 



J. H. Van Amringe, 10 



F. E. Hutton, 5 



F. B. Crocker, 5 



J. K. Eees, 2 



C. F. Chandler, 10 



H. C. Bowen, 3 



J. W. Burgess, 5 



E. Mayo-Smith, 10 



Wm. E. Ware, 5 



Thomas Price, 2 



H. T. Peck, 2 



Livingston Farrand, 1 



ISr. M.Butler, 1 



James H. Hyslop, 1 



"$97 



GENERAL. 



The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the 

 National Educational Association of the 

 United States will be held at Denver, Col- 



orado, July 9th to 12th, 1895. The meet- 

 ing promises to be the most imj)ortant in 

 the histoiy of the Association. Among the 

 large number of attractive addresses an- 

 nounced on the program are the address of 

 the president. Professor Nicholas Murraj' 

 Butler, on ' What Knowledge is of Most 

 Worth,' and an address by Professor Joseph 

 Le Conte on ' Eifect of the Doctrine of 

 Evolution upon Educational Theory and 

 Practice.' 



Me. Abchibald, president of the trustees 

 of Syracuse Universitj', has offered to be 

 one of six men to build a hall of science 

 costing about $150,000. The University 

 has also been offered $10,000 and $100,000 

 towards a new medical college. 



The University of Chicago announces 

 that an American Journal of Sociology will be 

 be issued bi-monthly from its press. 



There are eleven candidates for the de- 

 gree of Ph. D. at the University of Chicago 

 — in Sociology and Geologj^ each two, and 

 in Philosophy, Greek, Latin, English His- 

 tory, Semetic and Chemistry each one. 



Mrs. L. p. Babbott, of Brooklyn, has en- 

 dowed a fellowship for post-gi-aduate study 

 at Vassar College. 



During the comiag year lectures on ex- 

 perimental psychology will be given by Dr. 

 Scripture to the entire Junior Class, 300 

 members, of Yale College. Fiftj- under- 

 graduates have elected special courses in 

 the labor atoiy. 



Colorado College will hold the fourth 

 annual session of its summer school of 

 science, philosophy and languages fi-om 

 July 15th to August 16th. Among the lec- 

 turers ironi other universities are Prof. 

 Bessey, of Kansas; Prof. Lounsbury, of 

 Yale, and Prof. James, of Harvard. 



Part of the collection of birds given to the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard 

 University by ]Mi\ W. E. D. Scott was ex- 



