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to which they will go, have been notified of the 

 fact. There are nearly 200 sets, of 156 speci- 

 mens each. The institutions are expected to 

 pay for transportation, but are under no 

 further expense. 



At the last meeting of the British Astronom- 

 ical Association it was announced by the Presi- 

 dent (Mr. N. E. Green) that Miss Brown, the 

 Director of the Solar Section of the Association, 

 had presented £50 towards the expenses of 

 erecting an observatory on the site offered by 

 the Royal Botanical Society. Mr. J. G. Petrie, 

 (Secretary), stated that the President had offered 

 to commence the equipment of the observatory 

 by presenting his 18-inch reflecting telescope, 

 with which he had made many of his drawings, 

 and that Mr. Calver had also offered optical 

 aid. 



On Saturdays in June and July, when the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens are opened to the 

 public by payment of a fee, gardeners will be 

 detailed to take visitors around the gardens to 

 show the points of interest and describe the 

 plants. 



The fifteenth anniversary of the Institution 

 of Mechanical Engineers, London, was cele- 

 brated by a dinner on April 29th. Mr. E. 

 Windsor Richard, the President, occupied the 

 chair, and speeches were made by the Duke of 

 Cambridge, Sir F. Bramwell, Professor Kennedy 

 and others. 



The Psychological Index, compiled by Dr. 

 Howard C. Warren, of Princeton University, 

 and"Dr. Livingston Farrand, of Columbia'Uni- 

 versity, and issued annually as a supplement to 

 The Psychological Review, has been published 

 for the year 1896. The bibliography of the lit- 

 erature of psychology and cognate subjects for 

 that year extends to 145 pages and contains 

 2,234 titles. Psychology is one of the fifteen 

 sciences to be included in the International 

 Bibliography of Scientific Literature, but, while 

 the plans for this great undertaking are being 

 matured, The Psychological Index is essential to 

 students of psychology and cognate subjects. 



The first two numbers of a Zeitschrift fiir 

 Criminal - Anthropologic, Gefdngnlswissenschaft 

 ^lnd Prostituiionswesen, edited by Dr. Walter 



Wenge and published by M. Briber, Berlin, 

 have been issued. These numbers include arti- 

 cles by Dr. Nacke on ' Lombroso and Modern 

 Criminal Anthropology,' by Professor Preyer 

 on the ' Hand- Writing of Criminals,' by Dr. 

 Penta on ' The Rational Treatment of Crimi- 

 nals,' by Dr. Paul on 'Identification,' and other 

 articles on similar subjects, together with a re- 

 view of the literature. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Governors of McGill University, in ac- 

 cordance with the custom of British and Cana- 

 dian universities, announce that they are pre- 

 pared to receive applications for the appoint- 

 ment to the chair of zoology recently founded 

 by Sir Donald A. Smith. The annual salary is 

 $2,500. Candidates should forward applica- 

 tions with testimonials before June 1st to Mr. 

 ■^. Vaughan, Secretary, McGill University, 

 Montreal. 



It is announced that the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons of Chicago will be aflSli- 

 ated with the University of Illinois. 



Baenard College, New York, has received a 

 gift of $140,000 from Mrs. Josiah M. Fiske for 

 a building to be called Fiske Hall in memory of 

 her husband. This will enable the trustees to 

 complete the new quadrangle, the other halls, 

 provided by Mrs. Brinckerholf and Mrs. Ander- 

 son, being now nearly ready for occupancy. 

 Barnard College has also received $6,000 from 

 Mrs. Henry O. Havemeyer for the equipment 

 of the chemical laboratory and $2,000 from 

 others for the furnishing of the Brinckerhoflf 

 Hall. 



RosSE Hall, Kenyon College, was burned 

 May 9th. The loss is estimated at $10,000. 



The chair of mineralogy and metallurgy in 

 Columbia University, vacant by the retirement 

 of Professor Thomas Egleston, will be divided, 

 Professor A. J. Moses being promoted to a pro- 

 fessorhip of mineralogy, and Mr. H. M. Howe, 

 a graduate of Harvard University and the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, being 

 appointed professor of metallurgy. 



There are 450 candidates for degrees this 



