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SCIENCE. 



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garded as of special interest. He said that 

 while continental laboratories were supported 

 by the State, in England they received practi- 

 cally no government support, and very little 

 from the community, usually depending on the 

 generosity of single individuals. As a result 

 they were undermanned, and a large amount 

 of public health work from which the com- 

 munity would profit remained undone. Each 

 municipality should endow a laboratory, in 

 which, besides original research, work required 

 by the medical officer of health and the sanitary 

 authorities could be done. The scheme he 

 submitted presented very few diflftculties. In 

 the discussion that followed Prof. Haycraft men- 

 tioned that a commencement had already been 

 made in South Wales. Dr. Hope thought it 

 might soon be in operation in Liverpool, and 

 Prof. Delepine described the arrangements al- 

 ready in existence in Manchester. 



A PRIZE of £50, to be called the Welhy Prize, 

 is offered for the best treatise upon the follow- 

 ing subject : The causes of the present obscu- 

 rity and confusion in psychological and philo- 

 sophical terminology, and the directions in 

 which we may hope for an efficient practical 

 remedy. Competition is open to those who, 

 previously to October 1, 1896, have passed the 

 examinations qualifying for a degree at some 

 European or American university. The donor 

 of the prize desires that general regard be had 

 to the classification of the various modes in 

 which a word or other sign may be said to pos- 

 sess 'meaning,' and to corresponding differ- 

 ences in the conveyance or interpretation of 

 ' meaning. ' The Committee of Award will con- 

 sider the practical utility of the work submitted 

 to them as of primary importance. The essays, 

 which may be written in English, French or 

 German, must be typewritten and extend at 

 least to 25,000 words. They should be headed 

 by a motto and accompanied by a sealed envel- 

 ope containing the name of the writer. Manu- 

 script from America should be sent to Prof. E. 

 B. Titchener, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. , 

 and must reach him not later than October 1, 

 1897. Other members of the committee are 

 Prof. James Sully, London ; Mr. G. F. Stout, 

 Aberdeen, and Prof. O. Kiilpe, Wiirzburg. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



A DESPATCH from San Francisco says that the 

 University of California is to be made richer by 

 $4,000,000 by donations from various persons, 

 chief among whom is Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, widow 

 of Senator Hearst, of California. This amount 

 is not to be given all at one time, but will be 

 paid as soon as the State is prepared to make 

 proper use of the money. The State must spend 

 $500,000 on buildings, and when this is done 

 the gifts will be paid. These facts became 

 known at the meeting of the Board of Regents 

 of the University when Mrs. Hearst sent a note 

 to the board donating $15,000 to be used in se- 

 curing plans for new buildings. Mrs. Hearst 

 stated that she would erect two buildings at her 

 own expense, one of which would be a memorial 

 to her late husband. The names of others who 

 will give funds are withheld. 



From notices in the daily papers it appears 

 that the registration at several universities is as 

 follows : Yale, 2,515, an increase of 100 over 

 last year ; Columbia, 1,760, an increase of 130 ; 

 Cornell, 1,720, an increase of 109; Chicago, 

 1,126, an increase of 17 ; Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, 1,184, an increase of 12, 



The corner stone of Brinckerhoff Hall and 

 Millbank Hall, of Barnard College, were laid 

 on October 24th. The corner stone of Brincker- 

 hoff Hall was laid by the Dean of the College, 

 representing Mrs. Van Wyck Brinckerhoff, and 

 the corner stone of Millbank Hall was laid by 

 Miss Eleanor Millbank Anderson. Addresses 

 were made by President Low, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity; by Mr. Silas B. Brownell and by Bishop 

 Potter. 



The corner stone of the Hall of History of 

 the American University, at Washington, was 

 laid on October 21st. An address was made 

 by Bishop John F. Hurst, Chancellor, and by 

 other prominent leaders in the Methodist 

 Church. The buildmg is to be built of white 

 marble in Ionic style, and is the first of the six 

 bviildings that have been planned. 



The board of directors of the Catholic Uni- 

 versity at Washington have chosen as nominees 

 for the oflSce of rector of the University, Eev. 

 Father T. J. Conaty, rector of the Sacred Heart 

 parish of Worcester, Mass. ; Rev. Father Dan- 



