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the sun. Parties will go from the Lick Ob- 

 servatory to Spain, Labrador and Egypt. 

 Professor Svante Arrhenius, of Stockholm, a 

 member of the faculty for the last summer 

 session, and Professor Wilhelm Ostwald, of 

 Leipsic, will join the expedition which will go 

 to Spain under the personal charge of Director 

 W. W. Campbell. 



Professor Chittenden, director of the Shef- 

 field Scientific School, has announced a gift 

 from George J. Brush, late director of the 

 institution and emeritus professor of mineral- 

 ogy, of his valuable collection of minerals and 

 of his scientific library, chiefly of mineralog- 

 ical books and journals. In addition is given 

 a fund of ten thousand dollars, the income of 

 which is to be used for the increase and care 

 of the collection and library. The value of 

 the entire donation is estimated at about forty 

 thousand dollars. The Brush collection of 

 minerals, which has been recently placed in 

 Kirtland Hall, is the result of over fifty years 

 of judicious and painstaking selection of 

 choice specimens from nearly all parts of the 

 world. Much of it was collected by the donor 

 himself. It has been formed especially to 

 illustrate the scientific aspects of the subject 

 of mineralogy and /or study and investigation. 

 It is particularly rich in the original type 

 specimens of new minerals and in other ma- 

 terial which has been investigated and pub- 

 lished upon. For this reason it is known to 

 scientists and collectors everywhere as having 

 an especial value, and it is a matter of con- 

 gratulation among friends of the institution 

 that, through the kindness of the donor, this 

 famous and valuable collection has been se- 

 cured for the perpetual use of the school. It 

 will be henceforth under the charge of Pro- 

 fessor S. L. Penfield, who will act as curator. 

 The department of geology of Bryn Mawr 

 College has recently been presented, by Mrs. 

 Charles Stillwell Eldredge, daughter of the 

 late Theodore D. Band, of Eadnor, Pa., with 

 her father's private rock and mineral collec- 

 tions. Mr. Band, for thirty-one years treas- 

 urer of the American Institute of Mining 

 Engineers, was an enthusiastic and discrim- 

 inating collector of minerals and had secured, 

 at the time of his death, some twenty to thirty 



thousand specimens. Among them are many 

 rare minerals seldom found in private collec- 

 tions and many valuable and interesting crys- 

 tals and mineral pseudomorphs. The rock 

 collection is limited in geographic distribu- 

 tion to the United States and is chiefly illus- 

 trative of the crystalline rocks of eastern 

 Pennsylvania. It includes a fine series of 

 polished serpentines and rock-type, to which 

 Mr. Band had, devoted considerable study. 

 Mr. Band's monograph on ' The Geology of 

 Eastern Pennsylvania ' is published in the Re- 

 ports of the Second Geological Survey (An- 

 nual Beport, 1886, Part IV.) and in the 

 Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy of 

 Sciences. 



The New York State Museum received the 

 following awards at the St. Louis Exposition: 

 Eour grand prizes for general exhibit in the 

 education department, paleontology, salt prod- 

 ucts, gypsum. Six gold medals for general 

 scientific publications, minerals and building- 

 stones, cement, salt, iron ore separator, elec- 

 trical insulators. Eleven silver medals as 

 follows : Eour for salt exhibits ; two for sand- 

 stone exhibit; one for each of the following 

 collective exhibits : Geological maps, granite, 

 iron ore, clay products. Three bronze medals 

 for exhibits of marble, iron ore and plaster 

 model of iron mine. 



St. Louis University, the oldest university 

 in the Louisiana Purchase territory, has been 

 awarded three grand prizes at the St. Louis 

 World's Fair, as follows: (1) for the general 

 exhibit; (2) for original drawings in embry- 

 ology by Professor A. C. Eycleshymer; (3) 

 for twenty-five charts of topographical anat- 

 omy by Professor Peter Potter. Several gold 

 and silver medals were also awarded. 



As already announced, the fourth meeting 

 of the American Philosophical Association will 

 be held in Philadelphia, December 28-30, in 

 afiiliation with the American Psychological 

 Association, the American Society of Nat- 

 uralists and other societies convening with 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. In accordance with a vote 

 at the last meeting, arrangements have been 

 made, in commemoration of the centenary of 



