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was expressed that some date early in May — 

 probably between May 7 and 14 — would be 

 most convenient. 



JSTegotiations have been completed whereby 

 Purdue University is to receive from the New 

 York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, 

 through the courtesy of Mr. Samuel Higgins, 

 general manager, the historic locomotive 

 ' Daniel Nason.' A few years ago the univer- 

 sity interested itself in securing from rail- 

 ways samples of such classes of locomotives 

 as are now being superseded by machines of 

 more modern construction, its purpose being 

 to preserve as museum exhibits types of de- 

 sign which were in danger of becoming ex- 

 tinct. As a result of this plan, a number of 

 valuable relics are already upon its grounds. 

 From the beginning of this movement, an ef- 

 fort has been made to secure a representative 

 of a type which was common throughout New 

 England thirty years ago, namely, an eight- 

 wheeled engine having cylinders inside the 

 frames connecting with the crank axle. This 

 effort has now been crowned with success. The 

 ' Daniel Nason ' is said to have been built in 

 1858. It was exhibited in Chicago in 1893 

 and has been held as a relic at Eoxbury, 

 Mass. The engine weighs about twenty-five 

 tons, is complete with its tender and will be 

 shipped to the University at Lafayette, Indi- 

 ana, upon its ovni wheels. The university is 

 also to become the custodian, in behalf of the 

 same railway, for a stage-coach passenger car 

 which is said to have been placed in service in 

 1835. It consists of the body of a stage-coach 

 suspended over a simple railway truck by 

 means of thorough-braces. It will seat inside 

 and on its top about twenty persons. The 

 American Locomotive Company has presented 

 to the university the full-sized model loco- 

 motive cylinders sectioned to show the piston 

 valve construction, which formed a part of its 

 exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 

 St. Louis. 



The lecture arrangements at the Eoyal In- 

 stitute, London, include the following: A 

 Christmas course of lectures (experimentally 

 illustrated and adapted to a juvenile auditory) 

 on ' Ancient and Modern Methods of Measur- 



ing Time,' by Mr. Henry Ounynghame; Pro- 

 fessor L. C. Miall, Fullerian professor of 

 physiology, R. I., six lectures on ' Adaptation 

 and History in the Structure and Life of 

 Animals ' ; Professor Karl Pearson, three lec- 

 tures on ' Some Recent Biometric Studies ' ; 

 Professor W. E. Dalby, two lectures on ' Engi- 

 neering ' ; Mr. A. H. Savage Landor, two lec- 

 tures on ' Exploration in the Philippines ' ; 

 Professor W. Schlich, two lectures on ' For- 

 estry in the British Empire ' ; Mr. J. J. H. 

 Teall, two lectures on ' Recent Work of the 

 Geological Survey ' ; Professor H. H. Turner, 

 three lectures on ' Recent Astronomical Prog- 

 ress ' ; Professor R. Meldola, two lectures on 

 ' Synthetic Chemistry ' ; Professor J. J. Thom- 

 son, three lectures on ' Electrical Properties 

 of Radioactive Substances ' ; and Lord Ray- 

 leigh, three lectures on ' Some Controverted 

 Questions of Optics.' The Friday evening 

 meetings will begin on January 20, when a 

 discourse will be delivered by Professor Sir 

 James Dewar on ' New Low Temperature 

 Phenomena ' ; succeeding discourses will prob- 

 ably be given by Dr. E. A. Wilson, Mr. Cecil 

 Smith, Mr. J. W. Gordon, Professor H. Mar- 

 shall Ward, Chevalier G. Marconi, Professor 

 J. J. Thomson, Sir Squire Bancroft, Professor 

 G. H. Bryan, Professor J. Wright, Professor 

 T. Clifford Allbutt, Lord Rayleigh and others. 



UNIVEBSITr AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The regents of the LTniversity of Nebraska 

 have passed a resolution accepting a gift of 

 $66,000 from Mr. John D. Rockefeller for the 

 erection of a building to be used for religious 

 purposes. 



Dr. Fowler, late president of Corpus Col- 

 lege, Oxford, has under his will left £1,500 to 

 his own college, a like sum to Lincoln, of 

 which he was formerly fellow and tutor and 

 honorary fellow at the time of his death, and 

 £1,000 to Merton, where he was a post-master. 



Mr. Clifton D. Howe, assistant in the de- 

 partment of botany of the University of Chi- 

 cago, has received an appointment to an in- 

 structorship in botany in the Biltmore For- 

 estry School. 



