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SCIENCE. 



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eludes four specimens of the five-horned giraffe, 

 two males and two females, obtained on Mount 

 Elgon. Expert opinion, however, has not yet 

 pronounced this giraffe to be distinct from the 

 form already known to occur in East Central 

 Africa. Dr. Oldfield Thomas, the mammalo- 

 gist of the Museum, is preparing a critical state- 

 ment for the Zoological Society. The Royal 

 Gardens at Kew have received an important 

 series of plants collected by Sir Harry Johnston 

 on the Ruwenzori mountain range, several spe- 

 cies being new to botanical science. 



In Forest Park, the site selected for the ex- 

 position to be held in St. Louis in 1903, is a 

 group of six circular mounds. In order that 

 they may remain during and after the fair, 

 steps should be taken by the scientific men of 

 St. Louis to preserve them from destruction 

 during the erection of the buildings. They 

 would certainly form an interesting addition to 

 the archaeological exhibit of the exposition 

 equal in value to the space they occupy and 

 would afterwards remain objects of perma- 

 nent interest. 



The Director-in-Chief and other members of 

 the staff of the New York Botanical Garden 

 have extended an invitation to members and 

 their friends to be present in Bronx Park on 

 Saturdays, October 12, 19, 26 and November 2, 

 9 and 26. A train leaves Grand Central sta- 

 tion at 2:15 p. m. for Bronx Park, and return- 

 ing leaves Bronx Park at 5:38 p. m. Oppor- 

 tunity will be given for inspection of the 

 museums, laboratories, library and herbarium, 

 the large conservatories, the herbaceous collec- 

 tion, the hemlock forest, the fruticetum and 

 parts of the arboretum site. The walk planned 

 will be a little over one mile. The following 

 lectures will be given at 4:30 p. m. : 



October 12. 'Sunlight and vegetation,' by Db. D. 

 T. MacDougal. 



October 19. ' Botany of the "West Indies,' by Dr. 

 N. L. Britton. 



October 26. ' Habits and characteristics of some of 

 the larger marine plants,' by Dr. M. A. Howe. 



November 2. ' Ancestral history of some living 

 trees,' by Dr. C. A. Hollick. 



November 9. ' Production of cinchona bark and 

 quinine in the East Indies,' by Dr. H. H. Rusby. 



November 16. ' Botanical features of the mountains 

 of Colorado,' by Dr. L. M. Underwood. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Mrs. James Finney How has given to 

 Washington University the sum of $100,000 as 

 a memorial of her father, the late James B. 

 Eads. It has not yet been decided in what 

 way this sum shall be used. 



The University and Bellevue Hospital Med- 

 ical School has received an anonymous gift of 

 $25,000. 



Columbia University has received from 

 Dean Lung a gift of $12,000 to be added to the 

 endowment of $100,000 for the Chinese depart- 

 ment given last June. 



The Hon. Oscar, Straus has given to the 

 University of Georgia a cabinet organ and sev- 

 eral hundred dollars toward an equipment for 

 work in experimental psychology. 



Miss Helen Miller Gould has given to 

 Vassar College two scholarships of $10,000 

 each, for the benefit of graduates of the Tarry- 

 town High School and of the Washington Ir- 

 ving High School at Irvington, N. Y. 



The new building for the Tufts College 

 Medical School was opened on October 3, when 

 Dr. Elmer T. Capen, president of the college, 

 made the inaugural address. 



The Missoui-i School of Mines is now putting 

 in a new heating plant and has in process of 

 erection a building to be known as- ' Mechan- 

 ical Hall. ' It will have two stories, 150 x 60 feet, 

 and will be used for shop work and dynamo, 

 steam and hydraulic laboratories. A second 

 story is being added to the chemical laboratory, 

 and it is being enlarged by two wings 55:x 60 feet 

 each. One of these will be devoted entirely to 

 assaying. An extension, 42 x 80 feet, to the ore- 

 dressing and metallurgical laboratory, which 

 has a floor space of 60 x 75 feet, will also be 

 added, and plans have been made for a new 

 main building. It will be three stories, with a 

 basement well above ground, and 140x85 feet. 

 The new site for this building has been pur- 

 chased, consisting of eight acres immediately 

 adjacent to the present campus, which contains 

 about 20 acres. The present floor space of the 

 school, devoted to laboratories, lecture rooms, 

 etc., is 45,085 square feet. It will be on com- 

 pletion ofthe new buildings 126,848 square feet. 



The registration at the summer quarter of 



