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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XI. No. 277. 



By the will of the late John Halstead, Cooper 

 Union, New York City, is made the residuary 

 legatee of his estate, and will ultimately receive 

 about $250,000. 



Among the bills passed by the New York 

 Legislature just before its adjournment was in- 

 cluded an item " For the Pathological Institute, 

 twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as 

 may be necessary, no part of which shall be 

 paid for rent. " As the Pathological Institute is 

 established In rented quarters in New York 

 City, it is not obvious how it can continue its 

 work without paying rent. The State commis- 

 sioners in Lunacy, it is suggested, may have 

 taken this method to stop the work of the In- 

 stitute. 



The seventh annual reception and exhibition 

 of the New York Academy of Sciences will be 

 held at the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory on April 25th and 26th. On Wednesday 

 evening, April 25th, there will be a reception 

 to the members of the academy and their in- 

 vited guests, while on the following day the 

 exhibition will be open in the afternoon for 

 students and others, and in the evening there 

 will be a reception for the members of the 

 Scientific Alliance. The committee in charge 

 of the exhibition consists of Professor J. F. 

 Eemp, chairman ; Professor Henry F. Osborn, 

 Mr. Charles F. Cox, Professor Charles A. Do- 

 remus, and Professor J. J. Stevenson. The ex- 

 hibition is to be divided into a number of sec- 

 tions, each in charge of a chairman, who is re- 

 sponsible for the collection of exhibits. The 

 various chairmen and their departments are as 

 follows : Anthropology, Professor Franz Boas ; 

 astronomy, Professor J. K. Rees ; botany. Pro- 

 fessor D. T. MacDougal ; chemistry, Professor 

 Charles E. Pellew; electricity, George F. Lever ; 

 geology and geography, Professor R. E. Dodge ; 

 metallurgy, Professor Henry M. Howe ; min- 

 eralogy, Dr. L. McI. Luqueer ; paleontology, 

 Gilbert Van Ingen ; physics and photography. 

 Professor William Hallock ; psychology, Dr. 

 Edward L. Thorndike ; zoology, Professor 

 Charles L. Bristol. 



The eleventh session of the Biological Labora- 

 tory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci- 

 ences, located at Cold Spring Harbor, Long 



Island, will open on Wednesday, July 4th, and 

 continue for six weeks. The following courses 

 are announced : by Professor C. B. Davenport, 

 of the University of Chicago, High School Zool- 

 ogy andVariation and Inheritance; by Dr. D. S. 

 Johnson, of Johns Hopkins University, Crypto- 

 gamic Botany ; by Professor C. P. Sigerfoos, 

 University of Minnesota, Invertebrate and Ver- 

 tebrate Embryology ; by Professor H. S. Pratt, 

 Haverford College, Comparative Anatomy ; by 

 Professor Nelson F. Davis, Bucknell University, 

 Bacteriology ; by Dr. H. C. Cowles, University 

 of Chicago, Elements of Ecology and Ecological 

 Seminar ; Mrs. C. B. Davenport, Microscopic 

 Methods ; Dr. Henry A. Kelly, Ethical Culture 

 Schools, New York City, Nature Study; Messrs. 

 S. R. Williams, and W. L. Tower, of Harvard 

 University, and W. C. Coker, of Johns Hop- 

 kins University, assist in the various courses. 

 The different Instructors offer to assist in inves- 

 tigation. The fee for a single course is |20, 

 with $5 additional for an additonal course or for 

 the use of a microscope. Board and rooms are 

 furnished at $6 a week by the laboratory. Fur- 

 ther information and the annual announcement 

 may be obtained of Professor Franklin W. 

 Hooper, 502 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., or 

 Dr. C. B. Davenport, University of Chicago, 

 Chicago, 111. 



Mrs. Sara T. D. Robinson, widow of Gover- 

 nor Charles Robinson, has established a Kansas 

 University woman's table for advanced work 

 in botany, zoology, and physiology at the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Holl, 

 Mass. Miss Alberta Cory, a graduate student 

 of botany has received the first appointment. 



There will be a U. S. Civil Service exami- 

 nation, on May 15th,for the position of statistical 

 field agent in the service of the Fish Com- 

 mission. 



Secretary Gage has asked the House of Rep- 

 resentatives to appropriate $200,000 additional 

 to the fund of $300,000 to prevent the intro- 

 duction and spread of epidemic diseases. 



The Secretary of the Interior has been re- 

 quested to inform the House of Representatives 

 of the number of acres now included in the 

 forest reserves belonging to land-grant railroads 

 or other corporations at the time of the creation 



