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and at this moment of writing there is probably not a square inch 
of our grounds unoccupied by them. The sunlight on the floors 
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rks on the chemical analyses of samples of soil from 
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Thomson, that the red soil, which occurs on some parts of the 
island, and contains very little lime, is a result of the solution and 
removal of the carbonate of lime of the coral rock and the conse- 
quent leaving behind of all insoluble matters which the seawater 
and organic sources may have contributed to it, with perhaps some 
extraneous additions. The average of the results of analyses of 
the red soil by Johnston and Manning afford organic substances, 
in 100 parts, 15°41, lime 5°95, magnesia 0°36, alumina 16°94, silica, 
ime. 
3. Report of the Director of the New York Meteorological 
Observatory, Department of Public Parks, City of New York, 
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ables, 
4, Munificent Gift to Science.— Lafayette College, at Easton, 
Pennsylvania, has recently received gifts from Mr. Ario ardee 
to the amount of nearly half a million of dollars. These gifts 
include a building for the scientific department, erected at an 
00. “Pardee Hall” was dedicated on the 21st 
. t . W. Raymond, 
President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. 
hall has a front of 256 feet, and is built of Trenton brown stone, 
with trimmings of the light Ohio sandstone. It has laboratories 
for chemical, metallurgical, mineralogical, and other scientific 
urposes. ‘ 
s a Rocky Mountain Observatory.—Mr. James Lick of Cali- 
fornia, it is reported, is about to make a second great gift to Science. 
