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been called. It is a peculiar source of gratification to Dr. Foster's 

 friends that he is able to accept this chair, since at the beginning 

 of the year family bereavements and the threatening of serious ill- 

 ness held out but a gloomy prospect for future work. Dr. Foster 

 is now in good health and will enter on his duties at Cambridge in 

 October. When we remember that on former occasions as well as 

 quite recently, Trinity has expressed her willingness to make some 

 of her collegiate property available for the endowment of Professor- 

 ships in the University in natural sciences, and that her generous 

 intentions have been baulked by the ignorant parsimony of certain 

 of the smaller colleges, we cannot but congratulate her upon having 

 taken this step. It goes far to confirm the enumeration of Univer- 

 sities once given by a Trinity man, viz. " Dublin, Oxford, Cambridge, 

 and Trinity College." We hope the college will provide Dr. Foster 

 with a large laboratory. 



Laboratories in Amsterdam and London. — Professor Kuhne 

 has recently delivered an admirable discourse on the importance of 

 physiological research on the occasion of the opening of the grand 

 physiological laboratory which the city of Amsterdam has built for 

 him. This laboratory and that of Professor Ludwig at Leipzig are 

 the most perfect in Europe, though there are many others coming 

 near to them. Ludwig's laboratory is as extensive as the whole of 

 the Cambridge and Oxford laboratories taken together. There is 

 not even one physiological laboratory in England, though we may 

 hope to see one, at University College, as a memorial to Dr. Sharpey. 

 King's College recently refused to build one, though Dr. Beale 

 offered to assist in the expense in a most generous way. A strong 

 attempt is being made to get something in the form of a laboratory 

 put up at the public expense through the Privy Council. Let us be 

 thankful for any such movement. 



