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finer than the transverse ones are brought out. These lines, which 
I consider genuine, count not far from 120,000 to the inch. With 
a slight change of the adjustment their place is occupied by spuri- 
ous lines counting generally about 60,000 to the inch. The longi- 
tudinal lines can only be seen when the focus is best adjusted for 
the transverse striæ. When the transverse lines are examined, 
they may be shown smooth and shining, similar to the photograph 
by Dr. Woodward in the NaruraLısr, but much better. If the mir- 
ror is then carefully touched a sinuate appearance of the margins 
of the lines, suggestive of beading, is seen. This appearance can 
be brought out readily. And, finally, after the most painstaking 
manipulation, and when without doubt the best work is being done, 
the separated dots or beads appear.—G. W. MOREHOUSE. 
NOTES. 
On the. 21st of April Mr. Anderson formally presented the 
island of Penekese, together with a fund of $50,000 for the endow- 
ment of a School of Natural History. The board of trustees of 
the school and fund is in part the same as that governing the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, of which this 
school is to be the educational branch. Plans have been drawn 
for two two-story buildings, each one hundred feet long and 
twenty-five feet wide. The lower floors are intended for laborato- 
ries and working rooms. The second story will contain sleeping 
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rooms, and rooms for the preservation of specimens. 
makes Professor Agassiz president of the board of trustees and 
director of the school, with the sole control of the method of in- 
struction, and the appointment of teachers. The school will be 
called “The Anderson School of Natural History,” and will be 
opened early in July. 
From want of space we have been unable to adequately notice 
the remarks made at the banquet lately given in New York to 
Professor Tyndall just before he sailed for England. Many of the 
leading scientists of the country, with those eminent in all pro- 
fessions j in New York, met him at Delmonico’s. Perhaps this is the 
first occasion of the sort when in this country science has, through 
her followers and through those engaged in quite different pursuits, 
received due consideration. The after dinner speeches, with one 
or two exceptions, were animated with the true spirit of devotion 
to truth, which is but another term for the scientific spirit. 
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