SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Syracuse’ University will begin the erection of a $45,000 Science 
Building in the spring. Adelbert College, at Cleveland, Ohio, has a 
Biological Building under way which will cost about the same amount, 
while Richmond (Va.) College has received $5000 towards a Science 
Building. 
Lafayette College met a severe loss by the burning of Pardee Hall 
December 18. The fire caught in the biological laboratory and 
destroyed a large part of the scientific equipment. The most valu- 
able part of the herbarium was saved. 
Sir W. C. McDonald has recently given $200,000 to the scientific 
departments of McGill University. 
At the middle of December $65,000 had been subscribed for the 
proposed zoological gardens at Bronx Park, New York. 
The American Geologist is to do a much-needed work in its pro- 
posed catalogue of current papers relating to the geology of North 
America. 
Dr. Justus Gaule, professor of physiology in Ziirich, has resigned. 
Dr. Nikolaus Michael Melnikow has resigned the professorship of 
zoology in the University of Kazan. 
Dr. Ludwig Karpelles, of Vienna, the well-known student of the 
Acarina, has changed his surname to Karell. 
For several years the University of Tokyo has maintained a bio- 
logical station at Mazaki, an exposed point about half a day’s sail 
from Tokyo. While the collecting near here is very fine, the place 
has many drawbacks, and so it has been decided to remove the 
station several miles further north. The former building will be 
moved, and be incorporated in the new structure, which will be larger 
than the old one. 
` The University of Upsala receives about $45,000 for the establish- 
ment of an associate professorship of physiological botany, the donor, 
Franz Kempe, stipulating that Dr. Lundström be the first appointee. 
Dr. R. Semon, whose work upon the fauna of Australia is so well . 
known, has resigned his position as docent in zoology in the Uni- 
