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mittee has been formed with the object of increasing the fund on 
this side of the water. Mr. Alexander Agassiz, of Harvard Uni- 
versity, is chairman, and Professor H. N. Martin, of Johns Hop- 
kins University, is secretary and treasurer of the committee, which 
is made up of scientific men representing widely separate regions. 
The following extracts from the statement of the secretary of the 
American committee, invoke the aid of every one to whom the 
advancement of biological knowledge is not a matter of indif- 
ference : 
“The Balfour Memorial first took definite form at a public 
meeting held in the lecture-room of comparative anatomy in the 
University of Cambridge, England, on the 21st of last October. 
“At this meeting it was determined to found a memorial to 
Professor Balfour, and that this memorial should take the form of 
a fund, to be called the Balfour fund, for the promotion of research 
in biology; especially animal morphology. It was further decided 
that the proceeds of the fund be applied : 
on (1) To establish a studentship, the holder of which shall devote 
himself to oviginal research, especially in animal morphology. 
_“(2) To further, by occasional grants of money, original research 
in the same subject. 
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“(1) That the value of the studentship be not less than £200 a 
ear, 
“(2) That while it is desirable that the studentship should be in 
some way closely connected with this university, persons other than 
members of this university shall be eligible to it 
“(3) That it shall not be given away by competitive examination. 
“(4) That in Jraming regulations both for the conduct of the stu- 
dent and the award of occasional grants, the primary object of the 
T5 namely, the furtherance of original research, be closely ad- 
ed to. 
estimated ;.and the larger it is the greater will be its usefulness. 
_ At the Cambridge meeting referred to, subscriptions were 
Promised sufficient to endow the Balfour studentship. All that is 
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