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The building was erected at a cost of $12,000; and 
this sum, wisely and economically expended, leaves 
the chemical department as amply provided with 
facilities for instruction as any institution west of the 
Mississippi. E. H. S. BAILEY. 
Lawrence, Kan. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Nature states that the Swedish frigate Vanadis 
has just started on a cruise round the world. King 
Oscar’s second son participates in the cruise, as well 
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ing in the Parc de Montsouris for the use and annual 
exhibitions of the Central society of apiculture and 
insectology. It is hoped to hold there the exhibition 
of 1885. 
—M. Bourdalou having published in 1864, in his 
work ‘Nivellement général de la France,’ that the 
average level of the Mediterranean is by 0.72 metre 
lower than that of the Atlantic, this result was re- 
ceived with some distrust by geodesists. Gen. Tillo 
points out now, says Nature, that this conclusion is 
fully supported by the results of the most accurate 
levellings made in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, 
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NEW CHEMICAL LABORATORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. 
as Dr. Hjalman Stolpe, who has been commissioned 
by the government to collect materials for the nu- 
cleus of a national ethnographical museum in Stock- 
holm. The frigate, whose mission is chiefly scientific, 
will call at many places of interest, as, for instance, 
the Straits of Magellan, the Marquesas and Hawai- 
ian Islands, the remarkable Malden Island, etc. A 
Swedish merchant, M. Firstenberg of Gothenburg, 
has contributed six hundred pounds for the purchase 
of objects of scientific value. 
— The Conseil municipal of Paris has granted a sub- 
sidy of 38,000 francs for the construction of a build- 
and Spain, which have been published this year. 
It appears from a careful comparison of the mareo-. 
graphs at Santander and Alicante by Gen. Ibanez, 
that the difference of levels at these two places 
reaches 0.66 metre, and the differences of level at 
Marseilles and Amsterdam appear to be 0.80 metre 
when compared through Alsace and Switzerland. 
The ‘Comptes rendus de la commission permanente 
de l’association géodésique internationale’ arrive at 
0.757 metre from the comparison with the Prussian 
levellings; whilst the fifth volume of the ‘ Niyvelle- 
ments der trigonometrischen abtheilung der lan- 
desaufnahme’ gives 0.809 vid Alsace, and 0,832 vid 
