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sion, which has already done good work in the 

 study of the insects which were destroying the 

 cacao plants of the islands. (5) A biological 

 laboratory, which gives much promise for the 

 future. (6) A botanical division. The large 

 number of plants which remain unidentified 

 gives this division a large field in which to 

 work. There are a number of other branches 

 of this bureau, but they can scarcely be digni- 

 fied by the name of division, as for instance 

 the branch which takes the photographs for all 

 departments of the government. It has also 

 been proposed to incorporate a division of 

 weights and measures, the necessity for which 

 has already been felt. 



Mr. Edgar Speyer, the chairman of this 

 fund, which carries on its work in the Na- 

 tional Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epilep- 

 tic, having been asked by the Hon. Stephen 

 Coleridge, on behalf of the National Anti- 

 Vivisection Society, whether the researches 

 involve experiments on living animals, has 

 sent the following reply : — " Dear Sir, — As you 

 are already aware, the National Hospital is 

 not a place licensed under the Act for experi- 

 ments on living animals. I am informed, 

 nevertheless, that your society endeavored to 

 prevent subscriptions being sent to it on the 

 ground that some members of the medical staff, 

 in their private capacities, are licensed under 

 the Act. The Nervous Diseases Research 

 Fund is an endeavor to provide funds for re- 

 search into the origin and cure of those dis- 

 eases. It will be conducted in the hospital 

 under the advice of the medical staff. That 

 being so, your past treatment of the hospital 

 shows that it has nothing to expect from your 

 society in the way of support. As this re- 

 moves the only locus standi you might other- 

 wise have to interfere, I do not think it neces- 

 sary to enter further into the subject of 

 your letter. Yours truly, Edgar Speyer. 

 December 14, 1904." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is announced that Mr. Andrew Carnegie 

 has given $100,000 to Tufts College for the 

 erection of a library building and $50,000 to 

 St. Lawrence University at Canton, N. Y., 

 for a science building. 



At the convocation of the University of 

 Chicago on December 20, President Harper 

 announced that Mr. John D. Kockefeller had 

 signified his willingness to contribute to the 

 University for the year beginning July 1, 

 1!)05, the sum of $245,000 for current expenses, 

 this being the same sum that he has contrib- 

 uted during the present year. Mr. Kocke- 

 feller has also contributed this year $60,000 

 for the eiilargement of the heating plant of the 

 university. 



By the will of Mr. Henry Norris, of Phila- 

 delphia, the University of Pennsylvania, the 

 University Hospital and Haverford College 

 each receive $5,000. 



The will of Macy S. Pope of Brookline 

 gives $25,000 each to the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology and the Washington Acad- 

 emy of East Machias, Me. 



Mr. MiCHAEL Jexkins, of Baltimore, has 

 given to the board of directors of the Maryland 

 Institute a site on Mount Koyal Avenue, 200 

 feet wide and 250 feet deep, for the erection 

 of the building. It will be remembered that 

 Mr. Andrew Carnegie agreed to give $263,000, 

 equal to the assets of the institute, for a 

 building, provided the city supplied the site. 



Mr. Eugene G. Blackford has bequeathed 

 to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 

 $5,000, together with his apparatus and books 

 on zoology. 



The Rev. Albert Watson, fellow of Bras- 

 enose College, Oxford, has bequeathed £4,000 

 to the college. 



It is said that Harvard University and the 

 University of Berlin have practically arranged 

 a method by which a temporary exchange of 

 professors will occur. It is further reported 

 that a similar arrangement has been made be- 

 tween the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology and the Berlin Institute of Technology. 



Mr. W. E. Allen, professor of biology in 

 Ejjworth University, Oklahoma City, has 

 resigned to accept a graduate fellowship in 

 zoology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 



