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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXI. No. 536. 



North Dakota Agricultural College. 15,000 



Simpson College 10,000 



Carson & Newman College 10,000 



Central Universitj- of Kentuckj- . . . . 30,000 



Earlham College 30,000 



Fessenden Academy 5,000 



risk University 20,000 



Furman University 15,000 



State Normal School 10,000 



Heidelberg University 25,000 



Juniata College 15,000 



Livingstone College 12,500 



Pomona College 40,000 



Syracuse University 150,000 



University of Mississippi 25,000 



University of Tennessee 40,000 



Washington and Lee University . . . 50,000 



De Pauw University 50,000 



University of North Carolina 50,000 



Alabama Polytechnic Institute .... 30,000 



Drake L'niversity 50,000 



St. John's College 10,700 



During the past week a gift of $100,000 to 

 Rochester University for the construction of 

 a scientific building and $50,000 to Norwich 

 University, Vermont, half for a library and 

 half for an engineering department, have been 

 announced. 



It is announced that a gift of $250,000 has 

 been made to Northwestern University by 

 Milton H. Wilson, a resident of Evanston, and 

 one of the trustees of the institution. 



The London Times states that further 

 papers have been published by the government 

 of India in respect to the late Mr. Jamsetjee 

 N. Tata's offer of an endowment in the shape 

 of properties valued at £200,000 for the crea- 

 tion of an Institute of Indian Research at 

 Bangalore. Certain conditions in respect to 

 government assistance were attached to the 

 offer, which was first made six years ago, and 

 these have been the subject of prolonged dis- 

 cussion and correspondence between the gov- 

 ernment, Mr. Tata during his lifetime, and his 

 representatives. The papers now published 

 show that the difficulties in the way of a set- 

 tlement have been removed. Guarantees have 

 been offered by the representatives of the donor 

 to secure the full income estimated from the 

 endowment properties, and the management of 

 the latter is vested in a board whose chairman 

 is to be an officer selected by the Bombay gov- 



ernment. In addition to making a grant of 

 2^ lakhs of rupees (£16,666) towards the con- 

 struction of the necessary buildings and pro- 

 vision of scientific apparatus, the government 

 will make an annual grant to the institute of 

 half the local assets up to a limit of li lakhs 

 of rupees, provided that the institute is con- 

 ducted on lines approved generally by the gov- 

 ernment. 



The Barney Memorial Science Hall of 

 Denison University was completely destroyed 

 by fire at two o'clock a.m., March 30. The 

 building was erected in 1894 at a cost of 

 $45,000, and the value of the equipment within 

 it was also about $45,000. The department of 

 chemistry, in which the fire started, suffered 

 total loss. The department of physics, which 

 had installed several thousand dollars worth of 

 new apparatus this season, lost most of its 

 equipment, including the greater part of the 

 manuscripts and instruments of the researches 

 of Professor C. W. Chamberlain. The equip- 

 ment of the department of geology, including 

 about $7,000 worth added this year, was nearly 

 all saved. The departments of zoology and 

 botany saved about half of their equipment. 

 ITiere is about $40,000 insurance on the build- 

 ing and contents, and the hall will be rebuilt 

 at once. The most serious loss is the scien- 

 tific library which has been accumulated dur- 

 ing the past twenty years, chiefly through ex- 

 change with Denison publications and which 

 was one of the richest collections of society 

 transactions and similar serials in the middle 

 west. In making good, so far as possible, this 

 severe loss the generous cooperation of au- 

 thors and learned societies is requested. Au- 

 thors' separates, duplicates, or society publica- 

 tions, if sent to the permanent secretary of the 

 Denison Scientific Association, Granville, 

 Ohio, will be gratefully accepted as a nucleus 

 of a new library. 



Rev. Frederick W. Hamilton, D.D., pastor 

 of the First Universalist Church of Roxb\iry, 

 has been elected temporary president of Tufts 

 College, to fill the vacancy caused by the death 

 of President Capen. 



Mr. R. p. Gregory, M.A., of St. John's Col- 

 loge. has been appointed senior demonstrator 

 in botany at Cambridge. 



