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of Zurich, and on him devolved the congratulatory address, at the 

 conclusion of which a curtain fell, uncovering a bust of Professor 

 Ludwig which had been made by Professor Schilling of Dresden. 

 Professor Cyon, of St. Petersburg, spoke in behalf of Ludwig's 

 Russian students, and the curtain fell again, displaying an ex- 

 quisite silver clock. Professor Midler presented an album with 

 photographs of all his pupils. But the finest of possible gifts 

 was the superb volume of sixteen memoirs on anatomy and 

 physiology which had been prepared as a lasting commemoration 

 of the day. Then followed addresses from former colleagues in 

 Zurich and Vienna, and presentations of memoirs dedicated to 

 Ludwig and sent by various learned societies. In the afternoon 

 the company assembled again in the Hotel Hauffe for a dinner 

 given to the Professor, at which there was more speech-making. 

 "I am an old man," said Weber in private conversation, "but I 

 have never seen or heard of so much honor being done to any 

 professor. It has never happened (Es ist nie dagewesen)." In the 

 evening, at Professor Ludwig's own house, the guests found fifty 

 congratulatory telegrams spread upon the table, which had been 

 sent from the principal towns of every part of Europe. — Xution. 



The trustees of the Peabody Museum of Yale College— Pro- 

 fessors James D. Dana, Benjamin Silliman, George J. Brush and 

 Othniel C. Marsh, Gov. Ingersoll, Hon. R. C. Winthrop, and G. 

 P. Wetmore, — have decided to proceed to the immediate erection 

 of one wing of the building, at a cost of 8160,000. The lot on 

 which it is to stand extends from Elm to Library streets, being 

 one hundred and forty-five feet deep, and four hundred and four- 

 teen feet in length. The front of the entire building will extend 

 three hundred and fifty feet on High street. The wing to be 

 erected at this time will have a front of one hundred fifteen feet 

 on High, and one hundred feet on Elm streets, and will contain 

 three stories with a high basement. The basement wilt contain 

 working rooms, and fossil foot-prints ; the first main story, a lecture 

 room and mineralogical specimens ; the second story, geology, 

 especially fossil vertebrates ; the third story, zoological speci- 

 mens ; the attic, archaeological and ethnological specimens. The 

 mineralogical collection of the Museum is to be under the charge 

 of Professor G. J. Brush, the geological department under Pro- 

 fessor O. C. Marsh, and the zoological under Professor A. E. Ver 



