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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. 
kingdom of the Netherlands has latterly increased consider- 
ably in the province of Friesland ; theChamber of Commerce 
now declares the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 
infected by disease in horned cattle, and repeats the order 
formerly published, declaring the following countries infected 
by the same disease ; viz., the Netherlands, England, Scotland, 
the Duchies of Holstein, as well as that part of the Duchy of 
Schleswick which is situated between the river Eider and 
Huzam in the west, and Flensburg in the east ; besides which, 
the Netherlands, Zeland, Funen, and Jutland are declared 
infected with glanders in horses.” 
UNIVERSITY OE LONDON. 
BEQUEST OF ,£ 20,000 TO AN HOSPITAL FOR THE INVESTI- 
GATION AND CURE OF DISEASES OF QUADRUPEDS AND 
BIRDS USEFUL TO MAN. 
On Wednesday, May 6th, the Senatus met at Burlington 
House, for the first time, for the purpose of conferring degrees 
and scolarships, and awarding prizes. 
At two o’clock Earl Granville, chancellor; and Sir John 
C. Lefevre, vice-chancellor, accompanied by the Senatus, 
entered the hall, and were very warmly received by a 
numerous assembly, comprising many ladies. 
Dr. Carpenter, the registrar, read a lengthened report. 
It congratulated the members of the University on their 
having, in conjunction with the Royal Society, obtained 
permanent possession of the spacious room in which the 
meeting was held. It stated that the chair in which the 
Chancellor sat was presented by Sir Isaac Newton to the 
Royal Society ; and that before their next meeting the walls 
would be adorned with portraits of Bacon, Newton, Locke, 
Wren, Boyle, Hunter, Dapy, and other distinguished men. 
The report also congratulated the assembly on a recent decision 
of the Master of the Rolls, confirmed by the Lords’ Justices, 
before whom it was brought on an appeal, by which the 
University became entitled to £20,000, invested in the Three 
per Cents., bequeathed by the late Mr. Thomas Brown, of 
Dublin, to an hospital for the investigation and cure of diseases 
of quadrupeds and birds useful to man. 
[We know nothing of the nature of this bequest beyond 
what is stated above ; nevertheless, we cannot help thinking 
