132 The American Geologist. August, isoi 
which will amount to from three hundred thousand to half a mil- 
lion dollars — are, that the school shall be a separate department 
of the university, and bear the name of the Ogden Scientific 
School, its purpose being to furnish graduate students with the 
best f:|pilities possible for scientific investigation by courses of 
lectures and lal)oratory practice. The income of the mone}' ap- 
propriated is to be devoted to and used for the payment of salaries 
and fellowships, and the maintenance of lal)orat()ries in physics, 
chemisUy, biology, geology and astronomy, with the subdivisions 
of these departments. A large share of the time of the professors 
in the school is to be given to original in\estigation, and encf>ur- 
agement of various kinds is to be furnished them U) publish the 
results of their investigations, a portion of the funds being set 
apart for the purpose of such publication. Some portion of the 
income is to be set apart for the purchase of books to be placed in 
the special departmental and laboratory libraries of the proposed 
school. 
Prof. p. Martin Dincan, a well known English geologist, es- 
pecially in the stud}' of corals, died in May last. As was the case 
with many others who lla^■e become eminent in geology-, he began 
life as a physician, practicing medicine for many years. His first 
venture in science was in Botau}' ; ( Observations on the Pollen- 
tube, 1856). It was no part of his plan to seclude himself from 
the active duties of life while engaged in the stud}' of science. He 
was at the same time mayor of Colchester and curator of the local 
museum in that town which still shows the evidence of a manage- 
ment far ahead of the time when it was arranged. 
Later on Dr. Duncan remo^'ed to London, became professor of 
Geolog}' at Kings College and Cooper's Ilill, (the East India Col- 
lege,) secretary and vice-president of the Geological Society, and in 
1879 president of the geological section of the British Association. 
In 1881 he received the highest honor in the gift of the Geological 
Society, the WoUaston Medal, and at different times served on the 
Council of the Royal Society and presided over the meetings of 
the Microscopical Society. 
Prof. Duncans chief papers are his "Fossil Corals," the "Phys- 
ical Geogi-aph}- of Hurope during the Mesozoic and Cienozoic 
eras elucidated by their ('oral Faunas,"' his "Revision of the 
Madreporaria ■ and of the "Great Groups of the Echinoidea," 
with some later ones on " Protozoa and Sponges." 
