—Princeton University is to receive from Professor D. Wilson a collection of Syrian manuscript said to be the larg est and most valuable ever made by a private indivictual. Many of the documents date from the reign of the emperor Constantine. —The trustees of the University of Pennsylvania have awarded the contract for the construction of the new Medical Laboratories. In the extent of the plan and in the cost of this addition to the facilities of the University, it is the most important agreement ever entered into by the corpora tion. Since the study of the subject was first begun, the scope of the purposes to be attained has so widened that from the original projected cost of two hundred thousand dollars, three years ago, the cost of the completed undertak ing now entered upon will be about six hundred thousand dollars., The building will be wholly fire-proof, and its ex tent is three hundred and forty feet and the depth of its western wing, one hundred and ninety feet. —A gift of $250,000 from Mrs. Collis P. Huntington, more than completes the sum of $765,000 required to secure $1,000,00 offered by John D. Rockefeller for the enlarge ment and endowment of the Harvard Medical School. Mrs. Huntington's subscription is specifically for the erection of a building in memory of her late husband, to be called the Collis P. Huntington Laboratory of Pathology and Bacteri ology. With Mr. Rockefeller's gift and a pledge made by J. P. Morgan last June to give three buildings at a cost exceeding 51,000,000, an aggregate of $2,821,225 will be available for the use of the Medical School. —The students of the University of California held memorial services on the anniversary of the birth of the late Dr. Joseph Le Conte, the eminent geologist. Funds are being collected to assist in the erection of a granite lodge
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