Endowment for New Buildings Word just come from New York that gifts have come in for two new foreign residences, and -also $50,000 gold for the new Woman's Building. Work on the. residences has already begun, and the plans for the Woman's Building are being drawn. It will be built on the new campus not far from the river front, and as the money appropriated for it is more than the cost of any other building thus. far erected by the college it will probably be the finest of all. This will help to give the right kind of a start to co-education. i The new science building is now unto the second storey. Frost and rain have greatly hindered the progress of the work so far but it is hoped from now on. that more speedy advance will be made, The building will be ready in September and*promises to be one "of the best equipped and most up-to-date science halls in China.
Professor Harris H. Wilder, who lectured on biology at Shanghai College during the spring term last year, and who was so busy catching frogs and fishes and-salamanders, of which he took several barrels full of specimens with him, now reports that hed succeeded in bringing to America three species thus far unrepresented in any American museum, and one of these is a new species. This was a Japanese form, presented to him in Kobe by Dr. Kimura, the Dean of Kobe College, and Dr. Wilder has named it Hynobius kimura. One of the others, the Triturus orientalls, was collected by Professor Wilder at Hangchow, on the way from Lake Si Wu to the great Budd—hist temple of Ling Ing; the other one, Pachytriton sinuensis, was given to the professor by Dr.
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