By the will of George Oakes Clark, of Milton, his estate valued at $300,000 is left in trust for the benefit of his family, and after their decease and that of all his relatives, the remaining portion of the estate is bequeathed to Harvard college.

Dr. Minot, of the Medical School, has been chosen secretary of the Society of Naturalists.

The list of alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy includes twelve governors of states.

Charles Dudley Warner, has been made a lecturer on English literature at Cornell University.

Mr. Souther, the Yale cateher, says the nine will be as good as that of last season. [Ex.

The unusual number of rooms lighted up now in the evening are a sure indication of the approach of the examinations.

A Bermuda letter states that Messrs R. L. Sears and Grant were lately defeated at tennis by two English officers.

A geological seminar will be held in Prof. Shaler's room, in Agassiz Museum, every Thursday afternoon during the term.

Millais has, it is understood, accepted a commission to paint a new portrait of Mr. Gladstone for Christ Church College, Oxford,

F. M. Tilden, a new member of the cientitic School, and a candidate for the nine, led the batting of the Western College Association last year with an average of .530.

In an address delivered some weeks ago, Mr. Justin Winsor expressed a doubt as to whether there was a library in American in which the foot-notes of Gibbon could be verified.

W. D. Howells, the novelist, and Prof. Norton are out in a card appealing for aid in rebuilding the American monastery of San Lazzaro in Venice, which was destroyed by fire last summer.

The London Telegraph editorially asserts that "at present no substantial teaching of any of the living European tongues takes place either at Cambridge or Oxford."

The Lord Mayor of London, in welcoming Professor Huxley to the city recently, suggested that the position of President of the Royal Society was really one of even greater importance than that of Prime Minister; Mr. Gladstone is chief Minister of England, but Professor Huxley was "the head of the intellectual life of the world."