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...Asa Gray, in company with Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, reviews, in the April number of the American Journal of Science, Dr. Candolle's "Origin of Cultivated Plants," with the result of claiming more indigenous plants for America than the Swiss botanist allows. A second article is promised in the next number...
Lehigh University, founded by Asa Packer, of Pennsylvania, has by the recent death of Mr. R. A. Packer received one-half of that gentlemen's fortune, which is estimated to be over $1,000,000. The university was founded originally with the idea of giving an excellent technical education to many ambitions young men who had not the means to pursue a course at a regular college. There is therefore no tuition expense, and admission is granted to a limited number of students from Pennsylvania who have had a high school education. The original bequest was $500,000, which...