Which is the net decrease of the Funds and balances, excluding gifts for capital account. This decrease is less than the amount of the payments made during the year for the construction of Perkins Hall, Conant Hall, and the Fogg Art Museum, from the bequests given therefor.

THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY CLUB PROJECT.

Since the last issue of the Magazine the Committee has completed the distribution of circulars among Harvard Clubs throughout the country. By invitation, two of its members laid the plan before a meeting of the New York Harvard Club, and another attended the dinner of the Western New York Association at Rochester. The project seems everywhere to have been very cordially received, having had the formal indorsement of such clubs as have met since February, and the informal approval of many individual members of the others. The Committee have examined various sites, any one of which would be satisfactory. The time has come when the one thing needful is money for the building. The following statement has, therefore, been issued :—

COMMITTEE ON THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY CLUB.

8 BERKELEY STREET, CAMBRIDGE, MASS., April 30, 1896. DEAR SIR,-At the last meeting of this Committee it was agreed that the financial outlook is at present not propitious for a general canvass to obtain the

$200,000 which will be needed; but it was felt that every member of the Committee should be urged, either personally or through friends to bring the project to the attention of persons who might be induced to contribute. Especially is it to be remembered that, excepting Memorial Hall, all of the buildings erected at Harvard in our time have been given or bequeathed by individuals singly; men with means, who wish to build a monument either to themselves or some other, prefer, and naturally prefer, to give all, rather than to have their partial contributions merged unidentified in a general subscription. It is in no way improbable, therefore, that some benefactor may present himself, or be found, who, by endowing the University Club, will associate his name, or that of another, permanently with Harvard, and will secure-to an extent possible by no other gift- the gratitude of all Harvard's alumni and students during a long future. Certainly, the recent experience of Harvard as of other similar institutions has given no reason to believe that the race of Hollises, Stoughtons, Holworthys, and Boylstons has died out. On the contrary, their number ever increases, and the University stands to-day the monument of a group of departed and living benefactors whose names, from John Harvard down, are, and will always remain, household words.

Our work since last autumn has proved that Harvard men everywhere recognize the great benefits which might spring from the proposed Union, and that a large proportion of the students now in Cambridge are ready to use such an institution. We have the approval of the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, and the Faculty. The Professional School students, for whom no social affiliations exist, welcome the project; the undergraduates, who feel the effects of isolation, on the one hand, and of cliquishness on the other, desire its fulfilment; the athletic men look to it as a means towards supplying the unity and a common meeting-place, now sadly lacking. The graduates, wherever heard from, have expressed the hope that they may soon see a club-house in which, when they visit Cambridge, they can find shelter and a welcome. We are justified in expecting, therefore, that a want so generally recognized will soon be filled.

As an encouragement we would state that this very winter the University of Pennsylvania has had given to it by a single benefactor a club-house — Houston Hall — similar in most respects to that proposed for Harvard, and costing over $150,000, as a memorial to a student who died in college. We learn too, that another University has been promised a similar building.

We believe, therefore, that by proper search and presentation of the plan, some benefactor can be found to whom this most popular of objects will appeal -one who, like Mr. Hemenway, who gave the Gymnasium, or Mr. Higginson, who gave the Soldier's Field, will desire to witness during his lifetime the enjoyment of his generosity by others. As the numbers at Harvard are greater than at any other American University, so is the need greater for an institution which shall unite the various human interests of the students, and establish closer relations between the alumni and Alma Mater.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Chairman,
WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER, Secretary.

For the Committee.

The Committee consists at present of C. F. Adams, '56, Chairman, H. L. Higginson, ['55], G. G. Crocker, '64, J. B. Ames, '68, W. A. Burnham, '74, W. R. Thayer, '81, Secretary, T. C. Thacher, '82, H. E. Warner, '82, J. J. Storrow, Jr., '85, Wm. Endicott, 3d, '87, T. N. Perkins, '91, J. D. Greene, '96, of Boston and Cambridge; J. F. Jackson, "73, of Fall River; George Blagden, '56, J. J. Higginson, '57, J. H. Robb, ['66], A. G. Fox, '69, Lawrence Godkin, '81, C. D. Dickey, Jr., '82, A. T. French, '85, of New York; M. S. Greenough, '68, of Cleveland, O.; E. W. Frost, '84, and W. K. Flint, '91, of Milwaukee, Wis.; Dr. John Green, '55, and C. R. Sanger, '81, of St. Louis, Mo.; F. H. Wheelan, '80, of San Francisco, Cal.; A. L. Mills, '81, of Portland, Ore. Wm. Roscoe Thayer, '81, Sec.

LAWRENCE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL CATALOGUE.

Montague Chamberlain, the Secretary of the Lawrence Scientific School, has compiled the first catalogue of the Alumni of the School. Of 1713 men registered in the School down to 1895, only 328 graduated. But the high quality of the students can be inferred from the following partial list of those graduates who have attained posts of distinction:

1851. W. L. Jones, Prof. of Geology, Univ. of Georgia; Joseph Le Conte, Prof. of Geology and Natural History, Univ. of California; J. D. Runkle, Prof. of Mathematics, Mass. Inst. of Tech.; D. A. Wells, Economist. 1854. H. J. Clark, Asst. Prof. of Zoology, Harvard; T. E. Clark, Prof. of Chemistry, Williams Coll.; A. McF. Davis, Historian; C. H. Hudson, Chief Engineer of Southern R. R.; J. M. Richardson, Pres. of Bowdon Coll., Georgia; Sharon Tyndale, Secretary of State, Illinois. 1855. G. C. Caldwell, Prof. of Chemistry, Cornell Univ.; F. H. Storer, Prof. of Agricultural Chemistry, Harvard; C. M. Warren, Prof. of Organic Chemistry, Mass. Inst. of Tech. 1856. J. F. Carret, Curator, Boston Public Library; W. R. Ware, Prof. of Architecture, Columbia Coll. 1857. Alexander Agassiz, Curator, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard; Wm. Watson, Cor. Secretary of American Academy of Science, Prof. of Mechanical Engineering and Descriptive Geometry, Mass. Inst. of Tech. 1858. J. M. Crafts, Prof. of Chemistry, Mass. Inst. of Tech.; Theodore Lyman, Zoologist; Simon Newcomb, Superintendent of Nautical Almanac, Naval Observatory; C. G. Wheeler, Prof. of Chemistry, Chicago Coll. Pharm.

1860. D. C. Eaton, Prof. of Botany, Yale Univ.; G. A. Osborne, Prof. of Mathematics, Mass. Inst. of Tech. 1861. J. W. Langley, Instructor, Case School of Applied Science; Joseph Moore, Prof. of Geology and Botany, Univ. of Indiana. 1862. W. C. Cleveland, Prof. of

Engineering, Cornell Univ.; Alpheus Hyatt, Curator, Boston Society of Natural History; J. M. Rice, Prof. of Mathematics, U. S. Navy; S. H. Scudder, Palaeontologist, U. S. Geol. Survey; N. S. Shaler, Prof. of Geology, Harvard, Dean of Lawrence Scientific School; A. E. Verrill, Prof. of Zoology, Yale Univ.; B. G. Wilder, Prof. of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology, Cornell Univ. 1864. J. T. Rothrock, Prof. of Botany and Lecturer, Penn. Forestry Asso.; H. L. Waterman, Iowa State Senator. 1865. Wm. J. Beal, Prof. of Botany and Forestry, Michigan Agricultural Coll.; E. C. Pickering, Director of Harvard Observatory; John Trowbridge, Director of Physical Laboratory, Harvard. 1866. S. P. Sharples, Prof. of Chemistry, Boston Dental Coll. 1867. Regis Chauvenet, Pres. of State School of Mines of Colorado; F. W. Clarke, Prof. of Mineral Chemistry, Columbian Univ.; C. E. Faxon, Instructor, Bussey Inst., Harvard; Horace Mann, Assistant in Herbarium, Harvard Univ. 1868. G. I. Alden, Prof. of Mechanics, Worcester Polytech. Inst. 1869. W. M. Davis, Prof. of Physical Geography, Harvard; Henry Gannett, Geographer, U. S. Geol. Survey.

1870. W. G. Levison, Lecturer; S. P. Sadtler, Prof. of Organic and Industrial Chemistry, Univ. of Penn.; C. H. Wing, Prof. of Chemistry, Mass. Inst. Tech. 1871. C. E. Munroe, Dean of Corcoran Scientific School and Graduate School, Columbian Univ. 1872. Walter Faxon, Assistant in Zoology, Harvard. 1873. W. E. D. Scott, Assistant Ornithologist, Harvard; Isaac Sharpless, Pres. of Haverford Coll.; H. W. Wiley, Chief Chemist, Bureau of Agriculture. 1874. R. B. Warder, Prof. of Physics and Chemistry, Howard Univ. 1875. A. P. Nichols, Editor, Popular Science News. 1876. C. F. Mabery, Prof. of Chemistry, Case School. 1878. W. P. Wilson, Director of Philadelphia Commercial Museum. 1879. J. S. Diller, Petrographer, U. S. Geol. Survey.

1882. C. F. Batchelder, Ornithologist; F. W. Cragin, Prof. of Geology, Colorado Coll. 1883. Howard Ayres, Prof. of Biology, Univ. of Missouri; Wm. Patten, Prof. of Biology and Zoology, Dartmouth Coll. 1884. R. T. Jackson, Instructor in Palaeontology, Harvard. 1885. H. L. Smyth, Asst. Prof. of Mining Engineering, Harvard. 1887. R. P. Bigelow, Librarian and Instructor in Biology, Mass. Inst. Tech.; W. W. Bruner, Government Engineer, Sandwich Islands; G. H. Parker, Instructor in Zoology, Harvard. 1888. L. J. Johnson, Instructor in Engineering, Harvard.

1890. W. S. Nickerson, Instructor in Biology, Northwestern Univ. ; G. J. Peirce, Instructor in Botany, Univ. of Indiana. 1891. Frank Irwin, Instructor in Mathematics, Harvard; H. M. Richards, Assistant in Botany, Harvard; R. S. Tarr, Prof. of Geology, Cornell Univ.

ATHLETICS.