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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Andrew's University on October 23, on 

 the occasion of the installation of Mr. 

 Andrew Carnegie as rector. Mr. Wil- 

 liam Sellers has been nominated for 

 the presidency of the American Society ; 

 of Mechanical Engineers. Professor 

 Kohlrausch, president of the Reichsan- 

 stalt, has been elected a foreign mem- 

 ber of the Swedish Academy of Sci- 

 ences. 



Mb. John Morley has given the 

 library of the late Lord Acton to Cam- 



University of Chicago. The collection 

 of the birds of Holland, formed by 

 Baron Snouckaert van Schaubvirg and 

 mounted by Tar Meer, the celebrated 

 Dutch taxidermist, has been purchased 

 by the Carnegie Museum. 



A commemorative tablet has been 

 placed on the house at Favieres in 

 which Professor A. A. Liebeault was 

 born. It states that he opened a new 

 era in the medical sciences by his dis- 

 covery of the systematic application of 



bridge University. It will be remem- 

 bered that this valuable historical 

 library of some 70,000 volumes was 

 purchased some time ago by Andrew 

 Carnegie from Lord Acton, who was 

 allowed to retain it until his death. 

 Upon Lord Acton's death Mr. Carnegie 

 gave the library unconditionally to Mr. 

 Morley. It is announced that the 

 entomological collection of the late John 

 Ackhurst, of Brooklyn, containing some 

 50.000 specimens, has been purchased 

 for the zoological department of the 



suggestion and induced sleep in the 

 treatment of disease. The tablet was 

 unveiled in the presence of Professor 

 Liebeault on his seventy-ninth birth- 

 day. An effort is being made by the 

 mayor and municipal council of St.- 

 Just-en-Chaussee, Oise, France, to raise 

 a memorial to two famous men who 

 were born in that town, the brothers 

 Haiiy-Rene Just, founder of mineralogy 

 as an exact science, and Valentin, the 

 philanthropist, who founded the first 

 school for the blind. 



