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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



feature of the day. It was simple, per- 

 tinent, instructive, and timely, in the 

 considerations suggested by the com- 

 pleted undertaking. It is not often the 

 happy fortune of a man to put the 

 trimmings on a great occasion with such 

 fine propriety as did the oratorical 

 representative of New York in con- 

 summating its closer alliance with 

 Brooklyn. We print this speech, and 

 also a brief article on the statistics of 

 the bridge, which, however, can not be 

 authoritative and complete till the issue 

 of the final official report. 



THE TYNDALL SCHOLARSHIPS. 



Dk. Lucien J. Blake returns to this 

 country at the present vacation from 

 Berlin, where he has been studying 

 physics in the university laboratory 

 of Professor Helmholtz, as a Tyndall 

 Scholar, for the past two years. He 

 has distinguished himself in original 

 work, and will be prepared to take an 

 honorable position as professor in an 

 American college. With the resigna- 

 tion of Dr. Blake there will be two 

 vacant scholarships of the Tyndall Trust 

 Fund, the revenue of which is devoted 

 to the aid of American students of 

 promise who desire to obtain Conti- 

 nental facilities for training in physical 

 investigation. It will be remembered 

 that Professor Tyndall consecrated the 

 total profits of his American lectures 

 ten years ago to this noble object. The 

 proceeds of those lectures, beyond the 

 payment of necessary expenses, he re- 

 fused to regard as belonging to him- 

 self, but left them as a fund in the 

 hands of trustees to be used for the 

 benefit of American young men of ca- 

 pacity and ambition, to prepare them- 

 selves for a life of original experiment- 

 al work in physical science. The pro- 

 vision was wise as it was generous, 

 for while, on one hand, the students 

 of pure science are without the Btrong 

 incitements of pecuniary reward for 

 their labors, on the other hand, the en- 



couragements to scientific study are 

 too often in the direction of its imme- 

 diate utilities. Aw r are of the strong 

 temptation in these times to cultivate 

 science from the lower motives, Pro- 

 fessor Tyndall has lent the influence of 

 his example, his teachings, and his sub- 

 stantial earnings to stimulate and sus- 

 tain those youthful devotees of scientific 

 truth who would pursue the work of 

 research from the simple and elevated 

 motive of a desire for the extension of 

 valuable knowledge. Those wishing to 

 obtain the benefits of the Tyndall Fund 

 should apply to its trustees, Professor 

 Joseph Lovering, of Harvard College, 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts; President 

 F. A. P. Barnard, of Columbia College, 

 New York; and the senior editor of 

 this periodical. 



PROGRESS AND THE HOME. 



Dr. Emily Blackwell discusses the 

 industrial position of woman in a way 

 that appears to us especially signifi- 

 cant at the present time. We said 

 not long ago, "If there is one thing 

 that pervades and characterizes what is 

 called the 'woman's movement' it is 

 the spirit of revolt against the home, 

 and the determination to escape from 

 it into the outer spheres of activity that 

 will bring her into direct and open com- 

 petition with men." This statement has 

 been criticised as unjust ; but we cer- 

 tainly did not mean to intimate that 

 there may not be many women thor- 

 oughly enlisted in the " woman's move- 

 ment," and who, nevertheless, retain a 

 strong home interest. Our statement 

 was general, and simply affirmed a wide- 

 spread tendency, the unmistakable drift 

 of which, we think, the article on u The 

 Industrial Position of Woman " deci- 

 sively illustrates. 



It will be seen that Dr. Blackwell 

 writes as a student of social tendencies. 

 She appeals to the primitive condition 

 of society, falls back upon the law of 

 progress, and forecasts the results of its 



