NOTES. 



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rant of the names of colors, would involve 

 danger to life and property ; that the test- 

 ing should be compulsory, and intrusted to 

 examiners certificated by the central author- 

 ity ; that Holmgren's test be used for color- 

 vision, and that after passing it the candi- 

 date be required to name without hesitation 

 the colors that are employed as signals or 

 lights, and also white light ; that rejected 

 candidates have a right of appeal ; that can- 

 didates rejected for naming colors wrongly 

 who are proved to possess normal color- 

 vision be allowed to be re-examined after a 

 proper interval of time; that certificates of 

 the qualifications of candidates be given, 

 and schedules of the results of examinations 

 be sent up every year ; that persons filling 

 the scheduled employments be examined 

 every third year for form-vision ; that the 

 tests, etc., be inspected periodically; that 

 signal colors of ships and railways be as far 

 as possible uniform; and that witnesses in 

 judicial inquiries arising out of these matters 

 be themselves tested for color and form 

 vision. 



A Curious Accident by Lightning. A 



singular wholesale effect of a stroke of light- 

 ning occurred at Bourges, France, on the 

 4th of May. A detachment of soldiers was 

 hastening to get under shelter from an ap- 

 proaching storm, when the whole body were 

 thrown by the lightning upon their faces. 

 One man, who was a little distance away 

 and in the rear, was also affected, but not 

 so seriously. Most of the men rose imme- 

 diately, but four remained prostrated for a 

 little while, and one was killed. The men 

 say they felt violent blows in the nape of the 

 neck and the legs, and a sensation of burn- 

 ing. None of the men saw the lightning, 

 except an officer in front, who was facing 

 them. 



Types of Indian Beauty. In an interest- 

 ing paper on Indian Types of Beauty, Dr. R. 

 W. Shufeldt has collected portraits, with 

 personal descriptions, of specimens represent- 

 ing several tribes of the Southwest, including 

 a Navajo man and his wife Anserino ; Iza- 

 shima, a belle of the Laguna Pueblo ; the 

 daughter and the wife of Paliwahtiwa, gov- 

 ernor of Zuni ; a girl of Moqui ; Natuende, 

 an Apache maiden ; Sowatcha and Luli-pah, 



married Mojave women ; and a Yuma squaw. 

 The Yumas never have as good-looking 

 women among them as are to be found 

 among the Mojaves ; and, in the author's 

 opinion, " the prettiest and most intelligent 

 faces of all are possessed by the young un- 

 married girls of the pueblos." 



Kerosene as a Preventive of Mosqui- 

 toes. Mr. L. 0. Howard, of Washington, 

 read an interesting paper before the Associa- 

 tion of Economic Entomologists in Washing- 

 ton, on averting the mosquito plague by treat- 

 ing the breeding-spots of the pests with 

 kerosene. He gave the details of some ac- 

 curate experiments made during the first 

 part of July, which indicated that ninety-six 

 thousand square feet of water can be cov- 

 ered by one barrel of kerosene, at the cost of 

 $4.50. The effect of the treatment is that 

 the eggs and early stages of the mosquito 

 are destroyed, and all the female mosquitoes 

 alighting upon the surface of the water for 

 the purpose of laying their eggs will be 

 killed. The deadly effects on insects of such 

 application will remain for at least two 

 weeks, and will outlast all evidence by the 

 smell of the presence of kerosene. 



NOTES. 



A committee of five members, chosen 

 from different sections, was appointed by the 

 American Association to act with the corre- 

 sponding committee of the World's Congress 

 of the Columbian Exposition respecting such 

 matters as may appropriately come under its 

 cognizance. 



The report of the American Associa- 

 tion's committee on indexing chemical litera- 

 ture recommends that communications be 

 entered into with the Royal Society, so that 

 a perfect index can be prepared. It was de- 

 cided to appoint a committee to secure a 

 certain number of experts to work on the 

 index which is to be published by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



The credit for the introduction of man- 

 ual training into the public schools is claimed 

 by Director J. L. Tadd, of the Public Indus- 

 trial Art School of Philadelphia, for Mr. 

 Charles G. Leland, who was chiefly instru- 

 mental in influencing the board to make the 

 first attempt, Mr. Leland was a skilled hand- 

 worker as well as literary man, and had a 

 complete idea of the practical side of the 

 question as well as of the theoretical. The 

 teachers in the Philadelphia school think 



