XXII NOTES BY THE EDITOR. 



between 10° and 12° south latitude, or nearly in the position 

 assigned to them by Ptolemy. 



** The springs of the Nile have hitherto been searched for very 

 much too far to the north. They rise some 400 miles south of the 

 most southerly portion of the Victoria Nyanza, and, indeed, 

 south of all the lakes except Bangweolo. 



An International Exhibition of select works of fine and 

 industrial art, and scientific inventions, is to be held in 1871, at 

 South Kensington, England. This is the first of a series of 

 annual exhibitions. 



The movement which established the South Kensington Museum 

 is having its parallel in Massachusetts and New York. It is 

 proposed to establish a museum of the fine arts in New York and 

 Boston. At the last session of the Legislature of Massachusetts, 

 the following resolve was passed : — 



•' Resolved, That the Board of Education be directed to consider 

 the expediency of making provision by law for giving free 

 instruction to men, women, and children, in mechanical drawing, 

 either in existing schools, or in those to be established for that 

 purpose, in all the towns in the Commonwealth having more 

 than five thousand inhabitants, and report a definite plan therefor 

 to the next General Court. [Approved June 12, 1869.]" 



It is felt that our common schools do not srive the rijrht traiuinjr 

 to the industrial classes, and that if we are to have skilled 

 mechanics, we must educate them. In view of the great natural 

 advantages of the West, we at the East can hold our ground only 

 by skilled labor ; and the proper education of the lower classes 

 has become a question of vital importance. 



We present the readers of the Annual of Scientific Dis- 

 covery for 1870, with a fine jDortrait of Benjamin Pierce, 

 LL. D., Professor of Mathematics, in Harvard College, and 

 Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey. 



