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hour, or, compared with that at the level 

 of the sea, was as 5.5 to 1. By comparing 

 the velocity of the wind at this elevation in 

 the direction which the storm advances 

 with the velocity of the storm's advance, 

 Prof. Loomis is enabled to deduce a meas- 

 ure of the force of the upward movement 

 of the centre of a storm. 



Storms are divided, by Prof. Loomis, 

 into two classes. Those of the first class 

 traverse the continent northward of the 

 fortieth parallel ; many from the remote 

 west reach the great lakes Superior and 

 Huron, and show a decided preference for 

 that region. Some of these have their 

 origin among the Rocky Mountains, and 

 some come from the mountains of Oregon. 

 Those of the second class originate chiefly 

 westward of the mouth of the Mississippi, 

 and move nearly northeast. These com- 

 prise only about one-sixth of the whole 

 number, but include some of the violent 

 cyclones which traverse our coast. 



NOTES, 



Correction. — In the article on the 

 " Development of Psychology," in the 

 August number, page 417, a long passage 

 is represented as quoted. The quotation 

 is an error of the printer. 



The National (British) Association for 

 the Promotion of Social Science will assem- 

 ble at Glasgow, September 30th, and will 

 be in session till October 7th. President, 

 the Earl of Roseberry. The presidents of 

 departments are : Jurisprudence and Amend- 

 ment of the Law, Lord Moncrieff; Repres- 

 sion of Crime, Frederick Hill ; Education, 

 Lords Napier and Ettrick ; Health, Lyon 

 Playfair ; Economy and Trade, Sir George 

 Campbell. 



At the summer distribution of prizes at 

 University College, London, the first and 

 second places, in the mixed class of juris- 

 prudence, were both held by ladies — Miss 

 E. Ortne, who, two years ago, took the prize 

 in political economy, coming out first ; 

 while, in the mixed class of political econ- 

 omy, this year, a lady took the fourth cer- 

 tificate. 



Mr. Lick's first gift to the California 

 Academy of Sciences was a piece of land, 

 worth $250,000. By his recent deed, he 

 provides the means for the erection of a 

 suitable building for the Academy, to cost 

 about $250,000. This is not all. The in- 

 stitution is provided by the generosity of 



Mr. Lick with ample funds to purchase 

 books, collections, etc., and to carry on 

 the Academy on a firm basis. The sum 

 of the gifts thus made to this one insti- 

 tution amounts to over one million dollars. 



It is reported that the Phylloxera vas- 

 tairix, the worst of grape-vine pests, has 

 made its way into Australia. 



Another mountain of iron-ore has been 

 discovered in Missouri. A shaft has been 

 sunk on Shepherd Mountain, which has 

 passed already through 70 feet of almost 

 solid ore, and the quality of the deposit is 

 improving as the shaft goes down. Shep- 

 herd Mountain is about six miles south of 

 the famous " Iron Mountain." 



A dispatch from Denver, Col., dated 

 July 20th, states that the three topograph- 

 ical divisions of Prof. Hayden's Exploring 

 Expedition had already taken the field, and 

 Prof. Gardner's party was soon to follow. 

 Dr. Hayden, with his selected party, will 

 review the whole ground, viz., that part of 

 Colorado south of the 40th parallel, and 

 west of the Park Range. The expedition 

 includes fifty persons. 



The large and valuable collection of 

 natural history specimens procured by 

 D'Albertis during his recent travels in 

 New Guinea has been purchased by the 

 Italian Government. D'Albertis intends 

 soon to return to New Guinea to continue 

 his researches. 



A FEW drops of oil of bitter almonds on 

 a little sawdust will serve as a good pre- 

 servative of insects. Place the insects with 

 the prepared sawdust in a hermetically- 

 sealed flask. Insects have, in this way, 

 been sent from Ceylon to France, and, when 

 they reached their destination, were still 

 so flexible as to permit of their being pre- 

 pared and mounted, though they had been 

 collected months previously. 



Three thousand acres of cotton have 

 been planted in California this year, and 

 the prospects are good for an abundant 

 yield. 



Alphonse de Candolle, the eminent bot- 

 anist of Geneva, has been elected Foreign 

 Associate of the French Academy of Sciences, 

 as successor of the late Prof. Agassiz. 



Two scientific expeditions are to set out 

 from Archangel next summer, one to explore 

 the traces of ancient glaciers in Russian 

 Lapland, and the other to pursue zoological 

 investigations on the shore of the White 

 Sea. 



Dr. Druitt, an eminent physician and 

 high authority on the subject of wine, says : 

 " Civilized man must drink, will drink, and 

 ought to drink : but it should be wine." 



