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movable at the proximal joint next to 

 tlie body. Its radius and ulna are sepa- 

 rate bones, not fused as they are nor- 

 mally. The dissection shows other pe- 

 culiarities of structure, such as might 

 be expected from a consideration of the 

 exterior. The species, normal, is com- 

 mon in parts of Oregon. 



It is related of Charcot, the distin- 

 guished alienist, late of the Salpetriere, 

 Paris, that he had marked artistic abil- 

 ity, and when he was seventeen years 

 old his family had some hesitation 

 uiiether to make him a doctor or a 

 painter, lie chose the medical profes- 

 sion. He was fond of drawing sketches 

 of his patients, and of landscapes he saw 

 in his travels, and was not above mak- 

 ing an occasional caricature. 8everal 

 albums are filled with designs of this 

 kind. A study of his work as an artist 

 was prepared by Dr. Henri Meige in 

 connection with the erection of his mon- 

 ument, and is deposited in the Salpe- 

 triere. 



The Russian decree nullifying the 

 constitutional privileges of Finland, not- 

 withstanding treaty guarantees, is pro- 

 ducing an elfect that was probably not 

 intended or anticipated. Kealizing the 

 futility of resistance and holding the 

 people true to their reputation of being 

 the most peaceable, enlightened, and or- 

 derly of the Czar's subjects, the repre- 

 sentatives of the Finns are said to be 

 quietly making inquiries about the 

 prospects of settlement in the Canadian 

 Is'orthwest and other free regions. 



Despite the growing use of motor 

 traction, the raising of horses gives no 

 sign of diminishing. Against 212,827 

 horses in 1888, the Argentine Republic 

 has, by the census of 1895, 4,234,032. 

 That countrj' now ranks tliinl in horso- 

 rcaring nations, being excelled only by 

 Russia and the United States. 



M. Andre Broca has found, con- 

 cerning the use of India-rubber supports 

 for isolating physical apparatus from 

 earth tremors, that when apparatus hav- 

 ing movable parts are supported in this 

 vay the vibrations, instead of being re- 

 duced, may in some cases be increased 

 tenfold. But when the apparatus con- 

 sists entirely of rigid material there is no 

 better way of insuring steadiness than 

 by resting it on India rubber. 



The Pennsylvania Society for the 

 Prevention of Tuberculosis works for the 

 single end of educating the community 

 in a knowledge of the true nature of con- 

 sumittion and of the means of controlling 

 or conquering it. For this it diffuses I 



literature, seeks the aid of persons in in- 

 lluential positions, and strives to obtain 

 the requisite conditions for restoring 

 those early afflicted and for preventing 

 the communication of infection to others 

 from those far advanced. Its main ef- 

 fort is directed toward the establishment 

 of a municipal hospital for tuberculous 

 patients, and for a sanatorium in the 

 high regions of the State. For the last 

 purpose it is offered a most desirable lo- 

 cation in Luzerne County. 



The list of recent deaths among men 

 known in science includes the names of 

 W. W. Norman, I'rofessor of Biology in 

 the University of Texas; John White- 

 head, who died while on a scientific mis- 

 sion to the island of Hainan, for which 

 he left England in the autumn of 1808; 

 Naval Lieutenant Charles William Bail- 

 lie, Marine Superintendent of the Eng- 

 lish Meteorological Office, inventor oi 

 the hydra sounding machine, late Di- 

 rector of Nautical Studies at the Im- 

 perial Naval College, Tokio, and author 

 of important meteorological investiga- 

 tions, at Broadstairs, June 2th, aged 

 fifty-five years ; Henry Wollaston Blake, 

 an original member of the Institution 

 of Civil Engineers, of the Institution of 

 ilechanical Engineers, and of the Brit- 

 ish Association, and a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society, eighty-four years of age; 

 Ed\\ard Jannetaz, a French mineralo- 

 gist, an assistant in the IMuseum of 

 Paris, and Lecturer on ilineralogy for 

 forty years. Master of Conferences in 

 the Faculty of Sciences, author of LfS 

 Roches and other books, aged sixty- 

 seven years; Dr. Eugen Ritter von Lom- 

 mell, of the University of IMunich, dis- 

 tinguished in mathematics, physics, and 

 optics, and author of several books on 

 those subjects, including The Nature 

 of Light in the International Scientific 

 Series, June 19th, in his sixty-third 

 }ear; Sir Alexander Armstrong, arctic 

 navigator and discoverer of the North- 

 west ])assage, late Director-General of 

 the jMcdical Department of tlie British 

 IMuscum, aTid author of a narrative of 

 his great discovery and of a work on 

 Naval Hygiene: Dr. Hugo Weidel, Pro- 

 fessor of Chemistry in the L^niversity 

 of Vienna; Sir William Henry Flower, 

 late Director of the British ]\Iuseum of 

 Natural History, Past President of the 

 l^ritish Association, at the time of his 

 death President of the Zoiilogical So- 

 ciety of London, and author of several 

 excellent books on zoology, natural his- 

 tory, museums, and kindred subjects, 

 aged sixtj'-eight years; and Dr. Daniel 

 G. Brinton, the distinguished American 

 ethnologist and lingust. of whom we 

 give a fuller notice elsewhere. 



