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states of Europe. The manufacture out- 

 side of France does not appear to be 

 on a large scale, for only tlncc hundred 

 carriages are credited to other countries, 

 and half of these to Belgium. The United 

 States, however, promises to give a good 

 account of itself next time. 



Mine No. 8 of the Sunday Creek 

 Coal Company, to which the American 

 Association made its Saturday excur- 

 sion from Columbus, Ohio, has recently 

 been equipped with electric power, which 

 is obtained by utilizing the waste gas 

 from the oil wells in the vicinity. This, 

 the Ohio State Journal says, is ihe first 

 mine in the State to make use of this 

 natural power. 



In a bulletin relating to a " dilution 

 cream separator " which is now mar- 

 keted among farmers, the Purdue Uni- 

 versity Agricultural Experiment Station 

 refers to the results of experiments made 

 several years ago as showing that an in- 

 creased loss of fat occurs in skim milk 

 when dilution is practiced, that the loss 

 is greater with cold than with warm 

 water, and that the value of the skim 

 milk for feeding is impaired when it is 

 diluted. Similar results have been ob- 

 tained at other experiment stations. The 

 results claimed to be realized with the 

 separators can be obtained by diluting 

 the milk in a comparatively inexpensive 

 round can. 



To our death list of men known in 

 science we have to add the names of 

 John Cordreaux, an English ornitholo- 

 gist, who was eminent as a student, for 

 thirty-six years, of bird migrations, and 

 Avas secretary of the British Associa- 

 tion's committee on that subject, at 

 Great Cotes House, Lincolnshire, Eng- 

 land, August 1st, in his sixty-ninth 

 year; he was author of a book on the 

 Birds of the Ilumber District, and of 

 numerous contributions to The Zoolo- 

 gist and The Ibis; Gaston Tissandier, 

 founder, and editor for more than twen- 

 tj' years, of the French scientific journal 

 La Nature, at Paris, August SOth, in 

 his fifty-seventh year; besides his devo- 

 tion to his journal, he was greatly in- 

 terested in aerial navigation, to which 

 he devoted much time and means in ex- 

 periments, and was a versatile author 

 of popular books touching various de- 

 j)artments of science; Judge Charles P. 

 Daly, of New York, who, as president 

 for thirty-six years of the American 

 Geographical Society, contributed very 

 largely to the encouragement and prog- 

 ress of geographical study in the Ihiited 

 States, Sei)tembcr 19th, in his eighty- 

 fourth year; he was an honorary mem- 

 ber of the Royal Geographical Society 



of London, of the Berlin Geographical 

 Society, and of the Imperial Geograph- 

 ical Society of Russia; he was a judge 

 of the Court of Common Pleas of New 

 York from 1844 to 1858, and after that 

 chief justice of the same court continu- 

 ously for twenty-seven years, and was 

 besides, a publicist of high reputation, 

 whose opinion and advice were sought 

 by men charged with responsibility con- 

 cerning them on many important State 

 and national questions; Henri Levegne 

 de Vilmorin, lirst vice-president of the 

 Paris School of Horticulture; 0. G. 

 Jones, Physics Master of the City of 

 London School, from an accident on 

 the Dent Blanche, Alps, August 30th; 

 Ambrose A. P. Stewart, formerly in- 

 structor in chemistry in the Lawrence 

 Scientific School, and afterward Pro- 

 fessor of Chemistry in the Pennsylvania 

 State College and in the University of 

 Illinois, at Lincoln, Neb., September 

 13th ; Dr. Charles Fayette Taylor, found- 

 er of the New Y^ork Orthopedic Dis- 

 pensary, and author of articles in the 

 Popular Science Monthly on Bodily 

 Conditions as related to Mental States 

 (vol. xv), Gofio, Food, and Physique 

 (vol. xxxi), and Climate and Health 

 (vol. xlvii), and of books relating to 

 his special vocation, died in Los An- 

 geles, CaL, January 25th, in his seventy- 

 second year. 



Efforts are making for the forma- 

 tion of a Soppitt Memorial Library of 

 jNIycological Literature, to be presented 

 to the Yorkshire (England) Naturalists' 

 Union as a memorial of the services ren- 

 dered to mycological science and to 

 Y'orkshire natural history generally, by 

 the late Mr. H. T. Soppitt. 



The United States Department of 

 Agriculture has published, for general 

 information and in order to develop a 

 wider interest in the subject, the His- 

 tory and Present Status of Instruction 

 in Cooking in the Public Schools of New 

 Y^ork ('ity, by Mrs. Louise E. Hogan, to 

 which an introduction is furnished by 

 A. C. True, Ph. D. 



The United States Weather Bureau 

 publishes a paper On Lightning and 

 Electricity in the Air, by Alexander G. 

 McAdic, representing the present knowl- 

 edge on the subject, and, as supplemen- 

 tary to it or forming a second part. Loss 

 of Life and Property by Electricity, by 

 Alfred J. Henry. 



A GIFT of one thousand dollars has 

 been made to the research fund of the 

 American Association for the Ailvance- 

 ment of Science l)y ]\Ir. Emerson McMil- 

 lin, of New Y'^ork. 



