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the center of the fire in a condition high- 

 ly favorable to the most complete union 

 of oxygen with the combustible elements 

 of tlie fuel. Suggestions are made in 

 Mr. Schlicht's paper for the construc- 

 tion and regulation of furnaces, so as to 

 secure the condition described. 



Mr. Edward Ortox, Jr., has been 

 appointed State Geologist of Ohio, to 

 succeed his father, the late Dr. Edward 

 Orton. He has been connected, as an 

 assistant, with the survey, in which he 

 studied the distribution of the coal 

 measures, and has also prepared reports 

 on the clay and clay industries of the 

 State. 



" From a moral if not from a scien- 

 tific and industrial point of view, incon- 

 testably superior to that of the Euro- 

 pean peoples," is the characterization a 

 book reviewer in the Revue Scientifique 

 gives to Chinese civilization. 



Sir WiLLiAii Turner is the presi- 

 dent-elect for the Bradford meeting of 

 the British Association, 1900. He is 

 head of the great medical school at 

 Edinburgh, and President of the Gen- 

 eral Medical Council, and was pro- 

 nounced by Lord Lister, in nominating 

 him, the foremost human anatomist in 

 the British Islands, and also a great an- 

 thropologist. 



A GOLD medal is offered by the So- 

 ciety of Agricultural Industry and Com- 

 merce of Milan to the inventor of the 

 best apparatus or the person who will 

 make known the best method for pro- 

 tecting working electricians against the 

 accidents of their profession. The com- 

 petition is open to all nations. 



The statue of Lavoisier, called by 

 the French " the founder of chemistry," 

 is to be erected, during the Universal 

 Exposition in Paris, on the square 01 

 the Madeleine, at the intersection of the 

 Rue Tronchet. The work is in charge 

 of the sculptor Barrias. The sum ot 

 ninety-eight thousand francs, or nine- 

 teen thousand six hundred dollars, has 

 been subscribed to pay for it. 



The death list of the last few weeks 

 of men known in science includes a con- 

 siderable proportion of important names. 

 Among the number are John B. Stallo. 

 formerly of Cincinnati, author of Gen- 

 eral Principles of the Philosophy of 

 Nature, The Concepts and Theories of 



Modern Science, and numerous contri- 

 butions to scientific publications, recent- 

 ly United States minister to Italy, in 

 Florence, December 30th, in his seventy- 

 fifth year; Sir James Paget, for many 

 years the leading surgeon in England, 

 and author of books relating to surgery, 

 in London, December 30th, in his eighty- 

 sixth year; Dr. Thomas C. Egleston, 

 Emeritus Professor of Mineralogy and 

 Metallurgy in Columbia University, in 

 New York, January 15th; Prof. Henry 

 Allen Hazen, one of the chief forecasters 

 of the United States Weather Bureau, 

 and author of improvements in the 

 methods employed there, in Washing- 

 ton, from the results of a bicycle colli- 

 sion, January 22d, in his fifty-first year; 

 Dr. Wilhelm Zenker, a distinguished 

 physicist, at Berlin, October 21st, aged 

 seventy years; Augustus Doerflinger, 

 an engineer who was engaged in the 

 work of the removal of Hell Gate in 

 New York Harbor, at Brooklyn, No- 

 vember 24th, in his fifty-eighth year; 

 Johann Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Tie- 

 mann. Professor of Chemistry in the 

 University of Berlin and late editor of 

 the Reports of the German Chemical So- 

 ciety, at Meran, Tyrol, November 17th, 

 in his fifty-second year; he was distin- 

 guished for his researches upon the con- 

 stitution of odoriferous principles, in- 

 cluding works on vanillin, the aroma of 

 the violet, terpenes, and camphor, and 

 the synthesis of amido-acids ; Dr. Birch- 

 Ilirschfeld, Professor of Pathology in the 

 University of Berlin, aged fifty-seven 

 years; Sir Richard Thorne Thorne, prin- 

 cipal medical officer to the Local Gov- 

 ernment Board, in London, December 

 ISth, aged fifty-eight years; author of 

 many official reports relating to the 

 public health, of works on the progress 

 of preventive medicine during the Vic- 

 torian era, and of lectures on diphtheria 

 and the administrative control of tuber- 

 culosis; Dr. John Frederick Hodges, 

 Professor of Agriculture and lecturer on 

 medical jurisprudence in Queen's Col- 

 lege, Belfast, Ireland, and author of two 

 elementarj-^ books on chemistry, The 

 Structure and Physiology of the Ani- 

 mals of the Farm, and of several papers 

 published in the Proceedings of Scien- 

 tific Societies; E. C. C. Stanford, a prac- 

 tical chemist, distinguished for the in- 

 troduction of several original methods 

 of manufacture, and for the preparation 



