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THE POPULAR SCIEXCE MONTHLY. 



goes to pay the salary of an assistant. The 

 Department of Chemistry under the charge 

 of Professor John Howard Appieton is in a 

 healthy condition. The same may be said 

 of the Department of Zoology and Geology, 

 under Professor A. S. Packard, and that of 

 Astronomy under Professor Winslow Upton. 

 Excellent work is done in all these depart- 

 ments, and young men who may be attracted 

 to the university with the hope of being well 

 trained in courses of collegiate study which 

 accord with their tastes, and such as will fit 

 them for the sort of professional life to 

 which their inclinations lead them, will be 

 sure not to be disappointed. 



English Literary Piracy. — As a sample 

 of high-minded journalism in a country 

 where there is a great deal of righteous in- 

 dignation over the ways of American pub- 

 lishers, we give below a list of original ar- 

 ticles and special translations reprinted 

 from this magazine during the past year, 

 without any credit whatever, in a London 

 journal called Health, of which Dr. Andrew 

 Wilson, F. W. S. E., is the editor. American 

 periodicals in good standing uniformly give 

 full credit for articles from foreign sources 

 which tbcy republish. The Popular Science 

 Monthly has never violated this custom, and 

 desires the same measure of justice from its 

 foreign contemporaries : 



"A Bald and Toothless Future," P. S. M. 

 Oct., 1886 ; Health, Jan. 28. 



"Vinegar and its Mother," P. S. M. 

 Jan., 1887 ; Health, May 6, 13, and 20. 



" Hats as a Cause of Baldness," P. S. M. 

 May, 1887 ; Health, Jlay 20. 



" Hygiene as a Basis of Morals," P. S. M. 

 May, 1887; Health, June 10, 17, 24, and 

 July 1. 



"Glasgow's Bandy -Legged Children," 

 P. S. M., July, 1 884 ; Health. July 8. 



" Brain-forcing in Childhood," P. S. M., 

 April, 1887; Health, July 8, 15,22, and 29. 



" Variations in Human Stature." (Trans- 

 lated for the P. S. M. from La Nature.) 

 P. S. M., July, 1887 ; Health, July 29, and 

 Aug. 12. 



" Physiology of Freezing." (Translated 

 for the P. S. M. from Die Gartcnlauhe.) 

 P. S. 3f., Sept., 1887 ; Health, Sept. Ifiand 23_ 



" Human Brain-weights," P. S. J/., July 

 1887; Health, Hept. 30. 



" Hats and Baldness," P. S. M., Oct., 

 1887; Health, Nov. 18. 



Centralization iu School-Life. — James 

 P. Applegate, editor of the New Albany, 

 Indiana, " Ledger," in an address before an 

 Editorial Association, considering the evils 

 of the centralizing tendencies of the times, 

 traced their origin to the public schools, 

 when he said: " Teaching and learning have 

 been reduced to a mathematical system and 

 work with the regularity of machinery. 

 Given so mucli room, so many pupils, so 

 many hours, so many studies, so many pages 

 of each, so many months in one department, 

 so many in another ; one class goes into 

 the hopper at one end and goes out at the 

 other. No matter if one head is larger or 

 smaller than another, the brain brighter or 

 duller, the body stronger or weaker, all is 

 grist that goes to that mill and it is all 

 ground with the same burrs. This system 

 produces a certain order of general average 

 intelligence, higher, perhaps, than existed 

 in the days when boys and girls, not classes, 

 were taught, but where are the individual 

 scholars ? Passing through the public 

 schools the student, if further pursuing his 

 studies, goes to college, and there the rou- 

 tine, while of a higher order is the same in 

 principle, all class and grade individuality 

 is lost. Do the graduates of our colleges 

 go out as well educated as their forefathers ? 

 The average is higher, no doubt, but are 

 they individually as well equipped for the 

 battles of life ? " 



The International Competitive Exhibi- 

 tion at Brussels. — A great International 

 Competition of Sciences and Industry is to 

 be held, together with a. Universal Exhibi- 

 tion, at Brussels, Belgium, during 1888. 

 All products and documents meeting some 

 want or constituting and illustrating prog- 

 ress, are admissible. Money-prizes, medals, 

 and diplomas will be distributed to the value 

 of 500,000 francs, or about $100,000. A 

 circular in the department of " Operating 

 of Mines " describes the subdivisions or 

 classes in which exhibitors in that branch 

 are invited to compete. The first includes 

 the boring of wells and galleries, particu- 

 larly in wet and loose grounds, wilh the 

 best methods and appliances for the same ; 



