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these sticks if there are the slightest crevices for their fingers 

 and toes. A number of children, playing in a deep canon, 

 were interrupted, and immediately fled to the low brush and 

 rocks and could not be found, hiding as completely as young 

 quail. These cliff-dwellers are usually tall, lean, and well 

 formed, their skin being very blackish-red, much nearer the 

 colour of the negro than the copper-coloured Indian of the 

 United States. They are said to be sun-worshippers. 



In response to demand, a new edition of Prof. A. Gray's 

 small work on "Absolute Measurements in Electricity and 

 Magnetism " will be issued immediately by Messrs. Macmillan 

 and Co. The whole work has been very carefully revised, and 

 several alterations and additions made, which it is hoped will 

 bring it into accordance with the present state of practical elec- 

 tricity, and render it still more useful to students and electrical 

 engineers. The preparation of the second volume of the same 

 author's larger treatise on the same subject is being pushed on at 

 the same time as quickly as possible. 



Part VI. of the "Catalogue of the Moths of India," by 

 Colonel Swinhoe and Mr. E. C. Cotes, has just been issued. 

 It deals with Cranibites and Tortriccs, and there is also a list of 

 "addenda." 



The Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund, established by Mrs. 

 Elizabeth Thompson, of Stamford, Connecticut, "for the ad- 

 vancement and prosecution of scientific research in its broadest 

 sense," now amounts to .$25,000. The trustees of the Fund 

 have issued a circular, stating that, as accumulated income is 

 again available, they desire to receive applications for "appropria- 

 tions " in aid of scientific work. This endowment is not for the 

 benefit of any one department of science, but it is the intention of 

 the trustees to give the preference to those investigations which 

 cannot otherwise be provided for, which have for their object the 

 advancement of human knowledge or the benefit of mankind in 

 general, rather than to researches directed to the solution of 

 questions of merely local importance. Applications for assist- 

 ance from the Fund, in order to receive consideration, must be 

 accompanied by full information, especially in regard to the fol- 

 lowing points: (i) precise amount required; (2) e.xact nature 

 of the investigation proposed ; (3) conditions under which the 

 research is to be prosecuted ; (4) manner in which the appro- 

 priation asked for is to be expended. All applications should 

 be forwarded to the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Dr. 

 C. S. Minot, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. 

 It is intended to make new grants at the end of 1889. The 

 trustees are disinclined, for the present, to make any grant ex- 

 ceeding .$500 ; preference will be given to applications for 

 smaller amounts. The following is a list of the grants hitherto 

 made :—( I) .§200 to the New England Meteorological Society, 

 for the investigation of cyclonic movements in New England 

 (results published in the American Meteorologica'. Jotirnai for 

 1887 and May 1888); (2) .$150 to Mr. Samuel Rideal, of Uni- 

 versity College, London, England, for investigations on the 

 absorption of heat by odorous gases; C3) §75 to Mr. II. M. 

 Howe, of Boston, Mass., for the investigation of fusible slags 

 of copper and lead smelting ; (4) $500 to Prof, J. Rosenthal, of 

 Erlangen, Germany, for investigations on animal heat in health 

 and disease (results published in the 6'iV3?<«^5<^^r. k. Akad. Wiss., 

 l888, 1309-19; 1889, 245-254; Arch. Anat. u. Physiol. 

 Suppl., 1888, 1-53) ; (5) $50 to Mr. Joseph Jastrow, of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md , for investigations 

 on the laws of psycho-physics ; (6) $200 to the Natural History 

 Society of Montreal, for the investigation of underground tem- 

 peratures ; (7) .$210 to Messrs. T. Elster and H. Geitel, of 

 Wolfenbiittel, Germany, for researches on the electrization of 

 gases by glowing bodies (results published in the Silzungsber. 

 k. Akad. IViss. Wicn., xcvii., Abth. 2, 1 175-1264, 1889); (8) 



$500 to Prof. E. D. Cope, of Philadelphia, Penn., to assist ii> 

 the preparation of his monograph on American fossil Verte- 

 brates ; (10) .$125 to Mr. Edw. E. Prince, of St. Andrew?,. 

 Scotland, for researches on the development and morphology of 

 the limbs of Teleosts ; (11) §250 to Mr. Herbert Tomlinson, of 

 University College, England, for researches on the effects of 

 stress and strain on the physical properties of matter ; (12) .$200 

 to Prof. Luigi Palmieri, of Naples, Italy, for the construction 

 of an apparatus to be used in researches on atm.ospberic electri- 

 city ; (13) §200 to Mr. Wm. H. Edwards, of Coalburg, W. Va. , 

 to assist the publication of his work on the butterflies of North 

 America (results published in the "Butterflies of North Ame- 

 rica," third series. Part 5); (14) §150 to the New England 

 Meteorological Society, for the investigation of cyclonic phe- 

 nomena in New England ; (15) $25 to Prof. A. F. Marion, for 

 researches on the fauna of brackish waters ; (16) S300 to Prof. 

 Carl Ludwig, for researches on muscular contraction, to be car- 

 ried on under his direction by Dr. Paul Starke ; (17) .$200 to- 

 Dr. Paul C. Freer, for the investigation of the chemical consti- 

 tution of graphitic acid ; (18) §300 to Dr. G. Miiller, for experi- 

 ments on the resorption of light by the earth's atmosphere ; (19) 

 §300 to Prof. Gertiard Kriiss, for the investigation of the ele- 

 mentary constitution of erbium and didymium ; (20) $50 to Dr. 

 F. L. Hoorweg, for the investigation of the manner and velocity 

 with which magnetism is propagated along an iron bar ; (21) 

 §150 to Mr. W. H. Edwards, to assist the publication of his 

 work on North American butterflies. 



The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens during 

 the past week include a Macaque Monkey {Macacits cy}iomolgus\ 

 from India, presented by Captain M. S. Riach, 79th High- 

 landers ; a Macaque Monkey {Afacaczis cynomolgns) from the 



Nicobar Islands, presented by Mr. W. J. McCausland ; a 



Wild Dog {Canis ) from Bangay, Bornean Group, presented 



by Mr. C. T. Kettlewell ; a Grey Parrot {Psitlacits trithaciis') 

 from West Africa, presented by Miss L. Davy ; a Redwing 

 {Turdus illacus), British, a Red-legged Partridge {Caccabis 

 riifa), European, jaresented by Mr. J. C. Clayton ; a Purple - 

 crested Touracou {Corythaix porphyreolophus) from East Africa, 

 presented by Miss Dolly Kirk ; two Canary Finches {Seriiius 

 canariiis), three Teneriffe Chaffinches {Fringilla tintillon) from 

 Teneriffe, presented by Mr. E. G. Meade Waldo ; a Solitary 

 Thrush {Alonticola cyaniis) from Italy, presented by the Rev. 

 H. A. Macpherson ; a Common Trumpeter {Psophia crepitans'} 

 from Demerara, presented by Mr. C. T. Tudway ; four Violaceous 

 Night Herons {Nyiticorax violaceus) from the West Indies, pre- 

 sented by Dr. A. Boon, C.M.Z.S. ; an Alexandrine Parrakeet 

 {Palaornis alcxandri) from India, presented by Miss J. Wilson % 

 two Bolle's Pigeons [Cohiinba bollii) from Teneriffe, a Pallas's. 

 Sand Grouse {Syrrhaptes paradoxus) from Scotland, deposited ; 

 a Specious Pigeon {Colninba spcciosd) from Brazil, a Black Fran- 

 colin {Francoliniis vulgaris) from India, a Hawk's-billed Turtle 

 {Chelonc iinbricata) from the West Indies, purchased ; two 

 Burrhel Wild Sheep (Ovis burrhel), a Yak [Pocphagus grunniens) 

 a Bolle's Pigeon {Cohnnba bollii), a Triangular-spotted Pigeon- 

 {Columba guinea), a Herring Gull {Larus argcntalus), a Yellow- 

 legged Herring Gull {Larus cachitinans), bred in the Gardens. 



OUR ASTRONOMICAL COLUMN. 



Recent Determinations of the Amount of Lunar 

 Radiation. — Prof. C. C, Hutchins, formerly of the Johns- 

 Hopkins University, now at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 

 Maine, has recently made some researches in the same field in 

 which Prof. Langley has already worked, viz. the subject of 

 lunar radiation. Prof. Hutchins's first step was the construction 

 of a new form of thermogra|-h, in which a single thermal junction 

 was employed instead of many, the heat rays being condensed 

 upon this one by means of a concave mirror. This com. 



