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and " Home Pets, Furred and Feathered," by M. Fermor, 

 illustrated. 



In the list of Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons we find : — 

 " American Flora," by F. S. .\Tatthews, illustrated ; and "The 

 Canons of the Colorado," by F. S. Dellenbaug, illustrated. 



The Walter Scott Publishing Company, Ltd., will publish in 

 the "Contemporary Science Series": — "The Makin;; of 

 Citizens," by K. E. Hughes. 



Messrs. Seeley and Co., Ltd., will issue: — "The Naturalist 

 on the Thames," by C. J. Corni.sh, illustrated. 



Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., Ltd., announce : — 

 "Avenues to Health," by E. IL Miles, illustrated; "A 

 Treatise on Psychology," by O. Spiller : " Human Evo- 

 lution : an Inductive Study of Man," by Dr. G. R. Hall ; 

 " Studies in Political and Social Ethics," by Prof. D. G. 

 Ritchie; "Elementary Geometry, being a new Treatment of 

 the Subject Matter of Euclid (Books i.-iv. ), specially adapted 

 for use in Schools," by J. Elliott; and new editions of: — 

 " Wundt's Ethics," vol. i. : — The Facts of the Moral Life, 

 translated by Profs. Gulliver and Titchener ; "On Human 

 Nature : and other Essays," by A. Schopenhauer, translated by 

 T. B. Saunders; "A Practical Pocket-Book of {'holography," 

 by Dr. E. Vogel, translated and edited by E. C. Conrad, 

 illustrated; "The Dynamo: How Made and How Used," by 

 S. R. Bottone ; and " School Hygiene," by Dr. A. Newsholme 

 and W. C. C. Pakes, illustrated. 



The University Tutorial Press, Ltd., announce: — "First 

 Stage Practical Plane and Solid Geometry," by G. F. Brun ; 

 "First Stage Machine Constiuction and Drawing," by J. II. 

 Dales ; " Mathematics, First Stage," edited by Dr. W. Briggs ; 

 " Physiology, First Stage — Section i," "Physiography," 

 " Hygiene, Advanced," by A. E. Ikin and R. A. Lyster ; 

 " First Stage Applied Mechanics"; " First Stage Organic Chem- 

 istry (Theoretical)," by R. A. Lyster; " First Stage Mining" ; 

 " First Stage Steam "; " Section I. Hygiene," by R. A. Lyster ; 

 and "Euclid, Books V., VI., and .KI.," by R. Deakin. 



Mr. Fisher Unwin gives notice of : — " Indonesian Art. 

 Selected Specimens of Ancient and Modern Ait and Handiwork 

 from the Indian Archipelago," by C. M. Pleyte, illustrated ; 

 and "Sand-Buried Cities in Turkestan," by M. A. Stein. 



Messrs. Whittaker and Co.'s announcements comprise : — 

 " Electric Traction," by J. II. Rider; "Electric Lighting and 

 Power Distribution," by W. P. Maycock, vol. ii. ; " Galvanic 

 Batteries," by S. R. Bottone : Whittaker's " Electrical 

 Engineers' Pocket-Book," edited by K. Edgcumbe ; "Recent 

 Development in Locomotive Practice," by C. J. B. Cooke ; " In- 

 spection of Railway Material," by G. R. Bodmer ; " Pipes and 

 Tubes," by P. R. Bjorling ; and new editions of : — "Surveying 

 and Surveying Instruments," by G. A. T. Middleton ; "Elec- 

 tric Lighting and Power Distribution," by W. P. Maycock, 

 vol. i. ; "Electric Wiring, Fittings, Switches and Lamps," by 

 W. P. Maycock ; and " Electric Influence Machines," by 

 J. Gray. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



OxFORH. — Prof. Tylor has resigned the office of keeper of 

 the University Museum, which he has held since the death of 

 Prof. Henry Smith in 1S83. He will retain his leader.ship in 

 anthropology. I'rof. Tylor's magnificent gifts of tolemistic 

 objects to the Museum will remain as tokens of the great 

 interest which he has taken in the welfare of the institution 

 with which his more immediate connection will now cease. 



At a meeting cf the Junior Scientific Club on Wedne.sday, 

 March 5, papers were read by Mr. H. D. Davis (Balliol) on 

 snake poisons, and by Mr. J. Phelps (Trinity) on the boiling 

 points of solutions. 



Cambkioge. — Mr. T. H. Ilavelock, of St. John's College, 

 has been elected to the Isaac Newton studentship in physical 

 astronomy. Mr. Ilavelock and Mr. J. E. Wright (senior 

 wrangler 1900), d Trinity, are the Smith's prizemen of the 

 year. 



The Allen studentship is awarded to Mr. F. N. Hales, 

 Trinity, for research in psychophysics. 



The Balfour studentship in animal morphology is awarded to 

 Mr. J. S. Budgett, Trinity. 



The (General Board of Studies propose to re-establish the 



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office of assistant to the superintendent of the Museum of 

 Zoology with a view to the arrangement of the colle.^lions. 



Mr. R. A. S. Rkhmavne has been appointed professor of 

 mining in the University of Birmingham, and Mr. Thomas 

 Turner professor of metallurgy. Mr. Redmayne is resident 

 manager of the Seaton Delaval Collieries in Northumberland, 

 and Mr. Turner has for several years been director of technical 

 instruction to the Staffordshire County Council. 



Tub sum of 25,000/. has been given by Mr. William 

 Johnston, shipowner of Liverpool, for furthering the university 

 movement in that city. The money will be devoted, in accord- 

 ance with the wishes of the donor, to promote research in 

 pathology and physiology. The 25,000/. is divided as 

 follows: — 10,000/. is allocated to found a chair of chemical 

 biology, 6000/. at 5 per cent, interest to endow permanently 

 three research fellowships of 100/. a year each. Of these 

 fellowships one is held by a medical graduate of a colonial 

 university, a second by a graduate of medicine of the United 

 States, and a third by a research student in gynecology. The 

 remaining 9000/. is to be spent in building a laboratory adjoining 

 the Thompson Vates laboratories, to accommodate the tropical , 

 school, the professor of chemical biology, experimental medicine, 

 comparative pathology, and serum research department. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 London. 



Royal Society, February 6. — " The Density and Coefficient 

 of Cubical Expansion of Ice." By J. H. Vincent, D.Sc, B. A., 

 St. John's College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. J. J. 

 Thomson, F. R.S. 



February 20. — ■" Note on the Anomalous Dispersion of Sodium 

 Vapour." By W. H. Julius, Professor of Physics in the 

 University of Utrecht. Communicated by C. Vernon Boys, 

 F.R.S. 



"On the Physics and Physiology of the Protoplasmic 

 Streaming in Plants." By Alfred J. Ewart, B Sc. (Oxon), 

 D.Sc. (Lond. ), Ph.D., F. L.S., Lecturer on Botany in the 

 Birmingham "Technical Institute. Communicated by Francis 

 Gotch, D.Sc, F.R.S. 



February 27. — " Note on the Discovery of a New Trypan- 

 osoma." By D. Bruce, F.R.S., Lieut. -Colonel., R.A.M.C. 



The author received from South Africa specimens of blood 

 taken from cattle which contain a new species of Trypanosoma. 



This new species can be at once distinguished from the 

 Trypanosomas of Surra, tse-tse fly disease, or rat by its larger 

 size, it being almost twice as large as any of the others. In 

 general appearance it conforms closely to the others in possessing 

 an oval protoplasmic body, a longitudinal fin-Iike membrane, 

 and a single flagellum. 



This new Trypanosoma was lately discovered by Dr. A. 

 Theiler, who is in charge of the bacteriological laboratory of 

 the Medical Officer of Health, Pretoria, Transvaal. 



He states that at first he was under the impression that he had 

 merely hit against the familiar Trypanosama of tse-tse fly 

 disease. He, however, was struck by its larger size, and tried a 

 few inoculation experiments. He found that the new Trypano- 

 soma only infects cattle. Horses, dogs, goats, rabbits and 

 guinea-pigs are all immune, neither showing symptoms nor the 

 presence of the parasites in the blood. With the same blood he 

 infected two calves, which showed distinct febrile reaction, 

 and at the same lime the parasites appeared in the blood. 



He found the parasite for the first time in the blood of a young 

 ox which had just recovered from an attack of rinderpest, 

 and since then has successfully inoculated calves from two other 

 cattle. 



He describes the disease as an acute pernicious anx-mia with 

 grave blood changes, a general ansemia without deformation 

 of the elements of the blood, or, lastly, only a slight fever, and 

 that there exists a natural immunity in cattle against this 

 Trypanosoma. 



lie is of opinion that this disease is the same as that attributed 

 by Dr. Kolle — who studied rinderpest in South Africa with Koch 

 during the last outbreak— to bovine malaria. Dr. Kolle over- 

 looked the Trypanosoma, saw that the disease was infectious, 

 and thought he observed endoglobular parasites and pigment in 

 the red blood corpuscles. 



As this discovery seems to be an interesting one, and as 



