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SCIENCE. 



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ical factors of the deficiency, and the physical 

 examination of the subjects. 



While the report is very instructive on many 

 individual features, it admits of few general 

 conclusions other than that we need much more 

 extended investigations than have heretofore 

 been prosecuted, in order to reach positive 

 opinions as to the causation and the status of 

 the feeble-minded ; and this is Dr. Hrdlicka's 

 own decision (p. 95). 



D. G. Brinton. 



TJniveksity of Pennsylvania. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



M. Van Tieghem, the eminent botanist, 

 succeeds M. Wolf as President of the Paris 

 Academy of Science, while M. Levy has been 

 elected Vice-President. 



At its meeting on January 11th the Amer- 

 ican Academy of Arts and Sciences elected 

 Charles Doolittle Walcott, of Washington, an 

 Associate Fellow iu place of the late Professor 

 James Hall, and Oliver Heaviside, of Newton 

 Abbot, England, a Foreign Honorary Member. 



It is proposed to erect a monument in mem- 

 ory of Felix Tisserand, Member of the Institute 

 of France, and of the Bureau of Longitude, and 

 Director of the Observatory of Paris, at Nuits 

 Saint-Georges (Cote-d'Or), his native place. 

 Subscriptions will be received at Nuits-Saint- 

 Georges, by M. Desmazures, Receveur Munici- 

 pal ; at the Observatory of Paris, by M. Frais- 

 sinet, and at Dijon, by M. Ragot (rue Colsou). 



Surgeon-General Sternberg is at present 

 in Cuba inspecting the hospitals and arranging 

 for a new yellow fever hospital and a depot for 

 medical supplies in Havana. 



The Permanent Secretary of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Dr. L. O. Howard, would be glad to learn of 

 the address of Jose de Riviera, who was elected 

 a life member of the Association at the Boston' 

 meeting of 1880. 



The Chemical Society of Washington, at the 

 annual meeting held on Thursday, January 12, 

 1899, elected the following officers for the en- 

 suing year : President, Dr. H. N. Stokes ; 

 Vice-Presidents, Dr. P. Fireman, Dr. H. C. 

 Bolton ; Secretary, Mr. William H. Krug ; 



Treasurer, Mr. W. P. Cutter ; Executive Com 

 niittee, the above officers and Dr. 0. E. Munroe 

 Dr. E. A. de Schweinitz, Mr. Wirt Tassin and 

 Dr. F. W. Hillebrand, ex-officio. 



Professors von Kupfer, of Munich ; F, 

 Klein, of Gottingen, and E. Fischer, of Berlin 

 have been made members of the Bavarian 

 Maximilian Order of Science and Ai-t. 



Professor M. E. Cooley, of the engineer- 

 ing department of the University of Michigan, 

 who has been Chief Engineer on the United 

 States auxiliary steamer Yosemite since the 

 outbreak of the Spanish-American war, will re- 

 turn to the University in time to begin work 

 with the second semester. He was detached 

 from the Yosemite December 23d, since which 

 date he has been doing temporary work at the 

 League Island Navy Yard. He expects to be 

 relieved from duty by the first of next month. 



Mr. Wm. T. Hornaday, Director of the 

 New York Zoological Park, has been elected a 

 corresponding member of the London Zoolog- 

 ical Society. 



Nature states that Mr. Frederick G. Jackson, 

 the leader of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedi- 

 tion, has been presented with a first class of 

 the Royal Order of St. Olaf by King Oscar of 

 Sweden and Norway. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has nominated 

 for the chair of chemistry in the Conservatoire 

 des Arts et Metiers as first choice M. Florent, 

 and as second choice M. Joannis. 



Mr. John B.^rrow, F.R.S., the author of 

 works on travel and physiography, has died at 

 the advanced age of 91 years. 



Professor Joseph Baldwin, who held the 

 chair of pedagogy in the University of Texas, 

 died on January 14th, aged 70 years. 



At the annual meeting of the Indiana Acad- 

 emy of Science held at Indianapolis during 

 Christmas week, Blr.W. W. Woollen announced 

 that he had set aside forty-four acres of land 

 situated nine miles from the center of Indianap- 

 olis, for a garden of birds and botany. He pro- 

 poses to develop the garden and present it to 

 the city of Indianapolis, to be placed under the 

 control of the Superintendent of Schools, the 

 President of Butler College, and the President 



