June 3, 1898.1 



SCIENCE. 



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city having undertaken to erect a building for 

 the Institute at a cost of 125,000 Marks. 



The annual horticultural exhibition was held 

 in Paris from the 18th to the 25th of May and 

 a Congress of Horticulture met in conjunction 

 with the Exposition on May 20th and 21st. 

 The Royal Botanic Society, London, held an 

 exhibition of plants and flowers in their gardens 

 at Regent's Park on May 11th. 



We learn from Natural Science that Mr. Ed- 

 ouard Foa has travelled across Africa by the 

 basin of the Zambesi, Lake Tanganyika and 

 the Congo, and has brought back numerous 

 specimens of anthropological interest from the 

 region of the great lakes. Dr. Hugo Biicking 

 and Dr. L. van Werneke have started for an 

 eight months' expedition to the Netherland 

 East Indies on behalf of a Dutch Society. 



We receive monthly the Sei-i-kwai Medical 

 Journal, edited and published by the Society 

 for the Advancement of Medical Science in 

 Japan, the articles of which, partly in Eng- 

 lish and partly in Japanese, are doubtless in- 

 structive to the Japanese, while those in English 

 are certainly amusing to the English reader. 

 The general style may be gathered from the 

 following : 



"Diseases of the animal sphere (or the nerves, 

 senses and muscles). Regarding Japanese patholog- 

 ical constitution the writings of medical ami elthuo- 

 graphic authors are not lacking in general remarks 

 ■which are meant to express in tlie usual sense. * * * * 

 It would also be an essential task of the surgeon to 

 separate such easings of the treatment of wounds as 

 really are due to censtitutional causes, from the 

 consequences of the possibility that perhaps the 

 causes of infection working against the healing art is 

 some way different extra European countries. * * * * 

 The spleen is all malarial, typhus, variola diseases 

 and in those called uni e.'^nnyu splenetid diseases, the 

 seat of strong swelling and all corresponding symp- 

 toms. Let us observe here that unusually great 

 swellings of the spleen are seldom found, either in 

 post-mortion or clinical examination." 



endow in Oxford University a readership and a 

 scholarship in mental philosophy. They are to 

 be designated the Wilde readership and the 

 John Locke scholarship. 



HoBABT College, Geneva, N. Y., received 

 $6,000 for a scholarship by the will of Mrs. 

 Augusta M. Williams, of Newport, R. I. 



The appointments for the coming year in the 

 botanical department, Cornell University, are as 

 follows: Dr. E. J. Durand is reappointed instruc- 

 tor in botany and assistant curator of the Cryp- 

 togamic Herbarium, and Mr. K. M. Wiegand, 

 assistant in botany and assistant curator of the 

 Phaneogamic Herbarium. Mr. B. M. Duggar, 

 now assistant cryptogamic botanist to the Ex- 

 periment Station, has been appointed instructor 

 in botany, with special reference to experimental 

 plant physiology, his time to be divided between 

 instruction and work in the Experiment Sta- 

 tion. Two graduate assistantships in botany 

 have been established, the holders to divide 

 their time between assistance and investigation. 

 Mr. W. A. Murrill, B.S., A.M., the present 

 scholar, and Mr. G. T. Hastings have been ap- 

 pointed to these positions for the coming year. 

 Besides these, a fellow, or scholar, is appointed 

 in the department. 



The second summer session of the New York 

 State Library School, Albany, of which Mr. 

 Melvil Dewey is Director, began this year on 

 May 30th, and will continne in session for five 

 weeks. 



Among the docents who have recently 

 qualified are Dr. Fischer in anatomy and Dr. 

 Mayer, of Vienna, in chemistry at the Ger- 

 man University at Prague ; Dr. Formanek in 

 applied medical chemistry in the Bohemian 

 University at Prague, and Dr. Haussuer in 

 mathematics in the Univer.sity at Giessen. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is said that Mrs. Phosbe Hearst will erect 

 a building for mining engineering for the Uni- 

 versity of California at a cost of $300,000. 



Mb. Henry Wilde, F.R.S., has proposed to 



DISCUSSION AND CORIiESPONDENCE. 

 COLOB-VLSION. 



It is not often that a letter appears in Sci- 

 ence that presents the particular combination 

 of characteristics of one of the recent communi- 

 cations on Color Vision. Professor Titchener 

 says expressly that until the recent papers of 

 Miiller in the Zeitschrift fiir Paycholofjie on Her- 



