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by the museum with the Finsch collection. 
Dr. Otto Finsch, the celebrated naturalist and 
traveler, provided with the collection a very 
full series of illustrations accurately pictur- 
ing many phases of native life. These are 
highly desirable, as many aspects of aborig- 
inal culture, such as house and boat types 
can not always be readily transported or even 
secured in model specimens, although often 
they form the most characteristic elements of 
the culture of a tribe. This applies even more 
emphatically to social and ceremonial life, 
which can be studied very inadequately, if at 
all, from museum specimens. It also applies 
in large measure to objects of personal adorn- 
ment and clothing. For instance, it would 
not be at all obvious to the average visitor 
how the aborigines wore a profusely decorated 
heart-shaped object conspicuously exhibited 
in one of the New Guinea cases. A glance at 
the sketch now beside the specimen shows it 
to be a warrior’s breast ornament. Similar 
results have been accomplished with other 
articles of dress which otherwise could not 
readily be understood except with the aid of 
long explanatory labels. 
Tue London Times states that in the old 
parish church of St. Mary, Teddington, a 
tablet has recently been dedicated to the 
memory of the Rev. Stephen Hales, D.D., 
a former vicar of the parish and one of the 
most distinguished men of science of the 
eighteenth century. A number of eminent 
living savants have for a long time been en- 
deavoring to discover his burial place, in 
order to preserve his memory, and at length 
the stone recording his death was found in the 
floor of the porch of the church with nearly 
the whole of the lettering obliterated. The 
new tablet has been placed on the wall of the 
west porch beneath the tower of the old 
church, and bears the following inscription: 
Beneath is the grave of Stephen Hales. The 
epitaph, now partly obliterated, but recovered 
from a record of 1795, is here inscribed by the 
piety of certain botanists, a.D. 1911. ‘‘Here is 
interred the body of Stephen Hales, D.D., Clerk 
of the Closet to the Princess of Wales, who was 
minister of this parish 51 years. He died 14th 
January, 1761, in the 84th year of his age.’’ 
SCIENCE 
[N.S. Vou. XXXV. No. 895 
Mr. Francis Darwin has written for the cur- 
rent number of the Parish Magazine an in- 
teresting account of Dr. Hales, in the course 
of which he says: “Stephen Hales has been 
called the ‘father of physiology,’ and he de- 
serves this title in regard both to animals and 
plants. His experiments on the blood pres- 
sure of animals are second only to Harvey’s 
work on the circulation. In the domain of 
plant physiology he is equally great. In all 
his researches he combined a belief in the de- 
sign of the Creator with a passionate desire 
to understand the mechanism of living things. 
Thus he treated the manifestations of life as 
things to be weighed, measured and analyzed 
in the laboratory. It is this point of view that 
gives his work so modern a character and en- 
titles him to be considered one of the found- 
ers of a rational science of biology. Although 
he loved science for its own sake, it is equally 
clear that he was dominated by a permanent 
desire to use his knowledge for the benefit of 
his fellow-creatures. Water supply, ventila- 
tion, the distillation of potable water at sea, 
the preservation of food on long voyages, the 
treatment of at least one disease—the stone— 
and especially the harm arising from intem- 
perance in the use of alcohol, all received at- 
tention. It is impossible to read his works 
without mingling personal affection with 
the respect inspired by his intellect.” 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
Arter long preparation, ground has been 
broken for the first Reed College buildings on 
the campus of eighty acres. The college will 
open next September in the permanent build- 
ings, and on the endowment foundation of 
about $3,000,000 provided by Mr. and Mrs. 
Simeon G. Reed, of Portland. Three build- 
ings, in addition to residences for the faculty, 
will be ready—the arts building, the dormitory 
and the gymnasium. All the buildings will 
be in the collegiate-gothic style of architec- 
ture. The material will be Indiana limestone 
and mission brick. The arts building and 
dormitory will be of steel and concrete struc- 
ture, fireproof throughout. The buildings will 
run against the wooded ravine and lake, which 
