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Powell, U. S. A., Albertus McCreary, H. D. Mirick, E. J. Sliives, Ed- 

 ward A. Wright. 



February 11.— Co\. C. J. Allen, tJ. S. A., M. W. Baldwin, Miss M. S. 

 Booz, Hon. Chas. A. Boutelle, M. C, Oscar Fitz Clifford, James Eraser, 

 E. B. Grandin, Edward Graves, Gen. John P. Hawkins, U. S. A., Leander 

 L. Haw'kins, Mrs Marj' A. Hepburn, Dr David J. Hill, J. Q. Kern, Frank 

 M. Kurie, C. E., F. A. Lester, Miss Julia 0. Lindsley, Miss Harriet A. 

 Luddington, Edgar A. Lynham, Mrs Mary K. Matthews, Mrs B. S. Mc- 

 Donald, F. W. Pettigrew, C. E., Warren W. Phelan, J. Q. Red way, F. R. G. S., 

 P. C. Riley, James Edgar Smith, Herbert G. Squiers, George B. Stark- 

 weather, Frank B. Taylor, Matthew Trimble, Thos. P. Woodward. 



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The North American Revieiv for February contains a valuable article by 

 John Hays Hammond, from which the following items of interest are 

 abstracted: From 1887 to 1895 the Transvaal produced gold to the value 

 of $158,750,000, 1144,000,000 of which came from the Witwatersrand dis- 

 trict. The central part of this district, 27 miles of reef, is expected to 

 produce 13,000,000,000 of gold, of which two-thirds is in the central sec- 

 tion of 11.5 miles; its output for 1896 was 137,000,000, or about 16 per 

 cent of that of the entire world. California produced up to January, 1897, 

 $1,282,000,000 in gold, three-fourths being from placers. Kimberley has 

 produced upwards of twelve tons of diamonds, representing a value of 

 $400,000,000 ; the present annual production is about 2,500,000 carats, of 

 the value of $20,000,000. A. W. G. 



The Rajputs and Brahmans of India are breaking down the barriers of 

 caste and displaying in competition with the Anglo-Saxon race that bril- 

 liance and subtlety of intellect for which they are distinguished. Prof. 

 Jagadis Chunder Bose, of the University of Calcutta, has excited the aston- 

 ishment and admiration of all Europe by his recent papers on the Deter- 

 mination of the Indices of Electric Refraction and of the Wave-lengths 

 of Electric Radiation. The highest honors of the India Civil Service ex- 

 aminations for 1896 also fell to a Hindoo, who vanquished in a keen intel- 

 lectual encounter many candidates with distinguished academic careers. 

 In England Prince Ranjitsinhji has taken high university honors, besides 

 securing by the brilliancy of his play the very foremost place in the great 

 national game of cricket. Several Indian barristers have won their way 

 into the higher ranks of the legal profession in London, an Indian physi- 

 cian was recently elected to the staff of one of the London hospitals, and 

 two highly educated Indian surveyors are working in British Central 

 Africa. In November the University of Oxford conferred the degree of 

 Doctor of Music upon Raja Svi Sourindro Mohun Tajore, of Calcutta, the 

 principal exponent of the theory of Indian music, who has for 31 years 

 devoted his wealth and talents to the development of music among his 

 countrymen. In this case, however, the recipient of the distinction was 

 unwilling to lose caste, even temporarily, by crossing the ocean, and the 

 degree was conferred in absentia. J. H. 



