SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. II. No. 28. 



As efifoi't is being made to collect $5,000 

 to improve the library at Wesleyan Uni- 

 A'ersitJ^ Mr. J. E. Andrus has pledged 

 $1,000 on condition the rest be raised. 



The Society, of the New York Hospital 

 has sold to Barnard College, for $160,000, a 

 site on the west side of the Boulevard, be- 

 tween 119th and 120th Streets. 



The Naturiuissenschaftlielie Rudschau states 

 that Professor v. Kries has declined the 

 call to the chair of phj'siology in the Uni- 

 versity of Leipzig. 



At Zurich Dr. Hans Schinz has been pro- 

 moted to a full professorship of botany, and 

 Dr. A. "Werner to a full professorship:) of 

 chemistry. 



Professor Trendelenburg has been 

 called to take Professor Thiersch's place in 

 Leipzig. Professor Mikulicz takes Profes- 

 sor Trendelenburg's place in Bonn. — N. Y. 

 Medical Record. 



The Senate of the University of Cam- 

 bridge has resolved, by a majority of 18 

 votes, to make an English essay a part of 

 the ' Little go,' or preliminary examination. 



The statute on research degrees at Ox- 

 ford, which we have already mentioned as 

 of special interest to Americans proposing 

 to study abroad, has passed its final stage 

 in convocation without opposition. 



Dr. Henry Calderwood, professor of 

 moral philosophy in the University of Edin- 

 burgh, has requested to be retired from the 

 chair in view of his candidature for Par- 

 liament. 



At Oxford, on June 17th, the proposal 

 for establishing a Final Honour Examina- 

 tion in Anthropology in the School of Na- 

 tural Science was discussed in Convocation, 

 and the statute was rejected by 68 votes to 

 60. According to Nature the rejection was 

 due to ' theological suspicions ' and ' those 

 classical teachers that believe that science 

 may safely be ignored in a nineteenth cen- 

 tury education.' 



The seventh summer meeting of univer- 

 sitjr extension and other students will be 

 held this year at Oxford, and wUl be di- 

 vided into two parts, the first lasting fi-om 

 August 1st to August 12th, and the second 

 fi'om August 12th to August 26th. In- 

 cluded in the vai-ied course there will be 

 lectures on natural science during both 

 parts of the meeting, and classes will be 

 formed for practical work in the difierent 

 divisions. Among those who have promised 

 to lecture are Professors Green and Odling ; 

 Drs. Fison and Wade ; Messrs. Carus, Wil- 

 son, Marsh, Groom and Bourne. 



COERESPONDENCE. 

 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. 



To THE Editor of Science : With your 

 permission, I will make a few observations 

 on a plan which I have been steadily work- 

 ing out for the last 35 years, more especi- 

 ally as it embodies many of the suggestions 

 Avhich have recently been made by some of 

 your correspondents. It embraces : 



1. A Bibliography classified according to 

 subjects arranged: (1) according to the 

 year of pubUcation, and (2) alphabeti- 

 cally under each year according to the name 

 of the author; each item has its distinctive 

 number for reference purposes. 



2. An Index, which, although arranged 

 alphabetically, is classified in groups more 

 than is usual in an index, the object being 

 to render it possible, at some future time, 

 to amalgamate the various subject indexes 

 into one general classified index. 



3. A Systematised Collocation of Facts 

 grouped according to their relationship to 

 each other. The aim of the whole is to 

 enable any person engaged in scientific re- 

 search to find the information he seeks with 

 a minimum expenditure of trouble, time and 

 cash. 



In its entiretj^ the idea is thoroughlj^ 

 Utopian ; nevertheless, I feel very confident 

 that if onljr partialh^ carried out it would 



