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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. II. No. 29. 



At the sixty-first annual meeting of the 

 Royal Statistical Society it was announced that 

 the subject of the essays for the Howard 

 Medal with £20 to be awarded in 1S96 is 

 ' School Hygiene in its Mental, Moral and 

 Physical Aspects.' The essaj's should be 

 sent in on or before June 30, 1896. 



According to the Medical Record the meet- 

 ing of Bacteriologists, held in New York, 

 June 21st, resulted in the appointment of a 

 committee to consider both the papers pre- 

 sented and the discussion that followed, and 

 to make a report to the American Health 

 Association as to the most desirable methods 

 to be observed to secure the greatest uni- 

 formity in the results of the bacteriological 

 examination of water. The members of 

 this committee are: Professoor W. H. 

 "Welch, M. D., chairman ; Professor W. 

 Sedgwick, Ph. D., Professor Theobald Smith, 

 M. D., Professor T. M. Prudden, M. D., Pro- 

 fessor J. G. Adami, M. D., George W. Ful- 

 ler, S. B., Professor A. C. Abbott, M. D., 

 Professor V. A. Moore, B. A., M. D. 



A NEW Meteorological Observatory has 

 been established on the summit of Mount 

 WelUngton in Tasmania. 



SiE Edward Maunde Thompson, Princi- 

 pal Librarian of the British Museum, has 

 been elected a corresijonding member of the 

 philosophico-historical section of the Berlin 

 Academy of Science. 



At the annual meeting of the ISTumismatic 

 Society of London, Sir John Evans pre- 

 siding, the silver medal of the Society was 

 awarded to Professor Theodor Mommsen, 

 the veteran historian of ancient Eome, for 

 his distinguished service to the science of 

 ISTumismatics. Dr. Barclay Head, keeper 

 of coins in the British Museum, received 

 the medal for Professor Mommsen.- — -London 

 Times. 



The last meeting of the Eoyal Meteoro- 

 logical Society for the present session was 

 held on June 19th. Mr. E. H. Curtis, F. 



R. Met. Soc, read a paper on the ' Hourly 

 Variation of Sunshine at seven stations in 

 the British Isles,' which was based upon the 

 records for the ten years, 1881-90. Janu- 

 ai-y and December are the most sunless 

 months of the year. The most pi-ominent 

 feature brought out at all the stations is the 

 rapid increase in the mean hourly amount 

 of sunshine recorded during the first few 

 hours following sunrise and the even more 

 rapid falling off again just before sunset. 

 Mr. H. Harries, F. E. Met. Soc, read a 

 paper on the ' Frequency, Size and Distribu- 

 tion of Hail at Sea.' The author has ex- 

 amined a large number of ships' logs in the 

 meteorological oflBce and finds that hail has 

 been observed in all latitudes as far as ships 

 go north and south of the equator, and that 

 seamen meet with it over wide belts on the 

 polar side of the 35th parallel. 



The Medical Record, New York, has been 

 enlarged so that each weekly issue now con- 

 tains 36 pages of reading matter. 



Nature states that the Cracow Academy 

 of Science offers prizes of 1000 and 500 

 florins for the best discussion of theories re- 

 ferring to the physical condition of the 

 earth, and for the advancement of some im- 

 portant point connected with the subject. 

 Memoirs must be sent in before the end of 

 1898. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 ANTHROPOLOGY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 



The Dei^artment of American Archae- 

 ology and Ethnology in Harvard Univer- 

 sity, under the direction of Professor F. W. 

 Putnam assisted by Dr. G. A. Dorsey, has 

 just issued its announcement for 1895-96. 

 The first course in general anthropology is 

 intended to give students a general knowl- 

 edge of the subject and to be preparatory 

 to advanced work in jjhysical anthropology, 

 ethnology, sociologj' aud historj-. The first 



