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SCIENCE. 



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firmatiou of its merits adds strength to our 

 effort." There is perhaps no institution in 

 America accomplishing more for the ad- 

 vancement of science with a limited expen- 

 diture and none more deserving of a larger 

 endowment. 



THE POPULATION OF FRANCE. 



It is well known that the lack of increase 

 of the population of France causes serious 

 anxiety to its statesman. M. Chervin has 

 recently presented some statistics before the 

 Societe cV Anthropologique which we quote from 

 The Lancet. The table gives in the first 

 column the number of legitimate living 

 children born per thousand women aged 

 between fifteen and fifty years. The corre- 

 sponding number of illegitimate children 

 is given in the second column. 



German Empire 270 26.5 



Scotland 269 19.9 



Belgium 265 19.8 



Italy 251 24.6 



England 250 12.1 



Austria 250 44.4 



Sweden 240 (?) 



Ireland 240 4.1 



Switzerland 236 10.2 



France 163 16.7 



M. Eochard has recentlj^ attributed the 

 low birth rate in France to alcoholism. 

 The annual consumption of alcohol is 

 6.45 centiliters per person per annum, and 

 there is in Paris one wine shop for every 

 three houses. The birth rate is, however, 

 undoubtedly due largely to French social 

 customs — tp prodigality in Paris and thrift 

 in the provinces. 



KARL LUDWIG's LIBRARY. 



The physiological library of the late 

 Professor Ludwig is offered for sale by Th. 

 Stauffer, 26 Universitats Str., Leipzig, who 

 has in preparation a catalogue which he 

 will send on application. It would be a 

 great advantage if some American institu- 

 tion could purchase the library as a whole. 



The librarj^ includes 10,000 memoirs, 

 pamphlets and dissertations on anatomy, 

 physiology and related subjects, which are 

 offered for 6,000 marks. In addition, sev- 

 eral valuable sets of journals are for sale. 

 As it is becoming continually more difficult 

 to secure sets of these journals, we give the 

 following details : 



Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie 

 (1832-1893) 2,500 M. Annalen der Phys- 

 ik und Chemie (1824-1892) 2,650 M. 

 Zoologischer Anzeiger (1878-1893) 160 M. 

 Archiv fiir Mikroskopische Anatomie (1 865- 

 1895) 1,300 M. Archiv fiir Physiologie 

 (1877-1894) 420 M. Bericht iiber die 

 Fortschritte der Anatomie und Physiologie 

 (1856-1871) 50 M. Berichte der Deutschen 

 Chemischen Gesellschaft (1868-1893) 600 

 M. Centralblatt fiir die Medicinischen 

 Wissenschaften (1-33) 200 M. Die Fort- 

 schritte der Physik (1845-1888) 450 M. 

 Mediscinishe Jahrbucher (1871-1888) 150 

 M. Jahresbericht iiber die Fortschritte der 

 Anatomie und Physiologie (1873-1893) 

 330 M. Jahresbericht iiber die Fortschritte 

 der Chemie Physik u. Mineralogie (1847- 

 1893) 775 M. Jahres Bericht iiber die 

 Fortschritte der Thierchemie (1871-1893) 

 300 M. Gottinger Nachrichteu (1862- 

 •1894) 95 M. Proceedings of the Royal So- 

 ciety of London (1866-1895) 300 M. Phil- 

 osophische Studien (1883-1895) 120 M. 

 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal 

 Society of London (1875-1894) 600 M, 

 Zeitschrift fiir Analj'tische Chemie (1862- 

 1883) 270 M. 



THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 



The twenty-seventh meeting of the 

 American Philological Association was held 

 at Western Reserve University on July 

 12th, under the presidency of Professor 

 John Henry AVright, of Ilai'vard Univer- 

 sity, who delivered an address on the 

 ' Function of the Imagination in Classical 

 Philology.' More than twenty papers were 



