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SCIENCE. 



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work in India, especially in the investiga- 

 tion of the bacillus of cholera. 



The chief article in the June number of 

 the ' Quarterly Journal of Microscopical 

 Science ' is a study of Metamerism by Prof. 

 T. H. Morgan, of Bryn Mawr College, in 

 which he treats, on the basis of a large 

 amount of original research, irregularities 

 in the seriaJl repetition of rings of annelids. 



It has been shown in a report of the sub- 

 committee of the Glasgow corporation that 

 some samples of French peas examined con- 

 tain fifteen grains of copper sulphate in the 

 pound. The French government forbids 

 the use of these peas in France, but allows 

 them to be exported. 



The exhibition of the Department of 

 Mines at the Cotton States and Interna- 

 tional Exposition will include four oil paint- 

 ings 120 feet long, showing sections of the 

 Appalachian range of mountains drawn on 

 the scale of one foot to a mile. In these 

 paintings everj' mineral and coal vein in 

 in the Appalachian system will be shown. 

 Sections from the different coal veins of the 

 United States will be exhibited, some of 

 these sections weighing seven tons and 

 showing the whole vein. The exhibition is 

 personally superintended by Dr. David T. 

 Day, Chief of the Department of the Gov- 

 ernment Board of the Exposition. 



GiNN & Co. announce for publication this 

 summer 'Lakes of North America,' by Pro- 

 fessor Israel C. Russell. The origin of the 

 lake basins and their place in topographic 

 development, the movements of lake waters, 

 the topography of lake shores, the relation 

 of lakes to climatic environment, the life 

 histories of fresh and of saline lakes, are 

 some of the subjects discussed. 



The British Museum has recently pub- 

 lished the accounts of the income and ex- 

 penditure of the ' Special Trust Funds ' for 

 1895. These are six in number, amounting 

 to £24,177, of which the interest is £1,518. 



This has been expended on salaries, the 

 purchase of manuscripts and excavations 

 in Cj'prus. The number of visitors to the 

 museum in 1894 was 578,977. An average 

 of 670 daily visit the reading rooms for 

 purposes of research and reference. 413,572 

 people were admitted to the collections of 

 the Natural History department ; of these 

 20,029 were students, chiefly in the depart- 

 ment of zoology. 



During the year a valuable collection 

 of Hindu coins has been bequeathed to the 

 museum by the late Sir Alexander Cun- 

 ningham, and a large collection of Turkish 

 books published in Constantinople during 

 the reign of the present Sultan, by whom. 

 the volumes were sent. The museum has 

 also acquired a portion of the collection of 

 rare English books of the period of Eliza- 

 beth and James I., discovered in 1867, at 

 Lamport Hall, the seat of Sir Charles 

 Isham, where thej' appear to have been for- 

 gotten for two centuries. 



By the will of Benjamin P. Cheny the 

 sum of $50,000 was left to various public 

 institutions. The Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology receives $10,000. 



M. LuciEN Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse, 

 a well-known engineer and explorer, died at 

 Paris on August 12th, at the age of 51. He 

 was a grandson of Lucien Bonaparte. He 

 made extensive hydrographical and other 

 scientific explorations, and in 1875 under- 

 took the survey of the Panama isthmus. 

 His "Eapport," 1876-78, on this survey 

 was followed by the operations of M. de 

 Lesseps on the Panama ship canal. 



The astronomer Andreas Lowald Pihl 

 died in Christiania on July 1st, at the age of 

 73 years. 



The Lancet announces the deaths of Dr. 

 S. Moos, professor of otologj' in Heidelberg; 

 Dr. Kiener, professor of pathological anat- 

 omy in Montpellier, and Dr. Albert Nagel, 

 professor of ophthalmology in Tiibingen. 



