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tion of the Upper Devonian in central and 

 eastern ISTew York for the State Survey. 



Five graduates of Michigan State Agri- 

 cultural College, who were assistants or in- 

 structors, have recently been elected to 

 other positions, as follows : F. B. Mum- 

 ford, professor of agriculture. State Univer- 

 sity, Columbia, Mo.; A. T. Stevens, profes- 

 sor of agriculture at Green borough, JST. C; 

 W. L. Rossman, chemist to State Pure-food 

 Commision, Lansing, Mich.; U. P. Hedrick, 

 professor of botany and horticulture, Cor- 

 valis, Oregon; A. B. Cordly, professor of 

 entomologj', Corvalis, Oregon. 



It is stated that Dr. Wilhelm Roux, of 

 Innsbruck, has been called to the chair of 

 anatomy in the University of Halle ; Dr. K. 

 Seubert, of Tiibingen, to the chair of chem- 

 istry in the Technical High School, at Han- 

 nover, and Dr. Kallius, of Gottingen, to the 

 chair of anatomy at Tiibingen. 



D. C. Heath & Co. have in preparation 

 ' The Connection of Thought and Memorj^: 

 a Contribution to Pedagogical Psychology,' 

 by H. P. Lukens, Ph. D., with an introduc- 

 tion by Dr. G. Stanley Hall. The work is 

 based on F. W. Dorpfeld's ' Denken und 

 Gedachtniss.' 



AccoEDiNG to the London Times the 

 French have unearthed at Delphi the 

 building that Pausanias describes as the 

 'Treasury of the Athenians;' and here 

 they have discovered the remains of two 

 large slabs of stone inscribed with words 

 and music. In their first season's work 

 they found 14 fragments of various sizes, 

 of which thej' published an account last 

 year. Four of these fragments were dis- 

 tinguished from the other ten by a differ- 

 ence in the notation of the music; and these 

 four made uj) the jjiece that was introduced 

 to the public as ' The Hymn to Apollo.' 

 Fortunately, in their second season's work, 

 the French have found another large frag- 

 ment, to which the remaining ten can be 



adjusted with tolerable certainty; and now 

 we have a second hjmm. The decipher- 

 ment has been intrusted, as before, to MM. 

 Henri Weil and Theodore Reinach, and 

 their version is about to be published in the 

 Bulletin de Correspondance Hellcnique. The 

 duration of the musical notes is indicated 

 by the syllables that were sung vrith them. 

 Thus, for example, where three notes are 

 attached to a word of one long syllable fol- 

 lowed by two short syllables they must 

 answer roughlj' to a crotchet followed by 

 two quavers. The pitch of the notes is in- 

 dicated by various letters of the alphabet. 

 In the first hj'mn the letters were those 

 that the Greeks prescribed for use with 

 voices; but in this seconnd hymn they are 

 those that were prescribed for use with in- 

 struments. As the Delphians would hardly 

 have written down the accompaniment and 

 omitted the song itself, we must suppose 

 that the instruments and voices were here 

 in unison. 



Roberts Brothers will publish in the 

 autumn a work on the history and topog- 

 raph}^ of Constantinople by Professor E. A. 

 Grosvenor, of Amherst College. 



The Tribune states that The American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History has received twenty 

 skeletons exhumed bj' Mi\ H. I. Smith in 

 Mason County, Ky. The skeletons are in 

 bad condition, but the ornaments and imple- 

 ments, including bone fish-hooks, are said 

 to be of special interest. 



A HURRICANE station has been recently 

 established in Yucatan, and observations 

 will be cabled from Merida to New Orleans. 

 It is hoped that the cooperation of the 

 Mexican Meteorological Bureau M'ill be se- 

 cured with a view to establishing stations 

 at intervals along the borders of the Gulf. 



The Scientific American states that Dr. 

 Cornelius Herz has invented an improve- 

 ment in telegraphy, by which more than 

 1,000 words can be transmitted by long 



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