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active, associate, corresponding and honor- 

 ary members, whicli altogether now number 

 over one hundred. The Society has en- 

 rolled in its membership the leading men 

 of science of Binghamton, and is rapidly 

 becoming a potent force in the city. Its 

 object is ' to promote scientific study and 

 research.' Two twenty-minute papers were 

 presented on Saturday evening, one by Rev. 

 J. H. LaEoche, rector of Trinity Church, 

 on ' Christian Socialism;' the other by 

 Arthur T. Vance, of the Commercial Traveler's 

 Some Magazine, on ' Professor Huxley: a 

 Biographical Sketch.' The Academy meets 

 in the science room of the high school 

 building on the first and thii-d Saturday 

 evenings of the academic year. At the 

 next meeting Dr. Jack Killen, an oculist 

 and optician, will give a paper on ' Eefrac- 

 tion and Lens Making,' and Norman M. 

 Pierce, chemist of the Manhatten Spirit 

 Co., will discuss ' Earth Dust and Star 

 Dust.' The officers of the academy are : 

 President, E. R. "Whitney; Vice-President, 

 Herbert J. Jones; Secretary, Willard IST. 

 Clute; Treasurer, Fannie Webster; Corre- 

 sponding Secretary, Dudley T. Greene; 

 Executive Council : the President, the Sec- 

 retary, Addison Ellsworth, Norman M. 

 Pierce, Arthur T. Vance. 



Chapman & Hall will hereafter publish 

 in Great Britaiu the important scientific 

 and technical publications of John Wiley 

 & Sons. 



Dr. Joseph F. James, formerly Assistant 

 Pathologist in the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, has resigned his position and 

 will in future practice medicine. 



The North Carolina Experiment Station 

 has published a re^jort of the weather in 

 1894. It describes the work of the State 

 weather service and its several agencies, 

 the meteorological observing stations, 

 the signal display stations and the 

 crop reporting systems. The latter dis- 



tribute weekly the weather crop bulletin, 

 the signal stations display flags to note the 

 coming of cold waves and fi-ost warnings 

 and changes in the weather, while the ob- 

 serving stations furnish observations for 

 securing a correct record of the climate and 

 weather. People living on the low grounds 

 of certain rivers are warned of the aj;)proacli 

 of floods. The number of places supplied 

 with weather forecasts is nearly 500. The 

 crop correspondents reporting for the week- 

 ly, weather crop bulletin number 350 from 

 all of the 96 counties. The meteorological 

 observing stations number 73 in all parts of 

 the State. 



GiNN & Co. have in press Problems in 

 Differential Calculus, by Professor AV. E. 

 Byerlj^ of Harvard University. 



The first part of an Enclyclopmdie Terapie, 

 edited by Professor Oscar Liebreich with 

 the cooperation of Drs. M. Mendelssohn and 

 A. Wiirzburg, has been published by 

 August Hirschwald, Berlin. The works 

 will be issued in nine parts, making three 

 volumes. 



The third French Congress of Medicine 

 will be held at Nancy in 1896, under the 

 Presidency of M. Pitres, Dean of the Faculty 

 Medicine of Bordeaux. 



The New Maryland Asylum, for the 

 colonization of the incurably insane of the 

 State, will be located in Springfield. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Maxey Hall, a new dormitorj^ at Brown 

 University, was opened by a reception given 

 by President Andrews on the afternoon of 

 September 13th. The hall contains, in ad- 

 dition to 36 students' apartments, 8 recita- 

 tion rooms and rooms for the Herbarium. 



The Medical Record states there were 19,- 

 048 medical students registered in Italy in 

 1894-95. The number of universities is 

 twenty-one, and the number of students 

 registered at the various universities varies 



