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SCIENCE. 



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ington on September 14th. We hope to 

 give an account of Professor Eiley's scien- 

 tific work in an eai'ly number of this 

 journal. 



Peofessor E. D. Cope's important work, 

 previouslj' announced in this journal, will 

 be published in October by the Open Court 

 Publishing Company. It will be entitled 

 Tlie Primary Factors of Organic Evolution. The 

 same publishers announce Post-Darwinian 

 Questions, the second part of the late Prof. 

 George J. Romanes's work Darioin, and 

 After Darioin. With the exception of the 

 concluding chapters, the present volume 

 was ready for publication over two years 

 ago, but the severe and protracted illness 

 of Professor Romanes prevented its speedy 

 completion. On his death, in 1894, the 

 manuscript was placed in the hands of 

 his friend, Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, Principal 

 of University College, Bristol, England, 

 who has edited the work. 



The autobiography of Mr. Herbert 

 Spencer is already in print, though it will 

 not be issued till after his death. 



The l^aturforschende Gesellschaft of 

 Switzerland met at Zermatt from September 

 8th to 11th, and The Swiss Geographical 

 Societies at St. Gall on September 22d and 

 23d. 



Nature states that a memorial tablet in 

 honor of v. Helmholtz has been aflSxed to 

 the house No. 8 Haditz Strasse, Potsdam, 

 in which he was born, and also that it is 

 intended to erect a joint monument to the 

 memory of Werner Siemens and v. Helm- 

 holtz in front of the Technische Hochschule 

 at Charlottenberg. 



We have received No. 62 of the Monthly 

 Weather Review, containing the annual sum- 

 mary for 1894. Tables and charts are 

 given showing barometer readings, temper- 

 ature, precipitation and other meteorological 

 phenomena throughout the United States. 



The English record in railway speed 



made by a run from London to Aberdeen 

 over the London & Northwestern Railway 

 of 540 miles in .512 minutes has been sur- 

 passed by a run on the New York Central 

 & Hudson River Railroad on September 

 11th. The train, ran from New York to 

 Buffalo, a distance of 436^^ miles in 407 

 minutes. This is an average of 64J miles 

 an hour as compared with the English 

 record of 63-i- miles an hour. The train on 

 the New York Central & Hudson River 

 Railroad was also much the heavier. 



At a recent meeting of the Park Board, 

 New York, eight bids ranging from $319,000 

 to $444,000 were received from various 

 builders and contractors for the completion 

 and enlargement of the new west wing of 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 

 The awards will probably be made in a few 

 days. 



The British Medical Journal states that a 

 quarterly court of the governors of the Lon- 

 don Hospital was held on September 4th, 

 Mr. J. H. Buxton, the Treasurer, presiding. 

 In the report the House Committee stated 

 that the amount subscribed to the Sir An- 

 drew Clark Memorial Fund was close upon 

 £3,000, and it had been determined to re- 

 commend the governors to adopt a scheme 

 for the building of a female erysipelas ward 

 and accommodation for cases needing isola- 

 tion, and additional rooms for the porters. 

 To carry that scheme into effect a further 

 expenditure of £1,500 would be necessary, 

 and the Board asked tlie governors to sanc- 

 tion that step. 



The Prince of Wales has accepted the 

 presidencj' of the committee of the Huxley 

 Memorial. The general committee will 

 probably hold its first meeting some time in 

 October. 



• The Orient Steam Navigation Company, 

 Ltd., propose to send one of their steam- 

 ships of about 4,000 tons gross register and 

 3,000 H.P. to Vadso in the Varanger Fiord,. 



