September 27, 1895.] 



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Lapland (about 30° E. Long.), to enable 

 observation to be made of the total eclipse 

 of the sun on August 9th, 1896. The steam- 

 ship starts on July 21st and is due at Lon- 

 don on the return voyage on August 17th. 

 The passage money is forty guineas. 



It is stated that 2,000 deaths from chol- 

 era are occuring daily in Pekin. Cholera 

 is also raging in the Russian Government 

 of Volhynia, where the deaths are said to 

 be about 250 a day. 



According to the NaturivissenschaftUche 

 Rundschau Prof. Ernst Beyrich of Berlin 

 has been presented with the gold ' Cothen- 

 ius Medaille ' by the Leopoldinisch-Caro- 

 linische deutsche Akademie der Naturfors- 

 cher. 



Walter Scott has published Tlie Growth 

 of the Brain, by Prof. H. H. Donaldson, of 

 the University of Chicago, as the latest vol- 

 ume of the Contemporary Science Series. 

 The work will doubtless be shortly pub- 

 lished in America by Chas. Scribner's 

 Sons. 



An international industrial exhibition 

 will be held at Cape Town, under the au- 

 spices of the Chamber of Commerce. The 

 exhibition will oj)en on November 18th and 

 will continue for six weeks. 



GiNN & Co. announce a text-book on the 

 Elements of Plant Anatomy, by' Emily L. 

 Gregory, of Barnard College. The book is 

 divided into two parts, the plant cell and 

 cell aggregates or tissues. 



According to the report of the Chief of 

 the U. S. Weather Bureau for 1893 the 

 total number of deaths in the United States 

 caused by violent winds was 399, and the 

 number of deaths caused by lightning was 

 209. In 1892 the deaths caused by violent 

 wind and lightning were nearly the same, 

 262 and 251 respectively. 



The meeting of the German Association 

 for the Repression of the Abuse of Alcoholic 

 Drinks will be held this year at Munich on 



September 18th and 19th. Among the 

 papers to be presented are ' Hygiene and 

 Temperance ' by Professors Hans Buchner 

 and Max von Pettenkofer ; and 'Beer and the 

 Alcohol Question ' by Professor Moritz, of 

 Munich. 



According to the London Times 320 cases 

 of small-pox were under treatment within 

 the metropolitan area on September 12th. 



The International Congress of Physiology 

 opened at Berne on September 9th. Some 

 80 papers were on the program. 



Mr. H. Taveddell, a distinguished English 

 engineer, died on August 23d. 



M. Jules Laverriere, a French writer 

 on agriculture, died at Lyons at the begin- 

 ning of the present month. 



A telegram has been received from India 

 by the relatives of Mr. Mummery, the 

 famous Alpine climber, stating that he has 

 been lost while climbing the Himalayas, 

 and that his remains are being searched 

 for. 



The deaths are reported on August 26th 

 of Dr. Frederick Miescher and Dr. Ernst 

 de Sury, professors of phj^siology and of legal 

 medicine, respectively at Bale, and of Dr. 

 Moritz Willkomm, professor of botany in 

 the German University at Prague. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The faculty of Harvard University has 

 sent to the corporation a proposition to es- 

 tablish ' docents ' similar to those in the 

 German universities. The men thus desig- 

 nated would be holders of the degree of Ph. 

 D. who might offer advanced courses to 

 graduate students without being paid for 

 their work by the University. 



Mr. Melvil Dewey, Secretary of the 

 University of the State of New York, has 

 sent out a circular letter stating that Mr. 

 Asa O. Gallup, who has so efficiently dis- 

 charged the duties of chief clerk for the 



