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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. II. No. 43. 



Professor E, E. Barnard, of the Lick 

 Obsei-vatorjr, has removed to Chicago, al- 

 though the Yerkes Observatory will not be 

 ready for use dui-ing the coming year. 



Professor Eaoult, of Gi-enoble, has been 

 awarded, for his chemical researches, the 

 biennial prize (20,000 fr.) of the French In- 

 stitute. 



A FORMULA occurring in the account of 

 Dr. Artemus Martin's paper read before the 

 American Mathematical Society appears 

 in Science, No. 39, Sept. 27, 1895, p. 395, 

 as 



instead of 



Dr. Eobert Bell, assistant director of 

 the Dominion Geological Survey, states that 

 he has discovered a river lai-ger than any 

 other stream in the province of Quebec, to- 

 gether with a great area of timber land and 

 a country suitable for agricultural purposes. 

 This new river, for which the Indians have 

 no name, is larger than the Ottawa, and Dr. 

 Bell affirms it to be the sixth of the great 

 rivers of the world. Its average width is 

 considerably over a mile, and it has expan- 

 sions many miles in width . It flows through 

 a level country and is very deep. The river 

 is five hundred miles in length, and would 

 be navigable for steamers until toward 

 James Baj', where there are great rapids. 



Dr. Edward W. Bemis, lately professor 

 in the University of Chicago, has become 

 associate editor of the Bibliotheca Sacra, giv- 

 ing especial attention to applied ethics, 

 economics and civics. 



According to the New York Evening Post, 

 Prince Henry, of Orleans, in a letter to the 

 Societe de Geographie, gives an account of 

 his journejr from Mong-tse to Ta-li-fu. In 

 this hitherto unexplored countrj', 750 miles 

 in length, he has taken 500 photographs 

 and collected 300 zoological specimens. He 

 will return to France next January. 



The Eoxburghe Press, London, is about 

 to issue the Nursing World and Hospital Rec- 

 ord, a journal for trained nurses, who, it is 

 calculated, number nearly 30,000 in Great 

 Bi'itaiu alone. 



Bangs & Co., New York, announce the 

 sale of the library of the late William Ber- 

 rian, including many scientific works. 



Spon & Chamberlain announce ' Poly- 

 phase and Electric Currents and Alternate 

 Current Motors,' by Professor Silvanus P. 

 Thompson. The subject is dealt with under 

 the following diversions : Generators for 

 Polyphase Currents; the Properties of the 

 Rotatory Magnetic Field, with some ac- 

 count of its historical development; the 

 Theoiy, Construction and Performance of 

 Polyphase Motors; the Theoiy and Con- 

 struction of Motors operated by ordinary 

 single-phase Alternate Currents; together 

 with some account of Polyphase Trans- 

 formers, and of the measurements of power 

 in polyphase S3'stems. The same publishers 

 announce an elementary text-book on 

 ' Steam Engines and Boilers,' by Prof. J. H. 

 Kinealy, of Washington University. 



At the International Congress of Otology 

 held recentl}' in Florence manj^ papers were 

 presented, but they nearly all belonged to 

 clinical medicine. The Sixth Congress will 

 be held in London in 1899. 



It is reported that petroleum wells in 

 Java are very productive and are becoming 

 important commercially. 



The English Consul in St. Paul de Loanda 

 reports that the Trans-African Railway is 

 now open for a distance of 300 km. and 

 will be continued to Ambaca. 



Mr. Franklin L. Pope, known for his 

 contributions to electrical science, was killed 

 on October 13th (aet 66), from electrical 

 shock while examining the connections in 

 his own house. In 1870 Mr. Pope invented 

 with Mr. Edison the one-wire printing tele- 

 graph, and in 1872 he invented the rail 



