November 8, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



623 



Peof. William Abbot Pike died from 

 pneumonia at Minneapolis on October lotli. 

 He was for some years professor of engi- 

 neering in the Maine State College and 

 later held the same position in the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota. 



Baeon Laeeay, member of the French 

 Institute and of the Academy of Medicine, 

 and known for liis contributions to military 

 surgery, died on October 8th, at the age 

 of 87. 



The Manchester Museum has obtained a 

 grant of £400 from the taxes collected for 

 free libraries, which amount to about £20,- 

 000. 



The German Hygienic Association has 

 offered a prize of 12,000 Marks for a paper 

 on the efficiency of electric heaters. Tlie 

 essays must be written in German and sent 

 to Professor Konrad Hartmann, Charlotten- 

 burg, not later than July 1, 1896. 



The Popular Science Monthly opens its 

 forty-eighth volume in November under 

 the name Appleton^s Popular Science Monthly, 

 with typography and paper materially im- 

 proved. The journal will hereafter be pub- 

 lished in England by Kegan, Paul, Trench, 

 Triibner & Co. The ten articles of the cur- 

 rent number are all concerned with anthro- 

 pology, using this word in a wide sense. 

 Professor Brinton's president's address be- 

 fore the A. A. A. S. is given, and among 

 the other papers of interest is an illus- 

 trated article by Mr. H. P. F. Marriott, en- 

 titled ' Primigenial Skeletons, the Flood 

 and the Glacial Period.' 



Seveee earthquake shocks were felt in the 

 central States just after 5 o'clock on the 

 morning of October 31st, affecting especially 

 Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. On the follow- 

 ing day, at 5:40 in the morning, violent 

 shocks were felt at Rome. The convent of 

 Santa Maria Maggiore was greatly damaged. 

 A portion of the outer wall was overthrown 

 and part of the ceiling has fallen. Four 



palaces and the Bank of Italy were so 

 shaken that they are rendered unsafe for 

 occupancy. 



A MUNICIPAL museum was opened at 

 Alexandria on September 26th containing a 

 collection of antiquities belonging to the 

 Greek, Roman and early Coptic periods. 

 The municipality and the Alexandria 

 Archseological Society are making excava- 

 tions in the city and neighborhood, but 

 hitherto their researches have proved only 

 negative. 



The daily papers state that the Board of 

 Managers of St. Luke's Hospital, New 

 York, at a recent meeting decided to erect 

 on the new site of the hospital, at One 

 Hundred and Eighteenth street and Morn- 

 ingside avenue, a large building to be de- 

 voted exclusively to researches in pathol- 

 ogy. It is to be specially devoted to inves- 

 tigation of dangerous micro-organisms. 

 The managers appointed a committee with 

 full power to erect the building, and de- 

 clared it their opinion that an endowment 

 fund of $200,000 should be obtained and 

 set aside for the jDathological department. 

 The plans of the new building have already 

 been drawn up and will be submitted to 

 the Medical Board in a few days. The 

 building as designed will be one of the 

 finest and most complete in appointments 

 of any similar structure in America. 



D. Appleton & Co. announce two new 

 volumes in the International Scientific Se- 

 ries, Gh'eenland Icefields, by Prof. G. Freder- 

 ick Wright, and Movement, by E. J. Marey. 



The French Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science will hold its next meeting 

 in Tunis in April, 1896. In 1897 it will meet 

 in St. Etienne. M. Distere, marine engineer, 

 has been elected president of the Association 

 and Dr. Leon Teisserenc de Bort general 

 secretary. 



De. W J McGee, of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, has started to explore 



