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scriptive and statistical in formation. The 

 quarries are then taken up by States and 

 much that is valuable for reference is placed 

 in convenient and readily accessible from. 



We have received at this somewhat early 

 date the number for January of a new semi- 

 monthly medical journal Pediatrics pub- 

 lished in N'ew York and London, and 

 edited by Dr. Geo. A. Carpenter, with 

 an editorial staff including Professor A. 

 Jacoby, of Columbia College, and other lead- 

 ing students of the diseases of children. 



Peofessoe L. L. Dyche, of the Univer- 

 sity of Kansas, has returned from a six 

 months' absence in the Arctic regions as a 

 member of the Peary Relief Party. He 

 has brought back to the University a valu- 

 able collection of skins and skeletons. 

 With the exception of the musk-ox, Prof. 

 Dyche has now personally secured a speci- 

 men of every known North American Arc- 

 tic mammal. 



Some of the friends of the late Professor 

 Sir Thomas Francis Wade propose to raise 

 and offer to the University of Cambridge, 

 a sum of money sufficient to provide for the 

 construction of a catalogue of the lai-ge 

 and important collection of Chinese litera- 

 ture which during his lifetime he presented 

 to the University Library. 



Beussels is to be connected with the sea 

 by a new canal, allowing vessels of 2,000 

 tons burden to reach the city, the esti- 

 mated cost of which is 35,000,000 francs. 

 The official name of the city will hereafter 

 be ' Bruxelles Port de Mer.' 



The mortality from diphtheria in Lon- 

 don has greatly increased recently. Dur- 

 ing the week ending October 19th the num- 

 ber of deaths was nearly double the aver- 

 age for the corresponding week of the ten 

 preceding years 1885-94. 



The Carnegie Music Hall, Museum, Art 

 Gallery and Free Library given by Mr. 

 Andrew Carnegie to the city of Pittsburg, 



was formally dedicated on November 5th. 

 The gift of the building and librar}' is ac- 

 companied by an endowment of $1,000,000. 

 Mr. Carnegie's gifts to the cities of Pitts- 

 burg, Alleghenj', Braddock, Homestead 

 and Duquesne amount to about $4,000,000. 



At the request of State School Commis- 

 sioner, John T. Glen, according to the Bos- 

 ton Transcript, Professor C. M. Strahan, of 

 the State University, has drawn a map of 

 Georgia, which shows the location and 

 number of every common school (white and 

 black), high school, college and university 

 in the State. The map is twelve by ten 

 feet and is the largest map of Georgia ever 

 drawn. 



The annual meeting of the New Jersey 

 Forestry Association was held in Lake- 

 wood on November 8th and 9th. A lecture 

 was given by Dr. J. T. Rothrock on ' The 

 Relation of Forests to the Surface of the 

 Country,' and there were special discus- 

 sions on the prevention of forest fires and 

 the preservation of the Palisades. 



The Columbia University Press will pub- 

 lish shortlj' a life of the late President F. 

 A. P. Barnard, prepared by John Fulton, 

 of Philadelphia, at the request of Mrs. 

 Barnard. The author had complete access 

 to all Dr. Barnard's letters and i>apers, and 

 traces his educational career in the South, 

 as well as the development of Columbia 

 College under his presidency. 



A Bronze bust, by Mr. D. AV. Stevenson, 

 of the distinguished botanist. Dr. Robert 

 Brown, has been unveiled in his native 

 town, Montrose, Forfarshire, Scotland. The 

 bust is accompanied by a tablet bearing the 

 inscription : " Robert Brown, D.C.L Oxon, 

 L.L.D. Edin., F.R.S. Loud., President of 

 the Linnean Society, Member of the Insti- 

 tute of France. Born in this house 21st 

 December, 1773 ; died in London 10th June, 

 1858. ' Botanicorum facile princeps.' Alex, 

 von Humboldt." 



