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the sculpture of the land by the various 

 processes of erosion. The lectures will be 

 illustrated by maps, models and lantern 

 views. Mr. Bailey Willis will lecture twice 

 a week during the months of March, April 

 and May on Stratigraphic and Structural 

 Geology. This course will consist of a de- 

 scription of the processes which result in 

 the formation and upheaval of sedimentary 

 rocks, and will lead to a discussion of 

 the principles which should govern inter- 

 pretation of the sedimentary record. In 

 connection with these lectures Professor 

 Cleveland Abbe will deliver four lectures on 

 Climatology in its relations to Physiog- 

 raphy. The lectures will given on January 

 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1896. The subjects are: 1. 

 Sunshine and Temperature. 2. The Wind. 

 3. The Eain. 4. Snow and Ice. 



The Iceland Althing has requested the 

 King of Denmark to communicate with 

 other nations in regard to laying a cable 

 from Iceland to the Continent. The reso- 

 lution calls special attention to the impor- 

 tance of such a cable in the interests of 

 meteorology. 



About twelve of those who attended the 

 Stirling County Ball on October 1st have 

 since been seized with typhoid fever and 

 three deaths have occurred. It is alleged 

 that this resulted from eating contaminated 

 Oysters. At the opening meeting of the 

 winter session of the Hull Scientific and 

 Naturalists' Club, held on October 31st, 

 Mr. Hollingworth, the President, delivered 

 his presidential address on the artificial 

 cultivation of edible molluscs. He said 

 that in 1893 cholera broke out in 50 separate 

 localities, attacking 287 persons, of whom 

 135 died; and out of these 50 localities, in 

 42 only single cases occurred, a circum- 

 stance hitherto unprecedented in the histoiy 

 of cholera, and pointing to special modes of 

 infection. Of these cases 40 per cent, had 

 eaten or handled shellfish within twenty- 



four hours of being attacked, and in most 

 cases the shellfish had come from the Grims- 

 by and Cleethorpes beds. Cholera had been 

 imported into Grimsby from abroad, and 

 the position of the oyster, mussel and 

 cockle beds of Grimsby and Cleethorpes 

 was such that they might have been in- 

 fected. 



Dr. Philipp Bertkau, assistant profes- 

 sor of zoology at the University of Bonn, 

 died on October 22d. 



Macmillan & Co. announce for early 

 publication ' The Child in Primitive Cul- 

 ture and Folk-Thought,' by Dr. Alexander 

 F. Chamberlain, of Clark University. The 

 subject will be treated under the following 

 subdivisions: Names of the Child; Child 

 and Mother ; Child and Father ; The Child 

 in the Primitive Laboratory ; The Bright 

 Side of CWld-Life ; Childhood the Golden 

 Age ; Children's Food ; Children's Souls; 

 Children's Flowers and Plants; Children's 

 Birds and Beasts ; Child-Life in General ; 

 The Child as Factor in Society ; The Child 

 as Linguist ; The Child as Actor and In- 

 ventor ; The Child as Musician and Poet ; 

 The Child as Wiseacre, Oracle, Judge ; The 

 Child as Hero and Adventurer; The Child 

 as Fetish, Divinity, God; The Christ-Child; 

 Proverbs and Sayings about Children and 

 Childhood. An extensive bibliography is 

 appended. 



It is stated in Garden and Forest that Dr. 

 Chapman's herbarium of Southern plants, 

 upon which is based his Flora of the Southern, 

 States, has been purchased by Mr. George 

 W. Vanderbilt, and will serve as a nucleus 

 of the scientific collections which he is 

 establishing on his estate at Biltmore, in 

 North Carolina, in connection with an 

 arboretum and systematically managed for- 

 est. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The last Legislature appropriated a quar- 

 ter of a million dollars to the Eegents of 



