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SCIENCE. 



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ish Columbia, and was placed in charge oi 

 the Yukon expedition, undertaken by the 

 Canadian government in 1887. As one of 

 her Majesty's Behring Sea Commissioners 

 he spent the summer of 1891 in investigat- 

 ing the facts connected v/ith the far-seal 

 fishery on the northern coasts of America 

 and Asia, Two years later he was elected 

 president of the Royal Society of Canada. 

 In January, 1895, he was appointed direc- 

 tor of the Geological Sui'vey of Canada. 

 He was the author of numerous original 

 scientific papers, principally geological , but 

 including geographical, ethnological and 

 other observations made in the course of his 

 explorations. 



Mb. Edward Philip Ldftus Beock, 

 honorary secretaiy of the British Archae- 

 ological Association, died in London on ISTo- 

 vember 2d. 



Me. Beenaed Geenfell, fellow of Queens 

 College, Oxford, intends shortly to visit 

 Egypt to continue his studies on Greek 

 papyri. 



The Boston Transcript states that Prof. 

 David P. Todd will undertake the direction 

 of an expedition to be sent out from Am- 

 herst College for the purpose of observing 

 the solar eclipse of 1896. The expedition 

 will sail from San Francisco next spring, on 

 the schooner yacht Coronet, which will be 

 in command of Cajitain Arthur C. James, 

 New York Yacht Club, a member of the 

 class of '89. The island of Yezo, one of the 

 largest northern islands of the Japanese 

 Empire, has been chosen as the point of ob- 

 servation. 



The Pharmaceutical Societj^ of Great 

 Britain has presented the Hanbury Medal to 

 Dr. August Vogl. Tliis is the eighth award 

 of this medal, which was presented in 1881 

 to Fliickiger, in 1883 to John Elliot Howard, 

 in 1885 to Dragendorif, in 1887 to Dymok, 

 in 1889 to Plaichon, in 1891 to Hesse and 

 in 189a to Maish. 



At a meeting of the Royal Institution on 

 !N"ovember 4th it was reported that the late 

 Mr. John Bell Sedgwick, M.R.I., had be- 

 queathed £300 to the Royal Institution in 

 aid of the fund for the promotion of experi- 

 mental research at low temperatures. The 

 special thanks of the members were re- 

 turned to Sir Frederick Abel for his dona- 

 tion of £50 to the same fund. 



De. Feasee Haeeis proposed exhibiting 

 before the Glasgow Philosophical Societj- a 

 new optical instrument known as the stereo- 

 photo-chromoscope, the aim of which is to 

 photograph an object in such a way that the 

 ' positive ' of the picture, viewed as a trans- 

 parency, will present the object with its nat- 

 ural colors and also with stereoscopic effects. 



The Revue Scientifique states that M. G. 

 Delage will issue at the beginning of next 

 year an Annee biologique, which will give 

 analytical and critical reviews of publica- 

 tions in general biology. 



A couESE of Mondajf evening lectures 

 has been instituted by the faculty of the 

 University of the City of "New York, who 

 will lecture on their respective subjects to 

 the people living in the vicinity of Univer- 

 sity Heights. The first lecture was deliv- 

 ered by Dr. J. J. Stevenson, in the lecture 

 room of the Havemeyer Laboratory, on 

 'Coal.' 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Peof. "William M. Thoenton, chairman 

 of the faculty of the University of Vir- 

 ginia, has published a letter stating the 

 needs and plans of the University. Recon- 

 struction of the Rotunda, tlie central build- 

 ing of the group recently destroyed, has 

 already been begun. It will be restored in 

 its original form, a reproduction on the half 

 scale of the Roman Pantheon, but with 

 fire-proof materials. The necessary money 

 for this purpose, about $80,000, has been 

 practically subscribed. 



