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20 blind for every 10,000, and Holland lowest 

 with only 4.5, the order is as follows : Portugal, 

 Russia, Finland, Spain, Norway, Hungary, 

 England, Germany (without Prussia), France, 

 Prussia, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Switzer- 

 land, Italy, Denmark and Holland. 



A Swiss National Exposition, jsromoted by the 

 Swiss Confederation and the diflferent cantons 

 and cities, will be held at Geneva from May 1st 

 to October 15th of the present year. 



At the 252d regular meeting, held Saturday, 

 December 28th, the Biological Society of Wash- 

 ington elected the following officers for 1896 : 

 President, Surgeon General Geo. M. Sternberg ; 

 Vice-Presidents, Richard Rathburn, C. D. Wal- 

 cott, L. O. Howard, B. E. Fernow; Recording 

 Secretary, M. B. Waite ; Corresponding Secre- 

 tary, P. A. Lucas ; Treasurer, F. H. Knowlton ; 

 Members of the Council, F. W. True, C. W. 

 Stiles, W. H. Ashmead, F. V. Coville, C. L. 

 Pollard. 



The New York Evening Post states that 

 one of the greatest of the world's bridges is 

 to be built at Detroit, to connect that city with 

 Windsor. It is to be over two miles in length 

 and to be five feet higher than the Brooklyn 

 bridge. The plans for the structure have been 

 prepared, and legislation looking to its con- 

 struction has been asked in Washington and 

 Ottawa. A corporation has been or will be or- 

 ganized under Michigan law to cooperate with 

 a similar Canadian corporation in constructing 

 the bridge, and the Vanderbilts will guarantee 

 the bonds of both. The estimated cost is be- 

 tween four and six millions. 



The Journal of Geology announces that it will 

 publish, beginning with the first number of 

 Vol. IV., a series of four articles under the 

 head of ' Studies for Students, ' by Prof. Van 

 Hise, on (1) Movements of Rocks under De- 

 formation; (2) Analysis of Folds; (3) Cleavage 

 and Fissility; (4) Joints and Faults. 



The American Machinist states that a bill has 

 been introduced in the United States Senate by 

 Senator Quay asking for an appropriation of 

 $25,000 for the Franklin Institute and Purdue 

 University, for the purpose of determining the 

 quantity and effect of hammer blow, ' centrifu- 



gal lift and tangental throw ' of locomotive 

 wheels in use on American railroads; also the 

 effects produced thereby. 



The Appalachian Mountain Club announces 

 that it will publish in the early spring a ' Guide 

 to Walks in the Country about Boston,' cover- 

 ing practically the ground embraced in the 

 Club map of the country about Boston. The 

 book will have many maps and be illustrated, 

 and it is desired to have as many of these illus- 

 trations as possible taken by the amateur pho- 

 tographers of the Club. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Evening Post states that at a meeting of 

 the committee on buildings of the American 

 University, architects have been chosen to pre- 

 pare plans for the hall of the history building. A 

 subcommittee was also chosen to take charge 

 of the construction of the structure, which will 

 cost about $150,000. Bishop Hurst announced 

 an additional gift to the University, that of a 

 business block in Findlay, Ohio, valued at $10,- 

 000, from John D. Flint, of Fall River, Mass. 



Mrs. T. K. W. Shimbe, owner and principal 

 of the Mount Carroll Female Seminary of 

 Mount Carroll, 111., has offered to the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago the seminary buildings and 

 twenty-five acres of ground, with an endow- 

 ment of from $150,000 to $200,000, to be a girls' 

 training school in connection with the Univer- 

 sity. 



Me. Sidney A. Reeve, for several years em- 

 ployed with the engineering firm of Westing- 

 house, Church, Kerr & Co., and recently edi- 

 torial writer on the Progressive Age, a journal 

 devoted to gas interests, has been elected ad- 

 junct professor of steam and hydraulic engineer- 

 ing in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 

 Prof Reeve will begin his services in the Insti- 

 tute about January 1st, 1896. 



Me. Lecky, the historian, has been elected 

 member of Parliament for the University of 

 Dublin by a majority of 750 votes. 



De. N. Kusnetzofp has been elected associ- 

 ate professor of botany and director of the 

 botanical gardens in the University of Dorpat. 



