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Princeton, and 'An Outline of Psychology,' by 

 Prof. E. B. Titchener, of Cornell University. 



Db. Donaldson Smith gave before tbe Royal 

 Institution, London, on January 20th, an ac- 

 count of his expedition to Lake Rudolf, in 

 northeastern Africa. It vs^as found that the 

 Niauann is the only river emptying into the 

 lake, and that there is no river Bass, as sup- 

 posed by Count Teleki. Seven hundred birds 

 were collected, and of these 24 have been de- 

 scribed by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe as being new to 

 science. The different species of insects num- 

 bered 3,000, and besides these there were many 

 plants, butterflies and mammals collected. 



A HEAEING was given on January 30th by 

 the Commissioners of the District of Columbia 

 upon a Senate bill which would prevent vivi- 

 section in the District. Dr. Busey and Surgeon 

 General Sternberg spoke against the bill. 



Membbes of the Gypsy Moth Commission of 

 the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture 

 appeared before the Committee of Agriculture 

 and argued in favor of the passage of an ap- 

 propriation of $200,000 for the work of exterm- 

 inating the gypsy moth. It was stated by 

 director E. H. Forbush that 425 men would be 

 needed during the spring and summer; it is pro- 

 posed to burn over infested waste lands which 

 is done by means of a machine which throws 

 out a spray of oil which burns so rapidly that 

 the eggs and caterpillars are destroyed without 

 injury to the trees, then the trees are burlapped 

 and examined, and eggs laid during the season 

 are so far as possible destroyed. Roads would 

 be examined with special care to prevent cater- 

 pillars from dropping on passing teams and be- 

 ing thus carried to uninfested localities. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 At a meeting of the convocation of the Uni- 

 versity of London on January 21st a resolution 

 was passed, 460 votes being in its favor and 240 

 against it, favoring what is known as the 

 Cowper Commission Scheme for the consolida- 

 tion and reconstruction, of the examining and 

 teaching institutions of London. It should be 

 remembered that the University of London 

 does not give instruction, but only grants degrees 

 on examination, whereas there are also in 



London two or more colleges which give in- 

 struction but do not grant degrees. It is uni- 

 versally admitted that some reform is needed, 

 either that the teaching institutions should be 

 consolidated and permitted to confer degrees 

 on their students, while the University of London 

 remains purely an examining body, or that all 

 ' the institutions should be united. As appears 

 from the above vote, the members of the convo- 

 cation of the University of London attending 

 the meeting favored the latter plan, but it is 

 claimed that it would not have the approval of 

 a majority of all the graduates. 



A PUBLIC meeting has been held in Albany 

 urging the removal of Union University from 

 Schenectady to that city, and it is understood 

 that the matter will be seriously considered by 

 the trustees. 



Me. Joseph Bannigan has given $4,000 to 

 the Catholic University of America, and has 

 made known his intention to donate for twelve 

 years $4,000 a year for library purposes. 



By the will of the late Mrs. Doyon, the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin has received $5,000, the 

 income of which is to be devoted to scholarships 

 for young women. 



Two scholarships of $2,000 each have been 

 presented to Tufts College, one by Mrs. A. B. 

 Perkins and the other by J. S. and H. N. White. 



De. L. Teenchaed Moee, of St. Louis, Mo., 

 has become an assistant in physics at the Wor- 

 cester Polytechnic Institute. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE. 



THE INVEETED IMAGE ON THE EETINA. 



Editor of Science : Prof. Brooks can hardly 

 hope that there should be any consensus among 

 scientific men in regard to the diflBcult question 

 whether we know or do not know whether the 

 lower animals have or have not consciousness, 

 if there are still distinguished scientists who 

 think that there is anything which needs ex- 

 planation in the fact that the image on the 

 retina is inverted, or that the question will 

 continue to be a subject for discussion for cen- 

 turies yet to come. As long as we do not feel 

 that the image on the retina is inverted, as 

 long as we are not aware in consciousness that 



