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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. III. No. 59. 



taken by Prof. L. L. Dyche of the University of 

 Kansas, and are exceedingly interesting and in- 

 structive. They illustrate an article by Prof. 

 Dyche, who accompanied Lieut. Peary to the 

 arctic regions. 



Le mouvement scientifique mix Etats- Unis is the 

 title of an elaborate paper by M. Jules Violle, 

 of the Bcole Normale Superieure in Paris, 

 which has recently appeared in the Revue gen- 

 6rale des sciences pures et appliquees, and in the 

 Annates du Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. M. 

 Violle, who came over in the Exposition sum- 

 mer, writes very appreciatively of our astrono- 

 mers, physicists and inventors, and their work ; 

 and endeavors to impress vipon France that it 

 has much to learn from the United States. 

 ' 'America, ' ' he writes, ' ' has already too many 

 advantages over us. Our most important in- 

 terests demand that we should struggle to pre- 

 serve the advantages which we still possess over 

 America. High intellectual culture is not a 

 matter of luxury or of national pride. A mere 

 glance at the other nations of the world demon- 

 strates that not only the prospei'ity of a country 

 but its very future depends upon scientific prog- 

 ress, at once glorious and profitable to every 

 citizen. ' ' M. VioUe's article is elaborately illus- 

 trated, but the pictures are somewhat incon- 

 gruous with the text, exhibiting chiefly public 

 buildings and scenes at the World's Fair. 



The same number of the Annates du Conser- 

 vatoire, has other important articles on the 

 Chicago Exposition — one upon its general fea- 

 tures by Emile Levasseur, member of the Insti- 

 tute, one on the mechanical display by M. 

 Gustave Richard, and one upon Agriculture in 

 America by M. Maximilien Ringelman, of the 

 National Agricultural School at Grignon, who 

 declares that notwithstanding certain remark- 

 able features, our agriculture is on the whole in 

 a very backward and primitive condition. 

 These articles together fill two hundred pages 

 and have numerous illustrations. 



Progress is being made in the endowment 

 of a fellowship of anatomy in the Wistar Insti- 

 tute of the University of Pennsylvania in honor 

 of Joseph Leidy. Of the $30,000 required, $7,- 

 000 has now been subscribed. The committee 

 of the alumni and former students of Leidy's 



consists of Wm. C. Posey, Chairman ; J. Howe 

 Adams, Secretary and Treasurer ; Joseph P. 

 Tunis, Joseph Leidy, Jr. , and C. H. Frazier ; 

 and there is an Advisory Committee consisting 

 of C. C. Harrison, S. Weir Mitchell, J. M. Da 

 Costa, Geo. A. Piersol and Isaac J. Wistar. 

 The money so far subscribed has come chiefly 

 from Philadelphia, but the endowment should 

 be national and international. Subscriptions 

 may be sent to the Treasurer or to any member 

 of the committees. 



The following monographs of the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey are in press and will shortly be 

 issued: 



XXV. Tlie Glacial Lake Agassiz, by Warren Up- 

 ham. 1895. 4°. xxiv, 658 pp. 38 pi. 



XXVI. Flora of the Amboy Clays, by John Strong 

 Newberry; a posthmnous work, edited by Arthur 

 Hollick. 1895. 4°. 260 pp. 58 pi. 



The following monographs are in prepara- 

 tion : 



The Geology of Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden 

 Counties, Massachusetts, by Benjamin Kendall Emer- 

 son. 



TJie Glacial Gravels of Maine and their Associated 

 Deposits, by George H. Stone. 



Geology of the Denver Basin, Colorado, by S. F- 

 Emmons, Whitman Cross and Geo. H. Eldridge. 



Sauropoda, by O. C. Marsh. 



Stegosatiria, by O. C. Marsh. 



Brontotheridm, by O. C. Marsh. 



Report on. Silver Cliff and Ten-Mile Mining Districts, 

 Colorado, by S. F. Emmons. 



Flora of the Laramie and Allied Formations, by 

 Frank Hall Knowlton. 



A SPECIAL meeting of the Biological Section 

 of the New York Academy of Sciences was 

 held on January 31st to discuss the origin of in- 

 stinct with reference to the inheritance of ac- 

 quired character. The meeting was called in 

 honor of Principal C. Lloyd Morgan, of Bristol, 

 who opened the discussion. He described his 

 own interesting experiments with chicks and 

 ducklings, and held that these and other evi- 

 dence tend to show that instincts are not per- 

 fected under the guidance of intelligence and 

 then inherited. A chick will peck instinctively 

 at food, but must be taught to drink. Chicks- 

 have learned to drink for countless generations, 

 but the acquired action has not become instinc- 



