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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. III. No. 67. 



Progress;' Mr. W. Gowland, three lectures on 

 'The Art of Working Metals in Japan;' Dr. 

 Robert Munro, two lectures on ' Lake Dwell- 

 ings; ' Mr. E. A. Wallis Budge, of the British 

 Museum, two lectures on ' The Moral and Re- 

 ligious Literature of Ancient Egypt. ' The first 

 lecture of the Friday evening course will be by 

 M. G. Lippmann, on 'Color Photography.' 



We learn from the London Times that the re- 

 port of the Meteorological Council for the year 

 ending March 31, 1895, submitted to the Presi- 

 dent and Council of the Royal Society, has just 

 been issued as a Parliamentary paper. Of the 

 forecasts issued at 8:30 p. m., in the year 1894- 

 1895, the percentage of complete success was 

 56, of partial success 27, of partial failure 12, 

 and of total failure 6. The average for the ten 

 years from 1885 to 1894 was 51-2 of complete 

 success and 30-7 of partial success. The storm 

 warnings show a percentage of 68-5 of success 

 and 23-5 of partial success. The warnings not 

 justified by subsequent weather were 6 per cent. 

 These figures show a marked improvement on 

 those for the years from 1885 to 1893 inclusive. 

 The hay harvest forecasts show a total percent- 

 age of 89 of complete or partial success. The 

 Council express their regret that the experiment 

 of exhibiting, at telegraphic stations in rural dis- 

 tricts every afternoon, the daily weather fore- 

 casts is not to be repeated. The net expendi- 

 ture of the Council in 1894-95 was £15,212 Os. 

 lid., as compared with £15,969, 7s. 6d. in 1893- 

 94. The sum of £1,528 Os. lOd., was paid to 

 the postofifice for services rendered. The in- 

 come of the Council was £15,300, granted by 

 Parliament, and £721 19s. 6d., received from 

 various other sources. 



of the property on Morningside Heights, adja- 

 cent to the grounds of Columbia University, 

 about $1,000,000, and will add greatly to the 

 facilities of the College and of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, to which it is afiiliated. 



Mb. W. C. McDonald, whose gift of $500,000 

 to McGill University was reported in this 

 journal last week has now given, in addition, 

 $150,000, to be used in maintaining the engi- 

 neering and physics building. 



The annual report of President Dwight, of 

 Yale University, for the year 1895, states that 

 gifts to the University during the year have 

 amounted to $305,301. 



The Senate of Deans of the Catholic Univer- 

 sity of Washington has decided to establish an 

 Institute of Technology. It is proposed to con- 

 struct a special building for the purpose. 



The following instructors have been ap- 

 pointed in Harvard University: Charles Mon- 

 tague Bakewell, A. M., in philosophy; James 

 Edwin Lough, A. M. , in experimental psychol- 

 ogy; Charles Palache, Ph. D., in mineralogy; 

 Robert Jay Forsythe, A. B. , in metallurgy and 

 metallurgical chemistry. 



Baeon Eotvos has been made full pro- 

 fessor of experimental physics in^the University 

 at Buda-Pesth. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Mrs. Elizabeth Maey Ludlow, the mother 

 of the late Robert Center, has given his estate, 

 valued at $150,000, to Columbia University for 

 the purpose of endowing the ' Robert Center 

 Fund for Instruction of Music. ' 



The Teachers' College, New York, has re- 

 ceived from a donor whose name is at present 

 withheld, a gift of $250,000 to complete the pres- 

 ent group of buildings. This will make the value 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE. 



HEREDITY AND INSTINCT (ll.)* 



In the earlier paper I argued from certain 

 psychological truths for the position that two 

 general principles recently urged by Romanes 

 for the Lamarckian, or ' inherited habit, ' view of 

 the origin of instinct do not really support that 

 doctrine. These two principles are those cited 

 by Romanes under the phrases respectively ' co- 

 adaptation ' and 'selective value.' lu the case 

 of complex instincts these two arguments really 

 amount to one, i. e. , as long as we are talking 

 about the origin of instinct. And the one argu- 

 ment is this: that partial co-adaptations in the 

 direction of an instinct are not of selective value; 

 hence instinct could not have arisen by gradual 



^Conclusion of paper of same title in Science 

 March 20th. 



