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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. III. No. 69. 



The first serious treatment of American Mal- 

 lophaga, or bird lice, is found in a paper just 

 published conjointly by the Leland Stanford 

 University and the California Academy of Sci- 

 ences. In this paper Prof. V. L. Kellogg gives 

 a table and synopsis of the genera and describes 

 one new genus and 38 new American species, 

 besides identifying 22 species previously de- 

 scribed by European authors, but here, with 

 few exceptions, first determined as parasites of 

 American birds. For the first time in any work 

 close attention is paid to immature forms as a 

 contribution toward their almost unknown life 

 history, and about 80 complete figures of bird 

 lice are given, besides others of details of struc- 

 ture or portions of the body. It is sure to 

 stimulate further investigation in a much neg- 

 lected field. 



A SERIOUS landslide is reported to have taken 

 place at Trub, twenty miles east of Berne. A 

 landslide is also said to have taken place at 

 Bondesir, Saguenay county, Quebec. 



Peof. W. Wundt has been elected foreign 

 associate and M. J. Lachelier member of the 

 Paris Institut (Academy of Medical and Politi- 

 cal Sciences). 



The provisional program of the International 

 Congress of Psychology, to be held at Munich 

 from the 4th to the 7th of August, announces 

 102 papers, and others will be announced later. 



Felix Alcan announces as in press La psy- 

 chologie des sentiments by Prof. Ribot and Les 

 types intellectuels by Prof. Paulhan. 



The epidemic disease afflicting well meaning 

 but ignorant people and leading them to see 

 visions somewhat similar to those occurring in 

 delirium tremens is not confined to America. A 

 memorial with some 12,000 signatures has been 

 presented to the Home Secretary of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, claiming that there is not suflHcient 

 inspection under the act relating to vivisection. 

 They state that two licensees had exceded the 

 rights given them by their certificates. 



On April 5th, the first Sunday that the Lon- 

 don National Museums were open to the public, 

 there were 7,138 visitors at South Kensington 

 Museum and 3,026 at Bethnal Green Museum. 



Dr. Lewis Swift, of Lowe Observatory, Cali- 

 fornia, has discovered a new comet. It is stated 



that its position was : Right ascension, 3 hours, 

 38 minutes and 26 seconds ; declination, 18 

 degrees, 19 minutes, 32 seconds north on April 

 16th, 0.6896 Greenwich mean time. The comet 

 is moving north at the rate of 2J degrees per 

 day and very slowly westward. It is about as 

 bright as a seventh magnitude star, and has a 

 decided condensation in its head and a short 

 tail. 



Dr. Ch. Wardell Stiles, of the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, has been elected a 

 member of the French Academy of Medicine. 



Prof. Seeley, F. R. S. , will begin a summer 

 course of lecture excursions ^yith the London 

 Geological Field Class at the end of April. The 

 subject of the series will be ' The Physical 

 Geography and Geology of the Thames and 

 its Tributaries.' This is the 11th annual course. 



The Boston Aeronautical Society, wishing to 

 circulate its notices and reports, requests all 

 those who are in any way interested in aerial 

 navigation, to place their names on file, ad- 

 dressing the Secretary of the Society, Box 1197, 

 Boston. 



The Progressive Age has published a report on 

 experiments carried out by Prof. E. J. Houston 

 and A. E. Kenelly to determine the actual 

 cost of producing carbide of calcium at the 

 works of the Wilson Company, at Spray, N. C. 



We learn from The Lancet that the Dean and 

 Faculty of the Medical School of University 

 College, Bristol, having consented to receive 

 and permanently locate the valuable collection 

 of momentos of Edward Jenner, known as the 

 ' Jenner Relics,' it is desired to raise by public 

 subscription the sum of £1,500 in order to de- 

 fray the cost of purchase from Mr. Frederick 

 Mockler, of Wotton-under-Edge. Each sub- 

 scriber of one guinea and upwards will receive 

 when the list is complete a silver medal, and to 

 subscribers of not less than half a guinea a 

 bronze medal will be presented, commemora- 

 tive of the Jenner Centenary, May 14, 1896. 



In the summary report of the Canadian Geo- 

 logical Survey, Mr. Dawson calls attention to 

 tile entirely insignificant accommodation af- 

 forded by the present building for the work of 

 the Survey. Not only are the offices inade- 



