June 19, 1896 ] 



SCIENCE. 



899 



Since our last issue news has readied us of 

 the death of the emiueut English physician, Sir 

 Kussell Reynolds, who died at London on May 

 29th at the age of 68. He was the President of 

 the British Medical Association, and until 

 lately President of the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians and Professor of the Principles and Prac- 

 tice of Medicine in University College. He 

 made imiDortant contributions to the scientific 

 study of diseases of the nervous system, being 

 one of the first to apply the statistical method. 

 He was also the editor of the first ' English 

 Sj'stem of Medicine,' which appeared in five 

 large volumes between 1866 and 1878. 



Captain John G. Boukke, United States 

 army, died in Philadelphia on June 8th. He 

 had a brilliant record as a soldier, but deserves 

 mention in this place owing to his contributions 

 to anthropology and folk-lore. He was this 

 year President of the Folk-lore Society. It is 

 also proper to record in this Journal the death 

 of Mr. George Munroe, the New York pub- 

 lisher, not only on account of his generous gifts, 

 which included $500,000 to Dalhousie College, 

 Hallifax, but becavTse he was from 1850 to 1856 

 instructor in mathematics in the Free Church 

 College, Halifax. 



M. DAUBEiE, the eminent geologist, has died 

 at the age of 82. He was from 1839 to 1855 a 

 professor at Strasburg University, whence he 

 was called to a chair at the School of Mines and 

 the Natural History Museum, Paris. 



We regret that we must record in this issue 

 an unusually large number of deaths of men of 

 science. These include Dr. Finkelnburg, of Bonn, 

 author of important works on hygiene ; M. 

 Raulin, professor of industrial and agricultural 

 chemistry in the University of Lyons ; Mr. 

 Richard Sims, the antiquarian ; Dr. Joseph 

 Alexis Stolz, at the advanced age of 92, a 

 native of Alsace, who was a professor at the 

 Strasburg Faculty of Medicine till 1871, re- 

 moved with the faculty to Nancy, and retired 

 in 1880 ; Sir George Johnson, F. R. S., an emi- 

 nent physician and professor of clinical medi- 

 cine in King's College, at the age of 78 ; Dr. 

 Hosius, of Miinster, professor of mineralogy, at 

 the age of 70 ; Professor Schickendantz, the 

 chemist, at Buenos Ayres; Dr. Ludwig Mark, as- 



sociate professor of agriculture at Konigsburg, at 

 the age of 56, and Dr. Wilhelm Hauke, some- 

 time professor of anatomy at Tilbingen, at the 

 age of 62. 



Natural Science notes that Mr. G. A. Bou- 

 Ipnger is one of the first to use X-rays for pur- 

 poses of systematic zoologj', having used a skia- 

 gram to determine the more important points 

 in the skeleton of the rare toad Pelodytes cau- 

 casicus, the second known species of the genus 

 represented by a single specimen. The skia- 

 gram showed the junction of the astragalus and 

 calcaneum, the form and extent of the fronto- 

 parietal fontanelle, the shajse of the widely-ex- 

 panded sacral transverse processes and the di- 

 rection of those of the lumbars. 



The Lancet states that an effort is at present 

 being made to establish a mviseum in the his- 

 toric city of Derry, Londonderrj^, and it is sug- 

 gested that Gynn's Institution might be let for 

 purpose of a museum at a nominal rent. There 

 is a nucleus of a museum, which was some time 

 ago handed over to Mr. Bernard, and at pres- 

 ent the articles are being arranged in suitable 

 cases. They are chiefly minerals. Moreover, 

 several local gentlemen have private collections 

 which would probably be forthcoming if a 

 suitable habitation were obtained. Mr. Bernard, 

 whose stock of relics and curios is a most valu- 

 able one, has expressed his willingness to give 

 them to a local museum, and Sir J. A. Mac- 

 Cullagh has also a series of relics specially as- 

 sociated with the past histoiy of Derry. It is 

 hoped a building will soon be set apart for the 

 museum. 



UmVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is announced in the daily papers that Sir 

 Donald Smith will build in Blontreal a Royal 

 College for women, at a cost of $2,000,000. 



Miss Helen Culver has added $25,000 to 

 the $1,000,000 she had already given to the 

 University of Chicago. This sum is to be added 

 to the $300,000 set apart for the erection of 

 four biological buildings. 



The class of 1876 of Princeton University has 

 subscribed $15,000 towards the endowment of a 

 McCosh professorship of philosophy. 



