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one block from the Brooklyn Institute, where the sessions of the 

 association will be held, and but three blocks from the Bridge. It 

 will be open to the public on Oct. 22, at i p.m., and will continue 

 open until Dec. i. Admission free. For particulars relative to the 

 exhibit, address the chairman of the committee, Dr. A. N. Bell. 

 113A Second Place. Brooklyn, N.Y. 



By invitation of Dr. William M. Smith, health-officer of the port 

 of New York, the association will visit the New York Quarantine 

 Station. For this purpose Dr. Smith has placed at the service of 

 the association a commodious steamboat. The trip will probably 

 be made Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 23. 



The local committee of arrangements will issue a circular giving 

 full information regarding reduced hotel rates, railroad fares, etc., 

 a copy of which will be sent to every member of the association. 

 Others desiring a copy should make application to the chairman of 

 the committee. Dr. J. H. Raymond, 173 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, 

 N.Y., to whom all communications relative to local matters in con- 

 nection with the meeting should be addressed. The usual rate of 

 one and one-third fare for the round trip has already been secured 

 over the Trunk Line, Central, and Southern Traffic Associations, 

 and it is expected that the same rates will be obtained from the 

 other traffic associations. To secure the reduced rates, a certificate 

 must be obtained from the ticket-agent at the starting-point, certi- 

 fying that the holder has paid full fare going to the meeting, over 

 what lines he has travelled, etc., which certificate must be counter- 

 signed at the meeting by the secretary in order to secure the one- 

 third return fare. 



EXHIBITERS TO WHOM AWARDS HAVE BEEN 

 MADE AT PARIS. 



The principal awards to American exhibiters at the Paris Ex- 

 position are as follows : — 



Grand Prizes. — Boston public schools ; Washington Bureau 

 of Education ; Washington Bureau of Ethnography ; United States 

 Service of Meteorology ; United States Commission of Geology ; 

 United States Ministry of War ; New York University ; Rensselaer 

 Polytechnic Institute, Troy ; Smithsonian Institution, Washington ; 

 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore ; the Century Company. New 

 York ; Fairchild, New York, gold pens ; United States Geological 

 Survey ; United States Signal Service, A. W. Greely, chief officer ; 

 United States Naval Observatory ; Mr. Howland ; United States 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey ; United States Army, Corps of Engi- 

 neers ; T. G. Hawkes, New York, crystal ; Tiffany & Co., New 

 York, silverware ; J. B, Stetson, Philadelphia, fine fur hats ; Win- 

 chester repeating arms ; J. A. Fay & Co., Cincinnati, timber ma- 

 chines ; Healey cS: Co., New York, carriages i Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road Company; Bell Telephone Company; Thomas A. Edison; 

 Elisha Gray. Illinois, telegraphy ; Elihu Thomson, Lynn, Mass., 

 electrical appliances ; Government Bureau of Engineers ; United 

 States Exhibit of Cereals; Bergher & Enge! Brewing Company, 

 Philadelphia ; C. A. Wetmore, California, wines ; United States 

 Department of Agricultural Statistics; United States Farms; C. 

 V. Riley, specimens of phylloxera work ; United States Agricultural 

 Department of Viticulture ; Labor Departments of the United 

 Sl.ites reports. 



Gold Medals. — E. Barnes & Co. ; Ivison, Blakeman, & Co. ; 

 Board of Education, Wisconsin ; Buffalo public schools; Depart- 

 ment o( Public Instruction, California ; Department of Public In- 

 struction, Iowa; Elizabeth (N.J.) public schools; Moline (111.) 

 public schools ; Bureau of Education, Washington ; National Deaf- 

 Mute College, Washington ; Ohio, commissioner of schools ; Per- 

 kins Insliluie for the Blind, Massachusetts; Pittsburgh public 

 schools ; Suckanossett School for Boys ; State Public School, Cold- 

 waler. Mich.; Indiana Industrial School ; Galveston public schools ; 

 Boston public schools ; State of Massachusetts, Department of 

 Public Instruction; public schools, California; public schools, 

 Wisconsin ; public schools, Michigan ; American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York; Chicago Public Library; Eastman 

 College, Poughkeepsie ; Manual Training School, Philadelphia; 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Boston ; Houghton, Mifflin, 

 & Co., Cambridge, Mass. ; Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia ; Mer- 

 riam, Springfield, Mass.; New York Bank Note Company ; Warren 



& Co., papers, Boston ; Tiffany & Co., jewelry ; Prang & Co. ; 

 Barker, photographs. New York ; H. A. Rowland ; Eastman 

 Dry Plate Company ; Manual Training School, St. Louis ; 

 University of California; Darlin, Brown, & Sharpe, Providence; 

 Herman Hollerith, Washington ; Mr. Gardner ; J. P. Lesley, State 

 geologist of Pennsylvania ; Heyvvood Brothers, New York, furni- 

 ture ; C. E. Henry, Indianapolis, glass ; John Lafarge, New York, 

 stained glass ; Rookwood Pottery Company, Cincinnati ; Gorham 

 Silverware Company ; Meriden Britannia Company ; Colgate & Co.. 

 New York, perfumery ; Ladd & Coffin, New York, perfumery • 

 William Demuth, New York, pipes ; Tiffany, leather goods ; Marks's 

 folding-chair. New York ; Boston Rubber Shoe Company ; Mayer, 

 Strouse, & Co., New York, corsets ; Beneke Brothers, New York, 

 boots; Dunlap, New York, hats ; War Department, uniforms ; N. 

 J. Schloss & Co., New York, clothing; Colt's fire-arms; Smith & 

 Wesson ; Union Metallic Cartridge Company ; White Sewing- 

 Machine Company, Cleveland ; Mackellar, Smith, & Co., New York, 

 printing type ; American Writing Machine Company, Hartford ; 

 Remington typewriter ; Hammond typewriter. New York ; Cobb 

 Vulcanite Wire Company; Heisler Electric Light Company, St. 

 Louis ; Okonite Company, New York ; Western Electric Company, 

 Chicago ; Sprague Tramway Company ; Volta Graphophone Com- 

 pany ; Herring & Co., New York, safes ; Yale Manufacturing Com- 

 pany ; Inman Steamship Company ; Chicago and Minneapolis 

 Boards ; Glen Cove Manufacturing Company ; C. A. Pillsbury of 

 Minneapolis ; Green Mountain Stock Farm ; J. H. Michener & 

 Co., Philadelphia, lard ; Armour & Co., Chicago, canned meats ; 

 Curtice Brothers, canned meats ; Cassard & Co., Baltimore, dried 

 meats ; Michener & Co., dried meats ; Morris & Co., Chicago, 

 canned meats ; Swift & Co., dried meats ; Maillard, New York, 

 bonbons; Beadleston & Co., lager beer; California State Viticul-' 

 tural Commission ; Chauche & Co., California, wines ; J. Kunz, 

 New York, beer; Montgomery Brewery Company; Megliavalla, 

 California, wines ; J. Osborn & Sons, New York, whiskey ; United 

 States agricultural maps and charts; Enterprise Manufacturing 

 Company ; Richmond Cedar Works ; Clayton & Co., gratings ; H. 

 O. Nelson ; N. P. Gilman ; C. D. Wright ; Publication Agency for 

 Johns Hopkins University ; Universal Peace Union, Philadelphia ; 

 New York and Massachusetts Labor Departments ; Woman's 

 Christian Temperance Union. 



BOOK-REVIEWS. 



Essays upon Heredity and Khtdred Biological Problems. By 

 August Weismann. Authorized translation by Edward B. 

 Poulton, Selmar SchbnIand, and Arthur E. Shipley. Ox- 

 ford. 8°. 



Professor Weismann's essays on various general problems of 

 biology have never been collected, but have remained more or less 

 inaccessible in sundry journals or as separate pamphlet publica- 

 tions. Being now brought together in a single handsomely printed 

 volume, they will doubtless attract a wider attention not only from 

 naturalists, but also from thoughtful general readers. The au- 

 thor's presentation of his subject is, except in two or three minor 

 essays, such that his arguments may be followed without the de- 

 tailed knowledge of a specialist. 



The translations are very well done, for the English, while idio- 

 matic, renders accurately the meaning of the original German; so 

 that the volume is a thoroughly trustv^iorthy reproduction of Pro- 

 fessor Weismann's theories. These theories are full of suggestive- 

 ness, and contain many original conceptions. It must be recog- 

 nized that their influence will be far felt, especially as opposing 

 some of the ideas concerning heredity, sexuality, death, etc., which 

 tradition has rendered current, one might almost say orthodox, in 

 the biological world. There is in biology, around the finished 

 area, — the woven tissue of science, — a fringe of dogma ; and play- 

 ing with this fringe is to certain minds a favorite occupation. We 

 see sober investigators, who are conscientious within the region of 

 the provable, become intoxicated when they attempt to pass out- 

 side this region. They then madly maintain dogmas, asserting 

 positive views as to the nature of life, which is entirely beyond 

 their power to justify. This special tendency is so infectious that 

 the majority of biologists are affected by it, and defend their par- 



