SI 6 



SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVI. No. 404. 



Beam. 



Depth. 



Great Eastern 



Paris 



Lueania 



Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse 



Oceanic 



Deutschland 



Kronprinz Wilhelm 



Celtic 



Kaiser Wilhelm II 



1858 

 1888 

 1893 

 1897 

 1899 

 1900 

 1901 

 1901 

 1902 



Feet. 

 692 

 560 

 620 

 649 

 t04 

 684 

 663 

 700 

 706i 



Feet. 

 83 

 63 

 65 

 66 

 68 

 67 

 64 

 75 

 72 



Feet. 

 57i 

 42 

 43 

 43 

 49 

 44 

 43 

 49 

 52J 



Feet. 

 25J 

 26^- 

 28 

 29 

 32J 

 30 

 30 

 36* 



Tons. 

 27,000 

 15,000 

 19,000 

 20,000 

 28,500 

 23,200 

 21,280 

 37,700 

 26,000 



14.5 

 20.5 

 22.1 

 23 

 20.7 

 23.5 

 23.53 

 16 

 *23 



work at 225 pounds per square-inch pressure. 

 The ship's accommodations are for 775 first- 

 cabin passengers, 343 second-class passengers, 

 and 770 steerage passengers. It may be in- 

 teresting in this connection to give dimen- 

 sions of existing leviathans, to afford com- 

 parison with the Kaiser Wilhelm II.; also to 

 note the size of the famous Great Eastern, 

 now broken up. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES -AND NEWS. 

 Sir Nokman Lockyer has been elected presi- 

 dent of the British Association for 1894, 

 when the meeting will be held at Cambridge. 

 The meeting next year, as already announced, 

 will be held at Southport. 



Professor W. H. Welch, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, sailed last week for Eng- 

 land where he delivers the Huxley lecture 

 before the Charing Cross Hospital on October 

 first. 



Lieutenant Robert E. Peary, on the 

 Windward, arrived at Nova Scotia on Septem- 

 ber 18, and Captain 0. N. Sverdrup, on the 

 Fram, arrived in Norway on September 19. 

 Both expeditions doubtless accomplished valu- 

 able work for geography, natural history and 

 ethnology, the results of which will be subse- 

 quently published. The Fram had a corps of 

 scientific observers, consisting of Naval Lieut. 

 Victor Baumann (astronomer), Lieut. G. T. 

 Ysachsen (cartographer). Dr. Svendsen 



* Contract calls for no less than 23 knots, like 

 the Kronprinz and DeutscUand, which do almost 

 1 knot better than their contract. It is confi- 

 dently expected that the Kaiser Wilhelm II will ; 

 break all records by going 24 knots and possibly ' 

 more. 



(meteorologist). Dr. Bay (zoologist), Dr. 

 Herman G. Simmons (botanist), and Dr. P. 

 Schel (geologist). 



Professor Angelo Heilprin has returned to 

 Philadelphia from Martinique, having been 

 on Mount Pelee on the afternoon of the recent 

 eruption. This occurred at 9 :10 in the even- 

 ing, and the area of destruction was much 

 greater than in the eruption of May 8. 



Professor Arthur Michael, who has been 

 making a tour of the world during the past 

 year, will resume the duties of the chair of 

 chemistry at Tufts College at the opening of 

 the college year. 



Dr. Jacques Loeb, professor of physiology 

 at the University of Chicago, is at present in 

 San Francisco. It is said that he is still con- 

 sidering the call he recently received to the 

 University of California. 



Professor F. Haber, ' of the Institute of 

 Technology, Karlsruhe, and Professor E. S. 

 Hutton, of Owens College, Manchester, are 

 visiting this country to study the electro- 

 chemical industries. 



The German commissioner. Captain Her- 

 mann, has reached Europe, bringing with him 

 a large amount of new material for the map- 

 ping of the Kivu region. 



For the study of the density of the earth. 

 President F. W. McNair, of the Michigan 

 College of Mines, and Dr. John F. Hayford, 

 chief of the computing department of the 

 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, are 

 conducting experiments at the Tamarack 



'mine, near Calumet. 



■ Professor Theodore Boveri, of Wiirzburg, 

 has received the Stiebel prize of the Sencken- 



