SEPTEMBER 24, 1897.] 
central island of Funafuti, will be begun with 
a standpipe having an inside diameter of 6 
inches, and the lining pipe at first is to be 5 
inches inside diameter. If, at two or three hun- 
dred feet, the friction should become too great, 
4-inch pipes will be lowered inside these. It is 
thought that the foundations of the atoll will 
be reached between 200 and 500 feet, but the 
apparatus taken permits of a depth of 1,000 feet 
being reached. The core obtained will be for- 
warded first to the Royal Society of London, 
which will return one-half to the Royal Geo- 
graphical Society of Australasia. The expe- 
dition will also make smaller borings on the 
sand cay in the middle of the lagoon, will con- 
duct dredging operations for Sydney University 
and the Australian Museum, and will collect 
samples: of sea-water for Professor Liversidge 
to examine for gold. 
THE Philadelphia Normal School has this 
year established a psychological laboratory 
equipped for studying the senses and mental 
processes. ‘Ten years ago there were only two 
psychological laboratories in America; at pres- 
ent they form an integral part of nearly all our 
universities and larger colleges. Their exten- 
sion to normal schools is a forward step of im- 
portance in educational methods. 
PsyCHOLOGICAL laboratories will probably also 
be established soon in hospitals for the insane, 
in asylums for the defective classes and in pris- 
ons. A beginning has been made in several 
places, but the first well equipped laboratory is 
now being established in the Illinois Eastern 
Hospital, under the direction of Dr. William O. 
Krohn, lately professor of psychology in the 
University of Illinois. A laboratory of this 
character will be of great practical value to the 
patients in the asylum, and may also be ex- 
pected to make valuable contributions to psy- 
chology. As an organ for the publication of its 
scientific work, the Illinois hospital is about to 
establish a laboratory bulletin, which will ap- 
pear at least four times a year. Subscriptions, 
$2.00, may be sent to the Hospital at Hospital, 
Tl. 
AMONG papers announced to, be read at the 
next meeting of the Australasian Association for 
the Advancement of Science at Sydney next. 
SCIENCE. 483 
Christmas are the following: ‘The Classifica- 
tion of Eucalypts,’ by J. G. Luckman; ‘A 
Statistical Account of Australian Fungi,’ by D. 
M’Alpine; ‘The Algze of Victoria,’ by H. T. 
Tisdell ; ‘Flowers of the Order Proteacez,’ by 
J. Shirley; ‘Underground Fungi of Tas- 
mania,’ by L. Rodway; ‘Australian Ocean- 
ography,’ by T. W. Fowler; ‘On the For- 
mation and Structure of Coral Reefs,’ by J. J. 
Wild; ‘The Dialectic Changes of the Indo- 
Polynesians,’ by the Rey. 8. Ella; ‘The Oceanic 
Peoples,’ by E. Tregair; ‘The Ancient Geog- 
raphy of the Maoris’ and the ‘Geographical 
Knowledge of the Polynesians,’ by S. Perey 
Smith; ‘The Mythology of the Efotese,’ by the 
Rey. Dr. Macdonald; ‘Old Samoa’ and 
‘Australian Cave Paintings,’ by the Rey. J. B. 
Stair; ‘The Pankuma Natives,’ by the Rey. F. 
J. Paton; ‘ Notes from Ambrom,’ by the Rev. 
Dr. Lamb; ‘The Tongans’ and ‘The Tongan 
Language,’ by the Rey. J. E. Moulton; 
‘Ancient Maori Rites and Customs,’ by Mr. 
Elsdon Best ; ‘The Food of the Ancient Maoris,’ 
by the Rev. J. G. Hammond; ‘ Anthropometric 
Data, taken from School Children at Randwick,’ 
by Jas. A. Dick ; ‘The Characteristics of Aus- 
tralian and other Diamonds,’ by E. W. Streeter. 
The sub-committee of the council appointed to 
consider the matter of excursions, entertain- 
ments, visits to works, ete., has not yet com- 
pleted its arrangements, but a harbor excursion 
had been decided upon, and two popular lec- 
tures, with possibly a third one, for working- 
men, also a concert, at the University, and a 
conversazione by the Royal Society. 
AN International Congress against alcoholism 
met at Brussels from August 380th to September 
3d. It wasunder the patronage of King Leopold, 
and was presided over by the Minister of Agri- 
culture. 
THE sixth session of the International Insti- 
tute of Statistics was opened at St. Petersburg 
by the Grand Duke on August 30th, holding its 
sessions simultaneously with those of the In- 
ternational Geological Congress. Numerous 
papers were presented dealing with military , 
anthropometry, criminal statistics, the produc- 
tion of the precious metals, agricultural prod- 
ucts, etc. Dr. Kordsey, director of the statis- 
