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eent:, or 47 cents per year, per horse-power, 
making the total $11.08. There is no way 
of separating this amount from the total in 
the regular accounts.”’ 
So far as known, this is the lowest cost 
of steam-power in any New England textile 
mill. The tons fuel per horse-power per 
year is 2.08—the lowest noted; others 
run about 2.20 tons per horse-power and 
upward. 
R. H. T. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
Proressor MICHAEL Foster will deliver 
several lectures in Baltimore in October and 
will visit Boston later to deliver a course of 
lectures at the Lowell Institute. 
PROFESSOR JAMES E. KEELER, of the Alle- 
gheny Observatory, has accepted an invitation 
to make the dedicatory address at the open- 
ing of the Yerkes Observatory. 
Dr. FRIDJoF NANSEN is expected to arrive 
in New York on the steamer St. Paul, on 
October 23d. . After visiting Washington as 
the guest of the National Geographic Society, he 
will give his first lecture in Carnegie Hall, New 
York, on October 28th. At the close of the 
lecture a medal will be presented to him by the 
American Geographical Society. The collections 
now at Stockholm will be brought to America 
and exhibited here. 
Sir WILLIAM TURNER, President of the An- 
thropological Section, of the British Association 
for the Toronto meeting sailed from Montreal 
on the 22d. He will in future devote his time 
less to histological and more to anthropologi- 
cal researches. 
WE regret to notice the death of Dr. Holmgren, 
since 1864 professor of physiology in the 
University of Upsala, at the age of sixty-six 
years. 
THE following deaths are also. announced: Dr. 
August Mojsisovics Edler vy. Mojsvar, professor 
of zoology inthe Polytecnic Institute at Graz; 
Mr. William Archer, F.R.S., librarian of the 
National Library of Ireland; Dr. T. Bogomo- 
loff, professor of medical chemistry in the Uni- 
versity of Kharkoff; Dr. John Braxton Hicks, 
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F.R.S., one of the pioneers of British work on 
diseases of women, and a Fellow of the Royal 
Society since 1862. 
TuHE British Association, at the recent Toronto 
meeting, granted £1,350 for scientific 1 esearch. 
We hope to give next week details of the ap- 
propriations. 
THE French Academy has accepted a legacy 
from M. Pierre Lassere amounting to over 
$100,000 ; the income from one-third of this sum 
is to be awarded by the Academy of Sciences for 
a scientific discovery. 
A sMALL fund, founded in memory of Sur- 
geon-Major Arthur Barclay, is to be used for a 
bronze medal to be awarded every third year 
by the Asiatic Society of Bengal for the most 
meritorious piece of work done in original re- 
search in biology, with special reference to 
India. 
A BRONZE monument, erected in honor of 
Marcello Malpighi, the eminent Italian anato- 
mist and botanist of the seventeenth century, 
was unveiled at Crevacore, near Bologna, on 
September 8th. 
THE new museum of the Brooklyn Institute 
of Arts and Sciences will be dedicated on Octo- 
ber 2d. Addresses will be made by President 
Eliot, of Harvard University, and by Mayor 
Wurster, of Brooklyn. There will be a recep- 
tion in the evening in the Academy of Music. 
Ir is reported that plans have already been 
made for the new building of the American Ge- 
ographical Society, New York, although the 
site has not yet been decided upon. The pres- 
ent building in West 29th street, purchased in 
1875, has long been outgrown by the Society, 
and it has assets amounting to nearly $400,000. 
The Society owes its present position and great 
growth to Judge Daly, who for thirty-three 
years has been its President. 
THE Greek Archeological Society has se- 
cured possession of a quarter of Athens lying 
immediately under the Acropolis. The inhabi- 
tants will remove to the suburbs, and excava- 
tions promising important discoveries will begin 
shortly. 
A SERIES of seven kites of the Hargrave type, 
sent up from the Blue Hill Observatory on Sep- 
