590 
The propeller shafts weigh 166 tons, the bronze 
screws 26 tons each. The condensers contain 
35,522 square feet of cooling surface, their 11,- 
000 tubes measuring a total Teme of snot 
thirty-five miles. There are, altogether, 68 
engines on the ship, with 124 steam-cylinders. 
The centrifugal pumps and the engine bilge- 
pumps can, together, expel 3,600 tons an hour. 
Four dynamos are employed for lighting pur- 
poses, supplying current to 1,600 25-candle- 
power lamps. ‘The cost of this floating palace 
was $3,500,000. 
The hull is very graceful and most imposing, 
with its lofty sides and extreme length, its four 
smoke-stacks and its several stories of deck- 
houses. It is enormously strong and is divided by 
16 transverse bulkheads and one running longi- 
tudinally. The 14 boilers are in four groups, 
each in a separate compartment, and the two 
main engines are similarly isolated. A double 
bottom gives additional safety. Accommo- 
dations are provided for 350 first-cabin, and as 
many second-cabin and 800 steerage passen- 
gers, and for a crew of 450 men, including 17 
engineers, 18 boilers, 90 stokers and 75 coal- 
passers. Room is found for bunkers capable of 
containing 4,950 tons of coal. 
With steam at 180 pounds pressure this ship 
developed 28,430 horse-power and made a run 
of 564 knots in a single day—the highest rec- 
ord yet known. The run from Southampton 
to New York was made in 5 days, 22 hours, 35 
minutes (3,050 nautical miles) ; averaging 293 
knots for the fastest 24 hours, 21.39 for the 
voyage. About 500 tons of coal a day were 
burned on the trip. The record from Liver- 
pool to New York, now held by the ‘ Lucania,’ 
s 5 days, 7 hours and 23 minutes; but the 
‘Kaiser’ could make the runin about 5 days— 
possibly in 4 days, 22 hours. 
R. H. T. 
THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY. 
THE number of investigations in physiology 
and its allied sciences now made in this coun- 
try has grown so large that the present means 
of publication are no longer sufficient. Physi- 
ologists can no longer print in foreign countries, 
often in foreign languages, or in general med- 
ical journals, without stunting a growth which, 
SCIENCE. 
[N. S. Vou. VI. No. 146. 
unchecked, will come to be a gratification to 
every American and a wholesome influence in 
American medicine. To meet the needs of in- 
vestigators in physiology, physiological chem- 
istry, physiological pharmacology, bio-chemis- 
try and certain other branches of biology, a 
special journal will be published, the first num- 
ber appearing in January, 1898. The American 
Journal of Physiology, as the new publication 
will be called, will contain in each volume 
about five hundred pages, divided into parts or 
numbers, to be issued whenever material is re- 
ceived. It is expected that not more than one 
volume a year will be printed. The Jowrnal 
will be edited by H. P. Bowditch, M.D., Bos- 
ton; R. H. Chittenden, M.D., New Haven; 
W. H. Howell, M.D., Baltimore; F. S. Lee, 
M.D., New York; Jacques Loeb, M.D., Chi- 
cago; W. P. Lombard, M.D., Ann Arbor, and 
W. T. Porter, M.D., Boston. 
It is not to be trayneeedl that a journal de- 
voted solely to the publication of original re- 
searches in physiology will ever do more than 
pay for its paper and printing, and it is proba- 
ble that some years must pass before the new 
enterprise will cease to be a financial burden on 
a small number of investigators. Yet the need 
of such a publication is undoubted. The aid 
of all friends of learning is asked until the 
Journal shall be established on a self-supporting 
basis. The subscription price, which is five 
dollars per volume, should be sent to W. T. 
Porter, M.D., 688 Boylston Street, Boston, 
Mass. 
GENERAL. 
TueE American Chemical Society will hold its 
annual winter meeting at Washington on De- 
cember 29th and 30th. 
Atv the recent Brunswick meeting of the Ger- 
man Society of Men of Science and Physicians 
a resolution introduced by Professors Virchow, 
Waldeyer and Neumayer was adopted, asking 
the Emperor for a grant (from the Royal fund 
for various purposes) for a deep-sea expedition 
to the Indian Ocean. 
THE Southern Mahratta Railway will give 
free passes to observers of the total eclipse of 
the sun on January 22, 1898. 
Dr. MitsukuRI, professor of zoology at the 
