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of the University of Pennsylvania was opened 
on October 15th. It has been erected at a cost 
of $150,000, and in addition to 120 beds, dis- 
pensary rooms, etc., contains three ampithe- 
aters, one with a seating capacity of 270. 
Mr. WitiiaAM C. Topp, of Atkinson, N. H., 
has given the Boston Public Library $50,000, 
the income of which is to be used for the pur- 
chasing of newspapers. 
THERE has been held at Sydney, New South 
Wales, during the present summer, an electri- 
cal exhibition at which engineering machinery 
and scientific apparatus were well represented. 
A large number of exhibits were sent from 
America and Great Britain. 
THE Zoological Park, Washington, has re- 
ceived three young buffaloes purchased from 
the Allard herd in Montana. 
THE Kingsley Laboratory, the new scientific 
building of the Worcester Academy, was dedi- 
cated on October 30th. Addresses were made 
by President Eliot, of Harvard University ; 
President Hall, of Clark University, and Presi- 
dent Mendenhall, of the Worcester Polytechnic 
Institute. The building is said to be the best 
equipped for the study of the sciences possessed 
by any secondary school. 
AT a meeting of the Council of the Australa- 
sian Association for the Advancement of Science 
on September 8th the honorary Secretary, 
Professor A. Liversidge, stated that he had re- 
ceived the titles of the following addresses: 
Section C—Geology and Mineralogy: Professor 
Hutton, F.R.8., of New Zealand, upon ‘ Karly 
Life on the Earth.’ Section F—Anthropology 
and Ethnology: A. W. Howitt, of Melbourne, 
‘On the Origin of the Aborigines of Tasmania 
and Australia.’ Section I—Sanitary Science 
and Hygiene: The Hon, Allan Campbell, of 
Adelaide, ‘Australian Sanitation, a Jubilee 
Retrospect.’ Among other papers announced 
in addition to those we have already noticed 
are the following bearing upon the natural his- 
tory of Australasia: For Section C—Geology 
and Mineralogy: ‘Notes on the Physiography 
of the Parish of St. George, New South Wales,’ 
by E. J. Statham ;. ‘On Some Effects of the 
Dynamo-Metamorphism in the Omeo District, 
Victoria,’ by A, W. Howitt ; ‘Metallurgical. 
SCIENCE. 
TOL 
Methods in Use at Broken Hill,’ by G. W, 
Blakemore ; two papers by Mr. J. C. H. Min- 
gaye, on ‘Occurrence of Phosphatic Minerals 
at the Jenolan Caves, with Analyses,’ and ‘Notes 
and Analyses of some New Wales Phosphate 
Minerals.’ For Section D—Biology: ‘On the 
Physiology of the Brain of Marsupials,’ by Dr. 
J. F. Cashman ; ‘ Notes on the Fertilization of 
some North Australian Plants,’ by Nicholas 
Holtze; ‘A Few Words about the Flora of the 
Islands of Torres Straits and the Mainland about 
Somerset,’ and ‘ Notes on Plants of the Rabbit- 
infested Country, Bulloo River, Southwest 
Queensland,’ with Photographic Illustrations,’ 
by J. F. Bailey. For Section E—Geography : 
‘The Earliest Discoveries in New Guinea and 
Polynesia,’ by James MacClymont; ‘ Graminez’ 
of Western Australia,’ ‘Salsolaceze of Western 
Australia,‘ and ‘The Supposed Poisonous 
Plants of Western Australia, by F. Turner. 
Two new museums will be opened at St. 
Petersburg in connection with the Army Medi- 
cal Academy, one for psychiatry and one for 
neurology. The former will include objects 
illustrating the arrangements of asylums and 
the pathology of insanity, while the latter will 
illustrate the anatomy of the nervous system. 
A PUBLICATION issued from the French 
Ministry of Finance gives some very elaborate 
statistics as to the quantity of wine, beer, cider, 
and alcohol consumed in the country. From 
the summary in the London Zimes we learn that 
the total quantity is 1,575,000,000 gallons, rep- 
resenting about 1+ litres per diem for the whole 
population of France. Out of the total quan- 
tity consumed 967,000,000 gallons are wine, 
395,000,000 gallons cider, 202,500,000 gallons 
beer, and 36,800,000 gallons alcohol. It is 
scarcely necessary to say that, while the greater - 
quantity of the wine is consumed in the large 
towns, the cider is nearly all drunk in the 
country, especially in Normandy and Brittany, 
and the official statistics give a table showing 
what is the consumption of wine in the 47 towns 
with over 30,000 inhabitants. The figures, as 
might be expected, vary very much, the annual 
consumption being largest at Boulogne-sur- 
Seine (59 gallons), Nice (56 gallons) and St. 
Etienne (54 gallons), while Paris is only 13th: 
