DECEMBER 17, 1897.] 
‘of Hildesheim, in Germany, brought to light in 
1868. 
THE daily papers report that uranium has 
been discovered near Black Hawk, Col. The 
mineral is worth $1,500 per ton, and the agents 
of a French syndicate have announced that 
they will buy all that can be produced, as it is 
much desired by the French government for 
hardening and solidifying gun metal and armor 
plate. 
THE American Forestry Association held its 
16th annual meeting at Washington on Decem- 
ber 8th. General Francis H. Appleton, of Bos- 
ton, presided and madean address. The chair- 
man of the Executive Committee, Dr. E. B. 
Fernow, presented a detailed report, reviewing 
especially the legislation of the past session of 
Congress. The Association proposes to estab- 
lish a monthly journal, The Worester, devoted 
to the interests which the Association is doing 
so much to forward. The summer meeting of 
the Association will probably be held at Boston, 
in conjunction with the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. 
Tur British Institution of Electrical Engi- 
“neers, which now numbers 3,000 members, held 
its annual dinner on November 24th, Ad- 
dresses were made by Lord Kelvin and others. 
Tr is expected that the life of Pasteur by his 
son-in-law, M. Vallery Radot, will soon be 
ready for publication. 
M. ALCAN announces, in the next yolume 
of the French edition of the ‘International 
Scientific Series,’ a work on the physiology of 
hearing by Dr. Gelle. 
THE Open Court continues in the December 
number the series of portraits of mathematicians, 
with the reproduction of an old steel engraving 
of Lagrange, of whom Dr. T. J. McCormack 
gives a biographical sketch. 
AT the anniversary dinner of the Royal So- 
ciety on November 30th Lord Kelvin referred 
to the presence of representatives of many 
foreign powers and of the Ambassador of the 
United States, who, he said, ‘ could not be re- 
garded as a representative of a foreign nation.’ 
In his address at the dinner Lord Lister re- 
marked; ‘‘ That among the great number of emi- 
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nent Americans who attended the Canadian 
meetings of the British Association and the 
Medical Congress there was never a jarring 
note; there was never anything but cordiality 
and kindly feeling towards the old country.”’ 
Masor M. P. Hanpy, special commissioner 
to gather information regarding the Paris Ex- 
position of 1890, recommended the appropria- 
tion of $915,000 towards the expenses of pre- 
paring a proper representation for the United 
States. The sum includes $1,500 per year for 
three years for each of nine scientific experts. 
In his report Major Handy says: ‘‘ The indus- 
trial progress of the United States, and the evo- 
lution of its material resources during the hun- 
dred years which the Exposition is to crown, 
has been unequalled by that of any other na- 
tion. It is not too much to say that the United 
States now stands the greatest nation of the 
world in all the great lines of industry. Ac- 
cording to the figures given by the eminent sta- 
tistician Mulhall in his ‘Industries and Wealth 
of Nations,’ the United States leads in agricul- 
ture, with products greater than Russia and the 
United Kingdom combined; in the manufac- 
tures with a product of greater value than the 
aggregate output of the factories of the United 
Kingdom, France, Austria-Hungary and Bel- 
gium combined ; in machinery with a greater 
steam power than the United Kingdom, Austria- 
Hungary and Italy combined ; in mining with 
a product greater than the United Kingdom and 
France combined, or nearly one-third of that 
of the entire world ; in railway transportation 
with a mileage 40 per cent. greater than that of 
all Hurope ; in forestry with products greater 
than that of all Europe, and nearly one-half of 
the total products of the world ; in fisheries with 
a greater product than the United Kingdom, 
Russia and Germany combined.’’ 
THE English papers report that the Guilford 
Natural History Society have been considering 
the question of the preservation of Wolmer 
Forest, which is only fifteen miles from ‘that 
town, and have decided to present a petition 
to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, 
praying that Wolmer Forest may be reserved 
as a sanctuary for wild birds, in which they, 
their nests and eggs may remain unmolested 
