December 2, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



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crobes. This Dr. Hayden refused to do unless 

 he received £300 compensation, and the gov- 

 ernment has, consequently, seized and de- 

 stroyed them. 



The following extraordinary statement has 

 been given to the press: "Mrs. Mary Baker 

 Eddy, discoverer and founder of Christian 

 Science, has just completed the examination of 

 a class of about seventy of the active workers 

 in Christian Science mind healing to confer 

 upon them the degrees of the Massachusetts 

 Metaphysical College as healers and teachers of 

 this system of medicine, whose only crowned 

 head is divine sovereignty, whose only priest is 

 spiritualized man." 



At the funeral of the late John W. Keely 

 his work was eulogized and the plans of the 

 Keely Motor Company promoted by four clergy- 

 men of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. 

 W. C. Best, D.D., said: "The wave of sorrow 

 caused by Mr. Keely's death came to all lands 

 and reached all shores. Thousands of investi- 

 gators and scientists, though not visibly present, 

 are gathered in spirit around his casket. ' ' Eev. 

 W. J. Colville said : " When that mighty force 

 shall cause suffering and poverty to cease on 

 earth, then will statues be reared to Keely and 

 he will be looked upon as one of the greatest 

 men, not only of America, but of the world." 



We learn from Electricity that Messrs. Irving 

 E. Burdick and Francis G. Hall, of the elec- 

 trical engineering department of Yale Univer- 

 sity, have designed a submarine arc lamp of from 

 1,000 to 2,000 candle-power. The lamp is ab- 

 solutely water-tight, with an inner and outer 

 globe, the upper part of the outer globe being 

 hermetically sealed to the metal cylinder con- 

 taining the feeding mechanism by means of 

 rubber gaskets and rings. The feeding me- 

 chanism in this lamp differs from that of the 

 ordinary arc lamp in that it is enclosed in a 

 cylinder both water- and air-tight. Prom the 

 top of the cylinder, through a carefully-packed 

 aperture, issue the two insulated wires, which, 

 for convenience, are bound together into a 

 cable. The lower portion of the lamp is pro- 

 tected by an eight-wire guard. Tests of the 

 lamp at the depth of twenty-five feet are said to 

 have been very satisfactory. 



The botanical expedition to the La Plata and 

 San Juan Mountains, of Colorado, says the 

 Botanical Oazette, was in the field four weeks 

 last summer, the time being unexpectedly 

 shortened. During that time the three collec- 

 tors, Professor F. S. Earle, C. F. Baker and S. 

 M. Tracy, secured about 25,000 specimens. 

 Eighteen uniform sets (all sold in advance) will 

 be distributed shortly, besides which there will 

 be a number of partial sets (a few yet remaining 

 unsold). It is believed that the series is more 

 than usually valuable, both on account of the 

 biological importance of the region and from 

 the care exercised to secure all available forms 

 and variations. There are also a number of 

 new species, and quite a number of rare ones, 

 including Ranunculus Macauleyi in flower and 

 fruit, Astralgaluf, Wingatensis, Cerastium arvense, 

 Fuegianum, Fendlera rupicola and others. The 

 sets will form the basis for a report upon the 

 season's work to be issued with the aid of Dr. 

 E. L. Greene. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The late Edward Austin, of Boston, has 

 given by his will $1,100,000 for public purposes; 

 $500,000 is left to Harvard University, $400,000 

 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 $30,000 to Radcliffe College, $30,000 to Roanoke 

 College, and $30,000 to the Tuskegee Normal 

 and Industrial School. The income from these 

 large bequests is to be used for scholarships. 

 The sum of $10,000 is also given to the bacte- 

 riological laboratorjr of the Harvard Medical 

 School. 



Me. J. N. Tate, of Bombay, has guaranteed 

 1,250,000 Rs per annum for advanced education 

 in India, mainly for post-graduate study and 

 scientific research. The Indian Textile Journal 

 says: "The examples of other countries, and 

 especially of America, have offered every en- 

 couragement ; " and it is further remarked: 

 "The systematic instruction of teachers of 

 handicraft on an adequate scale in India has 

 yet to be begun." 



It is proposed that the bequest to Cambridge 

 University of £10,000 by Mr. Allen, the income 

 to be applied for a scholarship, should form the 

 endowment of a student to be called the Allen 

 Student, whose duty it shall be to devote him- 



