March 8, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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America ; and of ' The Variety and Leaf- 

 Blight of the Strawberry.' The publica- 

 tions of the Cornell Station excel in beauty 

 of illustration much of the material issued 

 by similar institutions. 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



In a recent and excellently illustrated 

 memoir (Musieum Dzieduszj'ckianum, iv- 

 Lemberg) on the insect fauna of the petro- 

 leum beds of Boroslow, Galicia, Lemnicki 

 describes no less than seven tj'-six coleoptera, 

 of which nineteen arc regarded as identical 

 •with living European insects, while the 

 othere find their nearest allies in boreal 

 Europe, Asia and America. As only four 

 species are identical with those found by 

 Flach at Hosbach, Bavaria, in beds looked 

 upon as Lower Pleistocene bj' Plach, and 

 since the Hosbach coleoptera as a whole 

 show for less boreal affinities than those of 

 Galicia, Lemnicki thinks the Hosbach 

 fauna must be considered Middle Pleistocene 

 and the Galician Lower Pleistocene. 



RUSSIAN SCIENCE NOTES. 



The Jubilee-book issued bj' the Univer- 

 sity of Kasan in commemoration of the 

 Lobach6vsky centenary has already reached 

 a very large circulation. His compatriots 

 are pushing tiie non-EucIideau geometry. 



N. P. Sokolov has just issued at Kiev 

 (Univei-sity Press) a pamphlet of 32 pages 

 (large 8vo) entitled ' The signilicance of 

 the researches of N. I. Lobachevsky in 

 geometry.' 



Volume VI. of the second series of the 

 Bulletin of the phy.sico-mathematical society 

 of Kasjin, pp. l.S-41, contains an interesting 

 contribution by W. Sichstel on the funda- 

 mental theorems of spherical geometry. 



Two books on America have latelj- been 

 published in Russia. One is by Witkowsky, 

 a scientist sent by the Russian government 

 to study geodetic work in the United States. 

 The other is published by a Russian, now 



resident in Los Angeles, who has been more 

 than ten years in America, and has here 

 amassed a fortune. He is a fervid republi- 

 can, and WTites under the nom-de-pliime 

 Tverski. 



The well-known and justly admired writer 

 Korolenko, ranked by tlie Russians second 

 only to Tolstoi of li\dng authors, was during 

 1893 in America, and is about to issue his 

 impressions of travel. This book, because 

 of the high reputation of the author, is 

 awaited with keen interest. 



George Bruce Halsted. 



the cold spring harbor laboratory. 



The a. a. A. S., at its Brooklyn meet- 

 ing, made two appropriations to aid research 

 in biological laboratories. One at "Wood's 

 Holl, of which notice was given in our last 

 number, and one at the Cold Spring Harbor 

 Laboratory ; concerning which the follow- 

 ing is the wording of the vote : 



'• That $100 be granted to Franklin W. 

 Hooper in behalf of the Biological Labora- 

 toiy at Cold Spring Harbor, to be devoted 

 to defraying the expense of original re- 

 seai'ch ; he nature of this to be approved 

 by a committee selected by the Council." 



The committee appointed consists of the 

 Vice-Presidents-elect of Section F. and G., 

 viz.: Prof. D. S. Jordan and Prof. J. S. 

 Arthur. 



Applications are to be sent to Prof. F. W. 

 Hooper, Brooklj'ii Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences, or to Prof. H. W. Conn, Wesleyan 

 University, Middletown, Conn. 



WASHINGTON LECTURES. 



The Series of Saturday Lectures, compli- 

 mentary to the citizens of Washington, will 

 be continued during the season of 1S95, un- 

 der the joint auspices of the Anthropological 

 and Geological Societies. Two courses have 

 been provided for, each so arranged as to 

 give a logical introduction to the science 

 treated. 



