March 29, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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for the present your, except that in the case 

 of geology tliere is an additional appropria- 

 tion of S5,000 for the specific object of the 

 investigation of the gold and coal resources 

 of Alaska. For the rest, there is an appro- 

 priation for the preparation of the report on 

 the niiiieral resources of the United States 

 of §18,000, an increase of §3,000 ; and fur- 

 ther was inserted in connection with this 

 work, under the head of Public Printing 

 and Binding, a clause providing for the 

 piinting of advance copies of papers on 

 economic resources, and for this work an 

 appropriation of 82,000 was made. Under 

 the head of engraving and printing the 

 geological maps of the United States, author- 

 ity was gTanted the Director to sell copies 

 of topographic maps, with a descriptive 

 te.xt, at cost, with ten per centum added. 

 The object of this item is to provide for 

 the preparation of a series of ten or more 

 maps, with text, to illustrate the typical 

 topographic features of the United States, 

 for use principally in teaching. It is antici- 

 l)ated that the maps and text will be prepared 

 during the summer. To the appropriation 

 for ' gauging the streams and determining 

 the water supply of the United States, in- 

 cluding the investigation of under-ground 

 currents and artesian wells in arid and 

 semi-arid regions,' 87,500 was added, mak- 

 ing the appropriation for this work 820,000. 



The total appropriation for the Survey, 

 including all field and office expenses and 

 salaries, is 851.5,000. 



An appi-opriation of 8200,000 was made 

 for a survey of the lands of the Indian Ter- 

 ritory, with the provision that the '"Secre- 

 tary of the Interior may in his discretion 

 direct that the surveys in the Indian Terri- 

 tory, herein authorized, or any part of them, 

 be made under the supervision of the Di- 

 rector of tlie Geological Survey.'' This 

 work wUl result in the making simultane- 

 ously of a land subdivision survey and a 

 topographic map. 



GENERAL. 



The German Anthropological Society is 

 publishing an extensive description of the 

 anthropological collections of Germany. 

 Sixteen parts (costing from 2-15 M.), pre- 

 pared bj' competent authorities, have al- 

 ready been issued. 



The TecImologkchej< Wiirterbuch, edited by 

 Gustav Eger and published by Yieweg, 

 Brunswick, is a full English-German and 

 German-English dictiouarj' of scientific and 

 technical words, which should have as large 

 a sale in America as in Germany. 



The first volume of the memoirs from the 

 Department of Botany of Columbia College, 

 a monograph of the North American Species 

 of the Gemis Polygonum, by John K. Small, is 

 now in press. 



Dr. Ernst Mach, Professor of Physics in 

 the University of Prague, has accepted a 

 Professorship of Philosophy in the Univer- 

 sity of Vienna, and will direct a Laboratory 

 of Experimental Psychology. 



Professor E. W. Hopkins, of Bryn Mawr 

 College, succeeds Professor Whitney in the 

 chair of Sanskrit and Comparative Phi- 

 lolog3% and Professor E. G. Bourne, of 

 Western Reserve College, has been elected 

 Professor of History, at Yale University. 



Prof. Weierstr.ass, of Berlin, has been 

 elected Foreign Associate of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Sciences ; he received forty-three 

 votes, one being given to Prof. Frankland 

 and one to Prof. Huxley. 



Prof. E. Dorn succeeds Prof. Knoblauch 

 as Director of the Physical Laboratorj- of 

 the University of Halle. 



Prof. INI. K. R6nt(5EN, of Wiirtzburg, has 

 been called to the chair of Physics in the 

 University of Freiberg, vacated bj' Prof. E. 

 Warburg. 



Dr. R. Be.\uxs has been made Professor 

 of Mineralogj' in the University of Tii- 

 bingen. 



