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SCIENCE. 



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is correct, it is somewliat disappointiug to 

 have such a tj'pe as Tritylodon taken from 

 the class mammalia. The evidence, does 

 not seem to be conclusive. 



SIE AVILLIAM DAWSON. 



At the last regular monthly meeting of 

 the Montreal Natural History Society (26th 

 ult.), Sir J. William Dawson read a paper 

 on the skeleton of a ' white whale ' (JBehiga), 

 recently found in a brickyard off the Papi- 

 neau Eoad, Montreal. The specimen, which 

 was imbedded in the Leda clay, belongs to 

 a species once abundant, and still not at all 

 uncommon, in the lower St. Lawrence. 

 Though it is now rarely known to ascend 

 the river to fresh water, a stuffed specimen 

 in the museum of the N. H. Societj^ is said 

 to have been caught near Montreal. The 

 fossil was below the normal length, being 

 about 12 feet. 



Since his retirement from the principal- 

 ship of McGill University, Sir William 

 Dawson has turned his larger leisure to 

 good account. Besides three important 

 works issued from the press during the last 

 two years, he has found time for special 

 courses of lectures and an unfailing succes- 

 sion of papers on a wide range of subjects. 

 Just forty years ago he entered on his task 

 of building up McGill College. The status 

 of the university when his supervision 

 ceased, in 1893, is one of the things on which 

 Canadian science may well congratulate it- 

 self. J. T. C. 



GENERAL. 



The Mies bill incorporating the New 

 York Zoological Society, and providing for 

 the establishment of a zoological garden, has 

 been passed by the Senate at Albany. 



D. Appleton & Co. announce a Crimi- 

 nology Series edited by Mr. Douglas Morrison, 

 the first volume of which, The Female Of- 

 fender, by Professor C. Lombroso, will be 

 issued this month. 



The Academische Revue is a new journal 



edited by Dr. Paul Von Salvisberg and pub- 

 lished by the International Hochschulwesen 

 in Munich. In addition to original articles 

 on educational interests it proposes to pub- 

 lish academic news, and the editor will be 

 glad to have items of news sent to liim. 



The building used as a school of manual 

 training by the New York Institution for 

 the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, at 

 One Hundred and Sixtj'-fifth Street and 

 Fort Washington Avenue, was burned on 

 April 8th, causing a loss of $40,000. The 

 building stood about 400 feet from the main 

 buildings of the institution. 



At a meeting on March 28th, the Coui't 

 of St. Andrew's Universitj' decided to found 

 two medical chairs, the one of materia med- 

 ica and the other of anatomj^. 



Macmillan & Co. have in press a trans- 

 lation, by Dr Charles E. Eastman, of Prof. 

 Karl von Zittel's ' Elements of Paleon- 

 tology.' 



De. Thomas M. Deown, now Professor of 

 Chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, has been elected President of 

 Lehigh Universitj^. 



LuiGi Feeei, Professor of Philosophy in 

 the University of Rome, died recently at 

 the age of 68. 



De. G. Glogau, Professor of Philosophy 

 in the Universitj- of Kiel, died recently in 

 Greece at the age of 50. 



Peofessoes Eeman, E. Schmidt and 

 Stumpf, of the University of Berlia, have 

 been elected members of the Prussian Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. 



The British Government spent in 1894 

 £4,802 on the destruction of locusts in Cy- 

 prus. The methods used were the collec- 

 tion of eggs during the summer and winter 

 and the purchase of live locusts by weight 

 in spring. 



The following lectures wiU be given be- 

 fore the Eoj^al Institution, of London, after 

 Easter: Professor George Forbes, three 

 lectures on 'Alternating and Interrupted 



