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SCIENCE. 



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Oeological Survey, has removed to Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, to accept the position of libra- 

 rian for the "Western Keserve Historical So- 

 ciety, and Mr. H. F. Bain has been elected 

 Assistant State Geologist of Iowa in place 

 of Dr. Charles E. Keyes, who recently 

 resigned to take charge of the Missouri 

 Survey. 



The Provincial Legislative Assembly of 

 Ontario has authorized a grant of $7,500 

 towards defrajdng the expenses of a meet- 

 ing of the British Association at Toronto in 

 1897, should the Association decide to ac- 

 cept the invitation that has already been 

 received from Toronto. 



The Society of German Naturalists and 

 Physicians will meet at Lubeck from Sep- 

 tember 16th to 21st. 



The death is announced of Dr. Tomsa, 

 Professor of Physiology in the University of 

 Prague. 



It is stated that Dr. Bertillon has discov- 

 ered a new method for identifying hand- 

 writing by enlarging the letters by photog- 

 raphy and measuring the alterations due 

 to beating of the pulse. 



The celebrated Villino Ludovisi, in Eome, 

 has been leased for the new American 

 School of Architecture and ArchseologJ^ 



AcooEDiNG to the Medical Record 14 of the 

 140 Medical Schools of the United States 

 now require a four years' com-se. 



Swan, Sonni;nschein & Co. announce for 

 publication next autumn a translation by 

 Professor E. B. Titchener, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, of Professor O. Kiilpe's Gh-undriss 

 der Psychologic. 



AccoEDnsTG to a note in the London Times, 

 the excavations by the American School at 

 the Heraion of Argos, under the direction 

 of Professor Waldstein, which were resumed 

 this spring, have been very successful. Two 

 hundred and fifty men have been employed 

 on the work. Besides the two temples and 



five other buildings previously discovered, 

 a large and well-preserved colonnade 45 

 metres long has now been found 25 feet be^* 

 low the surface south of the second temple. 

 The discoveries include parts of metopes, 

 two marble heads of the best Greek period, 

 a hundred objects in bronze and gold, gems, 

 vases and terra cottas of the Homeric period, 

 as well as numerous scarabs and several 

 Mycenean tombs with Argive inscriptions 

 on bronze, probably of a religious character. 

 The excavations, which are now in the 

 fourth season, will be completed this year. 

 They rival the French excavations at 

 Delphi in magnitude and importance, rep- 

 resenting all the periods of Greek life fi-om 

 prehistoric to Eoman epochs. 



The residue of the estate of Mary D. 

 Peabody has been left to the Catholic Uni- 

 versity of Washington, for the foundation 

 of scholarships (probably three or four of 

 the value of $5,000 each) in the chemical 

 and phj'sical sciences. 



The Medical Record gives an account of 

 the malai'ial map of Italy, recently issued 

 by the Italian Bureau of Statistics. It is 

 based upon the death returns during the 

 years 1890-92. The varying intensity of 

 the disease in different sections is shown by 

 modifications of color. In the three years 

 there were 50,000 deaths fi-om malarial 

 causes, or 54 in 100,000. The worst dis- 

 tricts, where the mortality is as high as 8 

 in 1,000, are in southwestern Sardinia, 

 southeastern Sicily, the Pontine marshes, 

 the district at the head of the Gulf of Ta- 

 ranto, and the southeastern slope, fi-om the 

 promontory of Gargano south to the Ionian 

 Sea. Districts where malaria prevails, but 

 not so intensely as to be fatal, are the lower 

 reaches of the Po, Grosseto in Tuscany, the 

 mouth of the Tiber, and the district near 

 Salerno and the temples of Pfestum. In 

 Eome itself malaria has sensibly declined ; 

 the deaths in 1881 were 600, in 1892 only 



