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SCIENCE. 



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139. The general mortality from this canst' 

 in Italy has remained pretty constant : tlie 

 average is 15 or IS per 1,000. 



Pkograms of the School of Applied Ethics, 

 which opens at Plymouth. Mass, on July 

 8th, may be obtained from the Secretary, 

 S. B. Weston, 1305 Arch street, Philadelpliia. 



The Metropolis Law School has been 

 united with the Law School of the Uni- 

 versity of the City of New York. 



AccoRDESTG to the prospectus of the Cot- 

 ton States and International Exposition, 

 which opens at Atlanta, Ga., on Septem- 

 ber 18th, science will be well represented. 

 There will be special buildings for machin- 

 ery, minerals and forestry, agriculture, elec- 

 tricity and transportation. The L^nited 

 States Fish Commission will supply an 

 aquarium with tanks occupying 10,000 

 square feet, and the National Bureau of 

 Forestry will exliil)it models showing meth- 

 ods of forest cultivation and preservation. 



AVe learn from a notice bj' Prof. Ziwet, 

 in the April number of the Bulletin of the 

 American Mathematical Society, that the first 

 installment of the Repertoire bibliograph- 

 ique des Sciences Mathematique^ has been is- 

 sued. This consists of a set of 100 cards, 

 14x8 cm., on each of which about 10 titles 

 are printed. The series is published by 

 Gauthier-Yillars in Paris and sells for two 

 francs. It was decided at an international 

 meeting held in Paris under the auspices of 

 the French Mathematical Society to pre- 

 pare a complete bibliographj- of the litera- 

 ture of mathematics since 1800 and of the 

 history of mathematics since IGOO. 



Mr. Clemens R. Markham, President of 

 the Royal Geogi-aphical Society, in a paper 

 read before the Royal United Service Insti- 

 tution, urges the importance of an Antarctic 

 expedition from a scientific and naval point 

 of view, and recommends that it be under- 

 taken bj- the British Government. 



The correspondent of the Evening J'ost 



announces the following new appointments 

 at Bryn Mawr College: Dr. Florence Bas- 

 com, the only woman who has received the 

 Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins I'niversity, 

 now of the Ohio State University, Reader in 

 Geology; Mr. Richard Norton, Lecturer in 

 Archaeology: Dr. M. L. Earle, Ph. D.. of 

 Columbia, Associate Professor of Greek : 

 Mr. P. E. More, Associate in Sanscrit: and 

 Dr. Alfred Hodder, Lecturer in English 

 Literature. 



Dr. Peat, of Butler, Pa., has cast a lens 

 60 inches in diameter for the telescope for 

 the Amei'ican University (of Washington). 



Mr. Leonard T. Metcalf has been ap- 

 pointed Professor of Mathematics in the 

 Amherst State College. 



The Bakerian Lecture before the Royal 

 Society on May 9th was based upon a re- 

 search conducted by Messrs. A. Vernon 

 Harcourt and William Esson, on ' The 

 Laws of Connexion between the Conditions 

 of a Chemical Change and its Amount." 



Ix a brochure of fifty pages issued in con- 

 nection with an exhibit at the World's Fair. 

 Mr. Gilford Pinchot gives an account of an 

 attempt to introduce a proper sj'stem of 

 forest management upon the estate of Mr. 

 George W. Vauderbilt in North Carolina, 

 together with the result of the first year's 

 work. Biltmoi-e is about two miles from 

 Ashevillc, on the tableland in western North 

 Carolina. The estate includes 3,891 acres 

 of woodland on the banks of the French 

 Broad River. The forest is composed chiefly 

 of young oaks and other deciduous trees, 

 the best timber having been cut away. 

 Fires and neglect have also done much in- 

 jui-y. This forest has been divided into 

 suitable blocks and compartments, and put 

 into the care of a competent forester for 

 improvement while at the same time yield- 

 ing monej' returns to the owner. The loca- 

 tion of the forest, soil, climate, kinds of 

 trees, treatment previous to coming into the 



