JrXE 14, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



667 



The death is announced of Theoilor Bror- 

 sen, at the ago of seventy-six. He dis- 

 covered at Kiel, on February 20, 1840, the 

 small comet called by his name, which was 

 found to have a jieriod of about 5+ years, 

 and was observed at returns in 1857, 18G8, 

 1873 and 1879, but has not since been seen, 

 though a conjecture has been thrown out 

 that it had some connexion with one dis- 

 covered by Mr. Denning la.st j'ear. Brorsen 

 discovered another comet in 1846, a third 

 in 1847, and two more in 1851. 



Dr. HufJH Feaxcis Clarke Cleghorn 

 died at Strabithie, in Fife, Scotland, on May 

 19th. He was appointed Professor of Botany 

 in Madras Universitj' in 1852, and was an 

 authority on Indian botanj- and arboricul- 

 ture. "While in Madras he organized a 

 forest department, having for its object the 

 jireservation of tree life, and established an 

 admirable system of management. Dr. 

 Cleghorn returned to Scotland in 18(')9, fill- 

 ing temporarily the chair of Botany in 

 Glasgow University. He was also president 

 of the Eoyal Arboricultural Society and an 

 active member of the Edinburgh Botanical 

 Society. 



At the commencement exercises of Stan- 

 ford University, President Jordan stated 

 that Mrs. Stanford had been spending 81,000 

 a day of her private fortune to maintain 

 the University. In case Mi-s. Stanford's 

 fortune should be exhausted before the de- 

 cision of the Courts in regard to the Stan- 

 ford estate had been reached, it would be 

 necessary to close the University. 



John" Paul Pailisox died at Tenafly, 

 New Jersey, on May 30th. Mr. Paulison 

 was interested in astronomy' and owned a 

 private obseiwatory. 



Professor J. J. Stevensox, of the Uni- 

 versity of the City of Xew York, will spend 

 the summer in the coal fields of Arkansas, 

 Indian Territory and Texas, with incidental 

 studies in Xew Mexico and Colorado. 



Dr. Adolf El-sass, Professor of Physics 

 iu the Univei-sity of Marburg, died on May 

 12th, at the age of forty years. 



The June issue of the Amherst Literary 

 Monthly will be a special memorial number 

 devoted to President Seelye. 



The Royal Natural History, edited by 

 Richard Lydekker (reviewed in Science, 

 April 5, p. 387) is being published in 

 America by Frederick . "Warne & Co. It 

 will be issued in thirty-six fortnightly num- 

 bers and will be completed at the same time 

 as the Engli.sh edition. 



Dr. D. K. Pearsox has olfered 850,000 

 to Mount Holyoke College if an additional 

 8150,000 can be raised. It is said that Dr. 

 Pearson has already given 82,000,000 to 

 various colleges. 



Harold Wuitixg, Professor of Physics 

 iu the University of California, was among 

 those lost in the submergence of the steam- 

 ship Colima. 



At the May meeting of the Victoria In- 

 stitute, London, the subject of ' Early Man ' 

 was considered. In dealing with it the evi- 

 dence for the existence of a ' missing link ' 

 was fii-st examined, the subject being intro- 

 duced in a paper by Professor E. Hull, late 

 Director-General of the Geological Survey 

 of Ireland. In dealing with it he reviewed 

 all the known instances of so-called ' miss- 

 ing links,' including that discovered by Dr. 

 Dubois in Java, and concluded that none 

 could be regarded as in fact ' a missing 

 link.' After this the question of the earli- 

 est man was discussed in a paper by Sir 

 William Dawson, in which he described the 

 physical character and affinities of the 

 Gaunches, an extinct race in the Canary 

 Islands. 



Mr. W. AV. Rockhill, Assistant Secre- 

 tary of State, who has been appointed by 

 the State Department a delegate to the In- 

 ternational Geograpliical Congress, meeting 

 in London this summer, will join with a 



