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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. I. No. 25. 



The Trustees of the British Museum have 

 issued a Catalogue of Additions to the 

 Manuscripts in the years 1888-1893. The 

 catalogue is provided with a serviceable 

 index. They have also published a transla- 

 tion of the Papyrus of Ani which contains 

 the most complete text of the famous Egyp- 

 tian Book of the Dead. The translation, 

 which is accompanied by a valuable intro- 

 duction, is from the pen of Mr. E. A. Wallis 

 Budge. 



AiTOTHEE Egyptian publication of im- 

 portance is from the press of Brill, at 

 Leiden, and contains fac similes and de- 

 scriptions of a papyrus (F. T. 71 So-am-tra) 

 devoted to mortuary customs. 



Mr. M. a. Mackenzie, of Trinity Uni- 

 versity, Toronto, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of mathematics in place of the Rev. 

 Dr. Jones, who has accepted the position of 

 bursar in the same institution. 



Peopessoe Peankland has been elected 

 a foreign associate of the Academic des Sci- 

 ences. The vacancy was caused by the death 

 of M. van Beneden. 



Applications for the position of lecturer 

 in Chemistry in the university of Toronto 

 should be sent to the Canadian Minister of 

 Education before August 15th. The initial 

 salary will be $1,000, increasing by annual 

 increments of $100 until it reaches $1,800. 

 The duties of the lecturer will be to assist 

 the demonstrator in the superintendence of 

 the laboratories under the direction of the 

 professor of chemistrj^, and also to deliver 

 such lectures on physiological, organic and 

 inorganic chemistry as may be assigned to 

 him by the professor. 



The Lancet announces the following foi> 

 eign medical appointments : At Eiiangen — 

 Dr. G. Hauser has been promoted to the 

 chair of general and anatomical pathol- 

 ogy, vacant by the retirement of Dr. von 

 Zenker. At Gratz — Drs. Drasch and Ja- 

 risch have been promoted to professorships 



of histology and dermatology, respectively. 

 At Oporto— Dr. I. do Valle, Professor of 

 General Pathology, has been appointed to^ 

 succeed Dr. Carlos Lopez in the chair of 

 materia medica, Dr. Maximiano de Lemos 

 taking the chair of general pathologj'. 



At Berlin, Dr. Ferdinand Karsch and Dr. 

 Anton Eeichenow have been made profes- 

 sors in the Zoological Museum, Dr. Victor 

 Kremser in the Meteorological Institute, 

 and Dr. A. Borsch in the Geodetic Insti- 

 tute. 



At the auniversarj- meeting of the Roj-al 

 Geographical Society of London, Mr. Clem- 

 ents E. Markham was elected President for 

 1895-6. Mr. W. T. Blanford, the Hon. G. 

 C. Brodrick, the Hon. George Curzon, Sir 

 George Taubman Goldie, General E. Stra- 

 chjr and Eear-Admiral W. J. L. Wharton 

 were elected Vice-Presidents. 



Daniel Kiekwood, professor of mathe- 

 matics in Indiana State University, died at 

 Eiverside, Cal., on June 11th, at the age of 

 eighty-one. He retired from the active 

 duties of the professorship in 1856. 



The chair of physics in the University of 

 California, recently filled by the late Pro- 

 fessor Harold Whiting, has been oifered to 

 Mr. Exum Percival Lewis, Ph. D., of Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



At a meeting of the Eoyal Botanical 

 Society on May 31st Professor George 

 Henslow delivered a lecture on ' A Centuiy 

 of Progress in Floriculture.' He exibited 

 specimens of the original wild plants from 

 which some of our most admired garden 

 flowers have been developed, illustrating 

 with numerous diagrams the various stages 

 in the waj^ of cultivation and hybridization 

 through which they passed before reaching 

 the perfection of to-day. 



Flood & Vincent (Chautauqua Press) ^ 

 of Meadville, Penna., announce the appear- 

 ance of ' Thinking, Feeling, Doing,' a popu- 

 lar exposition of experimental psychology 



