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SCIENCE. 



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



crj-ptogamic botany, and H. H. Denham, 

 instructor in chemistry. 



The Cambridge Scientific Instrument 

 Company (Limited) has been formed with 

 a capital of £10,000, in £5 shares. Its ob- 

 jects are to acquire the business carried on 

 at Cambridge by Mr. Horace Darwin as 

 ' The Cambridge Scientific Instrument Com- 

 pany,' and to adopt an agreement for the 

 purpose, and to cai'ry on the business of 

 mechanical and electrical engineers, and 

 scientific instrument and apparatus manu- 

 facturers. The first directors are Mr. Horace 

 Darwin (chairman and managing director), 

 Major Leonard Darwin, Mr. Hugh F. Newall 

 and Mr. William N. Shaw. The remunera- 

 tion of the directors will be fixed hy the 

 company. 



Dr. Albert Mann has been appointed 

 professor of biology in Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 

 versitj\ 



In Syracuse University Dr. E. C. Quereau 

 has been appointed professor of geology 

 and mineralogy, and Dr. W. H. Metzler 

 associate professor of mathematics. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott has sent to the TJ. S. 

 ISTational Museum the collections made 

 during his travels in Pamir, Central Asia. 

 Among these are the skins of 228 birds and 

 more than 100 mammals, m.any of which 

 are said to be new to science. 



An editorial article in Garden and Forest 

 for May 29th contains on appeal for a fit- 

 ting memorial to Andrew Jackson Downing. 

 Trom it we may quote the following facts : 



" Mr. Downing was an authoritative writer 

 on the ai-t of landscape-gardening. His 

 treatise on the Theory and Practice of Land- 

 scape- Gardening, pu-blished in 1841, became 

 at once the accepted text-book of the sub- 

 ject. In 1849 he wrote a series of articles 

 in The Horticulturalist on public parks which 

 had a marked influence in creating and 

 molding public sentiment in this direction. 

 The actual work of constructing Central 



Park was not begun until sis years after 

 Downing's untimely death, but it was his 

 stirring appeals that aroused the citj' to feel 

 its need, and provision to meet it quickly 

 followed. It is not too much ,to saj' that 

 Downing takes rank among the greatest 

 benefactors to his countrj^ which this cen- 

 tury has produced. It is now more than 

 fortj^ years since his death, and it is surely 

 time that some memorial of him should be 

 erected in the park which his genius secured 

 for the city of ISTew York. " 



The last number Vol. VII., No. 4, of the 

 Journal of the College of Science of the Im- 

 perial Universitj' of Japan bears witness, as 

 the preceding numbers have done, to the 

 aptitudes of the Japanese for exact research. 

 The number contains eight short contribu- 

 tions to chemistry and an account of the 

 earthquake of June 20th, 1894. This was 

 the most violent earthquake that has oc- 

 curred in Tokyo since 1855. 



A WORK on electricitjr and magnetism by 

 Professor Francis E. Nipher, Washington 

 TJniversitj^, St. Louis, will be published dur- 

 ing the summer. 



The State Agricultural College at Cor- 

 vallis. Ore., has begun the publication of a 

 series of laboratory studies in zoology 

 edited by Prof. F. L. Washburn. 



The paper on the Proto-historic Ethnog- 

 raphy of Western Asia, read by Dr. D. G. 

 Brinton before the American Philosophical 

 Society on April 19th, has been reprinted 

 from the Proceedings of the American Phil- 

 osophical Society and is published by Mac- 

 Calla & Co., Philadelphia. 



Dr. J. Dorfler, I. Burgring 7, Vienna, 

 is compiling a Directory of Living Botanists, 

 together with botanical gardens, societies, 

 journals, etc. The cooperation of botauists 

 throughout the world is requested. 



At the annual meeting of the Linnaean 

 Society, held on Maj^ 24th, the gold medal 

 founded in 1888 ou the occasion of the cen- 



