June 2f^, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



hibited on June 18th. About 350 of the 

 3,200 birds have been mounted in oO caseir. 

 Each case contains two or more birds of the 

 same species, mounted in such a way that 

 the character and ordinary habits and sur- 

 roundings of the species are suggested with- 

 out making the accessories of more appai-ent 

 importance than the birds themselves. 



The death is announced of Dr. Eliseyeflf. 

 known for his explorations in Asia and 

 Africa. 



A PRIZE of SlOO has been ofl'ered by a 

 fi-iend of Johns Hopkins University for the 

 best essay by a student of the I'niversitj- 

 upon the application of chemistrj- to the 

 useful arts. 



The Ethical Seminary for graduates in 

 Harvard University will be conducted bj- 

 Professor G. T. Ladd. of Yale Univei-sity, in 

 the absence of Professor Palmer during the 

 coming year. 



Additioxal courses of lectures will be 

 given at Johns Hopkins University during 

 the next academic }"ear by Mr. G. K. Gil- 

 bert and Mr. Bailey Willis on geology, and 

 by Dr. Frederick M. Warren, of Adelbert 

 College on botany. The following appoint- 

 ments have also been made : Abraliam 

 Cohen, instructor in mathematics ; Dr. Ja- 

 cob H. Hollander, instructor in economics ; 

 Dr. Harry C. Jones, instructor in physical 

 chemistry ; Charles P. Singerfoos, an assist- 

 ant in zoology and embryologj'. 



Dr. John P. Lotzy has presented his 

 herbarium of five thousand sheets to the 

 "Women's College of Baltimore. 



The death is announced of Heinrich Geis- 

 burg, an authority on AVestphalian history 

 and archteology, in his seventj'-seventh 

 year. 



Dr. Theophilus A. AVvlie, Professor 

 Emeritus in Indiana Univereity, died re- 

 cently at the age of eighty-five. He ac- 

 cepted the chair of natural philosophy and 

 chemistry in Indiana University in IS.'JT, 



in 1852 became professor of mathematics in 

 Miami Univci-sity, but returned to his 

 former position after three years. He was 

 transferred to the chair of languages in 1S64, 

 and withdrew from active work in 1886. 



The presidency of the Columbian Univer- 

 sity of Washington has been offered to the 

 Rev. B. L. Whitman, President of Colby 

 University in Maine. 



Professor Alexander Graham Bell has 

 presented the ^'olta Bureau Library of 

 Georgetown with the Scientific Liljrary of 

 the late Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, numbering 1,.500 volumes. 



At Harvard University Mr. G. A. Dorsey 

 has been appointed instructor in anthro- 

 pologj', ^Ir. Y. A. Wright instructor in 

 descriptive geometry and stereotomy. and "^ 

 Dr. Alfred Schafer demonstrator of histology 

 and embryologj'. 



Prof. A'alentixe Ball, Director of the 

 Mu.seum of Science and Art of Dublin, died 

 on June 17th. at the age of .52 years. He 

 was elected a fellow of the Geological So- 

 cietj' of London in 1874, fellow of the Roj'al 

 Society in 1882, president of the Royal 

 Geological Society of Ireland in 1882, and 

 was professor of geology and mineralogj' in 

 the University of Dublin from 1881 to 1883. 

 He was the author of works on the geology 

 of India, and accounts of explorations in 

 Afghanistan, Beloochistan, the Himalayas, 

 etc. 



Johns Hopkins University has received 

 two gifts in memory of Prof. George H. 

 Williams. His friends have given an oil 

 portrait of Mr. Williams, and Mi-s. Williams 

 a sum of money sufficient to establish a 

 lectureship in geology. Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, Director of the Geological Survey 

 of Ireland, has been invited to be first lec- 

 turer. 



J. J. Ho(;ax, mechanic and electrician in 

 the Yale Psychological Laboratory, has in- 

 vented a practicable device wliereby the 



