January 15, 1897.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Pasteur ' by Dr. Jules Marcou, published in the 

 issue of this Journal for December 6, 1895, has 

 been translated into French and Spanish and 

 has been distributed by order of the govern- 

 ment of Nicaragua to all schools and public in- 

 stitutions of that state. 



Prof. Holden will contribute to an early 

 number of Harper'' a Weekly an illustrated ar- 

 ticle on the Lick Observatory. 



Mr. J. E. Harting has resigned from the 

 editorship of the Zoologist, which he has con- 

 ducted for twenty years, and is succeeded by 

 Mr. W. L. Distant. 



At the beginning of the new year the Natur- 

 wissenschaftliche Rundschau, edited by Dr. W. 

 Sclclarek and published by Friedrich Vieweg & 

 Sohn, Brunswick, announces as cooperating 

 editors Dr. J. Bernstein, professor of physiol- 

 ogy at Halle ; Dr. W. Ebstein, professor of 

 pathology at Gottingen ; Dr. A. v. Koenen, 

 professor of paleontology at Gottingen ; Dr. 

 Victor Meyer, professor of chemistry at Heidel- 

 berg, and Dr. B. Schwalbe, professor of anat- 

 omy at Berlin. The new volume is printed on 

 improved paper, presenting a much more pleas- 

 ing appearance than is usual in German publica- 

 tions. The Naturwissensehaftiiche Rundschaii 

 usually contains one scientific paper, but is 

 chiefly made up of reviews of scientific litera- 

 ture, written with care and impartiality and 

 giving an excellent survey of the progress of 

 science. 



The British government will send, in January, 

 a commission, consisting of General Sir Henry 

 Wylie Norman (Chairman), Sir Edward Grey, 

 Bart., and Sir David Barbour, to inquire into 

 the conditions and prospects of the West India 

 sugar-growing colonies. Mr. Daniel Morris, 

 Assistant Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 will accompany the commission as expert ad- 

 viser in botanical and agricultural questions. 

 Nature calls attention to the fact that the ap- 

 pointment of Mr. Daniel Morris as scientific ad- 

 viser is a proof that Kew has been working for 

 the last quarter of a century on the right lines 

 and that its policy is a sound one. Of all the 

 colonies in the West Indies, Jamaica is said to 

 be the only one in a fairly prosperous condition. 

 This has been brought about mainly by the 



work of the Botanical Department and the en- 

 couragement given by it to improve agricul- 

 tural methods and introduce new industries. 



Prof. Richard E. Dodge, Teachers' College, 

 New York, will edit a Journal of School Geog- 

 raphy, the first number of which will appear 

 during the present month. Prof Dodge will be 

 assisted by a board of editors consisting of 

 William M. Davis, professor of geography at 

 Harvard University ; Dr. C. W. Hayes, 

 geologist of the U. S. Geological Survey; 

 Dr. H. B. Kiimmell, Lewis Institute, Chicago, 

 111.; Dr. F. M. McMurry, of the School of 

 Pedagogy at Buffalo, and Mr. R. DeC. Ward, 

 instructor in climatology at Harvard Univer- 

 sity. The journal will be issued monthly, with 

 the exception of July and August, and each 

 issue will contain about thirty-two pages of 

 reading matter. Specimen copies will be sent, 

 so far as the edition will allow, on application 

 to Prof. Dodge. 



The current number of Natural Science gives 

 the following news concerning recent scientific 

 expeditions : Prof. Penzig, of Genoa, editor of 

 Malpighia, has undertaken a botanical expedi- 

 tion to Buitenzorg, Singapore and Ceylon. Dr. 

 Griinling, Curator of the Mineralogical Collec- 

 tion in Munich, has gone to Ceylon on an ex- 

 ploring expedition. Mr. Bastard, who is ex- 

 ploring in Africa, has been prevented by the 

 trouble in Madagascar from penetrating into 

 the interior or that island. He has, however, 

 made good collections of fossils, also anthropo- 

 logical measurements and photographs. Mr. 

 Voillot has returned from a voyage to Haute 

 Mambere ; he brings with him ten Baya skulls 

 and an interesting ethnographic collection. 

 Another valuable anthropological collection is 

 that brought back from Russian Asia by Mr. 

 E. Blanc. Of Mr. Alexander Whyte's explora- 

 tions in the Karonga Mountains in Central 

 Africa, the results include 6,000 dried speci- 

 mens of plants, 5,000 land shells, 3,000 in- 

 sects, numerous mammals, reptiles, geological 

 collections, and so on. 



Felix Alcan, Paris, has begun the publica- 

 tion of a Bibliographia Physiologica, compiled by 

 Prof Ch. Richet and several assistants. The 

 bibliographies for 1895 and for the first half of 



