Apeil 2, 1897.] 



SCIENCE. 



549 



gun the publication of an Engineering Journal, 

 which will be issued semi-annually. The first 

 number opens with an article by F. A. C. Per- 

 rine, entitled ' A Practical Index of Engineer- 

 ing Literature,' which is followed by several 

 other articles showing the high character of 

 the work in engineering accomplished in Stan- 

 ford University. 



A MONTHLY journal entitled Deutscher Tier- 

 freund has been established in Leipzig under 

 the editorship of Dr. R. Klee. 



The first edition of the New York State bota- 

 nist's report on ' Poisonous and Edible Fungi ' 

 has proved insufficient to supply the demand, so 

 that it will be impossible to fill further orders 

 for the work unless a new edition is printed. 



Dr. Heney E. Aemsteong has prepared an 

 extended article now being published in suc- 

 cessive numbers of Nature entitled ' The Need 

 of Organizing Scientific Opinion.' The article 

 is a severe arraignment of the lack of scientific 

 principles and research in British manufactures 

 and of English ' educational methods as com- 

 pared with those of Germany. Dr. Armstrong 

 writes of the United States as follows : ' ' Amer- 

 ica is bound, in fact, to develop, and not only 

 on account of the restless energy of her peo- 

 ple ; her Government departments have at. 

 tached to them many active men engaged in 

 initiating or conducting scientific inquiries ; 

 and when the various departments are organ- 

 ized inter se the country will have in its ser- 

 vice a highly-trained body of scientific experts 

 guiding all branches of public work and co- 

 operating to minimize the faults of democracy. 

 And universities are arising all over the coun- 

 try, in which German models are being fol- 

 lowed, not English. It is safe to predict that, 

 ere many years are past, the United States will 

 suddenly burst into prominence, and probably 

 into predominance, as a nation promoting 

 scientific inquiries of all kinds, so surely is a 

 foundation being laid. Mistakes will frequently 

 be made, perhaps, but they will soon be recog- 

 nized and remedied in a country instinct with 

 advance." 



The Engineering News states that a textile 

 school has been established in Lowell, Mass. 

 The city appropriated $25,000 for its support. 



and the manufacturing establishments contrib- 

 uted $50,000 in machinery and other facilities. 

 The equipment is said to compare favorably 

 with that of similar schools in England and on 

 the Continent, where they have been main- 

 tained for a number of years and are constantly 

 growing in number. It is stated that the com- 

 petition of Southern mills in the production of 

 ordinary grades of cotton goods has led the 

 Lowell manufacturers to turn their attention to 

 the finer grades, which have hitherto generally 

 been imported from Europe, where the textile 

 schools have been of great aid in training skilled 

 workmen and designers. 



Sir Douglas Galton has issued an appeal 

 for subscriptions to the Childhood Society, 

 which has recently issued a report on the scien- 

 tific study of the mental and physical conditions 

 of childhood, giving details of 100,000 chil- 

 dren, examined individually. It is estimated 

 that the sum of £1,000 would be needed to 

 examine 50,000 children in twenty- five towns. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Havbefoed College has now received the 

 title deeds to the real estate of the late Jacob 

 P. Jones, of Philadelphia, who in 1885 made 

 the College his residuary legatee. The estate 

 is valued at $900, 000. Haverford College, which 

 is located near Philadelphia and is conducted 

 under Quaker auspices, is now one of the best 

 endowed of our colleges. The trustees have 

 wisely decided to maintain a strong college and 

 not to attempt the development of a university. 



The long contested Marett will case has been 

 decided by the Supreme Court of Connecticut, 

 giving, among other public bequests, $18,000 

 to Yale University. 



It is reported in the daily papers that the 

 late Mr. Deury, said to be a multi-millionaire 

 and the largest landowner in the United States, 

 has left his estate to his widow for life and at 

 her death ninety-one hundredths of it for the 

 establishment of a college in Illinois. 



Bills have been reported favorably in the 

 New York Legislature authorizing New York 

 City to spend $12,500,000 in school buildings. 



Dr. Julian Apricio has been appointed 

 Director of the Meteorological and Astronomical 



