June 25, 1897.] 



SCIENCE. 



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with the primitive Germans. Broca's 

 Celtic type is in fact Ligurian, and the 

 Galatte were true Celts, with the original 

 blonde traits. D. G. Brinton. 



UinvEESiTY OF Pennsylvania. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Senate Committee on International Ex- 

 positions has reported a bill providing for the 

 representation of the United States at the Paris 

 Exposition of 1900, and recommending an ap- 

 propriation not to exceed .?500,000. As re- 

 ported, the bill provides for a Commissioner- Gen- 

 eral at a salary of $10,000 a year, an Assistant 

 Commissioner-General at $6,000, and ten scien- 

 tific experts at $2,500 a year each. 



A BIOLOGICAL station containing aquaria, 

 laboratories, rooms for collections and library 

 is in course of erection near Sebastopol, on the 

 Black Sea. It is expected that the building 

 will be opened for scientific work during the 

 present year. 



The third circular issued by the general com- 

 mittee of the Seventh International Geological 

 Congress recommends that special attention be 

 given to a unification of geological and petro- 

 graphic nomenclature. The guide to the ex- 

 cursions is expected to appear immediately, and 

 will extend to about 500 pages, with many maps 

 and illustrations. The free tickets on the rail- 

 roads will be valid from July 22d to October 17th. 

 It is stated that university students cannot take 

 part in the excursions, but there will doubtless 

 be accommodation for all geologists. The ex- 

 cursions to the Ural regions and to the Crimea 

 are each limited to two hundred persons. 



According to the New York Medical Record 

 the following are the names of those who have 

 been invited to deliver orations at the general 

 sessions of the Moscow Congress: Lauder 

 Brunton, of London, on the ' Relationship be- 

 tween Physiology, Pharmacology, Pathology 

 and Clinical Medicine;' Nicholas Senn, of 

 Chicago, on the ' Diagnosis and Surgical Treat- 

 ment of Acute Forms of Peritonitis ; ' Kraflt- 

 Ebing, of Vienna, on the ' Etiology of Progres- 

 sive Paralysis ;' Danilevski, of Khartov, on 

 ' The Action of Electric Raj's on the Animal 

 Organism at a Distance ;' Lombroso, of Turin, 



on ' New Horizons in Psychiatry ;' Leyden, of 

 Berlin, on the ' Present Modes of Treating Con- 

 sumptives and their State Control ;' Herzen, of 

 Lausanne, on the ' Significance of Physiological 

 Psychology for Medical Education. Robert, of 

 Barcelona, and Lukianov, of St. Petersburg, 

 have not yet announced the titles of their ad- 

 dresses. Virchow, of Berlin, and Rous, of 

 Paris, have been invited to deliver orations, but 

 no word had been received from them by the 

 Moscow committee at the time the above an- 

 nouncement was made. 



Professor M'Kendrick, of the University 

 of Glasgow, has been awarded the MacDougall- 

 Brisbane prize by the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh in recognition of his published researches 

 in connection with sound and the phonograph. 



Dr. Haddon has been granted £300 from 

 the Wort's Travelling Scholars' Fund, of Cam- 

 bridge University, for an anthropological expe- 

 dition to the Torres Straits. 



Professor Virchow is at present at Briinn, 

 engaged in examining the prehistoric remains 

 in the neighborhood. 



It is reported that Mr. Edward McUlhenny, 

 accompanied by Mr. W. E. Snyder and Mr. 

 Norman G. Baxton, proposes to leave San 

 Francisco on June 25th for Point Barrow, 

 Alaska. He expects to spend two years mak- 

 ing collections of the fauna and flora of north- 

 eastern Alaska. It is said that the collections 

 are for the National Museum and the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania. 



Dr. Fritz Mijller, the botanist, died at 

 Blumenau, Brazil, on May 21st, at the age of 76 

 years. Dr. J. Lewis Smith, formerly clinical 

 professor of the diseases of children in the 

 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and the 

 author of many contributions to this subject, 

 died in New York on June 11th, at the age of 

 69 years. M. Leopold Maney, correspondent 

 of the Paris Academy for geography and navi- 

 gation, died in May. 



The works of Alvan G. Clark & Sous will be 

 continued under the supervision of Mr. Carl 

 Ludlin, who for twenty-five years has been en- 

 gaged as a maker of lenses under the firm. 



The Board of Trustees of the University of 

 Rochester have sanctioned the establishment of 



