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the University of Oxford. The presentation is 

 intended to take the form, if possible, of a por- 

 trait, and it is believed that contributions not 

 exceeding £2 in amount will be sufficient for 

 the purpose. A number of men of science, 

 both at home and on the continent, have already- 

 promised their support. Contributions will be 

 received by Prof. A. H. Green, F, E. S., or 

 Prof. H. A. Miers, F. E. S., University Mu- 

 seum, Oxford. 



The New York Evening Post states that the 

 well-known German anthropologist, Adolf Bas- 

 tian, who has nearly reached his seventieth 

 year, has gone on an exploration trip to the in- 

 terior of China. 



The arrangements made by the local com- 

 mittee for the Liverpool meeting of the British 

 Association ensure much pleasure for those able 

 to attend. University College, St. George's 

 Hall and the Public Museum offer excellent and 

 convenient rooms for the meetings, and there 

 are many places of scientific interest in Liver- 

 pool and its neighborhood which will be in- 

 cluded in the excursions. Longer excursions 

 will be made at the close of the meeting to 

 the Isle of Man, to the English Lakes and to 

 the Vyrury Water Works in Wales. Eecep- 

 tions will be given by the local committee and 

 by Lord Derby, the Lord Mayor of Liverpool. 

 Parties will be entertained by Mr. Gladstone at 

 Hawarden, by the Duke of Westminster at 

 Eaton Hall and by the Earl of Derby at 

 Knowsley. Liverpool is unusually convenient 

 for American men of science, who are always 

 entertained with courtesy. 



The fiftieth anniversary number of the Sci- 

 entific American, to be published this week, will 

 be enlarged to about four times its usual size, 

 and will contain, in addition to the prize es- 

 say ' On the progress of invention during the 

 past fifty years,' a number of special articles 

 and reviews of the progress of science and in- 

 vention during the past fifty years ; some of 

 the principal subjects to be treated being the 

 transatlantic steamship, naval and coast de- 

 fense, railroads and bridges, the sewing ma- 

 chine, physics and chemistry, electrical engi- 

 neering, progress of printing, the locomotive, 

 iron and steel, phonograph, photography, tele- 



graph, telephone, telescopes, the bicycle and the 

 history of the Scientific American. 



Sir Archibald Geikie, who, as we have al- 

 ready stated, will give before the Johns Hop- 

 kins University the first course of lectures 

 under the George Huntington Williams Memo- 

 rial, will begin the course in the latter part of 

 April, 1897. 



The Department of Natural Science Teach- 

 ing of the National Educational Association 

 elected the following officers : President, Chas. 

 Skeele Palmer Boulder, Colorado ; Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Albert H. Tuttle, Charlottesville, Va. ; 

 Secretary, Irwin Leviston, Omaha, Neb. 



Mr. William A. Ingram, Secretary of the 

 Board of Commissioners, has compiled a list of 

 the publications of the Pennsylvania Geological 

 Survey from 1874 to 1895, to which is added an 

 index of the more important subjects treated in 

 the volumes. 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 exhibits in medicine and hygiene at the Berlin 

 Industrial Exhibition are of special interest. 

 As an example of these may be given the muni- 

 cipality building, which contains complete drain- 

 age ground plans of Berlin and the suburbs, 

 plans and models of the pumping station, their 

 machinery, etc., models of a warehouse and a 

 dwelling house with complete drainage arrange- 

 ments. A small fountain is fed by clear and 

 innocuous water from the sewage farms, and 

 near it are specimens of plants and cereals and 

 vegetables grown on, and even otto of roses 

 obtained from the sewage farms. Here too are 

 the plans and drawings of the different Berlin 

 water works ; the pipe systems by which the 

 houses are supplied ; drawings, models and 

 plans of municipal asylums and hospitals, of 

 the raunicipal disinfecting institute, of the 

 heating and ventilating apparatus in the mu- 

 nicipal schools of the public bathing establish- 

 ments, etc. 



Mr. F. W. Edridge Green writes that it is 

 proposed to form, in Great Britain, a society for 

 the purpose of making researches in color 

 blindness, instituting proper tests and prevent- 

 ing color-blind and defective-sighted men from 

 acting in capacities in the marine and railway 

 services for which they are physically unfitted. j|u 



