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13 rejected. For candidates who fail to pass 

 the form vision test no appeal is provided, but 

 they are allowed to be re-examined at intervals 

 of three months. Twelve candidates out of the 

 115 who failed to pass the form vision test have 

 been subsequently passed. The number of offi- 

 cers already in possession of certificates of com- 

 petency who on coming up for examination 

 failed to pass the tests was 53 ; 4 masters, 5 

 mates and 15 second mates failing in colors, 

 and 1 master, 12 mates and 16 second mates 

 in form vision. No case of failure to pass the 

 test for color ignorance- has been reported. 



Natural Science states that two marsupials 

 (Dasyuroides hyrnei, n.g. et sp., and Sminthopsis 

 larapinta, n. sp.) were discovered by the Horn 

 expedition in central Australia, and are de- 

 scribed by Prof. Baldwin Spencer in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Royal Society of Victoria, vol. viii., 

 pp. 5-13, as well as further described and fig- 

 ured in the account of the Horn expedition. 

 Dasyuroides is a burrowing, insectivorous mar- 

 supial of nocturnal habits, which in the gen- 

 eral form of the body closely resembles a large 

 Phascologale or a small Dasyurus, while its 

 dentition is also like that of those species of 

 Phascologale which approach Dasyurus. The 

 skull, on the other hand, agrees with that 

 of Sminthopsis in the character of the nasal 

 bones, while the hind foot in shape and 

 in the absence of a hallux differs from that of 

 both Phascologale and Sminthopsis. The speci- 

 mens on which the description is based consist 

 of six males and one female, and the dimensions 

 of an adult male in alcohol are : Head and 

 body, 182 mm.; tail, 130 mm.; ear, 18 mm.; 

 hind foot, 38 mm. The new Sminthopsis is a 

 small JBOuse-like form, separated from the two 

 known species, S. murina and S. crassicaudata, 

 by a long, very stout and highly incrassated 

 tail, and by the greater relative length of the 

 hind foot. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Prof. C. S. Brown, of the Rose Polytechnic 

 Institute, Terre Haute, Ind., has been elected 

 adjunct professor of mechanical engineering 

 in Vanderbilt University in place of Prof. 

 William T. Magruder, who goes to the Ohio 

 State University. 



Miss Mary F. Winston, of Chicago Uni- 

 versity, has received the degree of Ph. D. 

 magnum cum laude, at Gottingen University. 

 Miss Winston is a graduate of the University of 

 Wisconsin and subsequently studied at the 

 University of Chicago. She is said to be the 

 second woman to receive the degree of Ph. D. 

 from a German university. 



Mr. G. F. Stout, Fellow of St. John's Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, and editor of Mind, has been 

 appointed to the Anderson lectureship on com- 

 parative psychology, recently founded at Aber- 

 deen. 



The Lancet states that the Council of Univer- 

 sity College, Liverpool, have nominated Dr. 

 H. E. Annett to a scholarship of the value of 

 £150 a year, tenable for three years, awarded 

 by the Commissioners of the 1851 Exhibition 

 for further researches in scientific subjects and 

 scientific study. Dr. Annett has given an un- 

 dertaking to the Commissioners to proceed to 

 one or more of the large Continental colleges 

 where facilities exist for carrying on the study 

 of pathology and bacteriology. 



Prop. Lionel S. Beale has resigned the 

 chair of medicine at King's College and the 

 office of physician to King's College Hospital. 

 Prof. F. Jeffi-ey Bell has also resigned the 

 chair of comparative anatomy which he has 

 filled for seventeen years. 



A CHEMICAL dyeing school for instruction 

 and research has been built at Crefeld under 

 the auspices of the German government at a 

 cost of about $100,000. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



THE NAMES EPIPHYSIS, CONARIUM AND CORPUS 



PINEALE : CORRECTION OF AN ERROR. 



To the Editor of Science : In your pub- 

 lication, July 17, p. 71, of the Report of the 

 Committee on Neuronymy which was adopted 

 by the American Neurological Association June 

 5, 1896, occurs an error which is unaccountable, 

 but for which I must be held responsible. After 

 the word epiphysis comes the date 1895, as if 

 indicating the adoption of that word by the 

 Committee of the Anatomische Gesellschaft in 

 that year. On the contrary, they prefer corpus 

 pineale. 



