August 28, 1896.] 



SCIENCE. 



269 



heated to a standard temperature. The defi- 

 nition of the degree of incandescence of such a 

 surface appears at the present almost insuper- 

 able, but the committee is at work upon a 

 method for the measurement of the temperatures 

 of incandescent carbon, which may lead to re- 

 sults looking towards the solution of the prob- 

 lem. It also has in progress experiments look- 

 ing to the production of a light standard in 

 which not only the burning material, but also the 

 atmosphere, shall be of known and definite 

 chemical composition; 



Prof. E. B. Titchener, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, will translate into English Wundt's Physi- 

 ologische Psychologie and, in cooperation with 

 Mr. W. B. Pillsbury, Kiilpe's Einleitung in der 

 Philosophie. Miss Julia H. Gulliver, of Eock- 

 ford College, will translate Wundt's Ethik. 

 Wundt's Lectures on Human and Animal Psy- 

 chology and Kiilpe's Outlines of Psychology have 

 already been translated into English by Prof. 

 Titchener, the former in cooperation with Prof. 

 Creighton, and his Introduction to Psychology is 

 being translated by Dr. Judd. Consequently, 

 after a too long delay, we shall have adequate 

 English versions of Wundt's contributions to 

 psychology, including those of one of his most 

 prominent pupils, Prof. Kiilpe. 



The Chicago Academy of Sciences gave, from 

 July 15th to August 15th, a free course of lec- 

 tures by twenty-five different lecturers, the sub- 

 jects included being Anatomy, Climatology, 

 Optics, Geology, Astronomy, Physics of Elec- 

 tricity, Botany, Zoology, Entomology, Com- 

 parative Anatomy, Mental Science, Biology, 

 Physiology, Malacology, Physical Geography, 

 Surgical Anatomy, Physics of Optics, Bac- 

 teriology, Ornithology, Scientific Nursing, 

 Latin, German, Anthropology, Chemistry, 

 Surgical Philosophy, Medical Chemistry, Hy- 

 giene and Meteorology. Meteorology was 

 demonstrated at the Auditorium Tower every 

 Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4 o'clock by Prof, 

 E, B. Garriott. 



There has been established in Berlin a 

 People's Society for Natural Science, the chief 

 object of which is to offer scientific lectures 

 that will be interesting to those having no tech- 

 nical knowledge of the subject. The first lec- 



ture before the Society was given by Dr. Forster, 

 Director of the Royal Observatory, and was 

 entitled ' Conditions and beginnings of life on 

 the earth.' 



A case reported in The British Medical Journal 

 may be of interest to American as well as Eng- 

 lish municipal authorities. The executors of 

 the late Mr. T. H. Smith, of Moseley, near Bir- 

 mingham, claimed, on behalf of his widow and 

 six children, the sum of £10,000 damages from 

 the King's Norton Rural District Council for 

 negligence, which, it was alleged, caused the 

 death of Mr. Smith from typhoid fever. It was 

 stated that a ventilating shaft communicating 

 with a chimney in the house of the deceased 

 allowed sewer gas to be conveyed into the 

 rooms. In 1891 the Council undertook to dis- 

 connect the shaft, but after Mr. Smith's death 

 inquiry was made, with the result, it was al- 

 leged that a defect was found to exist which, 

 still permitted the escape of sewer gas into the 

 house. The jury gave a verdict for the plain- 

 tiflf, with £3,500 damages. 



We learn from the New York Evening Post 

 that,beginning with August 28th, the usual series 

 of horticultural schools under the direction of 

 the professors at Cornell will be conducted 

 throughout western New York. Twenty-six 

 schools have been definitely arranged for, to be 

 in the charge of three distinct sets of teachers, 

 having at their heads respectively Prof. L. H. 

 Bailey, who travelled 15,000 miles back and 

 forth through the State in carrying out this work 

 last year; George T. Powell, of Ghent, and 

 Prof. E. G. Lodeman. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The University of Pennsylvania will proceed 

 at once with the erection of a new building for 

 the department of dentistry, to cost $120,000. 



Ground has been broken for the new library 

 at Princeton University. The building is to be 

 200 X 180 feet in ground measurements, and 

 will be four stories high. The estimated cost 

 is $598,000. 



The London University Bill, which it was 

 hoped to pass through Parliament before its ad- 

 journment, has been abandoned, owing to the 



