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workers in Great Britain, France and Germany 

 to secure control of what remains. 



A DESPATCH to tlie daily papers from Port- 

 land, Ore., states that Mt. Hood has been in 

 eruption. A party of twenty-one persons nar- 

 rowly escaped being buried under an avalanche 

 of rock and ashes. 



A MONUMENT in memory of the mineralogist 

 and poet, Franz von Kobel, was unveiled in 

 Munich on July 19th. Franz von Kobel, who 

 died in 1882, was for more than 50 years pro- 

 fessor of mineralogy in the University of Mu- 

 nich and made many contributions to all de- 

 partments of the science, and was also well 

 known among the people for his poems in the 

 Bavarian dialects. 



A COMMITTEE to forward the erection of the 

 Pasteur monument has been formed in Bavaria, 

 consisting of Professors v. Pettenkofer, v. 

 Ziemssen and Buchner. 



Electricity notes that it is proposed to erect a 

 monument over the grave of Georg Simon Ohm. 

 Subscriptions will be received by the Konigliche 

 Filiabauk, Munich. 



The fiftieth anniversary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution is made the occasion of an extended 

 article on its history and present condition by 

 Dr. Max Voretzsch in Die Natur for August 

 30th. 



The catalogue issued during August by Ber- 

 nard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, London, offers 

 for sale a large number of scientific books, some 

 of them of great value, such as complete sets of 

 the American Journal of Science (£110), Curtis^s 

 Botanical Magazine (£148), Monthly Notices of 

 the Royal Astronomical Society (£24), etc. 



The Macmillan Co. announce the following 

 new volumes in the Rural Science Series edited 

 by Prof. Bailey, of Cornell University: '■ The 

 Apple,' by L. H. Bailey; nearly ready. 'Fer- 

 tility of the Land,' by I. P. Roberts, of Cornell 

 University; ready in October. 'Physiology of 

 Plants, ' by J. C. Arthur, of Purdue University. 

 ' Grasses,' by W. H. Brewer, of Yale University. 

 ' Bush Fruits,' by F. W. Card, of the University 

 of Nebraska. 'Plant Diseases,' by B. T. Gallo- 

 way, E. F. Smith and A. F. Woods, of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. ' Seeds and Seed 



Growing,' byG. H. Hicks, of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 'Leguminous Plants,' 

 by E. H. Hilgard, of the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 'Feeding of Animals,' by W. H. Jor- 

 dan, of Maine Experiment Station. 'Irriga- 

 tion,' by F. H. King, of the University of 

 Wisconsin. ' Milk and its Products,' by H. H. 

 Wing, of Cornell University. 



Among D. Appleton & Go.'s September pub- 

 lications are ' What is Electricity ? ' by Prof. 

 John Trowbridge, of Harvard University, a 

 new volume in the International Scientific 

 Series, and 'Alterations in Personality,' by M. 

 Alfred Binet, with an introduction by Prof. J. 

 Mark Baldwin. 



The Royal Society of Sciences, of Saxony, 

 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its founda- 

 tion on July 1st. The King of Saxony was 

 present and an address was made by the emi- 

 nent chemist. Prof. Wislicenus. 



A company has been organized at Little Rock, 

 Ark., with a view to using horseless carriages 

 in the place of, or in opposition to, the street 

 cars. A franchise has been requested and a prop- 

 osition made to the City Council to pay 5 per 

 cent, of the net receipts to the city. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The Columbian University, Washington, has 

 established a veterinary department, the fac- 

 ulty of which will include D. E. Salmon, who 

 will be dean of the faculty, professor of sani- 

 tary medicine, control and eradication of con- 

 tagious diseases and inspection of meats ; John 

 Lockwood, professor of theory and practice 

 of medicine and surgery ; William P. Carr, 

 professor of general physiology ; E. A. de 

 Schweinitz, professor of chemistry ; Charles 

 F. Dawson, professor of physiology and pathol- 

 ogy ; A. M. Farrington, professor of obstetrics 

 and zootechnics ; D. E. Buckingham, i)rofessor 

 of materia medica and therapeutics ; James 

 Carroll, professor of pathology and bacteriol- 

 ogy ; Cecil French, professor of canine pathol- 

 oly ; Albert Hassall, professor of parasitology. 

 W. S. Washburn, professor of histology ; 

 Charles F. Hadfield, demonstrator of anatomy; 

 C. Wardell Stiles, lecturer on zoology and Ed- 

 win Willitts, lecturer on medical jurisprudence. 



