October 23, 1896.] 



SCIENCE. 



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the local fauna, and later to the formation of 

 small loan collections which can be used by 

 teachers in their class rooms. 



According to Cosmos, a new alpine meteoro- 

 logical observatory will be established on the 

 summit of the Bochers de Naye. The arrange- 

 ments are now being made by MM. RufFy and 

 Hagenbach Bischoff, of Bale, members of the 

 Swiss Meteorological Commission. 



The Middletown Scientific Association held a 

 meeting on October 13th, at which suitable 

 notice was taken of the death of G. Brown 

 Goode, the founder of the Association. 



As announced some time since, Miss Helen 

 Kellar, who, blind, deaf, dumb, has now reached 

 the age of sixteen years, has been removed from 

 a school for the deaf and dumb, and has been 

 placed in Mr. Gilman's Cambridge School for 

 Girls. It is not correct, as stated, in many of 

 the daily papers, that she has entered RadclifFe 

 College or passed the examinations for this, but 

 in a private examination she showed herself com- 

 petent to answer the questions of examination 

 papers in English, French, German and history. 



At the Church Congress (Church of England) 

 which met at Shrewsbury, on October 6th, a 

 session was set apart for the discussion of the 

 bearing of the theory of evolution on Ohristian 

 doctrine. The Bishop of Litchfield presided, 

 and addresses were made by Archdeacon Wil- 

 son, Prof. Bonney and Canon Gore. There 

 seems to have been complete unanimity. 

 Canon Gore said, ' Evolution had taken hold of 

 theology ; it had modified our way of thinking 

 about it. ' Archdeacon Wilson said, ' ' Christian 

 doctrine could adopt the evolutionary view of 

 creation," that the theory of evolution had 

 taught us to properly interpret ' ' what was re- 

 lated as ' The Fall ' sub specie historise. ' ' 



We have already called attention to the 

 formation of the New York State Science 

 Teachers' Association, whose object is the 

 promotion of science teaching and the mutual 

 acquaintance of those interested. A provisional 

 committee has been appointed to conduct the 

 affairs of the Association until the first annual 

 meeting, which will probably be held during 

 the Christmas holidays in connection with the 

 State Principals' Association at Syracuse. All 



those interested in the teaching and promotion 

 of science should join the Association and make 

 efforts to attend its first meeting. The officers 

 are: Simon H.Gage, President; Chas.W. Hargitt, 

 Vice-President; Franklin W. Barrows, Secretary 

 and Treasurer (45 Park St., Buffalo, N. Y.). 



The Chicago Institute of Education has ap- 

 pointed a committee of sixty whose duty it 

 shall be to develop some feasible plan for carry- 

 ing on systematic outdoor, or field work, in 

 connection with nature study. The committee 

 held its first meeting on September 19th, and a 

 permanent organization was effected by the 

 election of Mr. Wilbur S. Jackman as President 

 and Mrs. M. L. T. Baker as Secretary, and the 

 appointment of a number of sub-committees. 

 One of the first works of the committee will be 

 the preparation of maps of the evirons of Chi- 

 cago, which will assist the pupils and teachers 

 of the public schools in a systematic study of 

 the country which lies within a convenient 

 radius of the city. Syllabi will also be compiled 

 giving information for reaching the different 

 points of interest and for study. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



According to the Boston Transcript the 

 registration at Harvard University is about 

 3,590, of w^hich number 1,260 are new names. 

 There is a slight decrease in the college, but an 

 increase of about 10 per cent, in the scientific 

 school. There is also an increase in the gradu- 

 ate and medical schools. In the latter 50 per 

 cent, of the students hold college degrees, as 

 compared with 35 per cent, last year, 



Mr. George M. Ward has been elected 

 President of Eollin's College, Winter Park, Fla. 



Dr. R. Meade Bolton, now bacteriologist of 

 the Philadelphia Board of Health, has been 

 elected instructor in bacteriology in the Univer- 

 sity of Missouri. 



It is reported that the University of Edin- 

 burgh has conferred the degree of M, A, on two 



women graduates. Miss MacGregor and Miss 

 Geddes, 



At the University of Cambridge Mr, W, T, N, 

 Spivey, of Trinity College, has been appointed 

 to succeed Dr, A. Scott as demonstrator to the 

 Jacksonian professorship of organic chemistry. 



