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full share in the accomplishment of this work. 

 His lectures were admirably clear, and by teach- 

 ing and example he greatly stimulated his stu- 

 dents in original research. His own work on 

 the physiology of the heart and in other direc- 

 tions is well known. His friends and former 

 students published recently a collection of his 

 scientific papers and addresses, which we hope 

 to review shortly in this Journal. Only a 

 month ago we called attention to the revised 

 edition of ' The Human Body,' and stated that 

 ' ' the book remains the best compendium we 

 have covering the anatomy, physiology, psy- 

 chology and hygiene of the human body." 

 Martin's untimely death is in every way a 

 cause for deep regret. 



The Association of American Agricultural 

 Colleges met in Washington, D. C. , on Novem- 

 ber 10th, 11th and 12th. 



The annual convention of the American 

 Society of Mechanical Engineers will be held at 

 the house of the Society, 12 West Thirty-first 

 street. New York City, from December 1st 

 to 4th. 



The Bradshaw Lecture, by Dr. W. R. 

 Gowers, on 'Subjective Sensations of Sound,' 

 was delivered before the Royal College of Phy- 

 sicians of London on Thursday, November 5th, 



The comet medal of the Astronomical Society 

 of the Pacific, founded by Joseph A. Donahoe, 

 has been awarded to M. Giacobini, of the Ob- 

 servatory at Nice, France, for his discovery of 

 an unexpected comet on September 4, 1896. 



Mr. J. Wolfe Barry gave his presidential 

 address to the London Institution of Civil Engi- 

 neers on November 3d. 



Dr. Ludwig Reh, of Sao Paolo, Brazil, has 

 been appointed permanent assistant to the Con- 

 cilium Bibliographicum, Zurich. 



The Academy of Sciences at Budapest has 

 received a bequest of 10,000 fl. from the late 

 D. P. Von Palast. 



It is proposed to raise the subscription to the 

 Physical Society, of London, and that hereafter 

 members shall be known as ' fellows. ' 



The lecture of M. Moissan before several of 

 the scientific societies of New York, on October 

 27th, was followed with great interest by a 



large and representative audience. Even those 

 unable to understand French appreciated the 

 experiments with the electric furnace, showing 

 the artificial production of diamonds and the 

 volatilization of silica. 



Dr. Felix Klein has been the guest of the 

 faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. The 

 graduates from Gottingen who reside in Philadel- 

 phia gave him a dinner, and he was also enter- 

 tained by the Mathematical Club. 



Popular Astronomy states that Prof. Wins- 

 low Upton, of Ladd Observatory, Brown Uni- 

 versity, is now at Harvard College Observatory, 

 at Arequipa, Peru, engaged in making latitude 

 and longitude observations. Mr. DeLisle Stew- 

 art, a graduate of Carleton College, is now one 

 of the regular observers in the Observatory. He 

 is engaged largely in photographic work, the 

 photographs being sent to Harvard Observa- 

 tory. 



Dr. L. Serrueibr, director of the Ethno- 

 graphic Museum in Leiden, has resigned be- 

 cause the state will not rebuild the museum 

 building. 



The Flower Astronomical Observatory of the 

 University of Pennsylvania has been com- 

 pleted and will be used at once by graduate 

 students. It is well equipped with instruments, 

 the lenses of which were made by Brashear and 

 the instrumental parts by Warner & Swasey. 

 The Flower Observatory is outside the city, but 

 a working observatory, for the benefit of the 

 undergraduates taking the college course in as- 

 tronomy, has been erected near the other uni- 

 versity buildings. This building will be equip- 

 ped with a transit instrument, zenith telescope 

 and a four-inch equatorial — the gift of Horace 

 Howard Furness, Jr. 



A DESPATCH from Madrid says that the town 

 of Huelva, in the province of that name, has 

 been swept by a tidal wave from the Atlantic 

 Ocean. 'No details are given, but the report 

 says it is known that the loss of life has been 

 great. The steamer Carthegena was over- 

 whelmed by the great wave and most of the 

 persons on board were drowned. Huelva is a 

 town on an inlet of the Atlantic, forty-nine 

 miles west, northwest of Seville, The popula- 

 tion of the town is about twelve thousand. 



