January i, 1892.] 



SCIENCE. 



kota; Hiram H. Bice (A.B., 1889), instructor of languages, Black- 

 bum University, Carlinville, III.; Richard N. Brackett (Ph.D., 

 1887), associate professor of chemistry, Clemson Agricultural Col- 

 lege, S.C. ; J. Douglas Bruce (graduate student, 1889-90), associate 

 in Anglo-Saxon and Middle English, Bryn Mawr College; Norman 

 W. Cary (graduate student, 1889-91), instructor in biology, geol- 

 ogy, and astronomy, Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa. ; Frank 

 A. Christie (fellow, 1885-86), lecturer on New Testament litera- 

 ture. Harvard Divinity School; Henry L. Coar (graduate student, 

 1884-86), mathematical master, Smith Academy, Washington 

 University, Mo. ; Charles Edward Coates, Jun. (A.B., 1887, Ph D., 

 1891), professor of chemistry, St. John's College, Md. ; John R. 

 Commons (graduate student, 1888-90), associate ijrofessor of po- 

 litical economy, Oberlin College ; Starr W. Cutting (graduate 

 student, 1890-91), professor of French and German, Earlham 

 College; L. Bradley Dorr (A.B., 1890), adjunct professor of 

 cliemistry, Niagara University, Buffalo, N.Y. ; Hermann L Ebe- 

 ling (A.B., 1882, fellow, 1890, Ph.D., 1891), professor of Greek, 

 Miami University; William A. Eckles (graduate student, 1889- 

 91), professor of Greek, Ripon College; George S. Ely (fellow, 

 1881-83, Ph.D., 1883), principal examiner, U. S. Patent Office; 

 Alfred Emerson (fellow, 1883-84, instructor, 1884-85), associate 

 professor of classical archeology, Cornell University ; Andrew 

 Fossum (Ph.D., 1887), classical instructor, Drisler school, New 

 York City ; William R. Eraser (graduate student, 1888-91), in- 

 structor in classics, University of Nebraska; Thomas P. Harrison 

 (fellow, 1890-91, Ph.D , 1891). associate professor of English, Clemson 

 Agricultural College, S.C ; Arthur S. Hathaway (fellow, 1882-83), 

 professor of matheuiatics. Rose Polytechnic Institute; George A. 

 Hench (fellow, 1888-89, Ph.D., 1889), assistant professor of Ger- 

 manic philology. University of Michigan; Charles C. Henschen, 

 (graduate student, 1890-91), instructor in Girard College, Philadel- 

 phia; Benjamin C. Hinde (graduate student, 1888-90), professor 

 of physics, Trinity College, N.C.; Clifton F. Hodge (fellow, 1888- 

 89, Ph.D., 1889), instructor of biology, University of Wisconsin ; 

 Walter J. Jones (A.B., 1888, Ph.D., 1891), professor of chemistry, 

 Wittenberg College. O. ; Henry W. Keating (A.B., 1891), princi- 

 pal, Centreville Academy, Md. ; Andrew C. Lawson (fellow, 1886- 

 87, Ph.D., 1888), assistant professor of geology and mineralogy, 

 University of California; Frederick S. Lee (fellow, 1884-85, Ph.D., 

 1885), demonstrator of physiology, College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, N.Y.; Felix Lengfeld (fellow, 1887-88, Ph.D., 1888), 

 instructor in chemistry. University of California ; A. Stanley 

 Mackenzie (fellow, 1890-91), lecturer in physics, Bryn Mawr Col- 

 lege; Arthur W. McDougall (A.B., 1891), financial secretary. As- 

 sociated Charities of Cincinnati; John H. T. McPherson (A.B., 

 1886, fellow, 1889-90, Ph.D., 1890), professor of history, Univer- 

 sity of Georgia ; W. Howard Miller (A.B., 1888), instructor in 

 mathematics, Leland Stanford University; Thomas H. Morgan 

 (fellow, 1889-90, Ph.D., 1890, Bruce fellow, 1890-91), associate 

 professor of biology, Bryn Mawr College; Wilfred P. Mus- 

 tard (fellow, 1890 91, Ph.D., 1891), professor of Latin, Colorado 

 College; Charles A. Perkins (fellow, 1883-84, Ph.D., 1884), pro- 

 fessor of physics, Hampden Sidney College ; E. D. Preston (fel- 

 low, 1876-78), is engaged at Honolulu, probably for a year, 

 working under the joint auspices of the International Geodetic 

 Association of Europe and the U. S. Coast and Greodetic Survey ; 

 Herbert E. Russell (graduate student, 1886-87), associate professor 

 of mathematics and natural sciences, University of Denver; A. 

 Duncan Savage (fellow, 1876-79), instructor in the history of art, 

 Farmington, Conn.; Edward M. Schaeffer (graduate student, 

 1883-85), professor of physical culture, Washington and Lee 

 University ; Henry Sewall (fellow, 1878-79, associate, 1879-82, 

 Ph.D , 1879), professor of physiology. University of Denver; Sid- 

 ney Sherwood (Ph.D., 1891), instructor in finance. University of 

 Pennsylvania ; Ernest G. Sihler (fellow, 1876-79, Ph.D., 1878), 

 professor (.>f ancient languages, Concordia College, Milwaukee ; 

 Henry D. Thompson (fellow, 1886-87), assistant professor of 

 mathematics, Princeton College; William L. Weber (graduate 

 student, 1890-91), professor of English, Southwestern University, 

 Texas; Benjamin W. Wells (fellow, 1881), professor of modern 

 languages. University of the South; John White, Jun. (A.B., 

 1888, fellow, 1890-91, Ph.D., l!r91), assistant in chemistry, Cor- 



nell University ; Henry V. Wilson (A.B., 1883, fellow, 1887-88, 

 Ph.D., 1888, Bruce fellow, 1888-89), professor of biology. Univer- 

 sity of North Carolina ; Edmund B. Wilson (fellow, 1879-80, 

 Ph.D , 1881, assistant, 1881-82), adjunct professor of biology, 

 Columbia College ; John R. Wightman (fellow, 1886-87, Ph.D., 

 1888), associate professor of romance languages. University of 

 Nebraska; Arthur C. Wightman (fellow, 1887-88, Ph.D., 1889, 

 demonstrator, 1889-90), assistant professor of biology, Randolph 

 Macon College. 



— Professor Stas, the eminent Belgian chemist, has died at the 

 age of seventy- eight. 



— According to information sent to Berlin, says the Times, Emin 

 Pasha and Dr. Stuhlmann, travelling in the region between Lakes 

 Victoria, Tanganyika, and Albert Edward, have discovered what 

 they take to be the ultimate source of the Nile. Tliis is a river 

 called Kifu, which is supposed to have its sources in the Uhha 

 country, lying to the east of the northern part of Lake Tanganyika, 

 about 4° of south latitude. It flows into the southern end of Lake 

 Albert Edward. It is not stated that Emin and Dr. Stuhlmann 

 have actually followed the course of the river. They have no 

 doubt encountered it on their journey from Victoria Nyanza 

 towards the other lake and followed it down to its mouth. If the 

 course which they lay down for it is correct, it will compel us to 

 alter the hydrography on our maps of this region. There is no 

 mention of the Lake Kifu, between Tanganyika and Albert Ed- 

 ward, to be found in existing maps; and it is well known that the 

 African natives rarely distinguish between a river and a lake, — 

 Nyanza, in the language of Central Africa, standing for both. 

 The still larger lake, Akanyaru, or Alexandra Nyanza, as Mr. 

 Stanley named it, may very probably also have to be removed. 

 No white traveller, so far as is known, has ever seen it; Mr Stan- 

 ley placed it down on his map from native report. It may simply 

 be an expansion of the Kifu, and not the source of the Kagera, 

 which flows into the west side of Victoria Nyanza. The Kagera 

 will thus lose much of its importance as a remote feeder of the 

 Nile, and the Kifu may possibly become its most southerly source. 

 But it should be remembered that when Mr. Stanley was march- 

 ing northwards to the Victoria Nyanza in his great journey across 

 Africa, he came upon a river in about 5° south latitude which he 

 believed flowed into the south shore of the lake under the name 

 of Shimeeyu. Mr. Stanley struck this river at only one or two 

 points, and these may really have belonged to different rivers. At 

 all events, on the most recent maps the Shimeeyu is sharply de- 

 flected to the east from its mouth in the lake, and there is no river 

 rising in 5° south latitude, which flows into the Victoria Nyanza. 

 Probably we have not heard the last word about the ultimate 

 sources of this strange river, about the position of which Ptolemy, 

 after all, was not so far wrong. We have first the Kifu rising in 

 about 4° south latitude, running into Lake Albert Edward, issuing 

 thence as the Semliki, and feeding Lake Albert. There it mingles 

 with the Victoria Nile from Lake Victoria, and together they 

 issue from Lake Albert as the White Nile, which, before it reaches 

 Khartoum, is augmented by a multitude of tributaries from the 

 west. Whether the Shimeeyu or the Kifu be its most remote 

 southern feeder, the river flows through 36 degrees of latitude. 

 The full details of this journey of Emin will be awaited with in- 

 terest, esi>ecially if he continues to fill in the blanks on our maps 

 and to complete our knowlege of one of the most remarkable 

 rivera of the world. 



— Professor Thomas F. Hunt of the Pennsjlvania State College 

 has accepted the invitation to occupy the chair of agriculture in 

 the Ohio State University after Jan. 1,1892. 



— Dr. E. von Esmarch, son of Professor v. Esmarch of Kiel, 

 has been appointed professor of hygiene in the University of KO- 

 nigsberg, in the room of Professor C. Frankel, who has gone to 

 Marburg. 



— Mr. Robert P. Bigelow (S B., Harvard University, 1887) has 

 been appointed to the Adam T. Bruce fellowship in biology, in 

 place of Dr. Thomas H. Morgan, who has resigned the fellowship 

 to accept the position of associate professor of biology at Bryn 

 Mawn College. 



