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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF ALL THE ARTs/aND SCIENCES. 



PUBLISHED BY N. D. C. HODGES, 874 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 



Tenth Year. 

 Vol. XIX. No. 470. 



FEBRUARY 5, 1893. 



Single Copies, Ten Cents. 

 §3.50 Per Year, in Advance. 



Contents. 



a Lump or Salt and a Glass of Water. 



jR. B. Warder 71 



The Origin of the Ass, the Cat and 



THE Sheep in China 73 



Notes and News 74 



Indian Occupation of New York. W. 



M. Beauchamp 76 



The Support of Museums. Eugene Mur- 

 ray Aaron 77 



Astronomical Notes. G. A. H 78 



Hainan 78 



Sericulture in Asia Minor 79 



Mr. Koebele's Second Trip to Austra- 

 lia 80 



Letters to the Editor. 



The First Locomotive. Stanley M. 



Ward 80 



A Section of Botany in the Ameri- 

 can Association. Byron D. Hal- 



sted 81 



Among the Publishers 81 



Entered at the Post-Offlce of New York, N.Y., as 

 Second-Class Mail Matter. 



METEORITES! 



We have JUST ISSUED AN ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 

 OF OUR METEORITES, giving first a chronological list of the falls (descriptive of 

 each individual specimen), under the three classes, SIDERITES, 3IDEE0LITES AND 

 ZEOLITES, followed by a LIST OF MICRO-SECTIONS OF .ZEOLITES FOE SALE, 

 and a chronological list of the CASTS OF METEOEITES which were made before cutting 

 the specimens into slices, thus being an exact /ac simile of the size and shape of the meteor. 



These lists are followed by 25 PAGES OF ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIONS of 

 some of the more recent masses that have passed through our hands. 



The Index to this Catalogue not only gives IN HEAVY TYPE the names adopted for 

 the Meteorites, but various important synonymous names in smaller type. 

 PRICE OF THE CATALOGUE, 25 CENTS. 



If you have METEORITES for sale, or METEORITES 

 that you desire sliced, write to us. 



As in years gone by, we are still the headquarters in this country 

 for MINERALS, ROCKS, FOSSILS, CASTS OF FOSSILS, and 

 other Natural History Specimens. 



FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND CIRCULARS, ADDRESS 



WARD'S NATURAL SCIENCE ESTABLISHMENT, 



16—26 College Avenue, Rochester, W. Y. 



SCIENCE 



TENTH YEAR. 



The use of Science by scientific men has increased in the past 

 few months as never before. More than tWO hundred Of the 



leading scientific men and women of America have 



agreed to contribute to the paper during the coming year ; and, 

 as others are constantly joining in this move, to make the paper more 

 valuable than ever, it cannot be long before there will be a body of 



five hundred competent users of this weekly medium 



of scientific discussion. It is our aim to place the paper in the 

 hands of all competent persons who will avail themselves of this oppor- 

 tunity to make Science a "better representative of American scientific 

 work than ever in the past. 



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