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Vol. XV. NEW YOEK, April 18, 1890. No. 376. 



CONTENTS: 



The Suppression of Consump- 

 tion. O. W. Hambleton 



Health Matters. 



Cookery of the Poor 



Schmerz-freude ("Pain-Joy").. 

 Action of Caffeine 



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Notes and News 244 



Editorial 246 



Barnard College. 

 The Marine Biological Labora- 

 tory 246 



Book-Revtews. 

 The Anatomy of the Prog 247 



Practical Electricity in Medicine 



and Surgery 24' 



Notes on American Schools and 



Training Colleges 24' 



Practical Electrics :' 24' 



Among THE Publishers 24! 



Letters to the Editor. 

 Anemometry. H. A. Hazen. . .. 

 Supposed Aboriginal Pish- Weirs 

 in Naaman^s Creek, near Clay- 

 mont, Del. H. T. Cresson.... 

 Industrial Notes. 

 Automatic Oil- burning Steam- 

 Engine for Electric Lighting. . . 



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We have received the prospectus of Barnard College, the 

 institution founded last year in New York to enable women to 

 receive collegiate instruction from the profsssors of Columbia 

 College. The two corporations are distinct ; but Columbia fur- 

 nishes the teachers for the women's college, and confers the 

 degrees upon its graduates. The new college was named after 

 the late President Barnard of Columbia, in gratitude for his 

 efforts in behalf of the higher education of women. The 

 pamphlet now befoi'e us contains the requirements for admis- 

 sion to the Barnard, together with the courses of study during 

 the freshman and sophomore years. The requirements for 

 admission consist of the elements of Greek, Latin, and mathe- 

 matics, with English grammar and composition and some 

 history and geography. The studies of the fiist two years are 

 in the same departments, with the addition of chemistry and 

 botany and the French and German languages. It will be 

 seen, therefore, that the founders of the new institution are no 

 innovators, but have adopted the course of study usually pur- 

 sued by young men. The studies thus far announced seem 

 rather too largely technical, but probably those of the junior 

 and senior years will be less so. Several post-graduate courses 

 are also provided, with opportunity to obtain the degrees of 

 master of arts, doctor of philosophy, doctor of letters, and doc- 

 tor of science. On the whole, the programme promises well, 

 and every friend of humanity will wish the new college God 

 speed . 



THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABOR.iTORY. 



The third session (1890) of the Marine Biological Laboratory- 

 will be held this summer. The corps of instructors consists of Dr. 

 C. O. Whitman, director, professor of zoology, Clark University^ 

 editor of the Journal of Morphology; Howard Ayers, Ph.D., di 

 rector of The Lake Laboratory, Milwaukee; E. G. Gardiner. 

 Ph.D., instructor in zoology, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 

 ogy; I. Playfair McMurrich, Ph.D., decent in zoology, Ciai-k 

 University; J. S Kingsley. Sc.D., professor of zoology, Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska; H. C Burapus, M.A., fellow in zoology, Clark 

 University; W. M. Rankin, Ph.D , Princeton College; W. A. 

 Setchell, B A,, assistant in botany. Harvard University; Takano- 

 Uyoiche, artist: G. W. Fitz, laboratory assistant. 



In addition to the regular courses of instruction in zoology, bot- 

 any, and microscopical technique, consisting of lectures and lab- 

 oratory work under the direct and constant supervision of the in- 

 structors, there will be two or more courses of lectures on special 

 subjects by members of the staff. One such course of six lectures, 

 will be given by Dr. McMurrich on the Hydrozoa. Similar 

 courses on the Crustacea and echinoderms will be given by Pro- 

 fessor Kingsley and Dr. Rankin. There will also be ten or more 

 evening lectures on biological subjects of general interest. The 

 first of these will be given by Dr. Whitman on July 9. Among 

 those who may contribute these lectures and take part in the dis- 

 cussions upon them may be mentioned, in addition to the instruc- 

 tors above named, the following: Professors E. B. Wilson of Bryn 

 Mawr, C S. Minot of Harvard Medical School, W. T. Sedgwick 

 of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S. F. Clarke of' 

 AVilliams College; Dr. G. Baur, receotly of Yale University; Dr. 

 Henry Orr, recently of the Universities of Jena and Princeton; 

 Dr. C. H. Eigenmanu, recently of the University of Indiana^. 

 Professor W. A. Locy of Lake Forest University; and William M. 

 Wheeler of Milwaukee. 



The laboratory is located on the coast at Wood's Holl, Mas.sa- 

 chusetts near the laboratories of the United Slates Fish Commis- 

 sion. It has already been found necessary to add to it this year 

 a library, a lecture-roo'u, and six more private laboratories. The 

 building consists of two stories; the lower for the use of students 

 receiving instruction, the upper exclusively for investigators. 

 The laboratory has aquaria supplied with running sea-water.,, 

 boats, collecting apparatus, and dredges; it will also be supplied 

 with alcohol and other re agents, glassware, and a limited num- 

 ber of microtomes and microscopes. By the munificence of 

 friends the library will be provided henceforth not only with the 

 ordinary test-books and works of reference, but also with the 

 more important journ-als of zoology and botany, some of them in 

 complete series. If the necessary funds can be obtained, the lab- 

 oratory will also be provided with a steam-launch, and in any 

 event there will be opportunities for collecting material for study 

 and investigation. 



The laboratory for investigators will be open from June 3 to 

 Aug. 30. It will be fully equipped with aquaria, glassware, re- 

 agents, etc., but microscopes and microtomes vvill not be pro- 

 vided. In this department there are fourteen private laboratories 

 supplied with aquaria, running water, etc., for the exclusive use 

 of investigators who are invited to carry on their researches here 

 free of charge. Those who are prepared to begin original work,, 

 but require supervision, special suggestions, criticism, or extended; 

 instruction in technique, may occupv tables in the general labora- 

 tory for investigators, paying for the privilege a fee of fifty dol- 

 lars. The number of such tables is limited to ten. Applicants 

 for them should state precisely what tbey have done in prepara- 

 tion for original work, and whether they can bring a complete 

 outfit; viz., microscope, microtome, camera-lucida, etc. Special 

 attention is invited to the opportunities offered to the holders of 

 these tables, as it is believed that they are somewhat unusual. 



The laboratory for students will be opened on Wednesday, July 

 9, for regular courses of seven weeks in marine zoology and bot- 

 any, and microscopical technique. Opportunities will be given 

 for collecting and preparing material for use in the class-room 

 and for special lines of study. Iland-lenses, dissecting-instru- 

 nients, drawing-materials, etc., may be bought at cost in the lab- 



