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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Guardian tliat stockholders in gas companies 

 need not seriously alarmed by the prospect 

 of M. Joblochkofi's electric light superseding 

 gas for street light. First, because of the great 

 liability to damage, and difficulty of repairing 

 of the wires, etc. ; second, the expense of or- 

 ganizing a successful system of lighting street 

 lamps; third, the necessity of replacing the 

 exhausted candles hourly, if M. JobloclikofPs 

 system be adopted. 



Historical Sketch of Marietta College 



(Ohio), by Eev. I. AV. Andrews, L.L. D., 



President. 



This institution was founded December 17, 

 1832, and from that day to this has made 

 steady progress, neyer having suffered from 

 dissensions among its trustees or faculty, and 

 never having been "puffed up" by any re- 

 markable periods of success. It has always 

 had the best of professors and teachers, and 

 has regularly graduated its classes and sent out 

 men, lull armed, who have been a credit to the 

 institution wherever they have gone. The col- 

 lege was originally molded upon the New 

 England type, and its course of study and gen- 

 eral plan continues to be substantially the same 

 as at Dartmouth, Middlebury, Amherst, Yale 

 and Williams colleges. 



The libraries, aggregating 27,000 volumes^ 

 have been selected with the greatest care, and 

 some 15,000 of the most valuable books were 

 purchased by the late President, Henry Smith, 

 D. D., in Europe, at a cost of less than one- 

 third the price they would have cost in this 

 country. At the death of the eminent natur- 

 alist, S. P. Hildreth, M. D., his large and most 

 valuable collection of minerals, etc., was given 

 to the college ; in addition to which it has a 

 most excellent cabinet, largely accumulated by 

 Prof. E. B. Andrews. 



The course of instruction and requisites 

 for graduation have always been of an unusu 

 ally high standard for a Western college, and 

 many of the alumni of Marietta have become 

 professors in other colleges both east and west 

 of Ohio. The town of Marietta itself is a most 

 delightful place of residence, and no college 

 that we know of presents more advantages to 

 the student, either in a literary or social point 

 of view. 



The London Telegraphic Journal, ior July 

 15th, comes to us adorned with a striking pho- 

 tograph of the eminent scientist, Michael Fara- 

 day, who was born in 1791, and after a long 

 and most successful life, died in 1867. His 

 studies and experiments were chiefly in the 

 departments of electricity and magnetism, and 

 so universally recognized were his talents and 

 ability that "he was decorated with no less 

 than 95 titles and marks of merit, including 

 the Blue Ribbon of Science, for, in 1814 he was 

 chosen one of the eight foreign associates of 

 the French academy." 



We are informed that since the article on 

 the Wyandotte gas well was written the Com- 

 pany has made a contract for laying the mains 

 into the City of Wyandotte, so that we shall 

 soon be able to test not only the quality but 

 the quantity of the gas from this natural res- 

 ervoir. Should both equal their expectations 

 it will prove a very valuable discovery for the 

 manufacturers of this immediate region. 



Professor Snow's article on Entomology 

 which we publish this month, was read at the 

 last annual meeting of the Kansas State Acad- 

 emy of Science, and copied by us from the 

 Leavenworth Daily Times. It is an excellent 

 and most practical paper, full of useful in- 

 formation upon a rather neglected branch of 

 popular education. 



Prof. E. L. Youmans is engaged upon art 

 "American Household Cyclopedia," a diction- 

 ary of all things pertaining to domestic life,, 

 to be published this fall by D. Appleton & Co. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



MacMillan & Co., publishers of scientifie 



works, London and New York, have sent us? 



the following Science Lectures for the. 



People, viz : 



Why the Earth's Chemistry is as it is : three 

 lectures by J. Norman Lockyer, F. R. S. 



The Succession of Life on the Earth : three 

 lectures by Prof. AV. C. Williamson, F. R. S. 



What the Earth is Composed of: three lec- 

 tures by Prof. Roscoe, F. R. S. 



The Steam Engine: by F. .1. Bramwell, Esq.,, 

 AI. Inst., C. E., F. R. S. 



