June 8, 1900.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Uuiversity, afterwards going to Para and other 

 places on the South American coast. 



The London correspondent of the N. Y. Even- 

 ing Post reports interesting discoveries of the Hel- 

 lenic Society in the Palace of MinosatKnossos, 

 near Candia in Crete. On the west of the palace 

 was found a long series of stone galleries with 

 immense decorated oil jars in position and stone 

 receptacles for oil under the floors. A great 

 plaster bull in relief, of artistic excellence for 

 that period, has come to light, and the lower 

 part of a fresco showing a long procession of 

 white-footed ladies in richly embroidered gar- 

 ments and red-footed men semi-nude. In other 

 realistic frescoes of ladies the colors are well 

 preserved. A magnificent set of vases in mar- 

 ble, steatite, and other stones also has been 

 collected, the finest being in the form of a 

 mastiff's head of Parian marble. Clay vases 

 unearthed include a set of perfect vases of the 

 peculiar fantastic and highly colored style 

 which preceded the Mycenisean in Crete. This 

 remarkable ware was only known previously 

 from a few fragments. There are also many 

 remains of a stone age settlement, black geo- 

 metric pottery, and stone weapons. This com- 

 pletes the series of objects representing the 

 history of Crete from the stone age to about the 

 seventh century B. C. They are said to revo- 

 lutionize ideas about pre-Hellenic civilization 

 in the ^gean, but the most important fact is 

 the constant evidence of influence from inter- 

 course with the Egypt of the eighteenth and 

 subsequent Pharaonic dynasties. 



Me. Chables Adams, the editor of the 

 Veridmn Bevieiv, an anti-vivisection journal, 

 brought suit against the British Medical Asso- 

 ciation for damages owing to a statement in 

 regard to him in the Journal of the Associ- 

 ation. Although Mr. Adams's counsel alleged 

 on his behalf that he was ' au old gentleman 

 and Avas irritable ' the jury did not hesitate to 

 bring in a verdict in favor of the defendants 

 requiring Mr. Adams to pay the costs. 



The director of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 Dr. Charles D. Walcott, has sent a notice in 

 answer to numerous questions concerning the 

 issue of ' Mineral Eesources of the United 

 States, 1898,' to the elSfect that the following 



provision was included in an act of Congress 

 approved March 2, 1895 : "Provided, That here- 

 after the report of the mineral resources of the 

 United States shall be issued as a part of the 

 report of the Director of the Geological Sur- 

 vey." In conformity with this act of Congress, 

 ' Mineral Resources, 1898,' containing a state- 

 ment of the production of every mineral in the 

 United States, with its value, where it is found, 

 and where it can be sold, etc., will be published 

 as Part VI. of the ' Twentieth Annual Report 

 of the United States Geological Survey.' The 

 series will continue in succeeding annual re- 

 ports. Application for the report should be 

 made to members of Congress, who will have a 

 limited number for distribution. The small 

 edition furnished to the office is suflioient only 

 to meet the demands of exchanges and con- 

 tributors. 



From the British Medical Journal we learn 

 that before the Academic de Medecine in Paris, 

 M. Laveran after presenting an important 

 report on the study of malaria concluded by 

 proposing, first, that the Academie should ap- 

 point a committee on malaria ; secondly, that 

 it should pass a resolution calling on the Gov- 

 ernment to send an expedition to Algeria to 

 study in some of the unhealthiest parts of that 

 colony, the relations of mosquitoes to malaria, 

 and the most effectual means of prophylaxis. 

 The proposals were supported by Professor R. 

 Blanchard, who, we understand, has already 

 pressed on the French Government the neces- 

 sity of founding a French School of Tropical 

 Medicine. He mentioned that he had recently 

 made a catalogue of all the species of Anopheles 

 now known, which showed that the geographical 

 distribution of these insects corresponds exactly 

 with that of malaria. M. Laveran's proposals 

 were adopted by the Academie. A committee 

 for the study of malaria was appointed, consist- 

 ing of MM. Kelsch, Laveran, Blanchard, Rail- 

 liet and Vallin. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Messes. Samuel Cupples and Robert S. 

 Brookings have each given to Washington Uni- 

 versity one-half of the total capital stock of the 

 St. Louis Terminal Cupples Station and Prop- 

 erty Company, which company owns the so- 



