February 18, 1887.] 



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794 are tnatricnlated in the faculty of theol- 

 ogy, 1,283 in the faculty of law, 1,297 in the 

 faculty of medicine, and 1,984 in the faculty of 

 philosophy : 4,062 of the students are from Prus- 

 sia ; while the rest of Germany furnishes 740. 

 The foreign students number 381, the Russians 

 coming first with 198, America following with 

 149. In the faculty of philosophy are 715 students 

 from gymnapia, and 402 from real-gymnasia. 

 The total number of instructors is now 288, in- 

 cluding 16 in theology, 22 inlaw, 103 in medicine, 

 and 147 in philosophy, 



— M. Justi, who has received a flattering call 

 to the University of Vienna, will not leave his 

 chair of the history of art at Bonn. 



— The Pacific science monthly, edited by Rev. 

 Stephen Bowers, is to be issued as a bulletin of 

 the Ventura society of natural history in the 

 future, and published quarterly or as occasion 

 demands. 



— E. L. Greene, who has made a name for 

 himself by his 'Studies of the botany of California 

 and parts adjacent,' has been lately appointed a 

 professor in the University of California. 



— The March number of the Popular science 

 monthly will contain a portrait of the late Prof. E. 

 L. Youmans, engraved on steel by Schlecht. The 

 likeness is considered remarkably vivid, while 

 the execution of the work is much superior to 

 ordinary book-plates. 



— Henry Hemphill, the renowned brick-layer 

 and conchologist, has presented a collection of a 

 thousand species of shells to the San Diego society 

 of natural history, A few years ago he gave the 

 State normal school a series of over eight hundred 

 mollusks, collected by himself in the west part of 

 the United States, which was by far the best 

 public collection on the coast. 



— In the Clarendon press series of school and 

 college text-books, three new volumes have re- 

 cently appeared. Professor Sweet's ' Second mid- 

 dle Enghsh primer' is meant as a continuation 

 of his 'First middle English primer,' and consists 

 of a series of selections from Chaucer, together 

 with a brief grammatical outline and a key to 

 phonetic transcription, Mr. Sloman's edition of 

 the ' Adelphi ' of Terence is excellent as an ele- 

 mentary book, and the worst that can be said of 

 Heberden's edition of the ' Medea ' is, that it con- 

 tains nothing new. 



— Hungary has within its borders 143 towns, in 

 74 of which the Magyar element predominates, in 

 24 the German, in 24 the Slavic, in 6 the Rouma- 

 nian, and in one each the Servian and Bulgarian. 



Thirteen towns are not marked by the distinct 

 preponderance of any nationality. 



— The population of Africa is estimated at two 

 hundred millions, of whom forty per cent are 

 negroes, and forty per cent Hottentots and Bush- 

 men. 



— The educational bureau, or museum, and the 

 pedagogical library that Superintendent Draper 

 is building up in conection with his department at 

 Albany, deserve encouragement. The collections 

 will not only be valuable in themselves, but they 

 should be the source of inspiration and suggestion 

 to numbers of teachers. 



— The geological survey is receiving data daily 

 concerning the recent earthquake of Feb. 6 in south- 

 ern Indiana, Illinois, a small portion of Kentucky, 

 and east central Missouri. The only accurate 

 time-observation was that made at Terre Haute, 

 Ind., by Prof. T. C, Mendenhall, who gives the 

 time as 4:15:06 a.m., Feb. 6. The newspaper re- 

 ports indicate an area of about 75,000 square miles 

 in the states just given. The greatest intensity 

 was in south-western Indiana and south-eastern 

 Illinois. Efforts are being made to obtain the 

 accurate boundary of the area covered, by means 

 of circulars sent out by the geological survey, 



— Mr, Carlisle Terry, one of the most efficient 

 officers of the coast survey, who has been in 

 charge of the magnetic observatory at Los Angeles, 

 has been compelled, on account of ill health, to 

 retire temporarily from the service, and has been 

 ordered to his home at Columbus, Ga. The results 

 of Mr, Terry's thorough work have been most im- 

 portant, and liis services will be greatly missed. 



— Among the reported discoveries for the pre- 

 vention of rabies is that of Dr. Fernandez of Bar- 

 celona, who claims that a dog that has been bitten 

 by a viper never has rabies, and cannot become 

 rabid when inoculated. He has inoculated dogs 

 with viper's poison, and he holds that under no 

 circumstances will they ever become rabid, 



— An automatic collecting or toll-taking device, 

 to be attached to telephones at public or pay 

 stations, has been invented. The mechanism in 

 the telephone-box is so arranged that the telephone 

 will not operate until a coin of a certain size and 

 weight, dropped into a slit in the front, acts upon 

 a switch-lever, thereby making electrical connec- 

 tion between the transmitter and the line wire. 

 The act of hanging the receiving-telephone, after 

 use, in the place provided for it, drops the coin 

 into a tiU and releases the switch-lever, thereby 

 breaking the electrical connection and ' setting the 

 trap ' for the next user. 



