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SCIENCE. 



LVoL. IX., No. 229 



thoritj on the general subject of athletics, will 

 publish his first extended article in that field, 

 under the title ' The physical proportions of the 

 typical man.' In it Professor Sargent will give a 

 standard of physical measurement, based on the 

 measurements of ten thousand individuals. This 

 furnishes a basis of comparison by which any per- 

 son can gauge his proportions with those of the 

 typical man. The article will contain charts for 

 this purpose, founded on these observations. 



— Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 

 have published a seventh edition of ' Voice, song, 

 and speech,' by Lenox Browne and Emil Behnke. 

 Six editions of this work have been exhausted 

 since its publication three years ago. The last 

 two editions have been published in cheaper 

 form, in compliance with what was believed to 

 be a public demand. In order to attain this end, 

 the most expensive item of the earlier editions has 

 been omitted ; namely, the photographs of the 

 larynx and soft palate during the tone-production, 

 engravings being substituted. In all other re- 

 spects the book remains unaltered. 



— The final excursion (to the region of the Up- 

 per Delaware, the Shawangunk Mountains, and the 

 Catskills) arranged in connection with the spring 

 course of lectures on geology, of the Philadelphia 

 academy of sciences, will extend over a period of 

 two weeks, beginning with the first week in July. 

 The field-study will comprise an examination of 

 the Devonian rocks, with their contained fossils, 

 and the general phenomena of glaciation, erosion, 

 and mountain and valley formation. 



— Several papers on ' French traits,' by W. C. 

 Brownell, the first of which, on ' The social in- 

 stinct,' will appear in Scribner's magazine for 

 July, are the fruit of discriminating observation 

 by one who has a keen appreciation of, and sym- 

 pathy with, the French mind. In these essays it 

 is said that Mr. Brownell will make many striking 

 comparisons between English and American, and 

 French social life and customs. 



— The well-known catalogue of scientific books 

 issued by D. Van Nostrand, New York, has been 

 entirely revised to date. All the new and more 

 important works in the different branches of sci- 

 ence have been added, and considerable reduc- 

 tions in prices have been made. 



— The latest biography in the American states- 

 men series is ' Henry Clay,' by Carl Schurz (Bos- 

 ton, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.). Mr. Schurz takes 

 two volumes to tell the story of the great leader's 

 life, and he does it with marked vivacity of stjle, 

 and accuracy of detail. The design of the entire 



series is being as faithfully carried out as it was 

 well conceived. 



— Professor Arthur T. Hadley of Yale has been 

 made lecturer on railroad administration at Har- 

 vard. This is a well-deserved compliment to Pro- 

 fessor Hadley's abilities. 



— The list of royal authors is to be increased 

 by the addition of the name of King Leopold of 

 the Belgians, who is preparing a somewhat elabo- 

 rate history of the conquest of England by the 

 Normans. The king recently visited the battle- 

 field of Hastings in order to locate the spot where 

 Harold fell. 



— The general council of the University of 

 Glasgow has decided that the establishment of a 

 chair of education in the university is necessary. 



— Eaton now has 964 names on its roll, the 

 largest number on record. At Harrow 541 are 

 registered. 



— At the University of London recently, 

 twenty-five ladies were presented for the A.B. 

 degree, ten of them with honor, and two for the 

 B.Sc. degree. 



— Professor Prestwich has resigned the chair 

 of geology at Oxford, feeling himself unable to 

 carry on the great amount of work required. 



— The Russian government is about to have a 

 series of pipe-lines laid down for the conveyance 

 of petroleum over the Suram Pass, a distance of 

 thirty-five miles. At present the oil is transported 

 over the pass in short trains of six tank-cars each, 

 with two engines to each train. Upon the com- 

 pletion of the pipe-lines, the oil will be pumped 

 from reservoirs at Michalova, on the Tiflis side of 

 the Pass, directly into similar reservoirs at Kir- 

 rill, on the Batum side. 



— A company in London, England, furnishes 

 water, at a pressure of 700 pounds to the square 

 inch, to customers, for running elevators, print- 

 ing-presses, pumps, etc., through the medium of 

 water-motors. The company has twenty miles 

 of main laid, and furnishes water for 458 motors. 



— The sixtieth annual meeting of the German 

 natural scientists and physicians will be held at 

 Wiesbaden from Sept. 18 to Sept. 34 next. In 

 connection with the meeting, an exhibition has 

 been arranged for, to include new and complete 

 sets of apparatus, instruments, and so forth. 



— With its issue for May 5 last, the Central- 

 Organ fur die Interessen des Realschulwesens pub- 

 lished a most valuable list of all the works on 

 Scandinavia and its literature that appeared dur- 

 ing the year 1886. 



