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practical means regarding the purification of the waters as they 
came from the works so as to render the streams suitable for fish 
life without crippling the industry, and taking into consideration 
such resources as may be offered by the construction of basins 
for deposition, of filtration apparatus, and of the recourse to 
chemical reagents. 4. Separate experiments on the matters 
which, in each special industry, cause the death of fishes, and on 
the degree of the resistance of each edible fish to destruction. 
All the memoirs must be sent in before October 1, 1884, to re- 
ceive any attention. 
— The general regret and sense of the great loss to biological 
science in the death of Professor Balfour, has led to the establish: 
ment of a memorial fund, the proceeds of which are to go to 
establish a studentship of $1000 annually, to be open to any one, 
in any country, for original research in animal morphology. A 
committee has been constituted in this country of which: Profes- 
sor H. Newell Martin of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 
Md., is the secretary. It is hoped that contributions, even if in 
small sums, will be sent by biologists in this country, so as to give 
an international support to the movement. The student appointed 
to fill the place must reside at Cambridge, England, but will be 
entitled to grants for aid in research, or in traveling or exploring 
with a view to furthering the science. 
— A private letter received in Detroit announces the death of 
aged 82 years. ` Dr. Coan was a veteran missionary of the Amer- 
ican Board, and had been known for years as the apostle of the 
Sandwich islands, having been there for over fifty years. For 
nearly forty years he has contributed able accounts to the Ameri- 
ka Fournal of Science, of the eruptions of Mount Loa and 
auea, 
— The Buffalo Society of Sciences has had a bequest from Dr. 
Hayes, Said to amount to $150,000, which however will not be 
available at present, The society has just completed arrange- 
ments for printing its Bulletin for a year or more in advance. 
pate: first of a series of free lectures under the auspices of 
of EN shu York Academy of Sciences was given in the new hall 
Phil e Academy of Medicine, by Professor Edward D. Cope, of 
Wadel phia, on “ The Evolution of the Vertebrata” 
Be the will of the late Augustus Story $10,000 is left to the 
Eliza dnstitute, Salem, Mass., the income to be given to his sister 
g RE mg her life. 
— Some forty eminent Germans have founded, says Nature, a 
- German Botanical Society. E 
auth, ad: on the 24th of November, Mr. Andrew Pritchard, 
“aor of “A History of Infusoria,” the fourth edition of which 
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