460 | Scientific News. { April, 
— In a paper on the early votaries of science in Rhode Island, 
read by Dr. Parsons, before the Rhode Island Historical Society, 
he remarked “that Rhode Island furnished, from the pen of her 
founder, the earliest American contribution to philology ; that she 
took part in suggesting the first great physical discovery made in 
these colonies—that of the relation of electricity to lightning; 
that she witnessed the first botanical garden, the first public lec- 
tures on anatomy and the first professorship of natural history in 
New England, and, finally, that one of her sons, whose medical 
education was begun upon her soil, and ‘ripened in the skies of 
many lands,’ was the first American to appreciate the value of 
vaccination, began its application by submitting his own son to 
the repulsive experiment, and succeeded in establishing it, through 
doubt and obloquy, in public and lasting confidence.” 
— The citizens of Montreal, says the Popular Science Monthly, 
to Toronto, Niagara Falls, Boston, New York and New Haven, 
or whatever Eastern city the American Association may meet = 
The government of the Dominion is expected to make iat 
grants of money to defray the expenses of British members, t Í 
railroads and steamboats will provide excursions to the grea 
lakes and Chicago, and to the provinces of the north-west as pute! 
the Rocky mountains; and the association is promised its usua 
revenue from the meeting. 
— The subscription for the Darwin memorial has awakened ii 
much enthusiasm in Sweden, says Nature, that 1400 pama 
“from the bishop to the seamstress,” have contributed sum 
“ varying from five pounds to two pence.” In Great Britain ; 
ersons have contributed to the fund, and many in Germany. a 
average intelligence of the people of Denmark, relating to T “ite 
tific matters, is shown by the ample support, as the oe i 
us, which is given to the Danish Natural History Journal ais 
population numbering 1,784,741 souls. We wish as prop reel 
ly large a subscription list for the Amertcan NAT 
be made up in a population of 50,000,000! Those hey are 
State and town aid to higher schools little know what they *" 
doing to reduce the average education of our people. 
— New facts concerning rabies in various animals bars Sii 
presented to the French Academy by M. Pasteur, wi, they 
Chamberland, Roux and Thaillier. All forms of rabies, ith 
claim, come from the same virus. Death, after inoculation 
