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one for such classes. Hitherto Scranton, now a city of over 
80,000 inhabitant, has devoted itself to material development, 
and has succeeded. We now expect to see as marked success 
of a higher order. It makes a good beginning. 
— The Scientific Association of Detroit is not active. It has 
donated its valuable collections to the city, which has provided 
the specimens with scant but pleasant apartments in the public 
library buildings. Detroit is a city of millionaires. Michigan is 
a State of boundless mineral wealth, rich in industrial woods and 
remarkable geological formations, and the home of ancient hiero- 
glyphics and ethnological remains. That scientific apathy 
should reign in Detroit where a large body of citizens have made 
millions from these resources, is at least a State disgrace. De- 
troit ought to support a museum devoted to the resources of the 
commonwealth of which it is the metropolis, especially as it is 
one of the oldest cities of America. 
— The meteor which fell near Claysville, Washington county, 
Pa., September 14th, was found recently by Professor J. Em- 
erick, of William and Mary College. The stone was found em- 
bedded at the base of a hill. It weighed about 200 tons, but was 
cracked into pieces by contact with a stratum of limestone. Its 
composition was chromium, nickel, aluminium, copper, magne- 
Sium, tin and other metals and metalloids. It contained eighty- 
seven per cent of iron in a metallic state. Its specific gravity 
Was 7412. Its elevation above the earth’s surface was established 
at fifty-two miles, its path nearly horizontal, its flight between 
five and ten seconds, its visible path 150 miles, and its velocity 
fifteen to twenty miles per second. 
_— The Chicago Academy of Sciences has been presented with 
the bones of an elephant supposed to be E/ephas primigenius, by 
Dr. E. W, Andrews. The remains were discovered in the eastern 
part of Washington Territory. Among them is one animal ot 
enormous size which is quite as large as Ward’s Siberian Mam- 
moth. Its tusk is ten feet in length, pelvis sixty-three inches in 
length and the longest rib found 54.6 inches long. No complete 
Skeleton was found 
— Professor H. S. Carhart, of the Chair of Physics of the 
‘orthwestern University at Evanston, has been called to the 
Similar chair at Ann Arbor. Professor Carhart has now a high 
ing as a physical experimentalist, both as regards America 
and Germany. 
— Dr. Oliver Marcy, LL.D., has issued the annual report of 
the Museum of the Northwestern University, at Evanston, Ill., 
Which Shows it to be one of the very first in standing west of the 
€ghenies. The donations of the year are exceedingly numer- 
Ous and valuable, 
