March 5, 1886.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Archives Italiennes de biologie is certainly en- 

 couraging, and we doubt not that the present 

 journal will be as favorably received. 



The unveiling of Claude Bernard's statue, 

 erected in front of the College de France, took 

 place some days ago. The ceremony was attended 

 by very few persons, owing to the inclemency of 

 the weather. Addresses were made by Mr. Ber- 

 thelot, Mr. Renan, Paul Bert, and Mr. Dastre. 

 Mr. Renan is of a very humorous turn of mind, 

 and has a way of causing amusement at the ex- 

 pense of others, — a way that is very pleasant 

 when it does not concern one's self. Speaking of 

 P. Bert as one of the pupils of Claude Bernard, 

 he said that Mr. Bert would also have his statue, 

 some day or other, near that of Bernard. Mr. 

 Bert took this in all seriousness, and with much 

 thankfulness, thinking that he certainly deserved 

 this honor. All except himself, however, per- 

 ceived the point of Mr. Renan's remarks. Jokes 

 should not be too refined ; otherwise they may miss 

 their mark, as did the present one. The best ad- 

 dresses were those of P. Bert and Mr. Renan. 

 That of Mr. Berthelot was rather long, and Mr. 

 Dastre did not say any thing new or interesting. 



A month or so ago I had the opportunity of see- 

 ing Mr. Chevreul at the meeting of the French 

 academy, where Bertrand was pronouncing his 

 discours <?e reception, which was answered by 

 Pasteur. Mr. Chevreul is very well preserved, 

 and does not appear as old as he really is. He had 

 an inclination twice or thrice during the meeting 

 to take a little nap, but he struggled successfully 

 against it. One or two allusions to his old age, 

 and to his long, fruitful career as a chemist, re- 

 ceived much applause. A person who has know n 

 him well for a long time says that he is certainly 

 not weaker in intellect than he was eight or ten 

 years ago ; but, contrary to the general fact that 

 old people recollect better, events that have trans- 

 pired during their youth than later ones, Mr. 

 Chevreul speaks only of his experiments on colors, 

 not caring to talk at all of his very important and 

 useful discoveries on the corps gras, on soap, 

 candles, etc., which he seems to forget. V. 



Paris, Feb. 13. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Mr. Pasteur, according to a telegram to the 

 New York Herald, read on Monday last a paper 

 before the French academy of sciences, giving the 

 results of his methods of treatment for hydro- 

 phobia. Three hundred and fifty persons have 

 been treated, including twelve Americans, all of 

 them successfully, except one, w T ho was not 

 brought to the laboratory till thirty-seven days 



after having been bitten. During the six years 

 preceding 1885, in the department of the Seine, 

 517 persons had been bitten by mad dogs, from 

 which there resulted 81 deaths, or about one out 

 of every six bitten. It is proposed to open an 

 international establishment at Paris for the inocu- 

 lation treatment, and already funds are being 

 largely subscribed. 



— The dog by which the Newark children, who 

 were sent to Paris for treatment, were bitten, was 

 evidently not mad. The dog, it will be remem- 

 bered, was killed at the time ; but seven others 

 which were bitten by it have been kept under the 

 closest surveillance, and have shown no indica- 

 tions whatever of hydrophobia. They have been 

 released. 



— In our issue of Feb. 19, in mentioning Miss 

 Crocker's ' Methods of teaching geography,' an 

 unfortunate slip of the pen made us give Miss Hale 

 the credit of its authorship. It was written by 

 Miss Lucretia Crocker, and is in every way a most 

 creditable piece of work. 



— The ' Forum ' (New York, Forum publishing 

 Co.) is the title of a new monthly magazine, edited 

 by Lorettus S. Metcalf, the former managing- 

 editor of the North American review. The maga- 

 zine will address itself to the mass of intelligent 

 people, and will discuss subjects that concern all 

 classes alike, — in morals, in education, in govern- 

 ment, in religion. The first number, for March, 

 contains articles by Prof. Alexander Winchell (on 

 Science and the state), James Parton, E. P. Whip- 

 ple, Drs. R. H. Newton, E. E. Hale, A. Cleveland 

 Coxe, W. A. Hammond, M. J. Savage, and Howard 

 Crosby. 



— A new polar expedition, says Das Ausland, 

 under the leadership of Dr. Bunge and Baron Toll, 

 has been organized for the zoological and topo- 

 graphical investigation of the islands of New Si- 

 beria. The expedition will reach its destination 

 the coming spring. 



— The American economic association held a 

 business-meeting in New York, Feb. 27, President 

 A. Walker in the chair. The next meeting will 

 be next autumn, at a date not yet fixed upon. 



— A bill limiting the hunting of deer or the sale 

 of venison in the state of New York to the period 

 between Aug. 15 and Nov. 1, has been passed by 

 the assembly. The bill also prohibits the trans- 

 portation of dead deer by railroad companies, ex- 

 cept that the bodies of two deer killed by a sports- 

 man may be taken to his home by him in the 

 limited period stated. 



— The Naturwissenschaftliche rundschau (Braun- 

 schweig, Vieweg & Sohn) is a new eight-paged 



