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THE SCIENTIST. 
There is still anotlier Egyptian 
type, and this suggests the Assyrian 
style, having heads of Isis for its 
capital. 
At Beni Hassan we also find the 
prototype of the Doric order in the 
stone copies of brick columns which 
have a square abacus above a round 
shaft. Beside this early example we 
have twenty-seven other proto-Doric 
columns to turn to if we wish to 
prove that the Greeks borrowed their 
Doric order from the Egyptians. 
They are in eight different buildings 
between the cataracts and Lower 
Egypt, and are enumerated by Mr. 
E. Falkener in his Memoir, \o\. I, 
Museum of Classical Antiquities. 
The most striking instance of re- 
semblance to the Greek order is 
found in a capital from the South 
Temple at Karnac. Here is the 
abacus separated from the shaft, a 
strong capital Echinus, a beaded 
necking, and a fluted shaft, all that 
the Doric order has, except its ele- 
gance of treatment. 
The most beautiful of the Doric 
temples, the queen of all architect- 
ural achievements, the most exquisite 
of all the buildings in the world, 
and justly the most celebrated, is 
the Parthenon. You have seen 
casts from its various parts hanging 
in the rooms of the Kansas City Art 
Association, and even from these 
fragments may judge of its great 
beauty. 
William FerrelL 
Do you know that one very im- 
portant fact has been omitted in 
notice of Wm. Ferrell — your account 
of him was good. 
" ferrellV la.\v. 
" Whatever be the latitude, a 
person traveling with the wind 
either from north or south, would 
be gradually turning towards his 
right in the Northern, and towards 
his left in the Southern Hemis- 
phere." This is the case whatever 
be the latitude. 
More fully: 'Tn whatever direc- 
tion a body moves on the surface of 
the Earth, there is a force arising 
from the Earth's rotation which de- 
flects it to the right in the Northern 
Hemisphere, but to the left in the 
Southern.'' The law was applied 
to the atmosphere by Prof. Wm. 
Ferrell, and published by him in 
June, lS5y, and applies to all bodies, 
whether solid or liquid, and to the 
air. It governs tornadoes and all 
storms. (See x\ppleton's Physical 
Geography.) G. C. Broadhead. 
Science perfects 
den. 
-Dry- 
Mr. H. F. Petric, in recently 
excavating the pyramid of Medum, 
the tomb of the third Egyptian 
dynasty, which is said to be the 
oldest structure in the world, dating 
back about 4000 B. C, found what 
he concludes to be the result of a 
religious difl'erence in the modes of 
l)urial of the people at that period, 
one class making full length inter- 
ments, and another interring with 
tlie knees drawn up to the breast. 
