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��not perfectly so (vilneas consols) ; on the lelt hand, the same words, ia the same spelling, but with various devices to show tbe pronunciation, such AS the use of accents, acute and grave, heavy type for some letters, and smaller type for silent letters. The notation used is a new one. and the final restilt far f^om being readily intelligible. The proper eonne would have been to minimize the inconvenience to the user by making the left-hand column as simple as possible, using always only one sign for the same souiitl, and omitting sileut letters alto- gether. If all the words are respelled solely to show their pronunciation, there is no excuse for not spelling phonetically.

��NOTES AND NEWS.

The local coraitiitiee of the American aaaoviatlon, which will hold iu thirty-foiirth meeting in Ana Arbor during the week beginning Wednesday, Aug. 3d, announces that the generikl Reutona will be held in UniveMity Hall, while rooms for the sectional meetings will be assigned in different buildings on the univertit; grounds. The oflicM of the perma- nciil and local secretaries and of the various commit- tees will be esUbllshed in the immediate proximity, together with an association post-office; and all l«t- ier«, telegrams, and express packages bearing the letters 'A.A. A. S.' will be delivered close at band. The univeralty offers the lue of Its rooms for any lectures, or specially illustrated papers, which may be authorised by the standing committee. Sectional papers demanding experimental illustration may be supplemented by the use ut the apparatus at hand. The university will furnish electricity, either from a dynamo, from a stor^». battery, or from primary bat- teries, as may he needed by members reading papers on electrical subjects. Opportunity will also be given any member desirous of making an exhibit -of appa- ratus, minerals, or scientific specimens of any kind, to properly display the same.

The ooinmittee is not y«t ready to announce ooni- plete arrangemenlB with the railways, but thay state provisionally that over most of the lines return tick- els will be famished for one-third of the r^nlar price to all who have paid full fare over the same line. Ann Arbor Is situated on the lines of two railways, — the Michigan central, and the Toledo, Ann Arbor, and northern Uiehigan; and a special through train, for the exclusive use of members of the association, will be run by the former if a sufBoienl number de- sire, leaving Buffalo on Tuesday morning, Aug. 25, stopping for an hour or two at Niagara Falls, and reaching Ann Arbor in the evening of the same day. The two hotels at Ann Arbor are the Cook House and the Franklin House, where meiubers will be ac- commodated at two dollars a day. A large number of rooms, with prices varying from fifty cents to a dollar a (lay, have also been engaged in private bouses near the unlversily grounds, where, to accommodate those

��Dot offering board as well, a restaurant sufficient la accommodate three hundred persons at once will be established, at which, breakfast, dinner, and supper wilt be fnmlshed at the uniform price of Sfty cents. Private hospitality is also liberally promised by many Cillieus; and there is no question of sufficiency of accommodation, as most of the two thousand students who live In the city during term time will be absent on their vacation.

An evening reception on a day not specifiad will be given the association at the court-house, together with a lawn-party on the university grounds at the close of one of the regular seaslon*. The excursions committee has nearly completed arrangements for a trip, free of all expense, to the Saginaw valley, includ- ing a steamboat ride down the river, and view of the ciUea of Sagloaw, East S^lnaw, Bay City, and West Bay Chy, and Uie enormous industriea in salt and lumber manufacture which have given the Saginaw valley a world-wide celebrity. This valley produces annually a billion feet of lumber, and the eioursion- iais will see baU a billion piled on the docks. In con- junction with these vast lumber operations will be seeu,the production of salt on a scale unequalled In the world, and employing the various Improved pro- cesses. The committee has also arranged for excur- sions to Detroit and Macklnaclc Island, with side trips to Sault Sle. Harle, Pectoakey, and Marquett*. Members wishing to make any special inquirfei or arrangeinents should address Prol. J. W. I.angley, local secretary, Ann Arbor, Miofa.

— Matusoffskl and Nikltine, well known for tbelr travels in China and Sakhalin, have recently flnlshed a new map of China; that is to say, of the Middia Kingdom, with the region bordering upon it. Thii chart Is on the scale 1:4,200,000, and Is the best yet issued In point of execution. Paderin, Uspenski, a|i4 Sheveleff have served as a committee on the orthogt raphy of proper names, with Professor Yasiliefl aa umpire In doubtful cases. It extends from the weat- eni borders of Corea to the TuDg-IIng Mountains, and between latiiudes IS° and 43° nortli.

— The Annualre de Turktatan for lt«5 has just been issued by Messrs. Sokoloff and Lakhlin. Its contents are of unusual interest In connection with recent events, and comprise, among other things, a chronology of historical events from I1&5 to ISS4; a memoir on the Merv oasis and on the route between Kbiva and the Caspian; notes on the Amu Uaria; a description of Ferghana, of the museum at Tashkent, of the asberles of Turkestan, and an account of pub- lic instruction in Turkestan.

— A ajieclal chair of geology has just been estab- lished in the Indiana university, and Prof. J, C. Bronner of the Geological survey of Pennsylvania has been chosen to fill it. Professor Braiiner was for six years assistant geologist to the Imperial geological suney of Brazil. Prof. J. P. Naylor of Indianapolis has been elected to the chair of physics.

— Dr. Hermann Roskoachny has projected a serfps of geographical manuals on European and especially German colonization, under the title ' Europas fcJas,

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