The record-union., 1897-01-24

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statue of the late DR.. Samuel D. Gross,
who was professor of surgery at the
Jefferson Medical College for twenty
six years prior to 1882 has recently
been cast in Paris. 1t is expected to ar
rive in this country during the present
month, and it will be erected in the
grounds of the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington. Next May there will
be held in Washington the triennial
Congress of American Physicians and
Surgeons, when it is expected that over
1000 medical men will be assembled,
and on the second day of the conven-
ton the statue will be unveiled by
granddaughter of DR.. Gross.
w. D. Howells makes his first ap-
pearance as a lecturer this winter. His
topic will be the modern novel.
Francis Darwin makes the interesting
announcement that he is preparing
supplementary volume of his fathers
letters. These will comprise many of
purely scientific interest which could
not be used in the Life and Letters"
together with some fresh material that
has come to his hands. He appeals also
to correspondents of Charles Darwin
who may still possess unused letters
OF the great naturalist to allow him to
make copies of them for the projected
new series.
Washington Duke, who five years
ago gave $500 to secure the loca-
ton of Trinity College, Methodist in
stitution, at Durham, N. c., has Of
fered that institution $4,000 toward its
endowment, on condition that it will
open its doors to girls.
Boston Herald: The illiterate foreign
er in foreign lands will have to touch
up his intellectual faculties or remain
abroad. The Lodge bill may fairly be
termed an incentive to universal edu
cation.
So after all. CaroluS Duran is not to
visit this country for the present. 1t is
the third time that visit from him has
been arranged for and then put off. AS
a matter Of fact, while NJ. Duran is
keenly alive to the beauties of the
American dollars, he does not contem-
plate with a startling degree of enthu-
siasm a trip across the stormy Allan
tic He probably says: why should
1 go to all this trouble? The rich
Americans can come to me-" and they
do.
August Lindstrone, the sculptor, has
recently completed busts of Joseph
jefferson, William H. Crane and Miss
Helen Gardner.
The thirtieth annual exhibition of the
American Water Color Society begins
on February 1st and closes on Febru-
airy 9th. A lively interest is being
taken in the exhibition this year, and il
is thought that very interesting show
ing of pictures will be made.
Thomas Kirk, in a memoir recently
published by the Philosophical Society
of Wellington, New Zealand, and alb
stracted in the Scientific American"
gives some interesting facts about the
notifications that the native fora has
undergone from the direct or indirect
action of man. Thus, at the present
time there are 800 new species that have
been more or less completely acclimated
in this country, where they had never
existed before. In certain regions such
species have obtained such a firm foot
ing that they might readily be taught to
be indigenous, if their true history were
not known. The indigenous flora has
receded before these strangers; and it
must not be thought either that it is
large plants that are driving the old
flora out. for in most cases 1t IS small
specimens which, through numerous
and varied mechaniSmS that it would be
interesting to explain in detail, gradual
9y succeed in eliminating plants that a {
first sight seem to be vigorous and we'll
ADAPTED for a successful struggle for
existence
The new Byron is to be edited by one
grandson and published by another
that is, Lord Lovelace is the editor and
Murray the Fourth is the publisher.
Murray the Second was Byron's pub
Usher and almost his editor, too He
corrected and suggested and appealed
and criticised in a way materially to
modify the poets plans and product.
But for Mr. Murray "Childe Harold"
would have been published anonymous
ly. Many of the publishers letters to
the poet are preserved in the famous
house in AlbemarIe street
In a letter which Is published by the
journal des Arts Nj. Gerspach dis
cusses the genuineness of the so-called
"Pallas" attributed to Botticelh, said
10 have been lately discovered" in the
Pitt Palace, Florence. NJ. Gerspach de-
rnonstrates that, so far from this work
n
nv w. Spence in 1895, when ii hung on
high and in a bad light 1t was for
dnerly, it seems, accepted as copy;
but on its being removed to better
light the authorities decided that 1t was
an original and prepared 1t for exhibit
ton as such. Moreover, Mr.. Gerspach
declares that It was engraved as Bot
ticelli in La Galleria Pitt. by NJ. Bar
di in 1896. and, under the title of La
Centaure" of Botticelli, in the Flor
ence' of NJ Yriarte.
Sir Arthur Sullivan can now command
$1,000 down for one song, while from
1.-The Lost Chord" alone it is said that
ne has realized over $4,000. Signor
,rosti the composer of Forever and
Forever" whose first manuscripts were
declined with thanks, can now COM
nrand 81, $50 for song.
New York Tribune: The curious in
difference to the late Sir Joseph Archer
Groves value as an historian of art
(which was shown in the English press.
and TO which reference has been made
in the Tribune" before now, turns out