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speak, by which the latter never near the point of danger, and are by these judicious means, protected from injury. A multitude of devices are figured for securing safety about the machines employed in the textile industries in printing and dyeing establishments, about grinding mills, grindstones and steam boilers. The mei2e mention here made of subjects treated, many of which are familiar to us, gives no idea whatever of the fulness and variety of the illustrations on these pages, each one is like a word defined in the New Century Dictionary, where examples are expected an exhaustive treatise is given. We should be encouraged by the humanitarian aim and accomplished results of this committee to solicit the good-will at least of factory managers, professors, mechanical engineers and manufacturers. Valuable aid to and enlargement of this work could be had by decreeing that the curriculum of technical colleges should include the study of safety appliances for the prevention of accidents. J . H . C,
GIFTS
"to THE L I B R A R Y o F THE F R A N K L I N INSTITUTE.
Acadgmie des Sciences, Belles-lettres etArts de Lyon. M6moires. Vols. 29 and 3o. From the Soci~t~ d'Agriculture de Lyon. Academic Royale de Belgique. Annuaire. 189o. From the Academy. A~tna Powder Company. Descriptive Pamphlets. From the Company. Agricultural and Mechanical College, Alabama. Bulletin No. 7 of the Agricultural Experiment Station. From the Station. Agricultural Experiment Station. Auburn, Ala. Bulletin No. 9 and io. From the Station. Almanaque Nautico, para I89 I. From El Instituto y Observatorio de Marina. American Bankers' Association. Resolution of Executive Council. From William H. Rhawn. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Transactions. Vol. x7. Blow. The Geology and Ore-Deposits of Iron Hill, Leadville, ColOrado. Chauvenet. The Iron Resources of Colorado. Goodale. Notes on the Additional Diaphragm in the Howell Roasting Furnace. Sehwarz. The Ore-Deposits of Red Mountain, Ouray County, Colorado. Ashburner. The Coal Trade and Miners' Wages in the United States for the Year ~888. Olmsted. The Distribution of Phosphorus in the Hudson River Carbonates.
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Franklin
Institute.
[lVroceedinffs of lhe Slated ~lIeetin~, held Wednesday, February z9, :890]
HALL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, WEDNESDAY, February 19, x89o. JOSEPH M. WILSON,President, in the Chair. Present, I26 members and thirteen visitors. Additions to membership since last meeting, seventeen. The President made a statement concerning the importance of continuing the efforts which were so successful during the previous year in increas-