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HE SMITHSONIAN Washington, D. C., offers, among other prizes, one of $10,000 for a treatise "embodying some new and important discovery in regard to the nature. and properties of atmospheric air.” Nothing could be more indicative of the favor with which our century regards all scientific investigation, and illustrate more effectively the generous encourage ment man is willing to give inventors and discoverers in every branch of thought. Mankind are now thoroughly impressed with the truth that the value to humanity of such men as Edison, for example, can not be calculated in figures. If, by the investigations this offer will inspire, some discovery be made that should increase the general knowledge in regard to the medium in which we "live and move and have our being," and that thereby future conquests in meteorology, hygiene, or any of the departments of biological or physical or physical knowledge be rendered, in the least, less remote, who can calculate the ultimate benefits to mankind that may be thus brought about?

gard thereto within the past few centuries. The time was, and that not very remote, when inventors and discoverers were treated with suspicion and contempt; when only the boldest thinkers dared offer anything startlingly new in thought. Men were wedded to the gods of darkness and could not brook a disturbance of the long revered ideas which had held them in bondage for untold centuries. Age, was to them, a necessary requisite of truth and that which could not boast of venerableness was put down as error without a hearing. Harvey, the discoverer of the truth respecting the circulation of the blood, and Jenner, the modifier of the greatest of modern pestilences, were, in their time, treated to unstinted vituperation and hatred; Copernicus, Newton, Galileo and Laplace would have dropped into the oblivion that engulfed their persecutors had they thought more of popularity than truth: even within the past halfcentury Darwin and Spencer called down upon themselves the awful resolutions of synods and assemblies when the result

of their researches were announced. Time, however, is vindicating truth. Harvey and Jenner, Galileo and Laplace, Franklin and Edison, Darwin and Spencer are now regarded as the benefactors of the human race Science never moves backward; her march cannot be checked, and even Theology which first came to her shrine to scoff now remains to pray.

IN THE DEATH OF SENATOR LELAND Stanford the nation suffers an irreparable loss. As time progresses and the fame of the great university which bears his name increases, the world's regard for this truly great soul will grow more deep and fervent. In the great school he has founded he has left a descendant that will immortalize his name and confer ever-increasing benefits upon the race.