15 SEPTEMBER 1888, page 3

The Report Of The Commissioners Sent By The Canadian...

to examine into the resources and capacities of the Great Mackenzie Basin—the region stretching from the Saskatchewan to the Arctic. shores, and from Hudson's Bay to the Rocky......

Professor Ayrton's Address On The Electrical Transmission...

on Friday evening, September 7th, was one of the most remarkable given during this year's meeting. The great desideratum of the age is an easy transmission of motive- power from......

On Tuesday The Times Published An Interesting Abstract Of...

yearly Irrigation Report of Sir Colin Scott Moncreiff, the head of the Egyptian Public Works Department. Egypt is the cradle of hydraulic engineering, for the possibilities of......

Professor Roy, Professor Of Pathology, Cambridge, And Mr....

Adami, Demonstrator in Pathology at the same University, are bold men. They read a paper on Friday week before the British Association in defence of stays, and naturally......

Perhaps The Most Marvellous Narrative Of An Escape From An

eruption ever recorded, is that given in a letter from a Mr. Narlian describing a volcanic outburst in the Lipari Islands on August 3rd. Mr. Narlian and his children were in......

A Statement Made By Mr. Davitt, And Intended, It Is

said, to have been used at the O'Donnell trial, has been got hold of and published by the Press Association. It contains an assertion that he was unjustly convicted in 1870, the......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent. New Consols (2f) Were On

Friday 98 to 98+.......