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whereas in the neighboring state of 

 New Jersey it was $108,000 and for 

 the United States some twenty-live 

 million dollars. It is estimated that 

 nearly 200,000 people visited the Adi- 

 rondack region last year for recreation 

 and health. 



A report is made on chestnut groves 

 and orchards, which is not, however, 

 very favorable to this industry. It ap- 

 pears that orchards in Pennsylvania 

 have not been very successful, though 

 groves of ciiestnvit trees on waste 

 mountain land may yield profitable 

 results. A few elk and moose have 

 been placed in the reserves, and it is 

 believed that these animals will thrive. 

 Pheasants have been distributed as 

 usual and a large number of fish fry 

 with some adults. An account is given 

 of the shell fish industry. A hygienic 

 examination has been made showang 

 that the beds in Long Island Sound 

 are removed from any possible con- 

 tamination by sewage or otherwise. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. 



Professor Henry Barker Hill, di- 

 rector of the Chemical Laboratory of 

 Harvard College, died on April 6, in 

 his fifty-fourth year. We regret also 

 to record the death of Rear-Admiral 

 George E. Belknap, retired, who, in ad- 

 dition to eminent services in the navy, 

 was in charge of important hydro- 

 graphic work and was at one time 

 superintendent of the Naval Observa- 

 tory; of Dr. Julius Victor Carus, asso- 

 ciate professor of comparative zoology 

 at Leipzig; of Dr. Franz Studnicka, 

 professor of mathematics at Prague; 

 of Dr. Laborde, an eminent French 

 physician; and of Professor J. G. Wi- 

 borgh, of the Stockholm School of 

 Mines, an authority on the metallurgy 

 of iron. 



Dr. Robert Koch has been elected 

 foreign associate of the Paris Academy j 

 of Sciences, in succession to Rudolf 

 Virchow. Dr. Koch received twenty- 

 six votes, Dr. Alexander Agassiz eight- 

 een votes, Dr. S. P. Langley six votes 



and Professor van der Waals, of Am- 

 sterdam, one vote. — The Institute of 

 France has awarded to Dr. Emile Roux, 

 the subdirector of the Pasteur Insti- 

 tute, the prize of $20,000, founded by 

 M. Daniel Osiris, for the person that 

 the institute considered the most 

 worthy to be thus rewarded. Dr. Roux 

 will give the money to the Pasteur 

 Institute. — A committee has been 

 formed in Paris with M. H. Moissan 

 as chairman to strike a medal in honor 

 of the late M. P. P. Deh^rain, formerly 

 professor of plant physiology in the 

 University of Paris. — Mr. Joseph Lar- 

 mor, fellow of St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge University, has been elected Lu- 

 casian protessor of mathematics in 

 succession to the late Sir George Ga- 

 briel Stokes. — Tlie subject of the Silli- 

 man lectures to be given at Yale Uni- 

 versity by Professor J. J. Thomson, of 

 Cambridge University, will be ' Present 

 Developmeht of Our Ideas of Elec- 

 tricity.' The lectures, eight in number, 

 will begin May 14. 



President Roosevelt has appointed 

 the following as a commission to re- 

 port to him on the organization, needs, 

 and present condition of government 

 work, with a view to including under 

 the Department of Commerce . bureaus 

 not assigned to that department by 

 congress: Charles D. Walcott, Depart- 

 ment of the Interior; Brigadier-Gen- 

 eral William Crozier, War Department; 

 Rear-Admiral Francis T. Bowles, Navy 

 Department; GifTord Pinchot, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture; James R. Gar- 

 field, Dejjartment of Commerce and 

 Labor. — Recently the President asked 

 the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries 

 to have made a comprehensive and 

 thorough investigation of the salmon 

 fisheries of Alaska, and for this pur- 

 pose Commissioner Bowers has ap- 

 pointed a special Alaska Salmon Com- 

 mission consisting of the following: 

 President David Starr Jordan, of Stan- 

 ford University, executive head; Dr. 

 Barton Warren Evermann, ichthyolo- 

 gist of the U. S. Fish Commission; 



