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per cent, higher in the cities than in 

 the rural districts. 



The average annual death rate from 

 typhoid fever in the registration area 

 was 33. S per 100,000 of population. Of 

 the ten European countries for which 

 similar statistics are available Italy 

 alone shows a higher. The mortality 

 from typhoid fever was excessively high 

 in Pittsburg, Cleveland, Cincinnati, 

 Columbus, Louisville and Washington. 

 The average annual rate was much be- 

 low the average in New York City, St. 

 Paul, Milwaukee, and Jersey City. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 

 Dr. A. Graham Bell, the inventor 

 of the telephone, has been given the 

 doctorate of laws by the University of 

 Edinburgh. — The United States am- 

 bassador to Great Britain, Mr. White- 

 law Reid, has presented the gold medal 

 of the American Geographical Society 

 to Captain R. X. Scott, commander of 

 the National Antarctic Expedition. — 

 Dr. Joseph D. Bryant, of New York 

 City, has been elected president of the 

 American Medical Association. — At the 

 recent International Medical Congress 

 at Lisbon, the Moscow prize was 



awarded to M. Laveran and the Paris 

 prize to Professor Ehrlich. 



The International Congress of Ap- 

 plied Chemistry at Rome resolved that 

 the seventh congress shall be held in 

 London, with Sir William Ramsay as 

 the president and Sir Henry Roscoe as 

 honorary president. — The sixteenth In- 

 ternational Medical Congress will be 

 held at Buda Pesth in 1909, under the 

 presidency of Professor C. Miiller. It 

 is likely that the following congress 

 will be held in New York City. 



The Prince of Monaco has offered to 

 give his Museum of Oceanography and 

 Laboratory for the Investigation of the 

 Seas, now at Monaco, to the city of 

 Paris, with an endowment of $1,000,- 

 000. The institution is to be under the 

 charge of an international committee. — 

 It is announced that Mr. David Rankin, 

 of St. Louis, has decided to give $2,000,- 

 000 to found an industrial and manual 

 training school in St. Louis. — Arrange- 

 ments have been completed, under a 

 plan outlined by Alfred Mosely, to send, 

 between November and March, five hun- 

 dred British teachers to the United 

 States and Canada to study the edu- 

 cational systems of the two countries. 



