4/6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., 'lO 



Notes and Ne\vs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. The fifth annual meeting 

 of the Entomological Society of America, will be held in Minneapolis, 

 Minn., Tuesday and Wednesday, December 27 and 28, 1910, in connec- 

 tion with the annual meeting of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. The annual address will be given on the even- 

 ing of December 28th, by Prof. F. L. Washburn. 



It is proposed to hold a joint session with the American Association 

 of Economic Entomologists on the afternoon of December 28. JOHN 

 B. SMITH, President; C. R. CROSBY, Secretary-Treasurer. 



UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ESTABLISHES NEW COURSE IN MEDICAL 

 DEPARTMENT. The study of beri-beri, sleeping sickness, leprosy, cholera, 

 yellow fever and other distinctly tropical diseases will be one of the 

 most important branches of scientific investigation to be undertaken in 

 the new course of training for medical missionaries to be established 

 this week at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. 



The course, which has been made necessary by the opening of mis- 

 sions in tropical countries in all parts of the world, will facilitate the 

 dealing with disease in those regions. It is intended not only to help 

 the American who goes to the hot zones to carry a gospel of health 

 and hygiene, but to prepare the student from Central and South 

 America, who comes here to college, to meet home conditions. Here- 

 tofore no medical equipment to fit the physician for this peculiar phase 

 of work has been given, and he reached his field of endeavor unable to 

 cope with its diseases. 



The lectures and clinics, which will last for fifteen weeks, although 

 open to students of the medical department, will be in the nature of 

 post-graduate work. Practicing physicians and graduates of other col- 

 leges will be admitted, and upon completion of the course they will be 

 given a certificate. 



The course will include the methods of preventing the spread of 

 diseases and disinfection; the hygiene of houses, plantations, jails and 

 immigrant stations. The various diseases of the eye, including the para- 

 sites of the eye and the stings of insects, will be discussed. In addition, 

 there will be courses in surgery, bacteriology, pathology, helminthology, 

 arthropodology, protozoology, tropical medicine and climatology, to- 

 gether with the study of the skin diseases of the tropics. 



The lectures and clinics will be conducted by Drs. A. C. Abbott, W. 

 Pepper, M. B. Hartzell, George E. de Schweinitz, G. P. Muller, Allen 

 J. Smith and Philip P. Calvert and M. H. Jacobs. 



THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL CONGRESS was held in Gratz, 

 Austria, from the I5th to the 2Oth of August. Gratz is an important 

 town, situated in the mountains and has an excellent university. There 

 were nearly six hundred persons in attendance and over fifty delegates 

 from the United States. Many important papers were read and the 

 excursions and social functions were greatly enjoyed. The excursion 

 to Dalmatia under the auspices of the Congress was a success in 

 every way and the president Hofrat Prof. Dr. L. von Graff did every- 

 thing in his power for the comfort and enjoyment of the excursionists. 



