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animal is at work. Tho result, as shown in the mounted skeleton, is considered a 

 complete success, and illustrations of the skeleton from the si(hi and from above and 

 behind, as given in The American Museum Journal for January, 1904, are highly inter- 

 esting. In the side view the exact position of each of the limbs is shown and the 

 flexure of the various joints. The view from above and behind is still more striking, 

 showing the relative jiosition of the parts of the l)ody and the curvature of the back- 

 bone as the animal steps. The skeleton of the Shetland pony, showing the animal 

 in the act of grazing, is now in preparation. A mount of a rearing hor.se held in 

 check by a man is nearly ready for exhibition. The race horse will be mounted as 

 running at full speed. 



"The skeleton of an animal is popularly considered its least interesting part; but 

 this method of illustrating its adaptation for special purposes, by representing it in 

 various kinds of action, immediately transforms the skeleton into a subject of the 

 greatest interest. In fact, the wonderful evolution of the horse as it will be shown in 

 the fossil series can only be thoroughly understood when taken in connection with 

 the special motions and actions of the living horse." 



Personal Mention. — Dr. E. A. de Schweinitz, in charge of the biochemic laboratory 

 of the lUnean of Animal Industry of this Department, and dean of the medical 

 department of Columbian University, died in Washington February 15, at the age of 

 38. Dr. de Schweinitz was born at Salem, i^. C, and received his education at the 

 universities of North Carolina, Virginia, Berlin, and G5ttingen, and also at the 

 Columbian University. He received an appointment in the Bureau of Animal Indus- 

 try as chemist on January 1, 1890, and was made chief of the biochemic division upon 

 its organization. The investigations for which he is chiefly noted were made in the 

 field of the chemistry and biology of bacteria. He was one of the first to suggest the 

 possibility of the production of immunity toward tuberculosis by inoculation with 

 attenuated cultures of the tubercle bacillus. During the past few years his attention 

 was devoted chiefly to a study of tuberculosis and hog cholera; and his experiments 

 and investigations contributed greatly to the i^roof of the identity of human and 

 bovine tuberculosis. He also discovered many interesting facts concerning the 

 chemical nature of tubercle bacilli and the changes produced in nutrient media by 

 the growth of these organisms. Dr. de Schweinitz devoted much attention also to 

 the preparation of an efficient antitoxin for the treatment and prevention of hog 

 cholera. Recently his investigations along this line brought to light the existence 

 of a new infectious disease of swine closely related to hog cholera. Dr. de Schweinitz 

 was a member of many American and foreign scientific societies, and was repeatedly 

 chosen as a delegate to international congresses on hygiene, tuberculosis, and medicine. 



A. W. Harris, director of The Jacob Tome Institute, has definitely declined the 

 presidency of Boston University. 



F. S. Earle, of the New York Botanic Gardens, formerly connected with this 

 Department, has gone to Cuba to consider the offer of an appointment under the 

 Cuban government as chief of agricultural investigations. The development of work 

 in the interest of agriculture in that country, including the establishment of one or 

 more experiment stations, is under consideration. 



W. C. Sturgis, formerly botanist at the Connecticut State Station, has been 

 appointed lecturer on botany in Colorado College, at Colorado Springs. 



II. S. Grindley, of the University of Illinois, who for several years past has con- 

 ducted investigations, in cooperation with this OflBce, on the cooking of meats, has 

 been awarded a second grant of §5250 from the Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund to 

 continue his investigations upon the proteids of meats. 



A. D. Hall, director of the Rothamsted Experiment Station, delivered a series of 

 three lectures at the Royal Institution in February on Recent Research in Agriculture. 



Albert C. Crawford has been appointed expert in pharmacology in the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, this Department. 



