l8o INSTITUTE NOTES. 



the Philadelphia Quartz Company, is about going abroad to 

 spend a year in the Zurich (Switzerland) University, taking a 

 special course in the chemistry of the silicates. Mr. Vail 

 speaks German fluently, and will have little difficulty in get- 

 ting along in a strange land. 



The Hall of the Institute has recently been provided with 

 rear steps, so that there are now two exits from the lecture 

 room. There was considerable criticism last year concerning 

 the matter of fire escapes for the Hall, and we are glad to 

 announce now that all fears in this direction may be allayed. 



The paper on Tuberculosis and Food Inspection, by Dr. 

 George H. Woolfolk, in this number of the Proceedings, 

 was one of a series of four lectures delivered by different sci- 

 entific authorities before the Institute at its meetings in Janu- 

 ary last, relative to the new Pure Food Laws. The present 

 paper is a valuable one, and the Institute regrets that it could 

 not obtain the other three papers also for publication. 



