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society had heard with great regret of the death of 

 Dr. Kellas, who had been invited to join the Mount 

 Everest Expedition that he might carry out on Mount 

 Everest the experiments in the employment of oxygen 

 at high altitudes which he had already planned tc 

 carry out this summer on Kamet. It is feared that 

 Dr. Kellas 's death may have been due to his own 

 untiring energy, for instead of resting after his great 

 climb last summer he had spent nearly all the winter 

 in climbing peaks in Sikkim. 



Capt. Roald Amundsen has asked the Storting by 

 telegram from Nome, Alaska, for 300,000 kroner 

 (about i2,oooZ.) for the purpose of refitting his vessel, 

 the Maud, in order to enable him to continue his 

 expedition in the x\rctic regions. The Maud lost a 

 propeller off Cape Serge, and is to be towed to 

 Seattle for repairs. 



As already announced, the Congr'ess of the Universi- 

 ties of the Empire will be held at Oxford on July 5-8. 

 In the morning of July 5 the following subjects will 

 he discussed: "The Universities and the Balance of 

 Studies." (i) The place of the humanities in the 

 education of men of science and men of affairs. (2) 

 The place of the physical and natural sciences in 

 general education. (3) The question of specialism in 

 university curricula. In the afternoon : "The Univer- 

 sities and the Teaching of Civics, Politics, and Social 

 Economics." "The Universities and Secondary 

 Education." (i) The frontiers of the secondary school 

 and the university. (2) The influence of university 

 entrance requirements ujx)n the curricula of secondary 

 schools. In the morning of July 6: "The Universi- 

 ties and Adult Education." (1) Lectures for the 

 general public within th? walls of the university. (2) 

 Extra-mural work. In the afternoon: "The Univer- 

 sities and Technological Education." In the morn- 

 ing- of July 7: "The Universities and Training for 

 Commerce, Industry, and Administration." "The 

 Universities and the Training of School Teachers." 

 In the afternoon: "University Finance." In the 

 morning of July 8 : "The Universities and Research." 

 In the afternoon : " Interchange of Teachers and 

 Students." (i) The institution of a Sabbatical year 

 for professors. (2) Provis'ion of temporary junior 

 posts for graduates of Colonial and foreign universities. 

 (3) How to raise funds to make a trust for the pro- 

 motion of the migration of students. (4) Equivalence 

 of entrance examinations. (5) Mutual recognition of 

 study and examinations. 



A NATIONAL exhibition of maternity and childhood 

 has been organised in Paris from June 15 to July 25. 

 The exhibition is located in the Jardin Zoologique 

 d'Acclimatation, Bois de Boulogne, and is divided 

 into five sections. The object of the exhibition is to 

 encourage larger families than at present obtain in 

 France, and in the various sub-sections such subjects 

 as the small birth-rate, its causes and prevention, 

 infantile mortality, and the rearing of large families 

 are dealt with. Conferences, fStes, and sports are 

 included in the programme. A large and influential 

 committee has charge of the organisation, which is 

 under the patronage of the President and Ministers 

 of the Republic, the secretary-general being M. Em. 

 Brocherioux. 



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A PROVISIONAL programme for the Paris Conference 

 of the Museums Association, to be held on July 

 12-18, has been issued. The headquarters of the 

 association while in Paris will be the Hotel Moderne^ 

 Place de la R^publique, and the meetings will be held 

 at the Mus^e National D'Histoire Naturelle, Rue 

 Cuvier. Papers on museum administration and numer- 

 ous tours of French museums have been arranged, and 

 there will be at least one joint meeting with the 

 French Museums Association. Information regarding 

 tickets, passports, and hotel accommodation, both for 

 those attending the meeting and for those contemplat- 

 ing a more extended tour after the conference, can be 

 obtained from Mr. W. J. W. Barrier, 31, Lime Grove, 

 Shepherd's Bush, W. 12. 



A CONFERENCE of the International Union against 

 Tuberculosis will be held in London, under the 

 auspices of the National Association for the Preven- 

 tion of Tuberculosis, on July 26-28. The annual 

 conference of the National Association will be merged 

 in the larger gathering. The object of the Inter- 

 national Union, which was founded last year, is to 

 promote an effective combination of the nations of the 

 world against tuberculosis, and its first president is 

 M. L^on Bourgeois. For the occasion of the coming 

 meeting, however, Sir Robert Philio w^ill act as presi- 

 dent. Official delegates from countries within the 

 League of Nations, from America, and from authori- 

 ties interested in the subject, are invited to attend. 

 The principal business of the conference will be a 

 discussion, opened by Prof. A. Calmette, on the modes 

 of diffusion of tuberculosis throughout the races of 

 the world. Sir Humphry Rolleston will open another 

 discussion on the role of the medical profession in 

 the prevention of tuberculosis. There will be an 

 official reception of the Union by the Lord Mayor of 

 London on July 26, and visits to institutions of par- 

 ticular interest are being arranged. 



The executive committee of the council of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science 

 held its regular spring meeting at Washington, D.C., 

 on April 24 last. The business transacted at the 

 meeting is reported in Science of May 20, and some 

 of the resolutions will be of interest to men of science 

 in Great Britain. The next meeting of the associa- 

 tion will be held at Toronto, and it was resolved that 

 a special committee should collaborate with the local 

 committee for the meeting to invite an eminent British 

 man of science to attend to present papers before the 

 section of the association to which his field of work 

 is related and to deliver a general public lecture. The 

 executive committee of the council also resolved that 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science 

 be invited to send a representative to the Toronto 

 meeting, and Dr. J. McK. Cattell was elected official 

 delegate of the American Association to the forth- 

 coming Edinburgh meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion. A further resolution, which is of great interest 

 in view of the letters which have appeared in our 

 columns on the same topic, asks for the restoration 

 of the privilege of duty-free importation of English 

 scientific works by recognised educational institutions 

 and faculties. The committee also directs the atten- 

 tion of Congress to the burden which would be im- 



