JULY 30, 1914] 
Ir was decided at a meeting of alpinists held at 
Zermatt on Saturday last to commemorate the 5oth 
anniversary of the first ascent of the Matterhorn 
(falling on July 14 next) by the erection of a marble 
statue of Mr. Edward Whymper at the age he was 
when he first climbed the Matterhorn. The pedestal 
is to be of granite taken from the Matterhorn and 
the monument is to face the peak. The memorial 
will also commemorate Lord Francis Douglas, Mr. 
Hadow, the Rev. C. Hudson, and the guides, Michel 
Croz and the two Tangwalders. The cost will be 
borne by subscriptions. Mr. Justice Pickford, presi- 
dent of the Alpine Club, is to be invited to become 
the honorary president of the memorial committee. 
Dr. A. Seiler was appointed treasurer, and Mr. J. 
Grande, of Berne, honorary secretary. 
Tue gold medal of the Royal Institute of Public 
Health for the present year has been awarded to Dr. 
James Niven, of Manchester. The medal is conferred 
annually on a public health official at home or abroad, 
in recognition of conspicuous services rendered to the 
cause of preventive medicine in the British Empire. 
Tue first presentation of the Savill medal of the 
West End Hospital for Nervous. Diseases has been 
made to Dr. Knowles Boney. The medal has been 
instituted to commemorate Dr. T. D. Savill, who died 
in 1910, whose work in investigating nervous diseases 
is well known. 
Tue Toronto correspondent of the Times states that 
the revenue cutter Bear, with Captain Bartlett, master 
of the lost Karluk, on board, left Nome on July 23 in 
the hope of reaching the survivors of the Stefansson 
expedition, who are believed to be still marooned on 
Wrangel Island. The Bear carries provisions for the 
relief of the marooned party, as it is calculated that 
their food supply will be exhausted by the middle of 
next month, after which they will have to depend on 
game. 
Tue sixth International Dental Congress—the first 
to be held in this country—will take place in London 
next week. It will be formally opened by the Right 
Hon. Herbert Samuel on Tuesday next, and the 
meetings of the sections, of which there will be ten, 
will be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 
A MEETING of the International Pharmaceutical 
Federation is to take place at Berne on August 7 
and 8 under the presidency of Prof. L. van Itallie. | 
According to the Chemist and Druggist the following 
are among the subjects to be discussed :—The report 
of the International Committee on Pharmacopceias ; 
a suggestion to appoint a committee to report on the 
question of the unification of the nomenclature of 
pharmacopeeias; a proposal to publish a uniform 
table of the specific gravities of mixtures of alcohol 
and water; a report on pharmaceutical education; the 
need of a permanent commission to take charge of the 
organisation of the International Congress of Phar- | 
macy; organisation of a Press bureau; and a con- 
ference having for its object the standardisation of 
formulz produced for the purpose of replacing pharma- 
ceutical specialities. 
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Tue eighth meeting df ithe Italian Society for the 
Advancement of Science will meet at Bari on October 
8-13, 1914, under the presidency of Prof. Camillo 
Golgi. The secretary is Prof. Vincenzo Reina. The 
congress is divided into three classes: Class A, 
physical and mathematical. sciences; Class B, bio- 
logical sciences; Class C, moral sciences. The 
opening meeting will be held in the hall of the Piccinni 
| Theatre, when Prof. G. Cuboni. will deliver an in- 
augural address on ‘‘The Problems of Southern Agri- 
culture.’’ Addresses will be delivered before the 
conjoint sections by Prof. Coletti on ‘‘ Tripoli and its 
Social Structure’; by Prof. Nasini on ‘‘What has 
. disappeared and what. has been retained or trans- 
formed in chemical. theories of the past century”; 
and by Prof. Sergi on ‘‘Eugenics in relation to 
biology and_sociology.’?- Amongst the papers to be 
read before the special sections, the following may be 
noted: The exploration of the upper atmosphere, by 
P. Gamba; practical generators of electro-magnetic 
waves, by Q. Majorana; the progress of dynamics in 
engineering technics; immunity, by M. Ascoli; 
muscular contraction, by F. Bottazzi; the progress 
of psychiatry, by A. Cerletti; internal secretion and 
anatomical structure, by R. Fusari; vaccinotherapy in 
typhoid, V. Pensuti; the origin and significance of 
_ alternation of generations in plant ontogeny, by R. 
Pirotta; the chlorophyllian pigments, by F. Plate; 
internal secretions from the physiological standpoint, 
by I. Solvioli; the war against harmful insects, by 
F. Silvestre; a series of papers in political and moral 
science, by different authors, is also included in the 
provisional programme. 
THE seventh International Aeronautical Congress is 
_ to be held at the Lyons Exhibition from September 27 
_ to October 1 next, under the presidency of Lieut.-Col. 
P. Renard. 
THE second annual meeting of the Indian Science 
Congress is to be held, under the auspices of the 
_ Asiatic Society of Bengal, in Madras on January 14-16 
; next. 
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| Dr. J. L. Simonsen of the Presidency College, Madras, 
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| should be addressed to him. 
The president will be Hon. Surgeon-Gen. 
The secretary of the local committee is 
communications the 
respecting congress 
A coNGRESS of engineers is to take place on 
September 20-25, 1915, at San Francisco, Cal., 
U.S.A., in connection with the Panama-—Pacific Ex- 
hibition. It will be presided over by Col. G. W. 
One of the chief features of the congress 
with the Panama Canal. These contributions will 
be presented under twenty-two heads, and will include 
a general report by Col. Goethals. 
NExT year’s conference of the British Pharma- 
ceutical Society is to be held at Scarborough under 
the presidency of Mr. Saville Peck. 
AmonG the exhibits in the food section of the Civic 
Exhibition now held in Dublin is one of great in- 
terest. It was originally shown at the Dresden 
Health Exhibition in 1911 and repre- 
