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[July 13, 1905 



The London congress of the Royal Institute of Public 

 Health will be held from Wednesday next, July 19, to 

 Tuesday, July 25, under the presidency of Sir James 

 Crichton Browne. The meetings will take place at King's 

 College, Strand, and at the Polytechnic, Regent Street. 

 In connection with the congress there will be an exhibition 

 of sanitary and educational appliances at the Regent Street 

 Polytechnic, and this will remain open until July 28. 



The British Medical Journal announces that a tuber- 

 culosis exhibition, arranged under the auspices of the 

 National Association for the Study and Prevention of 

 Tuberculosis, and of the Committee on the Prevention of 

 Tuberculosis of the Charity Organisation Society, will be 

 held in New Yorlc in November next. The object of the 

 exhibition is the education of the people. In addition to 

 exhibits illustrating different phases of the tuberculosis 

 problem, and especially the treatment of the disease, 

 popular lectures will be delivered by specialists. 



The Long Fox memorial lecture for this year will, says 

 the Lancet, be delivered in November by Dr. E. Markham 

 Skerritt. 



M. Curie was last week elected a member of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences. 



The Mary Kingsley medal of the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine has been awarded to Dr. Laveran, of 

 the Pasteur Institute, Sir Patrick Manson, K.C.M.G., 

 F.R.S., and Col. Sir D. Bruce, K.C.B., F.R.S. 



Lord Kelvin akd Sir Willia.m Christie, Astronomer 

 Royal, were at the final meeting of the present session 

 of the Optical Society made honorary members of the 

 society. 



It is stated in Science that Prof. William Osier has 

 been made honorary professor of medicine at the Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



The president of the Board of Agriculture (the Right 

 Hon. Ailwyn E. Fellowes) will distribute the diplomas and 

 prizes at the South-eastern Agricultural College, Wye, on 

 Friday, July 21. 



We learn from the Royal Society that as an adjunct to 

 the International Laboratory of Physiology on Monte Rosa, 

 a lower laboratory, with a hostel, has been established 

 at Col d'OIen. This lower laboratory is mainly intended 

 for biological research, but it is understood that provision 

 has also been made for the study of terrestrial physics 

 and meteorology. The Royal Society has the permanent 

 nomination to two posts, each of which includes a living 

 room in the hostel, a bench in the laboratory, and the 

 use of apparatus ; but the expenses of living and of special 

 researches must be borne by the investigators. The labor- 

 atory is especially connected with the University of Turin, 

 but is under the immediate direction of a committee. 

 Applications for nominations to the two posts referred to 

 above may be addressed to the secretaries of the Royal 

 Society, Burlington House, London, W. 



A Reuter telegram from Florence states that the in- 

 struments of the Delle Quercie Observatory of that place 

 recorded on Sunday last severe earthquake shocks as 

 taking place in a distant country. 



The death is announced from Belgium of M. Elis^e 

 Reclus, the French geographer, in his seventy-sixth year. 

 At the University of Berlin he studied under the great 

 geographer Karl Ritter. Having in 1851, because of his 

 political opinions, to leave France, he travelled for six 

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years, visiting England, Ireland, North .America, Central 

 America, and Colombia. Returning to his native country 

 in 1857, he contributed numerous articles on his travels 

 to periodical literature, and published a small volume 

 entitled " Voyage k la Sierra-Nevada de Sainte Marthe." 

 Later he wrote two books dealing respectively with the 

 earth and the ocean. He began at Clarens, on the Lake 

 of Geneva, the work of his life — the " Nouvelle Geographic 

 Universelle," the first volume of which appeared in 1876. 

 The work was issued in parts, and was completed in 1894, 

 the whole occupying nineteen volumes. On the conclusion 

 of this great task Reclus began another work dealing 

 with the historical side of human development, i.e. with 

 history as influenced by geographical conditions. He left 

 this book, it is said, in a complete state, ready for 

 publication. 



The death of Prof. Hermann Northncgel, of Vienna, 

 in his sixty-fifth year, is announced. He made many 

 contributions to medical literature, and by these and 

 his discoveries in regard to heart action he was well 

 known in the medical profession. Prof. Northnagel was 

 a corresponding member of the Royal Medical .Society of 

 this country. 



M.ANY of our readers will be glad to learn that steps 

 are being taken to raise a memorial to the late Prof. 

 G. B. Howes, F.R.S. In the circular letter on the subject 

 which has reached us it is pointed out that his death was 

 probably due most of all to overstrain occasioned by his 

 unsparing zeal in the acquisition of full and accurate 

 knowledge and the undeviating readiness with which he 

 imparted the fruits of his genius and learning, not only 

 to his regular pupils, but to every association which asked 

 for his assistance. It is proposed that the memorial shall 

 take the form of an endowment fund for his widow and 

 daughter. Subscriptions should be sent as soon as possible 

 to the honorary treasurer, Mr. Frank Crisp, 17 Throg- 

 morton Avenue, E.C., marl<ed on the cover " Howes 

 Memorial Fund." We trust there will be a generous 

 response to the appeal. 



A meetin'g of members of the Essex Field Club took 

 place, by invitation of Lady Warwick, at Easton Lodge 

 on Saturday last to inaugurate a photographic and pic- 

 torial survey and record of Essex. The object of the 

 scheme is to make a permanent collection of photographs 

 and other pictures of objects of interest, also maps, plans, 

 and other documents, in order to give a comprehensive 

 survey and record of all that is valuable and representative 

 of Essex. The pictures, plans, &c., will be deposited and 

 placed on view in the museum of the Essex Field Club at 

 West Ham, and it is hoped that all the photographic 

 societies and unattached photographers of the country will 

 assist the committee in its work that its object may 

 be attained. 



We are indebted to a correspondent for a copy of a 

 supplement to the Selangor Government Gazette, dated 

 April 28, containing a report from the district surgeon 

 of Klang on " the progress of anti-malarial measures 

 carried out at Klang and Port Swettenham," in the 

 Federated Malay States, during the past four years, from 

 which we learn that in igoi malaria was very prevalent 

 both at Klang and Port Swettenham, there being much 

 swampy ground in which, as well as in wells, ditches, 

 and pools. Anopheles were found breeding. Active work 

 was undertaken in the shape of tree felling, the clearing 

 of undergrowth, the filling up of abandoned drains, the 

 inauguration of a system of drams to carry off and prevent 



