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NATURE 
[Marcu 14, 1912 
As a concise and well-balanced introduction to 
these wider aspects of surface anatomy, Prof. 
Gaupp’s most admirable little brochure deserves 
to be read by every student of art and medicine; 
and it is to be hoped that the kind of teaching his 
book supplies will soon become available in all 
schools of true art. 
In Manchester during the last four years we 
have had an excellent demonstration of the 
strikingly beneficial results that can accrue to the 
student of art when anatomy is taught by an 
adequately trained teacher with the facilities 
which a dissecting-room affords. 
At a moment when the constitution of the pro- 
vineial schools of art in this country is in the 
melting-pot, and new alliances are being discussed 
with local universities, it is important to em- 
phasise the benefits of such a working association 
between a school of art and a school of medicine, 
which will be useful to both. 
G. Eviior Sir. 
NOTES. 
Dr. H. BreRETON Baker, F.R.S., has been 
appointed to succeed Sir Edward Thorpe, F.R.S., as 
professor of chemistry in the Imperial College of 
Science and Technology, South Kensington, at the 
end of the present session. 
Mire. E. Cuanpon has been appointed assistant 
astronomer at Paris Observatory. 
Tue widow of the late Prof. Hitzig has given 
84,000 marks to the Prussian Academy of Sciences for 
the encouragement of researches on the brain. 
In reply to a question relating to the protection of 
ancient buildings and other historic monuments, 
asked in the House of Commons on March 6, the 
Prime Minister announced that the First Com- 
missioner of his Majesty’s Office of Works proposes 
to introduce at an early date a Bill dealing with the 
question of the preservation of ancient monuments 
and buildings. 
Tue death is reported, in his fifty-second year, of 
Dr. Charles Robert Sanger, assistant professor of 
chemistry at Harvard University from 1899 to 1903, 
and full professor since the latter date. Before his 
call to Harvard he occupied the chair of chemistry 
at the United States Naval Academy and at Wash- 
ington University, St. Louis, successively. He was 
a member of the American Chemical Society and of 
the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft. 
Pror. Henry Wittiamson Haynes, says Science, 
has bequeathed to the Peabody Museum of Harvard 
University 2ool. for the library and all his prehistoric 
and archzological objects, and his books and pamph- 
lets relating to such subjects. To the Boston Society 
of Natural History is given his fossils, minerals, and 
other objects of natural history. To Harvard College 
is given Mr. Haynes’s Etruscan, Greek, and Roman 
vases, and his ancient coins and medals. The 
Boston Museum of Fine Arts is 
Egyptian antiquities. 
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Ar the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society 
on Monday last, Dr. J. Mackintosh Bell described 
some New Zealand volcanoes, and treated of recent 
volcanic activity in the central and northern parts of 
the North Island, and among the islands in the Bay 
of Plenty. The great eruption of Mount Tarawera 
in 1886 was treated exhaustively, and the present 
topography of the mountain as the result of 
twenty-five years’ erosion on the material piled up 
in the course of the eruption was shown. The other 
volcanic regions were similarly dealt with. 
Tue Biological Survey of the U.S. Agricultural 
Department has secured the cooperation of the 
National Zoological Park in experiments in breeding 
mink for the purpose of ascertaining the possibilities 
of rearing them in captivity for commercial purposes. 
This has never been attempted by the Government 
heretofore, but it is hoped that by the combined efforts 
of the two organisations something of practical 
importance can be accomplished. The main object in 
view is to secure data relative to the best methods of 
rearing mink for their fur, especially as to details of 
housing, feeding, mating, and caring for them. 
A ReEuTEeR message from Calcutta reports that in 
the Legislative Council on March 8 Sir S. Harcourt 
Butler opposed a motion (which was afterwards with- 
drawn) to abolish the office of Director-General of 
Archeology, and said that the Government is deter- 
mined to carry forward Lord Curzon’s archzological 
work. The Government of India, he stated, con- 
templates increased expenditure, an increased estab- 
lishment, an improvement in the production and 
circulation of publications, and especially the training 
of Indians for research and other work. Part of the 
scheme is the absorption of the Director-General in 
the Research Institute. 
As statements have been published from time to 
time relating to the transmission of tuberculosis 
through the use of telephones, and especially of those 
in public call offices, the Postmaster-General has had 
the matter thoroughly investigated by Dr. Spitta, of 
St. George’s Hospital. He has just issued a state- 
ment, in the course of which it is remarked that the 
final report which has now been received from Dr. 
Spitta shows that the results have been entirely 
negative. Dr. Spitta is of opinion, in view of the 
whole course of the experimental work, ‘that the 
transmission of tuberculosis through the medium of 
the telephone mouthpiece is practically impossible.’’ 
These results are supported by an independent inquiry 
initiated some time ago by the American Government 
as to the condition of public telephones in the United 
States. They fully confirm the results of work 
carried out by Dr. Klein, of St. Bartholomew’s 
Hospital, in 1905, at the instance of Dr. Colling- 
ridge, the City Medical Officer of Health, who caused 
a number of telephones in use at call offices of the 
National Telephone Company to be removed for 
bacteriological examination. 
A PROVISIONAL programme of the first International 
Eugenics Congress, to be held at the University of 
London on July 24-30, has been issued. The general 
heads under which the subjects to be discussed at the 
