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An International Congress of Comparative Patho- | the Victoria Memorial Museum at Ottawa to examine 
| these new localities, and he will spend the present 
logy is being organised by the Société de Pathologie 
Comparée to be held in Paris in October next. The 
subjects for discussion will range over the whole field 
of pathology, and will include veterinary and plant 
pathology. Among the problems to be discussed are 
tuberculosis (pathogenesis), human and avian diph- 
theria, cancer, variola and vaccinia, parasites common 
to man and animals, hydrophobia, comparative study 
of the cirrhoses, vegetable pathology, &c. Those desir- 
ous of making communications to the congress or of 
taking part in the discussions should communicate 
with the general secretary, 42 rue de Villejust, Paris. 
Tue ninth International Congress of Zoology is to 
be held at Monaco from March 25 to 30, 1913. Prince 
Albert of Monaco will preside. 
addressed to Prof. Joubin, general secretary of the 
congress, Institut Océanographique, 195 rue Saint- 
Jacques, Paris. 
Tue twelfth International Geological Congress will 
be held in Toronto in August of next year, and, 
according to Science, the following topics have been 
selected by the executive committee as the principal 
subjects for discussion :—The coal resources of the 
world; differentiation in igneous magmas; the influ- 
ence of depth on the character of metalliferous de- 
posits; the origin and extent of the pre-Cambrian 
sedimentaries; the subdivisions, correlation and ter- 
minology of the pre-Cambrian; to what extent was 
the Ice age broken by interglacial periods? the 
physical and faunal characteristics of the Palaeozoic 
seas with reference to the value of the recurrence of 
seas in establishing geologic systems. The honorary 
president of the congress is to be H.R.H. the Duke 
of Connaught, the presidential chair being filled by 
Dr. Frank D. Adams, dean of the faculty of applied 
science and Logan professor of geology, McGill Uni- 
versity, Montreal. Mr. R. W. Brock, director of 
the Geological Survey of Canada, will be the general 
secretary. 
A FINE skull of the extinct horned reptile Tricera- 
tops has just been mounted in a new case in the 
Geological Department of the British Museum 
(Natural History). The specimen was discovered in 
the Upper Cretaceous Laramie formation of Con- 
verse County, Wyoming, U.S.A., by Mr. Charles H. 
Sternberg, who undertook a special expedition to 
obtain it for the museum. The skull, with the bony 
crest, measures a little more than 6 ft. in length, 
while the brain-cavity, of which a cast has been 
taken, has a length of only 6 in., with a. greatest 
width of 2 in. The comparatively small size of the 
trunk is shown by the bones found associated with 
the skull, among which the fused neck-vertebrae, a 
scapulo-coracoid, and a humerus are especially well 
preserved. A few isolated horn-cores from the 
same geological formation and locality are interesting 
as showing their variation in shape, and also the 
marks of the blood-vessels which nourished their 
sheath. It has been known for several years that 
similar fossils occur further north. in Canada, but 
they have not hitherto been systematically collected. 
Mr. Charles H. Sternberg is now being employed by 
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summer in exploring the Red Deer river district of 
' Alberta. 
Inquiries should be | 
| Halberstadt in the beginning of September. 
AN appeal is being made on behalf of the London 
School of Tropical Medicine for a sum of 100,000l. to 
provide an adequate endowment fund, to make addi- 
tions to the laboratory accommodation and residential 
quarters for the increasing number of students, to 
provide for the prosecution of research, and to provide 
a small nursing home for those civilians whose means 
are inadequate to procure special nursing and medical 
treatment for their needs. An influential committee, 
formed at the request of Mr. Harcourt, Secretary of 
State for the Colonies, and under the chairmanship 
of Mr. Austen Chamberlain, is issuing the appeal, 
and has already collected 15,0001. 
Pror. Otto JAEKEL, of Greifswald, has issued a 
circular directing attention to the want of a paleon- 
tological society in Germany, which shall serve as a 
link between zoologists and geologists and shall. at 
the same time define more clearly the ground to 
be occupied by these two groups. Prof. Jaekel invites 
the cooperation of palzontologists outside Germany, 
and looks forward especially to a closer union of 
workers in eastern Europe. It is proposed that the 
annual subscription to the new society shall be 20 
marks, and that the first meeting shall be held at 
Halber- 
stadt, lying at the foot of the Harz Mountains, is 
easily reached from all sides, and is an important 
centre for the study of Triassic fossils, including 
dinosaurs. Communications as to the society may 
be made direct to Prof. Jaekel. 
Unper the title ‘‘Sea Fisheries Organisation and 
Research,” The Times on July 11 published an 
article of some importance, written by a corre- 
spondent who has evidently followed closely the atti- 
tude of the Government in connection with these 
matters in England during the last decade. After 
reviewing the various attempts at organisation and 
reorganisation which have occurred, the writer goes 
on to consider the position as it appears to stand at 
the present time. ‘‘Mr. Runciman and his new Chief 
of Staff have probably a greater opportunity now 
than has occurred in the memory of man of organ- 
ising sea-fisheries research and ~ administration 
throughout the country so as to unite the various 
cooperating bodies—all doing useful work in their 
own way—into one harmonious scheme such as will 
promote the development of a great national indus- 
try.” A defence of the scientific man against the 
charge so often brought by the layman, that his work 
is not ‘‘practical,’ is then made, and concludes 
thus :—‘‘It is merely a delusion of the ill-informed 
that science is unpractical or that the modern scien- 
tific man is not an efficient administrator. Science 
and administration are not antagonistic, ought never 
to be: kept apart, and should surely be most intimately 
interwoven in the case of an industry like the national 
fisheries, based on scientific principles and requiring 
constant scientific supervision and _ investigation.” 
