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SCIENCE 



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Indians and their artificial and natural en- 

 vironments. These with the aid of the photo- 

 graphs secured on the expedition and those 

 already in the museum are to be used for 

 mural decorations in the Northwest Coast 

 Hall. These it is hoped will illustrate the 

 home country of the seven groups of natives 

 together with their characteristic occupations. 



The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy 

 announces special lectures to be held from 

 October to April, inclusive, at 3 :30 p.m., in 

 accordance with the following schedule: 



Friday, October 8 — " Examination of Foods," by 

 Dr. W. D. Bigelow, Chief, Division of Foods, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Friday, October 22 — ■" The Application of the 

 Microscope in Legal Investigations," by George 

 M. Beringer, A.M., Ph.M., Pharmacist and Chem- 

 ist, Camden, N. J. 



Thursday, November 4 — " American Medicinal 

 Plants and Drugs," by Professor John Uri Lloyd, 

 Manufacturing Pharmacist, Cincinnati, O. 



Friday, November 19 — " The Typhoid Organism 

 and its Relation to the Public Health," by Dr. A. 

 C. Abbott, Director Laboratory of Hygiene, Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. 



Friday, December 10 — " The Manufacture and 

 Testing of Medicinal Plasters," by F. B. Kilmer, 

 Chemist for Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, 

 N. J. 



Friday, December 17 — " Trypanosomes and 

 Trypanosomiases (The Sleeping-Disease and its 

 Causes)," by Dr. Leonard G. Rowntree, Instructor 

 in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



Friday, January 7 — " Plants Injurious to Ani- 

 mals," by Dr. Rodney H. True, Physiologist, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Friday, January 21 — " Physiological Assay, Its 

 Value and Limitations," by Professor H. C. Wood, 

 Jr., Department of Pharmacology, University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



Friday, February 11 — "The Ultra-microscope 

 and its Application," by Jerome Alexander, Sec- 

 retary-Treasurer National Gum and Mica Com- 

 pany. 



Friday, February 25 — " Some of the Important 

 Tests for Essential Oils," by Dr. Francis D. Dodge, 

 Chemist, Oil Distilling Laboratory, Dodge & 01- 

 cott, Bayonne, N. J. 



Friday, March 11 — "The Testing of Cements," 



by Richard K. Meade, B.S., Director Meade Test- 

 ing Laboratories, Nazareth, Pa. 



Thursday, March 24 — " Biologic Products," by 

 Dr. S. H. Gilliland, President, Dr. H. M. Alex- 

 ander & Co., Marietta, Pa. 



Friday, April 8 — " Modern Methods of Food 

 Manufacture," by L. S. Dow, of the Heinz Pre- 

 serving Company, Pennsylvania. 



Friday, April 22 — " State Control of Contagious, 

 and Infectious Diseases," by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, 

 Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania. 



The British Medical Journal states that the- 

 natural history department of the British 

 Museum has received a cast of the fossil hu- 

 man lower jaw found recently some seventy 

 feet below the surface in a sand deposit at 

 Mauer, near Heidelberg. It was found along 

 with fossil remains of a rhinoceros and ele- 

 phant, similar to those met with in the- 

 Cromer forest beds, and Dr. Shoetensack, who 

 has published a description of the jaw, con- 

 siders that it may be referred to the later 

 pleistocene epoch. The discovery of this~ 

 " Heidelberg man," therefore, takes the an- 

 tiquity of the human race back to an age- 

 earlier than the famous Spy and ISTeanderthal 

 skulls. The jaw is massive, and has no chin, 

 in which respects it presents ape-like char- 

 acters, but the teeth are distinctly human ; the- 

 molars have five cusps, the canines are not 

 specially prominent, and the dimensions of the- 

 teeth generally are within the limits of varia- 

 tion at the present day. The skull is exhibited 

 in a case which contains also casts of Pithe- 

 canthropus erectus from Java, the Neander- 

 thal skull, the Gibraltar skull of the same type,, 

 the Spy skull and limb bones, the Cannstadt 

 skull, and the Tilbury skull described by 

 Owen. 



The Journal of the American Medical As-- 

 sociation says : Several statues of prominent 

 members of the profession in Europe have been- 

 installed recently as memorials at the scene of 

 their labors, but the designs of the sculptors- 

 have all been ornately allegorical, and many- 

 criticisms have been made that this conflicts 

 with the simplicity and love of absolute truth 

 which distinguishes the scientists thus hon- 

 ored. The Brouardel statue at Paris is a bust 

 of the scientist on a tall pedestal with two- 



