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E.M., adjunct professor of chemistry, upon 

 the subject " Practical Dyeing," as follows : 



October 18 — " Dj'eing of Cotton with Modern 

 Dye-stuffs." 



October 25 — "Tied and Dyed Work." 



November 8 — " Dyeing and Adulteration of 

 Natural Silk." 



November 15 — " Manufacture and Dyeing of 

 Artificial and Imitation Silk." 



The iirst Hunterian lecture of the Hun- 

 terian Society was delivered on October 13 

 at the London Institute by Dr. Sidney Martin, 

 who discussed certain infective processes in 

 the intestine and their results and treatment. 



A COURSE of twelve free lectures under the 

 Swiney trust will be given at the Victoria and 

 Albert Museum, beginning November 6, by 

 Dr. T. J. Jehu, on "The History of North- 

 west Europe during Tertiary Times." 



M. J. A. Fraissinet, secretary of the Paris 

 Observatory, died on August 29, in his sixty- 

 third year. 



Dr. George Edward Post, for many years 

 head of the Medical College at Beirut, the 

 author of text-books in Arabic on biological 

 subjects, has died at the age of seventy-one 

 years. 



The second International Congress for the 

 Repression of Adulteration in Food, Chemical 

 Products, etc., to be held in Paris on October 

 lY-24, will include sections as follows: (1) 

 wines, alcohols, syrups, liquors, beer, cider; 

 (2) farinaceous foods, baking, pastries, meat 

 and other pastes, spiced confectionery; (3) 

 cocoa, chocolate, confectionery, honey, sugar 

 and sugar candy; (4) vinegar, mustard, pep- 

 per, spices, tea, coffee, chicory; (5) butter, 

 milk, cheese, eggs; (6) lard and edible fats, 

 margarine, provisions preserved in oil, bacon, 

 sausages and pork products, salted provisions 

 and canned and bottled goods; (Y) drugs, 

 chemical products, essential oils, etc.; (8) 

 mineral water (medicinal) aerated waters, ice. 



It is stated in Nature that an Italian 

 National League against malaria has been 

 formed, and the first meeting has been held 

 at Milan. The inaugural address was by Pro- 

 fessor Baccelli, and the following communica- 

 tions have been promised : the present state of 



knowledge in regard to malaria, by Professor 

 Bordoni-Uffreduzzi ; prophylaxis against ma- 

 laria, by Professor Castellino; the pathology 

 of malaria, by Professor Golgi ; some questions 

 relating to the pathology and treatment of 

 malaria, by Professor Grassi; little known 

 abortive forms of malaria, by Professor 

 Queirolo. 



It is stated in the Nation that the Russian 

 Ministry of Marine is equipping three exi)edi- 

 tions to be sent out in the year 1910 to explore 

 the coasts of the Arctic Ocean. One steam- 

 ship will go from Vladivostok to find its way 

 along the coast of northeast Siberia from 

 Bering Strait to the mouth of the Lena, and 

 is to spend from three to four years in this 

 task. A second expedition will visit the 

 Taimyr Peninsula for hydrographieal and to- 

 pographical investigations. The third expedi- 

 tion, which, like the last, starts from St. 

 Petersburg early in 1910, will follow the land 

 route to the Taimyr Peninsula, and will study 

 particularly the courses of the rivers and the 

 geology, climate and meteorology of the coun- 

 try, establishing local meteorological stations. 



At the New York November meeting of the 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, to 

 be held on the ninth in the Engineering Socie- 

 ties Building, 29 West 39th Street, at 8:15 

 o'clock, there will be two papers presented. 

 One by Professor Gaetano Lanza and Lawr- 

 ence S. Smith, of the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, on " Reinforced Concrete 

 Beams," and the other by Professor Walter 

 Rautenstrauch, of Columbia University, on 

 " Stresses in Curved Machine Members." The 

 paper on reinforced concrete beams is the 

 same as that given at the Boston meeting of 

 the society on October 20. It compares the 

 results of tests upon full-sized beams made at 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 

 the University of Illinois with three different 

 theories of beams of this type. The pai)er on 

 stresses in curved machine members outlines 

 the method of procedure for the design of 

 principal sections of hooks, punch and shear 

 frames and other curved machine parts. Ex- 

 perimental results are submitted in support 

 of the theory presented. 



