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fisheries in the United States, etc., has been 

 prepared for publication in English, Spanish, 

 and Portuguese. 



Under the presidency of Lord Ancaster, 

 British deputy minister of fisheries, the Deep 

 Sea Pishing Exhibition was held at the 

 Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, from July 

 24 to August 5. Among the exhibits were 

 fish from the Dogger Bank shown alive in 

 tanks of salt water, free fish snacks cooked on 

 the premises, the dressing and curing of fish, 

 wireless broadcasting, Scottish fisher girls at 

 work, a diver operating under water, samples 

 of fish not known on the markets, fish luncheons 

 and dinners, a museum with models of various 

 types of vessels, working exliibits, a picture 

 gallery, and films dealing with deep-sea fishing, 

 life under the surface, whaling and pearl 

 fishing. 



The London Natural History Museum Staff 

 Association held their summer scientific re- 

 union in the board room of the -museum on 

 July 5. According to the report in Nature, 

 among the exhibits were the following: speci- 

 men of the supposed gigantic gastropod (Dino- 

 cochlea ingens) from the freshwater sand- 

 stones in the Wadhurst Clay, Hastings; the 

 natural cast of a footprint of an iguanodon 

 from the Wealden Beds, between Bexhill and 

 St. Leonards; opalised mollusca of Cretaceous 

 age from New South "Wales and South 

 Australia; skin with scutes of astego- 

 saurian dinosaur from the Upper Creta- 

 ceous, Alberta, Canada; specimens from 

 the collection of Swiss minerals be- 

 queathed to the museum by the late Reverend 

 J. M. Gordon; one of the four meteoric stones 

 which fell in the Strathmore district of Perth- 

 shire and Forfarshire on December 3, 1917; 

 living specimens of a branohiopod crustacean 

 {Leptesheria dahalacensis) hatched from eggs 

 contained in dried mud from Bagdad; ammo- 

 nites with the operculum preserved and asso- 

 ciated fossils from the same bed in the Lias 

 at Charmouth, Dorset; horse chestnut seed- 

 lings, illustrating three different methods of 

 replacing the bud of the primary shoot; a very 

 rare British orchid {Orchis hirchia) recently 

 found near Lewes; examples of the remarkably 

 different, smooth and partly rough, skinned 



fruits borne on the same tree of the Khatta 

 orange. North India; model of Commerson's 

 dolphin {Cephalorhynchus Commersoni) from 

 Port Stanley, Falkland Islands; and the model, 

 enlarged 740 diameters, of the itch mite 

 (Sarcoptes Seabiei) recently made for the 

 museum by Miss Grace Edwards. Messrs. 

 R. and J. Beck exhibited their most recent 

 forms of microscope, and Duroglass Ltd. 

 showed examples of their glass-ware for pre- 

 serving specimens in spirit and for use in 

 chemical analysis. 



The third International Congress of the 

 History of Medicine was opened on July 17, 

 at the Royal Society of Medicine, London. 

 Dr. Charles Singer, lecturer on the history of 

 medicine, London University, presided. The 

 following countries were represented : Belgium, 

 Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, 

 Greece, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Rumania, 

 Spain, Swtzerland and the United States. 

 Lord Onslow, parliamentary secretary to the 

 Ministry of Health, welcomed the delegates on 

 behalf of the government, after which Dr. 

 Singer addressed the congress. Dr. Laignel- 

 Lavastine acknowledged the welcome on be- 

 half of the foreign delegates. Sir D'Arcy 

 Power, in the absence of Sir Norman Moore, 

 president of honor, said it Avas a matter of 

 especial gratification that England had 

 been chosen for the third congress. Dr. Tricot- 

 Royer, first president, thought that greater suc- 

 cess would result from that conference than 

 from its predecessors. He announced that the 

 next conference would toe held at Brussels. At 

 the afternoon meeting of the congress, held at 

 the Royal College of Physicians, Pall Mall, the 

 president of the institution. Sir Humphrey 

 Rolleston, gave an address of welcome, and Dr. 

 Arnold Chaplin, Harveian librarian, described 

 the treasures of the library. The president of 

 the congress and Mrs. Singer gave a reception 

 and conversazione in the evening at the Royal 

 Society of Medicine, when a demonstration on 

 human paleolithic skulls was given by Pro- 

 fessor Elliot Smith. 



"We learn from Nature that a summer course 

 in the Austrian Tyrol has been organized by 

 the directors of Leplay House, London. The 

 course is of the nature of a civic and rustic 



