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survey, and for this purpose the party is 

 divided into groups each of which talies one 

 particular aspect of the work. Mr. H. J. E. 

 Peake, president-elect of the Anthropological 

 Section of the British Association, has under- 

 taken to direct the group studying the anthro- 

 pological aspects; Dr. M. Hardy will organize 

 a survey of plant life and agriculture, while 

 other sections will deal with the geology, phys- 

 iography, history and sociology of the district. 

 Group meetings and gatherings of the whole 

 party will frequently be held for the purpose 

 of discussing and comparing results. The tour 

 commenced on August 4 and will last four 

 weeks, although it is possible to arrange for a 

 shorter course of two weeks. 



The Experiment Station Record states that 

 the Palestine Zionist executive is opening an 

 institute of agricultural research in Jerusalem. 

 This institute will be in charge of 0. Warburg 

 as head and botanist, with I. Wilkansky as 

 director of experimental Stations and farm 

 management, F. Bodenheimer in charge of 

 entomology, A. Treidal and M. Winik of chem- 

 istry, M. Wilkansky of agronomy, L. Pinner 

 of plant breeding, N. Reichert of plant pathol- 

 ogy, E. Piekholz of animal nutrition, and S. 

 Zemach in charge of agricultural publications. 

 Departments of horticulture, animal husban- 

 dry, irrigation, and agricultural education will 

 be opened next year. The institute will for 

 the present be under the direction of the Col- 

 onization Department of the Palestine Zionist 

 Executive, but is expected to be transferred 

 eventually to the R-esearch Institute of the 

 Jerusalem University. Experimental stations 

 in Ben-Shemen for the Shephela, Merhavia for 

 the Jezreel Valley, and Degania for the Jordan 

 Valley were established during the past year. 

 It is anticipated that a similar station will 

 shortly be opened in Beer-Sheba for the Nogob. 



According to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association the International Health 

 Board of the Rockefeller Eoundation has en- 

 tered into a cooperative arrangement with the 

 Health Organization of the League of Nations 

 whereby the board will provide a sum not to 

 exceed $32,840 a year, for a period of iive 

 yeai-s, for the purpose of maintaining an 

 international epidemiologic intelligence service. 



The board will also provide a sum not to exceed 

 $60,080 a year for three years to put into 

 effect a scheme for the international exchange 

 of public health personnel, to be conducted 

 under the auspices of the health organization 

 of the league. Since the establishment, in 1921, 

 of the intelligence service of the health organ- 

 ization of the League of Nations, it has con- 

 ducted an international epidemiologic informa- 

 tion service, keeping all governments informed 

 as to the status of epidemics of typhus, inter- 

 mittent fever and cholera, which have been 

 sweeping westward from the famine regions of 

 Russia. It has also undertaken to promote the 

 international standardization of vaccines and 

 serums. It advises the league in matters af- 

 fecting health and cooperates with the Inter- 

 national Labor Organization in promoting 

 industrial hygiene and sanitary conventions for 

 the control of epidemics. It is expected that, 

 by the end of the five-year period, for which 

 funds have been provided by the International 

 Health Board, the epidemiologic intelligence 

 service will have become so efficient and valu- 

 able that the various national governments will 

 regard it as indispensable and provide funds 

 for its further maintenance. Interchange of 

 health oificials will be arranged, not only for 

 observation but for definite periods of service, 

 which will result in actual exchange of experi- 

 ence. This system of exchanges will be put 

 into effect first in Europe and may be extended 

 to other countries throughout the world. 



The Weather Bureau is conducting a study 

 of the constants of anemometers in general use 

 in this country. With the cooperation of the 

 Bureau of Standards about thirty instruments 

 of various dimensions, proportions and 

 weights have been tested in the wind-tunnels 

 of the latter bureau at velocities ranging from 

 five to sixty meters per second. Since the be- 

 havior of these anemometers may be different 

 in the variable natural wind, certain instru- 

 ments tested in the wind-tunnels have been 

 taken to Mount Washington, New Hampshire, 

 for comparison in the very high winds pre- 

 vailing there. These free-air comparisons will 

 be completed during August, 1922. Following 

 an analysis of the data an improved standard 

 anemometer, recording true velocities, will be 



