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formed any definite organization except a com- 

 mittee which has acted informally to facilitate 

 continuity of effort. Although some form of 

 organization may be adopted at the meeting 

 in Au.stralia, it is expected that each confer- 

 ence will be autonomous and independent and 

 that the organization and program for each 

 conference will be in the hands of the country 

 that issues the invitation. 



"We learn from Nature that the centenary of 

 the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, which was 

 founded in 1822, was celebrated on September 

 20. The members of the society and its guests 

 were received in the gardens of the Yorkshire 

 Museum by the president, Mr. W. H. St. 

 Quintin, and a number of congratulatory ad- 

 dresses from national as well as local learned 

 bodies were read by the representatives. Later, 

 the gathering went in procession to the Minster, 

 where a short service was held and an address 

 delivered by the Bishop of Beverle3^ 



The third international conference of 

 "Psychoteohnique applique a I'orientation pro- 

 fessionnelle" will meet this year at Milan on 

 October 2 to 5. According to the announce- 

 ment there were to be discussions on the fol- 

 lowing subjects: (a) What is meant b5' voca- 

 tional aptitudes? (Lahy) ; (h) Natural apti- 

 tudes and acquired aptitudes (Decroljs 

 Patrizi) ; (c) The psychological analysis of 

 work (Gemelli, Lipmann) ; [d) Vocational 

 guidance and Taylorism (Bauer); and (e) An 

 international unification of tests and individual 

 ratings (Claparede, Mira, Myers). 



A HEALTH survey of the jwinting trades has 

 been authorized by the International Joint 

 Conference Council, representing both employ- 

 ers and employees. The survey is intended to 

 cover two years and will be nation-wide. The 

 work will include a thorough study of printing 

 processes in their relation to health and of 

 printing house conditions, possibly more or 

 less detrimental to health and life. The inves- 

 tigation will be carried on in cooperation with 

 a large nirmber of governmental, scientific and 

 corporate organizations, including the United 

 States Bureau of Labor Statistics, which will 

 have charge of the major portion of the social 

 and eepnomic inquiries. A large measure of 



cooperation is expected from the insurance 

 companies, but especially from Harvard Med- 

 ical School, Yale Medical School, the Public 

 Health School of Johns Hopkins University 

 and a number of state health and labor de- 

 partments. Particular emphasis will be placed 

 upon methods of ventilation, air-pollution, 

 lighting, eye-strain, posture and physique. The 

 investigation will be under the immediate direc- 

 tion of Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, dean of the 

 advanced department of the Babson Institute, 

 Welleslej' Hills, Massachusetts, and consulting 

 statistician to the Prudential Insurance Com- 

 pany of America. 



We learn from the London Times that the 

 Rowett Institute of Research in Animal Nutri- 

 tion, which is conducted by a joint committee 

 of representatives of the University of Aber- 

 deen and the North of Scotland College of 

 Agriculture, was opened by Queen Mary on 

 September 12. The buildings forming the 

 institute are situated about a mile from Bank- 

 head, Aberdeen. The capital outlay on the 

 scheme was about .£50,000. Of this sum the 

 Treasury, on the recommendation of the Devel- 

 opment Commission, promised £20,000 pro- 

 vided an equal sum was obtained from other 

 sources. At this stage Mr. John Quiller 

 Rowett, LL.D., who has shown great interest in 

 scientific research, offered £10,000 to allow the 

 v/ork of building the institute to proceed. Im- 

 pressed with the necessity of leaving the insti- 

 tute room for expansion, Dr. Rowett made a 

 further offer to provide, in addition to his first 

 generous gift, sufficient funds to purchase the 

 farm of Bridgefood and the croft of Redpool. 

 The institution has been organized to include 

 departments dealing with physiology, biochem- 

 istry, bacteriology and pathology, and to have 

 an animal husbandry department, which is 

 carrying out feeding and other experiments on 

 a practical scale. AH these departments afford 

 mutual assistance to each other, and all the 

 work, both purely scientific and practical, is 

 organized from the newly built center. The 

 director of the institute is Dr. J. B. Orr. 



There is given in Nature some further in- 

 formation concerning the meeting of the Com- 

 mission on Int6sllectual Cooperation of the 



