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SCIENCE 



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large library and the Somerset County Mu- 

 seum at Taunton Castle. 



The psychological laboratory of the Johns 

 Hopkins University has been granted the sum 

 of $6,000 " for investigating the informational 

 and educative effect upon the public of certain 

 motion picture fQms used in various cam- 

 paigns for the control, repression and elimina- 

 tion of venereal disease." 



To increase its capacity for the production 

 of anti-pneumonia serum, the laboratory in 

 charge of Dr. Preston Kyes, professor of pre- 

 ventive medicine at the University of Chicago, 

 is to be enlarged at a cost of five thousand 

 dollars. 



Through the generosity of Colonel Walter 

 Scott, of ISTew York, the library of the depart- 

 ment of zoology at Smith College has received 

 a complete set of the great Belgium entomo- 

 logical vsfork Wytsman's " Genera Insectorum." 



De. William Allen Sturge bequeathed his 

 large collection of prehistoric objects of stone, 

 bone and horn to the British Museum. 



Nature states that it is proposed to establish 

 an institute of commercial and industrial psy- 

 chology and physiology. The announcement 

 is accompanied by a summary of thirty in- 

 vestigations in vi^hich the scientific analysis of 

 industrial movements resulted in a notable 

 improvement of output, and reference is also 

 made to the effects of shorter hours and the 

 introduction of rest pauses. Amongst th.e sci- 

 entific supporters of the proposals are Sir 

 Walter Fletcher, Mr. W. B. Hardy, Lieutenant 

 Colonel Myers, Professor C. S. Sherrington 

 and Professor E. H. Starling. The secretary 

 is Mr. G. Spiller, 1 Great Tower Street, E.C.3. 



The Geological Survey, of Ottawa, Canada, 

 has sent an expedition to Graham Island, of 

 the Queen Charlotte group in British Co- 

 lumbia, off the west coast of Canada. Mr. 

 Clyde L. Patch is studying and collecting mam- 

 mals and birds and is giving special attention 

 to the herpetology of the regions. Mr. Harlan 

 I. Smith is continuing his researches into the 

 archeology of the North Pacific coast of Amer- 

 ica which he began in 1897 on the Jesup ISTorth 



Pacific expedition by exploration and excava- 

 tion in this part of the Haida linguistic area. 

 The Haida were undoulbtedly the most noted 

 people and most feared warriors of the Pacific 

 coast of ISTorth America. They were unsur- 

 passed as canoe builders, carvers and painters. 

 They were noted for their great potlatches and 

 other financial and social customs. Yet the 

 archeology of the Haida area is practically 

 unknown, no intensive exploration or excava- 

 tion of prehistoric sites having been made in 

 their historic habitat. 



" To stimulate interest, promote study and 

 facilitate publication of researches in agricul- 

 tural history " is the object of the Agricultural 

 History Society which has been organized in 

 Washington. It plans to present in permanent 

 form the history of one of the biggest construc- 

 tive factors in the history of the United States 

 — agriculture — and the influence it has exer- 

 cised in making this country what it is. The 

 officers are: President — Dr. Rodney H. True, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C. ; 

 Vice-president — Professor Wm. J. Trimble, 

 Agricultural College, ISTorth Dakota ; Secretary- 

 treasurer — Lyman Carrier, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, Washington, D. C. ; Members of 

 'Executive Committee — Professor R. W. Kel- 

 sey, Haverford, Pa., and O. C. Stine, Office of 

 Farm Management, Washington, D. C. In- 

 terested persons who pay the dues of one dollar 

 a year are eligible to membership. 



A large herd of American buffalo has been 

 purchased by William Clayton, of Wyoming, 

 from W. D. Turner, of Colorado. The herd 

 contains about 225 animals and sold for ap- 

 proximately $40,000. It is the intention of the 

 purchaser to dispose of the buffalo in small 

 groups to public parks and zoological gardens. 

 The herd was started by General Palmer of 

 Colorado Springs, Colorado, who desired to 

 preserve a representative collection of the ani- 

 mals. Mr. Turner later secured the original 

 herd and improved it by introducing new blood 

 from Canadian herds. 



The annual report of the Lister Institute of 

 Preventive Medicine (the name is to be 

 changed to the Lister Institute of Medical Re- 



