January 13, 1899.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Linnwnn Society of Xew York City. 



Jan. 19. — A Naturalist iu Florida 



Feank M. Chapman. 

 Jan. 26. — A Naturalist in Labrador 



Dr. Robert T. Morris. 

 Feb. 2. — A Naturalist on the Pacific Coast 



Dr. Bashford Dean. 

 Feb. 9. — A Naturalist in Wyoming; 



Ernest Seton Thompson. 



New Yorlc Botanical Garden. 

 April 6 and 13. — Subjects and lecturers to be an- 

 nounced later. 



Blemhers^ Course — 1S99. 

 Professor Albert S. Bickmore, Curator of the De- 

 partment of Public Instruction. 

 Feb. 16 — Newfoundland and Labrador. 

 Feb. 23.— Gulf and River of St. Lawrence. 

 Mar. 2.— The Great Lakes. 

 Mar. 9. — Central California — San Francisco 

 and Yosemite Valley. 



Professor A. C. Haddon writes to Nature 

 that the members of the Cambridge Anthro- 

 pological Expedition to Torres Straits have 

 now completed their investigations in the 

 Straits. Dr. Rivers and Mr. Wilkin have left 

 for England, while the other members of the 

 expedition have proceeded to Borneo to study 

 the anthropology of the Baram district of Sara- 

 wak. The health of the party has been excel- 

 lent. The natives of Murray Island were studied 

 with most detail, as, owing to their isolation, 

 they have been less modified by contact with 

 alien races. Some of the party stayed about 

 four months on the island, while others had 

 only a couple of months, owing to a trip 

 having been made to the mainland of New 

 Guinea. The New Guinea contingent visited 

 the coast tribes between Kerepunu and the 

 Mekeo district, and several excursions were 

 made for short distances inland. There was 

 not enough time spent at any spot for a thorough 

 investigation of the natives, but a considerable 

 amount of information was obtained iu most of 

 the branches of anthropology with which the 

 expedition is concerned, which will prove of 

 value for purposes of comparison. The re- 

 searches on the Murray islanders were fairly 

 thorough and will form a basis for comparison 

 with the other islanders and allied peoples. 

 Over a month was spent in Mabuiag (Jervis 



Island) by all the party, with the exception of 

 Messrs. Myers and MacDougall, who had 

 previously started for Borneo. Although the 

 time spent in Mabuiag was sliort, a satisfactory 

 amount of work was accomplished owing to 

 the conditions being favorable. Observations 

 were also made on several other islands in 

 Torres Straits and Kiwai, which is situated iu 

 the mouth of the Fly River. A large number 

 of photographs have been taken, and consider- 

 able collections have been made, which are now 

 on their way to Cambridge. 



In a recent address before the British Orni- 

 thologists' Club Mr. Sclater, after referriug to 

 the expedition to Socotra and southern Arabia, 

 with Dr. Forbes and Mr. Ogilvie Grant as its 

 leaders, referred to other expeditions of British 

 ornithologists. Captain Boyd Alexander, who 

 has worked in the Cape Verde Islands, is strug- 

 gling through the middle of Africa from the 

 Cape to Cairo. Under present circumstances 

 he seems likely to come out successfully, and 

 will, no doubt, bring information on birds, if 

 not specimens, with him. Mr. Lort Phillips 

 hopes to return to his favorite c|uarters in 

 Somaliland during the course of the present 

 winter, and expects to get together the supple- 

 mentary materials still required for the prepara- 

 tion of his proposed work on the birds of that 

 most interesting country. Mr. John White- 

 head, who has added so much to our knowledge 

 of the zoology of the Philippines, proposes to 

 return to the same country very shortly, in 

 order to continue his researches in a field which 

 he knows so well and in which he takes such 

 great interest. Mr. Alfred Sharpe, C.B., who 

 is shortly returning to his post in Nyassaland, 

 promises to continue the employment of col- 

 lectors in different parts of that Protectorate, 

 the zoology of which he, following iu the foot- 

 steps of Sir Harry Johnston, has already done 

 so much to investigate. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that an International Congress on Tuberculosis 

 and the methods for combating it will be 

 held in Berlin from May 23d to 27th next year. 

 The Imperior Chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, 

 will preside, and will be supported by an in- 

 fluential committee, headed by the Duke of 



