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of the Academy of Science, for the use of the 

 bodies represented by them. 



The Association for maintaining the Ameri- 

 can women's table at the zoological station at 

 Naples announces that it is prepared to receive 

 applications for use of the table, which should 

 be addressed to the Secretary, Miss Ida H. 

 Hyde, 1 Berkeley St., Cambridge. The Execu- 

 tive Board has at its disposal a small fund for the 

 aid of scholars of the Association who may need 

 assistance to meet the expenses of travel and of 

 residence in Naples. The first two scholars of 

 the Association were Professor Mary Alice Wil- 

 cox, of Wellesley College, and Miss Florence 

 Peebles, European Fellow of Bryn Mawr College. 



The late Baron Ferdinand Rothschild has 

 bequeathed to the British Museum art collec- 

 tions valued at $1,500,000. 



The French Society for the encouragement 

 of national industry has been presented with a 

 sum of 20,000 fr. by M. Gilbert. 



Judge John Handlby, of Scranton, Pa., 

 left $250,000 for a public library at Winchester, 

 Va., and made the city his residuary legatee. 

 It has been decided in the Courts that the latter 

 bequest is valid, and the city will receive about 

 $250,000 additional to the public library. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has offered to give 

 $250,000 for the construction of a building for 

 the Washington Public Library if Congress will 

 furnish a suitable site and provide for the main- 

 tenance of the library. 



The Imperial Academy of Military Medicine, 

 St. Petersburg, celebrated on December 30th the 

 centenary of its foundation, in the presence of 

 oificial delegates from Germany, France and 

 other nations. The Director of the Academy, 

 Professor Ponchatine, made an address, giving 

 a brief history of the institution and an account 

 of the work that it had accomplished. 



The Proceedings of the second annual meet- 

 ing of the Association of Experiment Station 

 Veterinarians, held at Omaha, Neb., September 

 8, 1898, have recently been published by the 

 TJ. S. Department of Agricultui'e (Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, Bui. No. 22). Among the 

 papers are those on ' Growing Tubercle Bacilli 

 for Tuberculin,' by C. A. Gary ; 'Feeding Wild 



Plants to Sheep,' by S. B. Nelson, and 'Lab- 

 oratory Eecords for Veterinarians,' by A. W. 

 Bitting. 



The meeting of teachers of chemistry held at 

 the University of Michigan on December 27 and 

 28, 1898, proved to be of great interest. A con- 

 siderable number of high schools in Michigan 

 were represented in the meeting. Among the 

 institutions sending teachers were the Univer- 

 sitj' of Wisconsin ; Lake Forest University ; Chi- 

 cago University ; Notre Dame, Ind. ; Ohio State 

 University ; Kenyon College, Ohio ; Otterbein 

 University, Ohio ; Olivet College, and Lewis 

 Institute, Chicago. There were also reports 

 and papers from the University of Chicago. 

 The discussions were limited to the subjects and 

 methods of teaching chemistry in high schools 

 and colleges. 



An International Conference on Child Study 

 will be held in Buda-Pesth next September. 



It is reported from Sydney that the private 

 yacht Lady St. Aubyn has discovered some 

 relics of the French navigator La Perouse at 

 Vauikoro Islands. The objects found include 

 flint-lock muskets and Spanish and French 

 coins. 



The Russian Imperial Geographical Society 

 announces that neither the expedition of Strad- 

 ling nor of Brede has been able to find in 

 Siberia traces of Andree. In the meanwhile an 

 expedition has been organized at Copenhagen, 

 under the direction of Dr. Daniel Brunn, to 

 search for traces of Andree in eastern Green- 

 land 



The Division of Statistics of the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture reports that the acre- 

 age devoted to cotton in the United States in 

 1897 was 24,319,584, an increase of 1,046,375 

 over that for 1896. The number of bales pro- 

 duced was in 1897 10,897,857, an increase of 

 2,365,152 bales. There was an increase in al- 

 most every State, being especially noticeable in 

 Arkansas and Indian Territory. The investiga- 

 tion of the amount of cotton purchased by mills 

 located in the cotton-growing States shows that 

 1,277,674 bales were taken from the current 

 crop. This is 295,683 bales, or 30.1 per cent, 

 more than was purchased by these mills in 

 1896-97. Without an exception every State 



