Febeuaky 17, 1899.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The Anthropological Society of Washington 

 and the AVomau's Anthropological Society have 

 recently united for scientific worlj, the latter 

 discontinuing separate scientific meetings, and 

 the former modifying its by-laws in such man- 

 ner as to combine the functions hitherto per- 

 formed by the two organizations. The union 

 was definitely completed at the annual meeting 

 of the Anthropological Society of Washington 

 on January 17, 1899, at which the modified by- 

 laws were adopted, and at which representatives 

 of both societies were recognized in the ensuing 

 election of ofiicers. The officers for the year 

 are as follows : President, W J McGee ; Vice- 

 Presidents — Section A, Somatology, Dr. Frank 

 Baker ; Section B, Psychology, Lester F. 

 Ward ; Section C, Esthetology, W. PI. Holmes; 

 Section D, Technology, Frank Hamilton Gush- 

 ing ; Section E, Sociology, Dr. George M. 

 Kober ; Section F, Philology, Major J. W. 

 Powell ; Section B, Sophiology, Alice C. Fletch- 

 er ; General Secretary, Jessie Moore Holton ; 

 Treasurer, Perry B. Pierce ; Curator, Mariana 

 P. Seaman ; Secretary of the Board of Managers, 

 Dr. J. H. McCormick ; Councilors, J. Walter 

 Fewkes, Weston Flint, F. W. Hodge, George 

 E. Stetson, Edith C. Westcott, Thomas Wilson ; 

 Ex-OflScio Members of the Board (as Ex-Presi- 

 dents), Robert Fletcher, Otis T. Mason. 



The National Geographic Society offers two 

 prizes for the best essays on Norse discoveries 

 in America — a first prize of $1.50 and a second 

 prize of 175. Es=ays submitted in competition 

 for these prizes should be typewritten in the 

 English language and should not exceed 6,000 

 words in length. They should be signed by a 

 pseudonym and must be received on December 

 31, 1899. The judges are : Henry Gannett, 

 Geographer of the U.S. Geological Survey, etc.; 

 Albert Bushnell Hart, professor of history in 

 Harvard University ; Anita Newcomb McGeei 

 M. D., Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A.; John 

 Bach McMaster, LL. D., professor of history 

 in the University of Pennsylvania, and Henry 

 S. Pritchett, Superintendent of the U. S. Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey. 



A PEOVISIONAL committee for the German Em- 

 pire, in connection with the Thirteenth Inter- 

 national Medical Congress, which is to be held 



in Paris in 1900, has been formed, with Pro- 

 fessor Rudolph Virchow as President. 



As we have already announced, the eighth 

 session of the International Geological Congress 

 will be held in Paris from August 16 to 28, 

 1900, in connection with the great Exposition. 

 The American Geologist states that the Com- 

 mittee of Organization, of which M. Albert 

 Gaudry is President, MM. Michel-Levy and 

 Marcel Bertram, Vice-Presidents, and M. 

 Charles Barrois, General Secretary, has already 

 held several meetings. The Congress will meet 

 in a special pavilion, and the length of its ses- 

 sions will permit its members to visit the Ex- 

 position and the geological museums of Paris. 

 Three general excursions have been arranged 

 in addition to nineteen excursions intended 

 for specialists, in which tlie number of members 

 who can attend is limited to twenty. A circu- 

 lar describing the plans for these excursions 

 will be sent out in 1899, and a guide book 

 written by the directors of the excursions will 

 be placed on sale at the beginning of 1900. 



De. Charles Mohe, of Mobile, Ala., Special 

 Agent of the Forestry Division of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, has recently 

 presented to the Museum of Pharmacognosy of 

 the University of Michigan some interesting 

 and valuable specimens. They consist of a 

 section of a pine-tree trunk, showing the 

 American method of boxing and bleeding long- 

 leafed pines for turpentine ; and of samples of 

 the twenty different turpentine products manu- 

 factured in the South. The various stages of 

 the manufacture of turpentine are well illus- 

 trated by these specimens. 



Consul Ayees, of Rosario, under date of De- 

 cember 9, 1898, writes the Department of State 

 that by reason of the continuous onslaught 

 made on the locusts through- the efforts of the 

 commissions, aided by a lately developed nat- 

 ural enemy — the Champi beetle — the injury to 

 the crops so far has been very slight. The 

 consul incloses a letter by an American — Maj. 

 O. C. James— describing the beetle, which, it 

 appears, feeds upon the eggs of the locust. The 

 letter reads, in part : "The 'Champi' is the 

 most effective locust-egg destroyer we have in 

 Argentina. He is a dirty blackish beetle, the 



