January 17, 1913] 



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cient stail of attendants is maintained and 

 every effort is made to meet the special re- 

 quirements of tliose wlio occupy tables, espe- 

 cially when the work is of a physiological or 

 chemical character. Many important papers 

 have emanated from the laboratory during the 

 past three years, and the new policy inau- 

 gurated by the board of managers may be 

 expected to render the laboratory the " Naples 

 of the North," and advanced students who 

 contemplate the prosecution of researches upon 

 the marine fauna of northern Europe may ad- 

 vantageously write to the director of the Ply- 

 mouth Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, 

 England, for specific information. 



Mr. Nels C. Nelson, assistant curator in 

 anthropology at the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, has returned from an archeolog- 

 ical expedition to the southwest. A systematic 

 search for archeological sites was begun at 

 Tsleta del Sur, a few miles below El Paso, 

 and completed northward to the latitude of 

 Santa Fe. Within this section of the drain- 

 age 115 sites of more or less interest were lo- 

 cated and about half of these were inspected. 

 Actual excavations were conducted in two lo- 

 calities. First a group of seven large Tanos 

 pueblo ruins, located on the border of the 

 Galisteo Basin twenty-five miles south of 

 Santa Fe, were worked to the extent of de- 

 termining their age and culture relations; 

 and later one entire Keresan pueblo ruin, lo- 

 cated on the Jemez National Forest seven 

 miles northwest of Cochiti, was cleared. Be- 

 sides digging trial trenches and examining 

 refuse heaps, four kivas and 573 ground-floor 

 rooms were cleared. The debris removed 

 from these rooms ranged in depth from two 

 to twelve feet and represented, with few ex- 

 ceptions, two and three story houses. The re- 

 sulting collections comprise sixty more or less 

 complete human skeletons and about two thou- 

 sand artifacts. 



During the week of January 6a" Mental 

 Hygiene Exhibit and Conference " was held 

 at Tale University under the joint au- 

 spices of the National Committee for Mental 

 Hygiene and the Connecticut Society for 

 Mental Hygiene, assisted by representatives 



of Yale University. The public exhibition 

 of the work of the National Committee for 

 Mental Hygiene will later be given in Chi- 

 cago, Princeton, Baltimore, Boston, and Phil- 

 adelphia, and is designed to give tangible 

 evidences of the need of public information 

 as to the causes, treatment and prevention of 

 mental disorders. It has already been shown 

 in Washington and New York. Speakers an- 

 nounced to make addresses during the week 

 were: Dr. Henry Smith Williams, of New 

 York City; Dr. Stewart Paton, of Princeton; 

 Dr. George Blumer, dean of the Yale Medical 

 School; Dr. August Hoch, director of the 

 Psychiatric Institute of the New York State 

 Hospitals on Ward's Island, New York City; 

 Dr. George H. Kirby, clinical director, Man- 

 hattan State Hospital, New York City; Dr. C. 

 Macfie Campbell, of the Bloomingdale Hos- 

 pital, New York; Professor William H. Burn- 

 ham, of Clark University; Dr. Thomas W. 

 Sallmon, New York, and Dr. S. E. Jeliffe, of 

 Fordham College. 



The United States will be the meeting place 

 of the Fourth International Congress on 

 School Hygiene. The preceding congresses 

 have all been held abroad, the first at Nurem- 

 berg in 1904, the second at London, 1907, and 

 the third at Paris, 1910. The 1913 congress 

 will be held at Buffalo, N. Y., August 25-30. 

 It is the object of the congress to bring to- 

 gether men and women interested in the 

 health of school children and to assemble a 

 scientific exhibit representative of the most 

 notable achievements in school hygiene. It is 

 believed that the present wide-spread public 

 interest in health education will make the 

 exhibit a particularly attractive feature of the 

 congress. Twenty-five nations have member- 

 ship on the permanent international commit- 

 tee of the congress and it is expected that all 

 will have delegates at Buffalo. The Secretary 

 of State has officially invited foreign govern- 

 ments to participate. Invitations have also 

 been issued to the various state and municipal 

 authorities, and to educational, scientific, med- 

 ical and hygienic institutions and organiza- 

 tions. The president of the congress will be 

 Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Har- 



