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tribute in behalf of the trustees of Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School and the medical 

 profession to the services of Dr. Billings as a 

 hospital organizer. Mr. Andrew Carnegie 

 spoke of his associations with him in library 

 work and in the organization and conduct of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 

 Mr. E. E. Bowker presented the tribute and 

 homage of the library profession to the mem- 

 ory of Dr. Billings and his work. 



At the meeting of the Johns Hopkins Hos- 

 pital Historical Club on April 14, Dr. Field- 

 ing H. Garrison presented to the medical 

 school a portrait of the late Dr. Robert 

 Fletcher, of the Surgeon-General's Library, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Andrew Sloan Draper, New York state 

 commissioner of education, and former presi- 

 dent of the University of Illinois, died at Al- 

 bany on April 27, aged sixty-four years. 



On April 10 the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 began the publication of four-page Leaflets. 

 The purpose of the Leaflets is twofold: "first, 

 to give announcements concerning flowering, 

 and other plant activities to be seen in the 

 garden at the time the leaflet is issued; sec- 

 ond, to give popular, elementary information 

 about plant life, primarily for teachers, or for 

 others who may wish to learn something about 

 plants besides merely their names." Some of 

 the numbers will aim to give, in simple, non- 

 technical language, the subject-matter for a 

 nature study lesson, which may be conducted 

 by the teacher, in the garden or elsewhere. 

 The Leaflets, which for the present are is- 

 sued weekly or bi-weekly during April, May, 

 June, September and October, will be mailed 

 free to those who are interested. 



At the closing session of the International 

 Geographical Congress, on April 3, it was 

 agreed that the next congress should be held 

 at St. Petersburg. 



The wireless telegraphy station of the Ohio 

 State University did excellent service during 

 the recent flood. When communication by 

 telephone and surface telegraph with other 

 cities was cut off, the wireless became the 

 only means of reaching the outside world. 



Messages were sent to Cleveland and the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan and relayed from those 

 stations by wire to their destination. 



The ninth annual meeting of the Prehis- 

 toric Congress of France will be held at Lons- 

 le-Saunier from July 27 to August 2, 1913. 



The forty-fourth annual meeting of the 

 German Anthropological Society will be held 

 at Nurnberg from August 3 to 9, 1913. 



At the eighty-sixth convocation of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, held on March 18, an- 

 nouncement was made of the election of 

 thirty-five students as members of Sigma Xi 

 for evidence of ability in research work in 

 science. Sis of these were women. 



We learn from the British Geographical 

 Journal that news has been received in Hol- 

 land from an official source that Mount Cars- 

 tensz, the highest known summit of the snowy 

 range of western New Guinea, has been suc- 

 cessfully ascended by Dr. A. F. R. Wollaston, 

 accompanied by Lieutenant van de Water, of 

 the Dutch army. This, it will be remembered, 

 was the chief task which Dr. Wollaston (who 

 had taken a leading part in the previous expe- 

 dition to Dutch New Guinea, organized by 

 the British Ornithologists' Union) had set 

 himself when undertaking his new expedition, 

 and he is to be congratulated on successfully 

 accomplishing his object. The height of the 

 peak has been variously estimated, being 

 thought for a time to reach an altitude ap- 

 proaching 18,000 feet. Recent surveys, how- 

 ever, especially those of the previous British 

 expedition, had given reason for reducing the 

 height to something under 16,000 feet. 



A deputation from the Eugenic Education 

 Conference recently held in London had an 

 interview with Mr. Trevelyan, parliamentary 

 secretary to the Board of Education, on April 

 2, asking that an inquiry should he held as to 

 the advisability of encouraging the presenta- 

 tion of the idea of racial responsibility to 

 students in training and children at school. 

 The deputation, which was headed by Major 

 L. Darwin, president of the Eugenics Educa- 

 tion Society, stated that it was not desired 

 that eugenics should be an extra subject in 



