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Johannesburg. Dr. Maynard was formerly 

 M.O.H. for the suburbs of Pretoria, and sub- 

 sequently assistant medical ofScer to the Wit- 

 watersrand Association. It is expected that 

 the building will be completed in about a year. 



The British secretary of state for the col- 

 onies has, as we learn from Nature, appointed 

 a conamission to study the nature and the 

 relative frequency of the fevers occurring 

 amongst the Europeans, natives and others in 

 West Africa, especially with regard to yellow 

 fever and its minor manifestations. 



M. Jules de Payer, as we learn from for- 

 eign exchanges, has furnished particulars of 

 his projected Arctic expedition, which is in- 

 tended to leave France in the summer. With 

 the support of the government and various 

 societies, he will follow his father, the dis- 

 tinguished explorer, in making for Franz 

 Josef Land. One of his objects is to locate 

 the margin of the polar basin to the north- 

 east of that archipelago, an investigation 

 which, if successfully carried out, will provide 

 data for an estimate of the relative areas of 

 the basin and the continental shelf in that 

 quarter of the Arctic region. A scientific 

 staff will accompany M. de Payer, with equip- 

 ment for the prosecution of research in all 

 the various departments which have become 

 associated with polar work; among them the 

 investigation of the upper atmosphere by 

 means of kites is specially indicated. The 

 party will be provided for a sojourn of one 

 year or longer in the north, its ship returning 

 in the meantime. It is to be provided with 

 two aeroplanes, the utility of which as instru- 

 ments in polar research will be observed with 

 interest : a visit to the pole itself is mentioned 

 as a possibility, but does not appear as a 

 prime object of the expedition. Wireless 

 telegraphy will be installed at the head- 

 quarters. 



The Washington Academy of Sciences has 

 held a field meeting including the region of 

 Cape Henry and Torktown, which left Wash- 

 ington by a special steamer on April 25 and 

 returned on April 27. 



The regular monthly meeting of the State 

 Microscopical Society of Illinois was held on 

 April 10, 191.3, at the rooms of the Chicago 

 Press Club. The subject for the evening was 

 " Bacteria, with Practical Demonstration in 

 preparing Slides and Cultures," by Margaret 

 Grant, A.M., M.D. At this meeting final 

 reports of the recent soiree by the society and 

 the Academy of Sciences, held in the academy 

 building, Lincoln Park, were submitted, show- 

 ing that there were twelve hundred persons in 

 attendance. Sixty-one microscopes were in 

 charge of forty-eight exhibitors. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The board of regents of the University of 

 Nebraska, at its annual meeting, voted a gen- 

 eral increase in salaries of deans and pro- 

 fessors, distributing thus the $35,000 addi- 

 tional maintenance voted by the last legisla- 

 ture. 



The faculty of the Ohio State University 

 has adopted an arts-agricultural course, five 

 years in length. The first three years, stu- 

 dents will be registered in the Arts College; 

 the last two years, in the Agricultural College. 

 At the end of the fourth year, the degree of 

 bachelor of arts will be given, and at the end 

 of the fifth year, the bachelor of science in 

 agriculture. 



The Phi Beta Kappa elections for the year 

 at the University of Wisconsin indicate that 

 women students excel men in scholarship, as 

 twenty-two of the thirty-six elections were 

 women. 



Professor Oskar Bolza, of the University 

 of Freiburg, is to offer courses this summer 

 at the University of Chicago on " Linear 

 Integral Equations " and " Functions of a 

 Complex Variable." Other graduate courses 

 in mathematics are announced on " Fourier 

 Series," " Linear Continuum and Point-set 

 Theory " (Moore) ; " Projective Geometry " 

 (Bliss), and "Modern Theory of Analytic 

 Differential Equations " (Moulton). Dr. F. 

 A. Lindemann, of the University of Berlin, is 

 to lecture throughout the summer quarter at 

 the University of Chicago on " Kinetic The- 



