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Professor A. H. Gill on " Explosions in Com- 

 mon Substances," Dr. Wm. McMurtrie on 

 " The Tartar Industry," Professor L. P. Kin- 

 nicutt on " Sewage Disposal," and Professor 

 G. 0. Watson on "Certified Milk," besides 

 local members. Tbe June meeting took the 

 form of an excursion to the State Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Geneva, N. Y. The 

 following new officers were elected : President, 

 W. M. Booth ; vice-president, Dr. F. E. Engel- 

 hardt; secretary. Dr. H. C. Cooper; treasurer, 

 L. M. Fenner. 



The annual conversazione of the Koyal 

 Geographical Society took place on June 17 at 

 the Natural History Museum. The guests 

 were received by the president. Major Leonard 

 Darwin, and Mrs. Darwin and the members of 

 council. 



A PARTY of thirty members of the National 

 Hungarian Agricultural Society, accompanied 

 by Count Laszloesterhazy, chairman of the 

 society and president of the Agricultural 

 Society of the county of Feher, on June 18 

 paid a visit to the agricultural experimental 

 station at Rothamsted. Mr. A. D. Hall, di- 

 rector of the experiments, with whom were 

 Dr. Russell and Dr. Miller, received the 

 visitors, who were afterwards entertained to 

 lunch and proceeded under the direction of 

 Professor Dymond, of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society, on a tour of inspection of the labora- 

 tory and the sections. 



The ninety-first annual meeting of the 

 Societe Helvetique des Sciences naturelles 

 will be held from August 30 next to Sep- 

 tember 2 at Glaris. A provisional program, 

 as abstracted in Nature, states that at general 

 meetings on August 31 and September 2 the 

 following addresses will be delivered: Pro- 

 fessor K. Schroter, of Zurich, on an excur- 

 sion to the Canary Islands; Professor H. 

 Schardt, of Montreux, on the great erratic 

 boulders of Monthey and neighborhood; Pro- 

 fessor A. Riggenbach-Burckhardt, of Bale, on 

 gravity measurements of the Swiss Geodetic 

 Commission; Professor Ch. E. Guye, of 

 Geneva, on the electric arc as a powerful aid 

 to science and industry ; Dr. H. Greinacher, of 

 Zurich, on radio-active substances; and Pro- 



fessor R. Chodat, of Geneva, on Paleozoic 

 ferns, their significance in modern plant 

 paleontology. September 1 wiU be devoted 

 to sectional meetings and to the annual meet- 

 ings of the Swiss Geological, Botanical, 

 Zoological and Chemical Societies. 



In view of the spread of the sleeping sick- 

 ness among men and animals in Equatorial 

 Africa the French minister of the colonies has 

 caused a document drawn up by Dr. A. Ker- 

 morgant, inspector-general of the colonial 

 sanitary service, setting forth prophylactic 

 measures to be employed for its prevention 

 to be distributed in the form of brochures 

 printed in French as well as in the different 

 dialects spoken in the colonies. 



An International Association for Cancer 

 Research has been founded at Berlin, to pro- 

 mote the investigation of cancer and the care 

 of cancer patients, the collection and publish- 

 ing of international cancer statistics, and the 

 establishment of an international center of in- 

 formation on all matters concerning cancer 

 research. Other objects of the association are 

 the publication of an international technical 

 organ and the organization of international 

 cancer conferences. So far, thirteen states, 

 including all the great powers except Great 

 Britain, have joined the association, the seat 

 of which will be at Berlin. 



The Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences is 

 installing a museum in the Lorillard Mansion 

 in Bronx Park, New York City, and an- 

 nounces that it will appreciate the aid of all 

 interested. A museum committee, consisting 

 of Albert E. Davis, chairman ; Dr. N. L. Brit- 

 ton, John H. Denbigh, Arthur A. Stoughton, 

 A. T. Schauffler, the Rev. Henry M. Brown, 

 Walter E. Hallett and George E. Stonebridge 

 has been appointed, and a tentative plan has 

 been prepared for suitable collections, class- 

 ified as follows: (1) Collections illustrating 

 the natural history of the Bronx; (2) collec- 

 tions illustrative of the civil history of the 

 Bronx; (3) collections illustrative of the in- 

 dustries of the Bronx; (4) educational fea- 

 tures of the Bronx; (5) the park system of 

 the Bronx; (6) library. 



