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SCIENCE 



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0. H. Spronck, of Utrecht, at Boston, October 7. 



"Tuberculosis of the Heart, Blood and Lymph 

 Vessels " : Andres Martinez Vargas, of Barcelona, 

 at New York, October 9. 



" The Evolution of the Treatment of Pulmonary 

 Tuberculosis " : Theodore Williams, of London, at 

 Philadelphia, September 25. 



"La Lutte Contra la tuberculose dans les 

 grandes villes par I'Habitation ; methodes scien- 

 tifiques modernes pour sa Construction" (joint 

 lecture) : Dr. Maurice Letulle and M. Augustin 

 Key, at Washington, September 30. 



Dr. L. Landouzy, of Paris, at Baltimore, Oc- 

 tober 5. 



"Biology of the Bacillus": Dr. A. A. Wladi- 

 miroflf, of St. Petersburg, at Washington, Sep- 

 tember 28. 



"Collateral Tuberculosis Inflammation": Pro- 

 fessor N. Ph. Tendeloo, of Leiden. 



THE INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES 

 CONGRESS 

 A FURTHER announcement of the congress, to 

 be held from September 22 to 26, states that 

 at 9 :30 a.m. on September 22 the foreign dele- 

 gates will be received by the secretary of state 

 in the Diplomatic Reception Hall of the State 

 Department. The initial meeting of the con- 

 gress will be held at 10 o'clock in the haU of 

 the National Geographic Society, where ad- 

 dresses of welcome on behalf of the United 

 States will be delivered by Hon. Oscar S. 

 Straus, secretary of commerce and labor, on 

 behalf of the District of Columbia by Hon. 

 Henry L. West, commissioner of the district, 

 and on behalf of the American Fisheries 

 Society by Dr. H. M. Smith, president of the 

 society. The meeting of organization will be 

 held in the banquet hall of the New Willard 

 Hotel, Pennsylvania Avenue and Fourteenth 

 Street, on the afternoon of September 22, at 

 an hour to be announced. The regular ses- 

 sions of the congress will be held daily, morn- 

 ing and afternoon, at times to be announced, 

 at the New WiUard Hotel. The president of 

 the United States will receive the members of 

 the congress at the White House. The sec- 

 retary of commerce and labor will give an 

 evening reception. Luncheons will be tend- 

 ered by the American Fisheries Society, the 

 Blue Eidge Eod and Gun Club and the Alaska 



Packers Association, respectively, and there 

 will be a subscription banquet at which the 

 oificial representatives of foreign governments 

 wiU. be the guests of the congress. Visits to 

 places of interest and other entertainment 

 have been arranged for by the local reception 

 committee. Arrangements have been made to 

 permit members who so desire to inspect the 

 important fisheries of New England. An. at- 

 tractive itinerary has been arranged embra- 

 cing the entire week following the sessions of 

 the congress and including visits to New York 

 City, Narragansett Bay, Woods Hole^ Boston 

 and Gloucester, at each of which places local 

 committees and individual residents will pro- 

 vide demonstrations of fishery methods and 

 incidental entertainment. The methods of 

 oyster culture employed on the great New 

 England beds, the pound-net fishery, the purse- 

 seine fishery, inspection of fish markets and 

 vessels, the methods of deep-sea research, and 

 other matters relating to the fisheries will be 

 shown. Special itineraries will be arranged 

 for members who may desire to visit other 

 fisheries and hatcheries, and letters of intro- 

 duction will be furnished. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. F. J. Seaver, assistant botanist of the 

 North Dakota Agricultural College, has been 

 appointed director of laboratories in the New 

 York Botanical Garden. 



Dr. W. H. Welch, of the Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School, wiU deliver, on November 20, 

 the principal address on the occasion of the 

 dedication of the new building devoted to ex- 

 perimental medicine of the Medical College 

 of Western Reserve University. 



Sir George Howard Darwin, professor of 

 astronomy at Cambridge, has been elected a 

 corresponr^irg member of the Berlin Academy 

 of Sciences. 



The Royal Astronomical Society, London, 

 has elected corresponding members as follows : 

 Dr. E. B. Frost, director of the Yerkes Ob- 

 servatory; J. G. Hagen, S.J., director of the 

 Vatican Observatory; M. Benjamin Baillaud, 

 director of the Paris Observatory; 0. L. W. 

 Charlier, director of the observatory at Lund, 



