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and the National Conservation Commission. 

 Canada has already taken active steps in 

 preparation for the conference and recently 

 sent to the National Conservation Commission 

 a number of carefully prepared maps which 

 show the present status of the public lands of 

 the dominion as well as the distribution of 

 the principal natural resources and the devel- 

 opment of its transportation systems. The 

 Canadian authorities have also gathered to- 

 gether and sent to the chairman of the com- 

 mission a comprehensive collection of govern- 

 ment documents bearing on the natural re- 

 sources of the country. These have been care- 

 fully indexed and bound together according to 

 subjects. They will be used at the forthcom- 

 ing conference. 



Mr. D. C. Sowers, in charge of the special 

 magnetic expedition to China under the 

 auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, left Peking on January 30. He will 

 be assisted by Professor Chester G. Puson, for 

 the past four years professor of history and 

 geography at the Canton Christian College. 

 The general route to be followed by the party 

 will touch at the following places : Sianfu, 

 Lanehowfu, Suchow, Turfan, Kashgar, Kho- 

 tan, thence, via the Karakorum Pass, into 

 India, where connection will be made at Dehra 

 Dun with the magnetic survey of India. A 

 series of magnetic observations will, therefore, 

 be obtained in parts of China and Chinese 

 Turkestan where no previous data existed. 

 Dr. J. C. Beattie, director of the department 

 of physics. South African College, Cape Town, 

 has been granted a year's furlough in order 

 to take charge of a magnetic survey party 

 under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington. He left Cape Town Novem- 

 ber 25. His general route of travel will be 

 through German Southwest Africa, thence into 

 Rhodesia, British East Africa, German East 

 Africa, and next through Nubia and Egjnpt, 

 connecting with the magnetic survey of Egypt 

 at Cairo. He will be assisted by Professor J. 

 T. Morrison, in charge of the department of 

 physics, Victoria College, Stellenbosch, South 

 Africa, who will confine his work chiefly to 

 points reached by steamer along the east and 



west coasts of Africa. There will thus be 

 obtained during the present year magnetic 

 data in regions of Africa hitherto almost 

 entirely unexplored. Mr. Joseph C. Pearson, 

 who during the past year has been engaged in 

 making magnetic observations in various parts 

 of Persia under the auspices of the Carnegie 

 Institution, will be ready to undertake similar 

 work in Asia Minor, beginning at Bagdad 

 some time in March. 



Prizes conferred by the Paris Academy of 

 Medicine include: the Baillarger prize (£80) 

 to Dr. A. Eodiet, of Dun-sur-Auron, for a 

 contribution to the study of the organization of 

 lunatic asylums; the Barbier prize (£80) has 

 been divided among several competitors. Dr. 

 P. Eemlinger, of Constantinople, getting £32 

 for a series of researches on rabies, Dr. L, 

 Malloizel, of Paris, £24 for anatomo-clinical 

 researches on pleuro-cortical reactions, and 

 Drs. Louis Wickham and Degrais, of Paris, 

 a like amount for their work on the treatment 

 of angiomas of radium. To Professor Cal- 

 mette, director of the Pasteur Institute at 

 Lille, and MM. BouUanger and E. Eolants, 

 heads of laboratories, F. Constant and L. Mas- 

 sol, demonstrators in the same institute, and 

 Professor Buisine, of the Lille Faculty of Sci- 

 ence, has been awarded the Orfila prize (£160) 

 for researches on the purification of water that 

 has been used in towns and of the residual 

 water of factories. Dr. Marfan has won the 

 Roger prize (£100) for his treatise on suckling 

 and the feeding of infants. The Saintour 

 prize (£176) has been awarded to Dr. Emile 

 Sergent, of Paris, for his work on syphilis and 

 tuberculosis; the Campbell-Dupierris prize 

 (£92) to Dr. Morris Nicloux, Professeur agrege 

 of the Paris Faculty, for his work on general 

 anesthetics from the chemico-physiological 

 point of view. The Ernest Godard prize (£40) 

 has been awarded to Dr. F. W. Pavy, of 

 London, for his work on carbohydrates and 

 their transformation — a physiologico-patholog- 

 ical study with considerations on diabetes and 

 its treatment. 



The New York State Bar Association at 

 the closing session of its thirty-second annual 

 meeting at Buffalo on January 29, went ort 



