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ters pertaining to the welfare of children and 

 child life, and shall especially investigate the 

 questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, 

 physical degeneracy, orphanage, juvenile delin- 

 quency and juvenile courts, desertion and illegit- 

 imacy, dangerous occupations, accidents and dis- 

 eases of children of the working classes, employ- 

 ment, legislation affecting children in the several 

 states and territories, and such other facts as 

 have a bearing upon the health, efficiency, char- 

 acter and training of children. The chief of said 

 bureau shall, from time to time, publish the 

 results of these investigations. 



Sec. 3. That there shall be in said bureau, 

 until otherwise provided for by law, an assistant 

 chief, to be appointed by the Secretary of the 

 Interior, who shall receive an annual compensa- 

 tion of three thousand dollars; one private secre- 

 tary to the chief of the bureau, who shall receive 

 an annual compensation of one thousand five 

 hundred dollars; a chief clerk, who shall receive 

 an annual compensation of two thousand dollars; 

 one statistical expert, at two thousand dollars; 

 four clerks of class four; four clerks of class 

 three; two clerks of class two, and six clerks of 

 class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars 

 each; two copyists, at nine hundred dollars each; 

 one messenger, at seven hundred and twenty dol- 

 lars; two special agents, at one thousand four 

 hundred dollars each, and two special agents, at 

 one thousand two hundred dollars each. 



Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior is 

 hereby directed to furnish sufficient quarters for 

 the work of this bureau at an annual rental not 

 to exceed two thousand dollars. 



Sec. 5. That this act shall take effect and be 

 in force from and after its passage. 



Columbia University has arranged a series 

 of free public lectures on Sanitary Science 

 and Public Health which will be given in the 

 large lecture room of the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons, No. 437 West 59th Street, 

 on Mondays and Wednesdays during Febru- 

 ary, March and April. They will begin each 

 day at 5 p.m., and the doors will be closed ten 

 minutes later. The first lecture, " The Rise 

 and Significance of the Public Health Move- 

 ment," by William Thompson Sedgwick, pro- 

 fessor of biology at the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, was given on February 

 1. Among the other lecturers and their sub- 

 jects will be Professor Adami, of McGill Uni- 



versity, " The Great Pathological Discoveries 

 and their Bearing upon Public Health Prob- 

 lems " ; Professor Burr, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, " Water Supplies and Sewage Disposal " ; 

 "Public Health Problems of the Municipal- 

 ity, State and Nation," by Thomas Darling- 

 ton, Health Commissioner of this city; 

 Walter Bensel, Sanitary Superintendent; 

 Eugene H. Porter, State Health Commis- 

 sioner, and Walter Wyman, Surgeon General, 

 Public Health and Marine Hospital Service 

 of the United States; H. M. Big^, Chief 

 Medical Officer of the New York Health De- 

 partment, on " The Prevention of Tubercu- 

 losis," and Professor Theobold Smith, on 

 " Diseases of Animals Transmissible to Man." 



The Cancer Commission of Harvard Uni- 

 versity announces a course of lectures on 

 " Tumors," to be given on Thursday after- 

 noons, at 5 o'clock, in the medical school. 

 The lectures will be open to members of the 

 university and to physicians. The dates and 

 titles follow: 



February 4 — " The Bearing of the Experimental 

 Investigation of Tumors on the Tumor Problem in 

 General," by Dr. E. E. Tyzzer, Boston. 



February 11 — "The Regulatory Processes of 

 Tumor Cells," by Dr. W. T. Howard, Cleveland, O. 



February 18 — " The Classification of Tumors," 

 by F. B. Mallory, Boston. 



February 25 — " The Physiological Pathology of 

 Intracranial Tumors," by Dr. Harvey Gushing, 

 Baltimore, Md. 



March 4 — " The Etiology of Tumors considered 

 from our Knowledge of Congenital Tumors and 

 Tumors following Repeated Injury," by Dr. S. B. 

 Wolbach, Albany, N. Y. 



March 11 — "The Problem of Cancer considered 

 from the Standpoint of Immunity," by Dr. F. P. 

 Gay, Boston. 



Peofessor W. W. Campbell, director of the 

 Lick Observatory, writes that Volume VIII. 

 of the publications of the observatory, now 

 issuing from the bindery of the State Printing 

 Office, Sacramento, contains heliogravure re- 

 productions of the late Director Keeler's pho- 

 tographs of nebulse and star clusters made with 

 the Crossley reflector. Other contents are a 

 description of the Crossley reflecting telescope 

 by Director Keeler, a list of the nebulse and 

 clusters photographed, a catalogue of Y44 new 



