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an investigation in chemistry was awarded to 

 Leonard Angelo Levy, B.A., Clare, for Ms 

 essay entitled " Investigations on the fluores- 

 cence of Platinocyanides." Grants out of the 

 balance on income account amounting to £180 

 were made to the departments of physics, 

 mineralogy and engineering, to defray the 

 cost of special apparatus. 



By arrangement with the Bermuda Natural 

 History Society, the Station for Research at 

 Agar's Island will he open for about seven 

 weeks this summer. There are accommoda- 

 tions for a limited number of instructors or 

 research students in either zoology or botany. 

 Members of the expedition will sail from New 

 York on one of the steamers of the Quebec 

 Steamship Companjr's Line (probably the 

 Bermudian) about the middle of June, or, for 

 those who can not sail so early, about the first 

 of July. Further information may be ob- 

 tained from Professor E. L. Mark, 109 Irving 

 Street, Cambridge, Mass. 



A PLAN of cooperation between the United 

 States Bureau of Plant Industry and the de- 

 partment of pharmacy of the University of 

 Wisconsin has been adopted, the purpose of 

 which is to provide for the cultivation of 

 medicinal plante. Investigation and research 

 work is to be carried on in connection with 

 the growing of those plants used in the prepa- 

 ration of drugs and medicines. 



A TUBERCULOSIS exhibit consisting of the 

 Wisconsin exhibition at the International 

 Tuberculosis Congress, together with repro- 

 ductions of the best features of all the other 

 exhibits at that congress, has been prepared 

 by the department of bacteriology of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Anti- 

 Tuberculosis Association, and is to be sent 

 out to cities throughout the state by the uni- 

 versity extension division of the state univer- 

 sity. The exhibit shows in graphic and 

 striking forms the great losses resulting from 

 the ravages of tuberculosis, the best prevent- 

 ive measures and the most effective and eco- 

 nomical means of cure. An experienced 

 demonstrator wiU be in charge of the exhibit 



to explain the various charts, doors of houses, 

 sleeping bags, window tents, photographs, etc. 



Dr. J. O. Wakelin Barrett and Dr. War- 

 rington Torke, members of the Blackwater 

 fever expedition of the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine, who went out to Nyasa- 

 land in August, 190Y, have returned. The 

 London Times states that the expedition was 

 well provided and equipped for pathological 

 and chemical research, and during their four- 

 teen months' operations the investigators had 

 unusual opportunities for studying the fever. 

 According to their report, nearly all the cases 

 occurring in the protectorate came under their 

 observation. Every assistance was afforded the 

 expedition by the government medical staff 

 and the Shire Highlands Eailway Company, 

 the latter granting special facilities for the 

 use of the line, which was a matter of great 

 importance, seeing that the majority of at- 

 tacks of blackwater fever occurred in the 

 vicinity of the railway. The fever, however, 

 is usually most prevalent during the rainy 

 season, when means of communication are 

 more or less interrupted, and movement from 

 place to place is difficult. Hence the members 

 of the expedition sometimes had to travel in 

 extremely heavy rain, but even that was found 

 preferable to the intense heat of the midday 

 sun by the river. The expedition, the cost of 

 which was met equally by the Colonial Office 

 and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medi- 

 cine, was from time to time in touch with the 

 expedition sent out by the school nearly two 

 years ago for the study of sleeping sickness 

 in northeast Rhodesia and the south of Lake 

 Tanganyika. The school has also a yellow 

 fever expedition in Brazil and a malaria ex- 

 pedition in Jamaica. 



The Belgian Permanent Committee on 

 Human Alimentation, which was founded 

 on the occasion of the International Congress 

 on Food held at Ghent in 1908, held, as we 

 learn from the British Medical Journal, its 

 first meeting at Brussels on December 23, 1908, 

 under the presidency of Dr. A. J. J. Vander- 

 velde, of Ghent. Among the objects aimed at 

 by the committee are the organization in 

 Belgium of congresses on food, and the par- 



