July 7, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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"Washington, on June 19, spoke in Washing- 

 ton before the senate committee on agriculture 

 and forestry in opposition to the bill now be- 

 fore congress, which provides for an investiga- 

 tion of animal experimentation throughout 

 the country. A considerable delegation of 

 antivivisectionists urged the passage of the 

 bill. 



A commission constituted by the Interna- 

 tional Health Board of the Rockefeller Foun- 

 dation sailed on the Almirante on June 14, on 

 a trip to various points of South America 

 where yellow fever is still reported to exist. 

 The commission is headed by Major General 

 William C. Gorgas, U. S. Army, who has ob- 

 tained four months' leave of absence for this 

 purpose. The other members are Assistant 

 Surgeon General Henry R. Carter, U. S. P. H. 

 S., clinician; Dr. Juan Guiteras, head of the 

 Public Health Service of Cuba, clinician and 

 general adviser; Major Theodore C. Lyster, 

 M. C, U. S. Army, clinician; Major Eugene 

 R. "Whitmore, M. C, U. S. Army, pathologist; 

 Sanitary Engineer William D. Wrightson, TJ. 

 S. P. H. S., sanitary engineer, and Harry H. 

 Wakefield, secretary. 



Dr. Allerton S. Cushman, of the Institute 

 of Industrial Research, Washington, D. C, 

 gave an address before Sigma Xi at the Wor- 

 cester Polytechnic Institute on June 5, 1916, 

 on " Science and Civilization." 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that a memorial service 

 to the late Dr. Frank W. Reilly, for many 

 years assistant commissioner of health of Chi- 

 cago, and at one time secretary of the Illinois 

 State Board of Health, was held on June 21, 

 when the Frank W. Reilly Public School at 

 School Street and Lawndale Avenue was dedi- 

 cated. The principal addresses were delivered 

 by Superintendent of Schools John D. Shoop; 

 President Jacob M. Loeb, of the Board of Edu- 

 cation; Dr. Arthur R. Reynolds, former health 

 commissioner, and Dr. Alfred C. Cotton. 



On the occasion of the meeting of the West- 

 ern Reserve University Medical Alumni As- 

 sociation, June 8, 9 and 10, President Charles 

 F. Thwing formally accepted on behalf of the 



university, its trustees, etc., portraits of two 

 former professors in the medical school, 

 namely, Dr. Gustav C. E. Weber, formerly 

 professor of surgery, and Dr. Hunter H. 

 Powell, formerly professor of obstetrics and 

 diseases of children. Presentations on behalf 

 of the Alumni Association were made by Drs. 

 W. T. Corlett and A. H. Bill, respectively. 



Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, president of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, has proposed to 

 the mayor of Philadelphia that the statue of 

 Joseph Leidy, now badly placed on City Hall 

 Square, should be erected, at least temporarily, 

 near the academy in the greenery of Logan 

 Square. 



Among those killed in the naval action in 

 the North Sea on May 31 was Commander H. 

 L. L. Pennell, one of officers of the Terra 

 Nova in the British Antarctic Expedition of 

 1910. 



The meeting of Scandinavian naturalists 

 will be held in Christiania on July 10 to 14. 



The Yorkshire Agricultural Union has de- 

 cided to open a national fund for the repre- 

 sentation of agriculture in the British parlia- 

 ment by practical agriculturists. 



The Graduate School of the University of 

 Illinois has recently made an appropriation 

 for a geological expedition to Hudson Bay 

 during the summer of 1916. The work will be 

 in charge of Professor T. E. Savage and Dr. 

 F. M. Van Tuyl, of the department of geology, 

 who will be in that region from the latter part 

 of June to the middle of September. It is 

 planned to examine the outcrops and make de- 

 tailed collections of fossils along most of the 

 larger rivers south of the Churchill on the 

 west side of the bay, in an effort to obtain more 

 definite information concerning the Paleozoic 

 succession and the ancient sea connections in 

 that part of the continent. Evidences of re- 

 cent elevation of the shore line, and other fea- 

 tures will also be studied. 



The publication of agricultural bulletins for 

 the benefit of the farmers of New York state 

 will be discontinued for some time because 

 the governor vetoed the legislative printing 

 appropriation. He vetoed it because, despite 



