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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIV. No. 1143 



A plan for the employment of the Sage Re- 

 search Fund of the Medical College of Cornell 

 University has been adopted. This fund of 

 $50,000 was bequeathed to the university by 

 Mrs. Sarah Manning Sage, widow of Dean 

 Sage, for research in medicine. The plan 

 adopted provides that a yearly appropriation 

 from the income of the fund shall be adminis- 

 tered by a committee composed of the presi- 

 dent of the university and the heads of the 

 departments that will participate in the fund; 

 that a minimum be assigned by this committee 

 each year to each of the departments; that a 

 reservation be made for a specific research, and 

 that each participant make an annual report. 

 By action of the board there is an appropria- 

 tion of $1,500 available for 1916-17. 



The Lee Museum of Biology at Bowdoin 

 College has been given a collection of Hawai- 

 ian ferns by John A. Cone, Topsham; a gift of 

 shells and mounted birds by Mrs. John S. 

 Towne, Brunswick, and the Rev. H. "W. 

 Winkley, Danvers, Mass., has added to his 

 previous gift of New England shells. Leland 

 C. Wyman has been appointed custodian of the 

 collections of fossils and fishes. 



At the invitation of the state geologist of 

 Florida a conference of geologists and anthro- 

 pologists was held at Vero, Florida, from 

 October 23 to 30, the object of the meeting 

 being to examine the locality near that place 

 from which fossil human remains have been 

 obtained. Those present at the conference 

 were Dr. George Grant MacCurdy, Tale Uni- 

 versity; Dr. A. Hrdlicka, U. S. National Mu- 

 seum; Dr. T. W. Vaughan, U. S. Geological 

 Survey; Dr. O. F. Hay, Carnegie Institution; 

 Dr. B. T. Chamberlin, University of Chicago; 

 E. H. Sellards and H. Gunter, Florida Geo- 

 logical Survey; and I. M. Weills and Frank 

 Ayers, of Vero. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that a South American 

 Society for Microbiology, Pathology and Hy- 

 giene was organized at the National Medical 

 Congress held at Buenos Aires in September. 

 The new society is to publish a review at Rio 

 de Janeiro and at Buenos Aires, in Spanish, 

 Portuguese, French, English and German. 



The editorial staff consists of R. Krauss, di- 

 rector of the Bacteriologic Institute of Buenos 

 Aires, and O. Cruz, director of the similar 

 institution in southern Brazil and formerly 

 chief health officer of Bio de Janeiro. 



The magnetic survey vessel, Carnegie, left 

 San Francisco, on November 1, on her home- 

 ward cruise of about 31,000 miles. She will 

 make stops at Easter Island, Buenos Aires, 

 Bahia, Porto Rico and return to Brooklyn in 

 the fall of 191 7. She has been gone on her 

 long circumnavigation cruise since March, 

 1915, during which she has been in command 

 of J. P. Ault of the Department of Terrestrial 

 Magnetism. 



The German Ophthalmologische Gesell- 

 schaft has divided between Lindner of Vienna 

 and Ohm of Bottrop the von Graefe-von 

 Welz prize for the best article published in 

 1911-1913 in the Archiv fur Ophthalmologic. 

 Their articles were on trachoma and inclusion 

 blennorrhea, and on miner's nystagmus. 



The Observatory remarks: "The sending of 

 most kinds of printed matter from Britain to 

 neutral countries (except by duly licensed 

 publishers and booksellers) is now prohibited, 

 and many astronomers must have wondered 

 whether reprints of astronomical papers, re- 

 ports of observatories, etc., which are usually 

 posted privately, come under the ban. We 

 have ascertained that these may possibly 

 arrive at their destination, provided the full 

 name and address of the sender is on the 

 envelope; but they are liable (and quite likely) 

 to be stopped. We may add that slip proofs 

 sent for correction can be sent as usual. Also 

 (for our foreign readers) that we duly, receive 

 scientific papers sent to this country from 

 abroad." 



Replying to a question raised in the British 

 House of Commons, Mr. Forster stated that 

 up to August 25, 1916, 1,501 cases were finally 

 diagnosed as typhoid fever amongst the Brit- 

 ish troops in France, 903 amongst inoculated 

 men and 508 amongst uninoculated men. 

 There were 166 deaths, 47 of which were 

 amongst the inoculated and 119 among unin- 

 oculated. To the same date there were 2",118 

 cases of paratyphoid fever, 1,968 amongst in- 



