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Cartagena. This brought him to Cartagena 
on April 2, only three days beyond the date 
on which he hoped to sail. 
On April 20 Governor Dix signed a bill 
appropriating $500,000 for the rehabilitation 
of the New York State Library. This makes 
a total of $622,000 appropriated for this pur- 
pose since the destruction of the library by 
fire in March, 1911. Beyond the fundamental 
general reference material, the State Library 
will specialize in science only so far as may 
be necessary to serve such agencies or depart- 
ments of the state government as are doing 
scientific work. Good working collections will 
be made in geology, zoology, entomology, bot- 
any, with more particular attention to the 
economic phases of these subjects, and in 
chemistry as related to agriculture, the arts 
and commerce. The fact that the New York 
State Museum is administratively connected 
with the State Library will mean that in the 
subjects falling within the scope of the mu- 
seum’s work special attention will be given to 
the establishing of a notable collection of 
books. 
Tue Smoot bill to consolidate all national 
parks and monuments under one Bureau of 
National Parks, has been reported favorably 
by the Senate Committee on Public Lands. 
The measure has the endorsement of the In- 
terior Department and the American Civic 
Federation. 
THE University of California will establish 
a temporary outpost this summer in the 
Yosemite Valley. At the conclusion of the 
summer session (which extends from June 24 
to August 4) the summer students of botany 
and zoology will go to the Yosemite for two 
weeks. The botanical students will put into 
practise the training received at Berkeley, by 
field studies on the classification and zonal 
distribution of the flowering plants and ferns 
in that portion of the Sierra Nevada. Mean- 
while those who have had the summer session 
courses in zoology will study the habits and 
characteristics and ways of life of the moun- 
tain birds and mammals of the Yosemite 
region. For five weeks during the summer a 
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party of summer session students will be en- 
camped south and east of Mount Diablo, en- 
gaged in collecting fossils, identifying extinct 
animals of which they are the remains, and 
mapping the faunal zones which record the 
changes of species over periods of uncounted 
hundreds of thousands of years. Still another 
summer outpost of the university will be the 
Summer School of Surveying, at Camp Cali- 
fornia, near Swanton in Santa Cruz County. 
Here some 200 men will be learning how to 
make maps, survey lands, run railroads and 
canals and lay out irrigation and drainage 
systems. 
Tue Journal of the American Medical As- 
sociation states that the originator and presi- 
dent of the recent international hygiene ex- 
position at Dresden, Dr. Lingner, has peti- 
tioned the local authorities to establish a na- 
tional museum of hygiene in Dresden. It is 
contemplated to use the hall, “Man” (Der 
Mensch), which proved the greatest attraction 
for visitors to the exposition, as the nucleus of 
the museum. The museum is to be designed 
to realize the important principle that every 
one shall gain by direct inspection the knowl- 
edge which will fit him for a sanitary and in- 
telligent conduct of his life. For the com- 
pletion of this self-instruction, popular weekly 
lectures are to be held, which will gradually 
cover the entire field for the care of health. 
In addition, the management of the museum 
shall provide scientific lectures and demon- 
strations for professional people, that is, for 
physicians, officials, engineers and the leaders 
of industry. An academy of scientific char- 
acter is also proposed to supplement the 
museum. lLingner will present to the mu- 
seum the objects exhibited at the exposition, 
which represent a value of $250,000. The 
land, which is reckoned at about 6,000 square 
meters, is to be donated by the city of Dresden. 
The expense of building and furnishing are 
reckoned at about $875,000. The expense of 
building will be defrayed first out of the sur- 
plus from the international hygiene exposi- 
tion, amounting to $250,000, while the gov- 
ernment of the province (Saxony) will give 
the rest. The annual expenses are estimated 
