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berlain Lake. A number of students will 
accompany Mr. Moorehead and others to 
Maine in June. The excavation of one or 
two sites will be begun in May. 
Tue University of Michigan Museum of 
Natural History will send an expedition to 
Nevada in July and August to secure zoolog- 
ical material for research and illustrative pur- 
poses. The investigations will be carried on 
as the museum conducts all of its field work 
outside of the state, that is, only a few groups 
and a small area will be considered and these 
will receive detailed study. One half of the 
expense of the expedition will be provided by 
Mr. Bryant Walker and one half by the uni- 
versity. The museum will also this summer 
begin a biological survey in the northern part 
of Chippewa County, Michigan.. Hon. George 
Shiras 3d has provided for the expenses that 
will be incurred in the preliminary work this 
summer, and the Michigan Geological and 
Biological Survey and the museum will com- 
plete the study. 
THE program of business for the eighteenth 
annual meeting of the British Medical As- 
sociation in Liverpool has been issued. The 
representative meeting will begin on July 19. 
The annual general meeting will take place 
on the afternoon of July 23, and the president, 
Sir James Barr, will deliver his address in 
the evening. The sectional meetings will be 
held on July 24, 25 and 26. The address in 
medicine will be delivered by Dr. G. A. Gib- 
son, of Edinburgh, and the address in surgery 
by Mr. F. T. Paul, of Liverpool. The scien- 
tific program of the meeting will be con- 
ducted in 20 sections. 
Tue Anglo-American Medical Association, 
which was founded in Berlin some eight or 
nine years ago and reconstituted in 1910, has 
recently acquired, as we learn from the British 
Medical Journal, well-situated quarters of its 
own at the Hotel Atlas, 105, Friedrichstrasse. 
They are open daily from 12 to 2 for luncheon; 
the assistant secretary is in attendance from 
1:30 to 4:30 to give information; and from 
9 P.M. to 12 P.M. the rooms are open for social 
purposes, writing and perusal of the journals 
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with which the association keeps itself sup- 
plied. In addition, there is a formal meeting 
each Saturday at 8 P.M., when dinner is taken 
and a paper read and discussed. One of the 
special objects of the association is to make 
the visits of British and American medical 
men to Berlin pleasant and informing by put- 
ting them promptly in touch with what is 
going on in medical and surgical circles, and 
by enabling them to meet on a social footing 
their colleagues in Berlin. It publishes a 
year-book, the current issue of which contains, 
in addition to other notes, information as to 
courses on various subjects more or less con- 
stantly in progress, and also as to vacation 
and other special courses. The honorary sec- 
retary and treasurer of the association is Mr. 
H. R. Carstens. 
THE Smithsonian Institution reports the 
completion of the fish collecting in the Pan- 
ama Canal Zone, and the safe return of one 
of its representatives. Several of the special- 
ists who have been making collections in this 
region have been back some time, but the 
members of the party who have been collect- 
ing fishes did not complete the work until 
early in April, remaining three months in the 
field. This branch of the work has been sup- 
ported by the cooperation of the U. S. Bureau 
of Fisheries and the Field Museum of Nat- 
ural History, Chicago, Mr. S. F. Hildebrand 
representing the former and Dr. S. KE. Meek 
the latter. After the work was finished, and 
the collections shipped to Washington, Dr. 
Meek went on a visit to Costa Rica, while Mr. 
Hildebrand returned to Washington, where 
he arrived on April 13. Mr. Hildebrand re- 
ports a most successful trip, and feels con- 
fident that all the important fishes of the 
Canal Zone are represented in the collections 
which fill some 5 or 6 barrels. The weather 
was favorable and the work was greatly fa- 
cilitated by the many privileges and cour- 
tesies extended by the Canal Commission. 
Quarters were furnished by the commission, 
and each member of the survey was supplied 
with the regular hotel and commissary books, 
according him the privileges of an employee. 
