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sity of Georgia, are now abroad, and are due 
to reach this country during the summer 
months. The foundation was established by 
M. Albert Kahn, of Paris, France, and is ad- 
ministered by Edward D. Adams, Nicholas 
Murray Butler and Henry Fairfield Osborn, 
of New York City, Charles W. Eliot, of Cam- 
bridge, Mass., Charles D. Waleott, of Wash- 
ington, D. C., and Frank D. Fackenthal, sec- 
retary of Columbia University, as secretary 
of the board. 
Tue Bureau of American Ethnology of the 
Smithsonian Institution has issued a diction- 
ary of the Biloxi and Ofo languages, accom- 
panied by texts of a number of stories em- 
bodying mythology and folklore of the two 
tribes. This volume is largely the result of 
painstaking investigation and study on the 
part of the late Rev. J. Owen Dorsey, to which 
Dr. John R. Swanton, of the bureau, has 
added the Ofo material, besides arranging and 
editing (from the linguistic point of view) 
the entire work. 
Messrs. WirHERBy & Co. are shortly pub- 
lishing “A Hand-list of British Birds,” giv- 
ing a detailed account of the distribution of 
each bird in the British Isles, and a general 
account of its range abroad, together with de- 
tails of the occurrences of rarities. The 
Hand-list is the joint work of Messrs. FE. 
Hartert, F. C. R. Jourdain, N. F. Ticehurst 
and H. F. Witherby. 
EXPERIMENTS have been carried out at 
Nawalia, Northern Rhodesia, respecting the 
transmission of ‘human trypanosomes by 
Glossina morsitans Westw., and on the occur- 
rence of human trypanosomes in game. The 
results, so far as they are at present ascer- 
tained, are presented by Mr. Allan Kinghorn 
and Dr. Warrington Yorke in the “ Annals 
of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology,” is- 
sued by the Liverpool School of Tropical 
Medicine, forming the first interim report of 
the Luangwa Sleeping Sickness Commission, 
British South Africa Company. The sum- 
mary of the report as given in the London 
Times is as follows: (1) The human trypano- 
some, in the Luangwa Valley, is transmitted 
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by Glossina morsitans Westw. (2) Approxi- 
mately 5 per cent. (4.76) of the flies may be- 
come permanently infected and capable of 
transmitting the virus. (3) The period which 
elapses between the infecting feed of the flies 
and the date on which they become infective 
is approximately 14 days. (4) An infected fly 
retains the power of transmitting the disease 
during its life, and is infective at each meal. 
(5) Mechanical transmission does not occur if 
a period of 24 hours has elapsed since the in- 
fecting meal. (6) Some evidence exists to 
show that in the interval between the infecting 
feed and the date on which transmission be- 
comes possible the parasites found in the flies 
are non-infective. (7) Glossina morsitans, ... 
nature, has been found to transmit the human 
trypanosome. (8) Certain species of buck, 
viz., waterbuck, hartebeest, mpala and wart- 
hog, have been found to be infected with the 
human trypanosome. (9) A native dog has 
been found to be infected with the human 
trypanosome. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
Mrs. Jonn Stewart Kennepy has given to 
New York University a Hall of Philosophy, 
costing in the neighborhood of $90,000. It is 
to be known as the Cornelius Baker Hall of 
Philosophy in memory of Mrs. Kennedy’s 
father, who was one of the founders of the 
university. 
OBERLIN COLLEGE has received an anonymous 
gift of $10,000 for library endowment. It is 
expected that a considerable portion of this 
will be devoted to completing the files of sci- 
entific periodicals and journals, with especial 
emphasis on the contemporary literature on 
Eugenics. 
Tue King of Siam has sanctioned a scheme 
for the establishment of a University of Bang- 
kok. There will be eight faculties, including 
medicine, law, engineering, agriculture, com- 
merce, pedagogy and political science. 
The Experiment Station Record states that 
an agricultural school is to be established in 
Melilla, Morocco, under Spanish auspices. 
This school will have for its objects the dis- 
