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State Hygienic Laboratory, Christiania, is 

 visiting laboratories in the United States for 

 the purpose of studying their organization, 

 equipment and functions. 



Galen H. Clevenger, consulting metallur- 

 gist to the United States Smelting, Refining 

 and Mining Company, and vice-chairman of 

 the Engineering Division of the National Re- 

 search Council, has returned to Boston after 

 a sojourn of four months in Mexico, organizing 

 and directing research. 



Professor H. H. Whetzel, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, is planning to spend a year in Ber- 

 muda devoting his time to a survey of the 

 fungi of the islands, especially those species 

 causing plant diseases. 



Professor Rollin T. Chamberlin, who has 

 been spending the spring and summer months 

 in the Alps, in the study of the internal mo- 

 tion of glaciers by the use of a delicate time- 

 recording shear-meter devised for the purpose, 

 reports that he has obtained records of actual 

 shear movement. The motion takes place by 

 little starts and stops, as might be expected in 

 an elastico-rigid body, and not by uniform or 

 steadily progressive motion, as might be ex- 

 pected in a viscous body. After completing 

 his glacial studies, about mid-summer. Profes- 

 sor Chamberlin expects to give some time to 

 the structure of the Alps and to certain geo- 

 logical phenomena in Spain. 



The John Burroughs Memorial Association 

 has been inaugurated at a meeting of a num- 

 ber of his friends at the American Museum of 

 Natural History, the immediate purpose of the 

 association being to protect Mr. Burroughs's 

 home and camps and to preserve them, with 

 their wild life, for future generations. The 

 committee appointed to complete the organiza- 

 tion included Dr. Frank M. Chapman, Dr. G. 

 Clyde Fisher, Mr. Carl E. Akeley, Mr. Ham- 

 lin Garland, Judge A. T. Clearwater, Mr. 

 Kermit Roosevelt, Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, 

 Mrs. Henry Ford, and Mr. W. O. Roy. 



A memorial window in the Episcopal Church 

 of St. John's in the Wilderness, at Paul 

 Smiths, N. Y., the gift of Mr. William Rocke- 

 feller, was dedicated on August 7 to the mem- 



ory of the late Dr. Edward Livingston Tru- 

 deau. 



We learn from Nature that the council of 

 the Society of Chemical Industry has decided 

 to institute a Messel memorial lecture in mem- 

 ory of Dr. Rudolph Messel. A gold medal with 

 an honorarium will be presented to the lec- 

 turer, and for the present the remainder of 

 the income from the bequest to the society will 

 be allowed to accumulate. 



The Royal Society proposes to erect a monu- 

 ment to Lord Lister in Portland-place, near 

 the house where he lived. The necessary funds 

 have been provided. 



The park that has been constructed opposite 

 the headquarters of the national public health 

 service in Havana has been named for Dr. 

 Carlos J. Finlay, and a statue portraying him 

 was recently unveiled. It stands in the center 

 of the park, and it is proposed to place in the 

 corners of the park statues of the three mem- 

 bers of the American commission. Dr. Reed, 

 Dr. Carroll, and Dr. Lazear, who with Dr. 

 Agramonte, confirmed the transmission of yel- 

 low fever by the mosquito. 



Orestes M. St. John, formerly geologist on 

 the surveys of Iowa and Illinois, has died at 

 San Diego, California. 



The British Medical Journal states that a 

 scholarship has been founded at the Man- 

 chester Royal Infirmary primarily for the in- 

 vestigation of the claims made, especially in 

 Germany, for the intensive X-ray treatment of 

 cancer. The anonymous donor, however, de- 

 sires that the inquiry shall include the study 

 of the cancer problem from any point of view 

 that may arise, and also an inquiry into 

 the precautions that should be taken for the 

 protection of persons working with highly 

 penetrative rays. The scheme under which 

 the scholar will work has been framed by a 

 committee, consisting of Sir William Milligan, 

 Professors H. R. Dean and W. L. Bragg, Dr. 

 A. Burrows, Dr. Powell White, Mr. James 

 Watts, and Dr. A. E. Barclay. Dr. C. C. An- 

 derson has been appointed the first scholar, 

 and will visit various centers where the in- 

 tensive method is in use. He will then return 



