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men at Cape Wild, where they were supposed 

 to be. Two members of the relief expedition 

 will continue the search in ISTorthwest Siberia. 



The Lange Koch expedition which left 

 Denmark last year and wintered in Melville 

 Bay started for Peary Land on March 15. 

 There has been some diiEculty in the trans- 

 port across Melville Bay as the Cape York 

 Eskimos hired for this task had not arrived, 

 but it is hoped that everything was got across 

 safely. 



Dr. J. Charcot, the French polar explorer, 

 sailing in the ISTorth Atlantic in his exploring 

 vessel, the Pourquoi Pas, has succeeded in 

 landing upon the islet of Eockall, which lies 

 some 260 miles west of the Hebrides and 185 

 miles from St. Kilda. 



The Antarctic expedition by Sir Ernest 

 Shackleton planned to leave England on Sep- 

 tember 12. The steamer Quest was found to 

 give inadequate accommodations for the in- 

 creased personnel necessary after the program 

 to be followed was increased, and alterations 

 made on the ship delayed the work of fitting 

 out the expedition. 



The British Iron and Steel Institute met in 

 Paris under the presidency of Dr. J. E. Stead 

 on September 5 and 6. 



The Scientific American, long the leading 

 weekly American journal of industry, inven- 

 tion and science, will hereafter be published 

 monthly in combination with The American 

 Scientific Monthly. 



Several hundred American engineers will 

 meet with representatives of the principal en- 

 gineering societies of Great Britain and 

 France at a dinner to be given at the Engi- 

 neers' Club in New York City on the evening 

 of October 10. The dinner, while formally 

 celebrating the homecoming of the mission of 

 American engineers who went abroad to con- 

 fer the John Fritz Medal upon Sir Robert 

 Hadfield of London and Eugene Schneider of 

 Paris, will mark the launching of a new move- 

 ment to bring English and American engi- 

 neers together. The guests at the dinner will 

 include the twelve members of the deputation 



which represented the John Fritz Medal Board 

 and representatives of the British and French 

 societies by which they were received. Invi- 

 tations have been extended to many men prom- 

 inent in public life, including Mr. Herbert 

 Hoover, Secretary of Commerce; Viscount 

 Bryce and Mr. Charles E. Hughes, Secretary of 

 State. Others who will attend are the govern- 

 ing boards of the four national engineering 

 societies, the John Fritz Medal Board of 

 Award, the Library Board of the Engineering 

 Societies and of the Engineers Club; the 

 trustees of the United Engineering Society, 

 and the officers of the Federated American En- 

 gineering Societies. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that according to an agree- 

 ment to improve their equipment and co- 

 ordinate their personnel, the several public 

 health agencies operating laboratories in 

 Memphis on September 1 moved into their 

 new quarters in the university laboratory. Dr. 

 William Krauss, professor of preventive medi- 

 cine and hygiene in the college of medicine for 

 many years, has been made director of the labo- 

 ratories, and his salary will be paid jointly by 

 the agencies interested, which include the ma- 

 larial research laboratory of the U. S. Public 

 Health Service, the West Tennessee laboratory 

 of the State Board of Health, the department 

 of bacteriology of the University of Tennes- 

 see College of Medicine, and the laboratories 

 of the Memphis department of health. The 

 plan of coordination has received the endorse- 

 ment of Dr. Frederick F. Russell, director of 

 laboratories for the International Health 

 Board. 



Under the auspices of the Yale Medical 

 School, the state of Connecticut and the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation will unite to finance the pro- 

 posed Connecticut Psychopathic Hospital. 

 The Rockefeller Foundation will provide 

 $500,000, the state probably the same amount, 

 while the share and part of Yale in the trans- 

 action is not determined. The hospital build- 

 ing will be erected by the state grant, the 

 Rockefeller Foundation will supply the sal- 

 aries for the teaching staff, while Yale may 



