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on other subjects are invited by Professor 

 Perroneito, wbose address is E. TJniversita 

 di Torino. 



The British Medical Journal reports that 

 at the second Congress of the History of Medi- 

 cine in Paris last July it was agreed that the 

 third Congress, to be held in July, 1922, should 

 take place in London. There will be a meet- 

 ing for business purposes towards the end of 

 this year in Paris, which will be attended by 

 Dr. Charles Singer, president of the Section 

 of the History of Medicine of the Eoyal 

 Society of Medicine, when the permanent 

 organization of the congress will be dis- 

 cussed. A meeting of the Section of the 

 History of Medicine will be held on October 

 5, to forward the arrangements for the Lon- 

 don Congress of 1922. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation reports that the purpose of the 

 Belgian University Foundation, which was 

 established by law, July 6, 1920, is the ad- 

 vancement of science and learning: (1) by 

 granting to young Belgians who are gifted 

 but are without financial resources loans that 

 will allow them to take up university studies; 

 (2) by granting financial aid to scientists 

 and to young men who are planning to teach 

 higher subjects or to undertake scientific re- 

 searches, and (3) by encouraging scientific 

 relations between Belgium and other coun- 

 tries. With the last mentioned aid in view, 

 the foundation will aid physicians engaged 

 in medical instruction in foreign countries. 

 It will keep in close touch with the Associa- 

 tion pour le developpement des relations 

 medicales de la faculte de medecine de Paris, 

 the Office national des universites frangaises, 

 the Universities Bureau of the British Em- 

 pire, the American University Union and the 

 Jimta para ampliacion de estudios de Madrid. 



It is announced in Nature that the Ministry 

 of Agi'iculture and Fisheries and the Royal 

 Horticultural Society have arranged to hold 

 an International Potato Conference in Lon- 

 don on November 16-18 nest. During the 

 conference, which will take place at the hall 

 of . the Royal Horticultural Society, Vincent 



Square, the National Potato Society will hold 

 its annual show, at which it is expected that 

 most British varieties of potatoes will be ex- 

 hibited. An exhibit dealing with the scienti- 

 fic aspect of potato problems is also being 

 arranged, and it is hoped that workers en- 

 gaged on potato problems in all parts of the 

 world will cooperate. The proceedings will 

 open with Sir A. Daniel Hall's presidential 

 address on the morning of November 16. 

 Papers on the breeding and selection of pota- 

 toes in Great Britain and the United States, 

 and on wart disease, potato blight, and other 

 diseases which are botanically and economic- 

 ally important, will be read, and time has been 

 allowed for their discussion. Invitations to 

 attend the conference have been extended to 

 the Dominions and Colonies and to foreign 

 countries, and it is hoped that the meeting 

 will be throughly representative from both 

 the scientific and the commercial aspects. 



With the approach of cold weather renewed 

 activity in the radio market news service is 

 planned by the Bureau of Markets and Crop 

 Estimates, United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, for the eight months beginning Octo- 

 ber 1. Atmospheric conditions are unfavor- 

 able to radio communication in warm weather, 

 and many amateurs and experimenters discon- 

 tinue their operations during the summer. It 

 is expected, however, that with the coming of 

 autumn the interest in radio activity will in- 

 crease. Many states have shown keen interest 

 in the development of radio news service cover- 

 ing market, crop and weather reports. State 

 cooperation is planned by the bureau and will 

 be taken up with the various states within 

 range of the radio stations. The states that 

 cooperate will be asked to determine the agency 

 or agencies that are to work with the federal 

 bureau in order to prevent duplication of 

 efEort. The handling of news matter will nec- 

 essarily vary with the different states, depend- 

 ing on administrative organizations, geograph- 

 ical position, climate, and other factors. 



Corn that grew in Tennessee in pre-historic 

 times was unearthed recently by W. E. Meyer, 

 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and sent 

 to the United States Department of Agricul- 



