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of the Philadelphia department of health, suc- 

 ceeding the late Dr. Henry H. Doan. 



Dr. J. B. Cleland, of the Sydney depart- 

 ment of public health, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Eoyal Society of New South Wales. 



Mr. Al.^n a. C-\mpbeli. Swinton has been 

 elected chairman of the council of the Eoyal 

 Society of Arts, London. 



We learn from Nature that early in July 

 Mr. Erik Andersson, of Uppsala, again led to 

 Spitsbergen a geological expedition, which in- 

 cluded Messrs. Adam Eeuterskiold, Sven 

 Yden and Karl Samuelsson. The main object 

 was to continue the investigation of the Trias 

 and to collect saurians and fishes. The occur- 

 rence of phosphorite at Cape Thordsen was to 

 be investigated, as well as the extent of the 

 coal beds at Pyramid Hill and Biinsowland. 

 Investigations in the Devonian rocks are to be 

 continued and their vertebrate fossils col- 

 lected. A large expedition of miners and min- 

 ing engineers also left Sweden about midsum- 

 mer to exploit the coal measures of Spits- 

 bergen, and was accompanied by Dr. Anteus as 

 geologist. 



The Committee of the Privy Council for 

 Scientific and Industrial Eesearch has sanc- 

 tioned the appointment of a committee to in- 

 quire into the types of breathing apparatus 

 used in coal mines, and by experiment to de- 

 termine the advantages, limitations and de- 

 fects of the several types of apparatus, what 

 improvements in them are possible, whether 

 it is advisable that the types used in mines 

 should be standardized, and to collect evidence 

 bearing on these points. The members of the 

 committee are: Mr. W. Walker, acting chief 

 inspector of mines under the Home Office 

 (chairman), Dr. J. S. Haldane and Dr. H. 

 Briggs. 



Dr. G. Carl Huber, professor of anatomy in 

 the University of Michigan, recently delivered 

 an address on " Early Stages in Mammalian 

 Development " before the faculty and students 

 of the graduate summer quarter in medicine 

 of the University of Illinois. 



Two courses of twelve lectures each on 

 " The Designing and Computing of Telescope 



Systems " are being delivered at the Imperial 

 College of Science, South Kensington, by Pro- 

 fessor A. E. Conrady during this month and 

 September. The lectures are given in con- 

 nection with the newly formed department of 

 technical optics under the direction of Pro- 

 fessor E. J. Cheshire. 



The death is armounced of M. Eduard 

 Sarasin, of Geneva, editor of the Archives des 

 sciences physiques et naturelles, and the 

 author of numerous researches in physicial 

 science. 



By an agreement between the executors of 

 the estate of the late James Buchanan Brady 

 and his heirs, the major part of his fortune, 

 estimated at $3,000,000, becomes immediately 

 available for the New York Hospital. This 

 argeemeut enables the trustees and executors 

 to carry out the testator's plans for the estab- 

 lishment of the James Buchanan Brady Foun- 

 dation of Urology. Eventually a building will 

 be erected for the foundation to cost about 

 half a million dollars, which will include de- 

 partments for investigation along chemical, 

 bacteriological and pathological lines. The 

 plans for the foundation are in the hands of 

 Dr. Oswald S. Lowsley, who was named by Mr. 

 Brady as director. 



At the annual general meeting of the 

 Medico-Legal Society of London, when the 

 President, Sir Samuel Evans, was in the chair, 

 a recommendation of the council that aliens 

 of enemy nationality shouJd cease to be either 

 honorary or ordinary members of the society, 

 was unanimously approved. 



The British Museimis Association proposes 

 to hold a conference in October to discuss, 

 among other subjects, local war museums and 

 the Board of Education and museums. 



Plans for the one hundred and fifteenth 

 meeting of the American Institute of Mining 

 Engineers which include an inspection of the 

 Goal resources of Illinois, the zinc and other 

 mining operations of Missouri, and the oil 

 fields of Oklahoma have been announced. The 

 meeting will be held during the week of Oc- 

 tober 8 to 13. Methods will be discussed for 

 conserving the present supply and increasing 



