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tion, who has hunted big game animals in 

 most parts of the world. For the time being 

 the collection will be set up in the Osborn 

 Zoological Laboratory. Eventually it will oc- 

 cupy a prominent place in the new Peabody 

 Museum, which has not yet been erected. It 

 contains 179 fully mounted heads of large game 

 animals with the front parts of their bodies in 

 many eases. These heads range in size from 

 that of an African elephant measuring eight 

 feet six inches betwen the tips of the ears, to 

 the diminutive dik-dik antelope, which approx- 

 imates the size of a cat and which is the small- 

 est of the ruminants. Among the African 

 fauna are species of antelopes, including gnus, 

 hartebeests, bushbucks, waterbuoks, reedbucks 

 and gazelles. One of the most striking exhibits 

 is that of a great hippopotamus, the open 

 mouth of which measures twenty-three inches 

 Ijetween the lips. There are also included sev- 

 eral rhinoceroses, zebras, buffaloes and wart 

 hogs. 



The Prudential Insurance Company has 

 made an unconditional gift of the public health, 

 medical and scientitic sections of its library to 

 the Surgeon General's Library of the United 

 States of America at Washington, D. C. This 

 collection of books, documents and data is esti- 

 mated to represent about ninety per cent, of 

 the entire public health material for the civ- 

 ilized world, representing between fifty and 

 one hundred thousand volumes and publica- 

 tions. The books will be transferred gradually 

 to Washington, for re-installation on the main 

 floor of the Surgeon General's Library, where 

 a large section is being cleared for the pur- 

 pose, to be hereafter known as the statistical 

 division. The library includes countless re- 

 prints, articles and clippings on medical and 

 related subjects, brought together during the 

 last thirty years by Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, 

 the Prudential statistician. The books are 

 down to date, and, as far as practicable, the 

 series of offleial reports is historically complete. 

 The library is arranged on the subject-index 

 plan, readily accessible, while all possible facili- 

 ties will be extended by the Surgeon General's 

 Library to students in search of information 

 generally out of reach. It is hoped to complete 

 the installation by the first of next year. The 



gift has been approved by the surgeon general 

 of the army. Major Genei*al M. W. Ireland, 

 and the secretary of war, John W. Weeks. 



Ik line with the purpose of the Department 

 of Commerce to make the textile section of the 

 Bureau of Standards more available and of 

 better service to the textile industry, a confer- 

 ence was called on May 20 of representatives of 

 the various branches of the textile trade. The 

 best means for bringing about the desired re- 

 sults and the formulation of a general plan for 

 carrying on research work throughout the tex- 

 tile industry were discussed. Those present 

 were much pleased with such a plan, and it was 

 arranged that the various delegates should take 

 up with their individual branches of the trade 

 the question of the formation of committees, 

 consisting of twelve to fifteen men each, for 

 the purpose of working up the necessary plans 

 and of holding meetings whenever desirable. 

 A general meeting will be held in Washington 

 in the autumn. This is the first opportunity 

 of the kind given to the textile industry for 

 carrying on collective research work. 



Consolidation of the Bureau of Markets 

 and Crop Estimates and Office of Farm Man- 

 agement and Farm Economics of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in order to bring the gath- 

 ering of all data on the economics of produc- 

 tion and marketing under one bureau, in ac- 

 cordance with recent legislative provision, will 

 be completed by July 1. It is stated that the 

 adjustment is being made in response to the 

 demand from farmers for a closer correlation 

 of economic data on production and marketing, 

 to enable them to adjust production to meet 

 changing marketing conditions in this country 

 and abroad. 



An expedition from the department of med- 

 ical zoology of the School of Hygiene and 

 Public Health of the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, will go to Porto Eico this summer to 

 investigate hookworm disease. The expenses 

 of this expedition will be paid by the Inter- 

 national Health Board of the Rockefeller 

 Foundation. The party will include Mr. D. L. 

 Augustine, Mr. N. R. Stoll and Dr. W. W. Cort, 

 from Johns Hopkins University, Dr. W. A. 

 Riley, of the University of Minnesota, and Dr. 



