November 8, 1912] 



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routine business. The meetings open to the 

 public and devoted to the reading and discus- 

 sion of scientific papers will be held at the 

 University Museum, Oxford Street, November 

 12-14, from 10 o'clock a.m. until 4 p.m. each 

 day. 



The tvcelfth meeting of the Central Asso- 

 ciation of Science and Mathematics Teachers 

 will be held at the JSTorthwestern University, 

 Evanston, on Friday and Saturday, November 

 29 and 30. The Great Northern Hotel, Chi- 

 cago, has been selected as headquarters for 

 out-of-Chicago members and friends. The 

 addresses at the general sessions will be given 

 by Professor W. C. Bagley, of the University 

 of Illinois, and Carroll G. Pearse, superin- 

 tendent of public schools, Milwaukee, Wiscon- 

 sin. The programs of the five sections con- 

 tain the names of many of the prominent 

 educators of the middle west and provide for 

 many reports and discussions of a practical 

 nature which will prove of great interest and 

 value to teachers of science and mathematics. 



The successful transmission of infantile 

 paralysis in monkeys through the bite of the 

 blood-sucking stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) 

 has been announced by Professor M. J. 

 Eosenau, of the Harvard Medical School, and 

 C. T. Brues, of the Bussey Institution, Har- 

 vary University, and their results have been 

 confirmed by Dr. J. P. Anderson, of the Pub- 

 lic Health Service. The hypothesis advanced 

 last year by Brues and Sheppard that the 

 stable fly is the carrier of this disease has thus 

 been given experimental proof, although it is 

 still possible that other channels of infection 

 may exist. With the exception of the investi- 

 gations of Dr. Anderson, the work was done 

 under the auspices of the Massachusetts State 

 Board of Health. 



Nature learns from Greenwich that all at- 

 tempts to make observations of the recent 

 total eclipse of the sun were frustrated by the 

 heavy rain which prevailed in the eclipse 

 region of Brazil on eclipse day, October 10. 

 The Greenwich observers, Messrs. Eddington 

 and Davidson, were located at Alfenas, an 

 elevated village some 185 miles north of 



Santos, where there were also eclipse parties 

 from Prance, Germany, Brazil and other 

 countries. The Brazilian officials rendered all 

 the assistance they could, and the government 

 voted a sum of £5,000 for the reception of the 

 visiting astronomers at Eio. 



The American Association for Study and 

 Prevention of Infant Mortality at its recent 

 Cleveland meeting adopted the following 

 resolutions : 



Besolved, That the Association for Study and 

 Prevention of Infant Mortality recommend, in 

 addition to birth and mortality statistics, the col- 

 lection and compilation of marriage, divorce, in- 

 dustrial and all such social statistics as may have 

 a relation to the problem of infant mortality. 



Whekeas, It has been shown that valuable re- 

 sults have been obtained from the requirement for 

 proper inspection of dairy farms and dairy depots, 

 before granting a permit for the production ana 

 distribution of milk, and that the score-card has 

 been of great assistance in recording the observa- 

 tions made at such inspections, therefore be it 



Besolved, That the efforts that are being made 

 to secure uniform standards for inspection and 

 uniform methods for recording the results of in- 

 spection be approved. 



Whereas, Constructive housing legislation is 

 made difficult by the absence of comprehensive 

 information relating to infant morbidity and mor- 

 tality to bad housing, therefore be it 



Besolved, That the association emphasize the 

 necessity of such investigation as will, if possible, 

 reduce to a scientific basis the cost of bad housing 

 in terms of infant morbidity and mortality. 



The second season of the Field School of 

 Geology of the University of Chicago was 

 spent in the San Juan Mountains of south- 

 western Colorado. A party of ten men went 

 into camp near Ouray. After examining sev- 

 eral of the mines and milling plants in that 

 vicinity and becoming familiar with the geol- 

 ogic formations and structures around Ouray 

 the party undertook a systematic geological 

 survey of the northeast quarter of the Mon- 

 trose Quadrangle. The work was extended 

 northeastward into the Uncompahgre Quad- 

 rangle and included the study and mapping of 

 a portion of the Black Canon of the Gunni- 

 son. The party prepared an areal geological 



