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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIX. No. 1275 



scheme, wiieii completed, will provide both a 

 new and larger aquarium and special labora- 

 tories for physiological work. 



A MESSAGE received from Rome states that in 

 the province of Cattaniselta in the Island of 

 Sicily, immense deposits of potash have been 

 discovered and the preliminary investigations 

 are said to establish these as the richest in the 

 world. The exploitation of these deposits, if 

 the first reports receive the confirmation hoped 

 for, would make it quite unnecessary to have 

 recourse to the German supplies. 



Mosquitoes representative of all species oc- 

 curring at camps or posts where troops of the 

 United States are stationed are to be collected 

 for the Army Medical Museum in Washing- 

 ton. At present the collection is incomplete 

 and medical officers have been directed to see 

 that collections of these insects are made at 

 the times and in the manner described in cir- 

 cular instructions being published. Collec- 

 tions of mosquitoes are to be made at each sta- 

 tion at least biweekly, at three periods during 

 the twenty^our hours, early morning from 5 

 to 6 A.M., midday, and after 7 p.m. The time 

 of collection will vary in different latitudes, 

 but observation will determine the time when 

 the insects are most prevalent at each locality. 

 They are to be collected by means of a suitable 

 killer or by mosquito traps. The " chloroform 

 tube " is the best and most easily obtained 

 killer, and mosquito traps are also useful. 

 Shipments of the mosquitoes in lots of 25 each 

 in specially prepared boxes are to be mailed by 

 medical officers at camps to the curator. Army 

 Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. 



In announcing on March 20 the reopening 

 of the Zoological Garden and the Aquaritmi, 

 which had been closed by the military during 

 the Berlin riots, the Berliner Tageblatt, as 

 quoted in a press dispatch, notes the fact that 

 because of the increased expense of operation 

 the price of admission to the Zoological Gar- 

 den will be advanced to 36 cents on week days 

 and 24 cents on Sundays on April 1. In order 

 to give the poorer inhabitants of the G«rman 

 capital a chance to enter the Garden there will 

 be two " cheap Sundays " a month when the 

 entrance fee will be only 12 cents, against the 



former figure of 7 cents. Since 1910 the Ber- 

 lin City Coimcil has been subsidizing the 

 Garden at the rate of about $5,000 a year and 

 the Aquarium with about $6,000. 



The Virginia deer is said to have been un- 

 known in Nova Scotia tmtil about 1888, and 

 was afterwards introduced. However, bones 

 of this animal have now been foimd in two 

 widely separated prehistoric Indian shell- 

 heaps in that province by archeologists of the 

 Geological Survey, Canada. Toe bones have 

 been found in a shell-heap near Mahone Bay 

 on the outer coast by Mr. W. J. Wintemberg, 

 in 1913, and a toe bone was also found in a 

 shell-heap on Merigomish harbor on the north 

 coast of l^ova Scotia by Mr. Harlan I. Smith, 

 in 1914. The identification of these bones has 

 been confirmed by Dr. Gerrit S. Miller, of 

 the United States National Museum. Other 

 bones and teeth, supposedly of the same spe- 

 cies, but not submitted to Dr. Miller, have 

 also been foimd in these heaps. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



The General Education Board, founded by 

 John D. Rockefeller, has made an appropria- 

 tion of $500,000 toward a fund of two million 

 dollars to be raised to endow a graduate school 

 of education for Harvard University. The new 

 fund will be named in honor of Dr. Charles 

 W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. James Youngee and his wife have 

 given £30,000 to provide the University of St. 

 Andrews with a memorial hall, to be used for 

 university purposes. 



The sum of £10,000 has been given to the 

 Cape University by the National Bank of 

 South Africa. 



Dr. W. J. Crozier has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor in the department of zoology of 

 the University of Chicago. 



Dr. E. W. Lindstrom, who returned a short 

 time ago from France, where he was in the 

 aviation service, has been appointed assistant 

 professor of genetics in the college of agricul- 

 ture at the University of Wisconsin. 



