February 23, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



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Andrews, 1916) remains of leathery turtles, 

 and jaws of a primitive Zeugiodont, showing 

 approximation to a creodont dentition. 



Dr. Henry J. Berkley, clinical professor of 

 psychiatry in the Johns Hopkins University, 

 has presented the library with a number of 

 rare and valuable medical books, dating from 

 the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth cen- 

 turies. 



In connection with the presentation on Jan- 

 uary 20 of a loving cup to Mr. Thomas A. 

 Forsyth, one of the founders of the Forsyth 

 Dental Infirmary for Children, Boston, the in- 

 stitution was open for public inspection, both 

 forenoon and afternoon, as it is to be known as 

 " Forsyth Day." Routine work as well as spe- 

 cial features were shown in all departments. 

 In the orthodontia department special cases 

 were shown, and in the surgical department, 

 special operations were conducted by Dr. Wil- 

 liam E. Chenery. Fifteen-minute lectures by 

 John D. Adams, M.D., and Isadore Coriat, 

 M.D., were given on subjects of interest to 

 dentists at 11 :30. A research laboratory ex- 

 hibit was given from 2 to 4 p.m. 



Two skeletons of the duck bill dinosaur were 

 lost to science with the sinking recently by a 

 German raider of the ship Mont Temple, ac- 

 cording to Charles H. Sternberg, of Lawrence, 

 Kans., who found the bones in the red deer 

 country in Alberta, Canada. The prehistoric 

 specimens were thirty-two feet long and were 

 being sent to the British Museum. They filled 

 twenty-two boxes and weighed 20,000 pounds. 

 When the shipments failed to arrive in Eng- 

 land, an inquiry was made by Mr. Sternberg 

 and he received word from the Canadian rail- 

 road officials of the fate of the shipment. 



The United States Department of the In- 

 terior has designated Minnesota as one of the 

 three states where mining experiment stations 

 are to be established within a year. The gov- 

 ernment will appropriate $25,000 annually for 

 the support of such a station and the state 

 must supply the building. The regents have 

 asked for $175,000 for this purpose. There 

 are to be ten such stations established even- 

 tually. Minnesota's importance as a mining 



state has caused her to be selected as one of 

 the first group. 



The University of Toronto, through the 

 Antitoxin Laboi'atory in the Department of 

 Hygiene, has recently been the recipient of a 

 gift from Colonel A. E. Gooderham, Toronto, 

 of a farm of fifty acres on which have been 

 erected model stables and laboratories for the 

 work of the laboratory. The value of the gift 

 exceeds $60,000, and the farm is situated within 

 twenty miles of Toronto. It prepares all the 

 public health biologic products supplied free 

 by the Ontario government, through its board 

 of health, including diphtheria and tetanus 

 antitoxin, anti-meningitis serum, the Pasteui 

 Treatment and smallpox vaccine. The labo- 

 ratory also prepares all the tetanus antitoxin 

 used by the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. 

 The director of the laboratory is Dr. J. G, 

 Fitzgerald, associate professor of hygiene. 

 University of Toronto. 



The Hon. Albert Johnson writes from the 

 United States House of Representatives : 



I tried, immediately on the opening of the ses- 

 sion, to obtain a hearing for House Bill 528, for 

 the discontinuance of the Fahrenheit thermometer. 

 With only 52 working days between January 1 and 

 March 4, it is evident that not only this bill, but 

 many other important bills will have no chance to 

 come up for action. The hearing before the com- 

 mittee would have to be repeated at the next ses- 

 sion, when the composition of the committee may 

 be very different. The new committee might be 

 influenced to some extent by the report of its 

 predecessor, but such reinforcement of the argu- 

 ment is hardly needed, and would at best be of 

 little weight. It seems to me that any advantage 

 thus to be gained would hardly justify the labor 

 of getting the committee together at a time when 

 its members, like myself, are overwhelmed with 

 other pressing work. In the new Congress, the biU 

 will have to be reintroduced, either at the special 

 session, which now seems a probability, or at the 

 regular session. I shall then make an effort to ob- 

 tain a hearing with the least possible delay. 



The chemical industry in Russia has re- 

 ceived great impetus from the war, and, ac- 

 cording to Commerce Reports, quoted by the 

 Journal of the American Medical Association, 

 a number of works have already been erected 



