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read by Professor Bruckner and Mr. Frank 

 Campbell on Geograjihical Bibliography, 

 and a resolution was unanimously passed 

 recommending that the permanent bureau 

 should follow out the subject of geograph- 

 ical bibliograph}^,and authorizing the bureau 

 to associate with itself competent j)ersons 

 and give them the necessary power for 

 prosecuting the inquiry. 



Dr. p. Hansen presented a paper before 

 the British Medical Association on the ma- 

 laria, parasite, dealing more especiallj^ with 

 the life history of the parasite outside the 

 human body. He showed from experiments 

 made at his suggestion by Surgeon-Major 

 Ross that it is probable that the intermedi- 

 ate host is the mosquito. 



The apparatus used at the Pasteur Insti- 

 tute for the discovery and treatment of 

 bacteria and bacilli will be exhibited at the 

 Atlanta Exposition. 



By act of the Legislature of the State of 

 Ohio a clay- workers' school has been estab- 

 lished at the Ohio State Universitj^, where 

 the chemistry, mechanism and manual work 

 of everything connected with clay industries 

 is taught. Prof. Orton is the director of 

 this school. 



At a recent meeting of the Board of Scien- 

 tific Directors of the New York Botanic 

 Garden it was resolved to authorize a topo- 

 graphical survey of the 250 acres of land in 

 Bronx Park which have been set aside for 

 the uses of the garden. All the trees in the 

 park are to be labelled, and new varieties 

 of seeds desirable for cultivation are to be 

 secured. 



Mr. Marshall M. Tidd, a well known 

 civil engineer, died in Woburn on August 

 20th, at the age of sixtj^-eight. Mr. Tidd 

 was one of the oldest members of the Boston 

 Society and the American Society of Civil 

 Engineers. 



The Commissioner of Patents, John S. 

 Seymour, has submitted to the Secretary of 



the Interior a summary of his report for 

 the year ending June 30th, 1895. 20,745 

 patents were granted during the j'ear. 



CoL. Henry L. Abbot, of the Engineer 

 Corps, has been placed on the retired list of 

 the army. 



The Russian ISTational Health Society 

 announces that it will celebrate, in May, 

 1896, the one hundredth anniversary of 

 Jenner's first experiments in vaccination. 

 To commemorate the event the Society pro- 

 poses: (1) to oifer four prizes for the best 

 works upon vaccination ; (2) to collect and 

 publish materials for a history of the prac- 

 tice of vaccination in Russia, and also a 

 short history of the same in western Eu- 

 rope ; (3) to publish a Russian translation 

 of Jenner's works, with his biography and 

 portrait; (4) to organize an exhibition of 

 objects connected with vaccination; and 

 (5) to hold a commemorative meeting on 

 the day of the centenary. 



The French Societe de Medicine Publique 

 et d'Hj^giene Professionnelle offers, accord- 

 ing to the Medical Record, three prizes for 

 the best memoire on ' Preventable Diseases 

 and the Preventive Measures to be Taken.' 

 The first prize is 1200 fr., the second 800 fr. 

 and the third 500 fr. The essay is not to 

 exceed fi'om twenty to thirty pages of 500 

 words each. The following points must be 

 treated : How to prevent contagious dis- 

 eases during the illness and after ; private 

 sanitation of patients and those who tend 

 and treat them ; house sanitation and dis- > 

 infection, and general sanitation during 

 illness. 



One of the most interesting features of the 

 meeting of the British Medical Association 

 in the collection of medical antiquities 

 found in Italy by Dr. Luigi Sambon and 

 exhibited by Messrs. Oppenheimer at the 

 Savoy Hotel. It consists of a number of 

 surgical instruments and terra cotta models 

 collected frona ancient Roman and Etruscan 



