January 29, 1915] 



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Second Vice-president: Professor J. Walter 

 Fewkes, SmithsoniaiL Institution. 



Editors: Professor Franz BoaSj Columbia Uni- 

 versity; Professor Aurelio M. Espinosa, Stanford 

 University. 



Secretary: Dr. Charles Peabody, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Treasurer: Mr. E. W. Eemiek, Boston, Mass. 



Nearly all the papers and practically all 

 the discussion at the recent Chicago meeting 

 of the American Philosophical Association 

 centered on practical ethical questions forced 

 to the front hy present international, political, 

 social and economic conditions. The American 

 Philosophical Association and the Western 

 joined in their meetings, and these two in 

 turn had a joint session with the Political 

 Science Association, the Association of Amer- 

 ican Law Schools, and the American Histor- 

 ical Association, on the subject of Democracy 

 and Responsibility. The officers elected by the 

 American Philosophical Association for the 

 ensuing year are: President, Professor A. C. 

 Armstrong, of Wesleyan University; Vice- 

 president, Professor W. E. Hocking, of Har- 

 vard; Secretary-Treasurer, Professor E. G. 

 Spaulding, of Priuceton. 



There has recently been received a notice 

 from Professor Fehr, of Geneva, secretary of 

 the International Commission on the Teach- 

 ing of Mathematics, giving the decision of the 

 central committee to abandon the meeting 

 planned for August, 1915, and also to postpone 

 the preparation of such committee reports as 

 relate to the work of European countries. 



The new radium laboratories of Manchester 

 Infirmary, which contain radium of the value 

 of £20,000, raised by public subscription a few 

 months ago, have been formally opened by 

 the mayor of the city. A staff of experts will 

 specialize on efforts to apply the radium for 

 the arrest and elimination of cancer. The 

 equipment of the laboratories is second to 

 none in the kingdom, and in the 16 rooms 

 allotted to this special work there is ample 

 provision for administering the treatment to 

 patients. 



The board of managers of the New York 



Zoological Society held their annual meeting 

 on January 19. It was reported that the 

 Aquarium drew 2,029,707 visitors last year and 

 the park zoological gardens 2,020,433, a sub- 

 stantial increase over 1913. The annual 

 maintenance cost to the city last year was 5.8 

 cents a visitor, the appropriations being the 

 same as planned for next year, $247,000. On 

 January 1 there were at the park 4,353 ani- 

 mals, representing 1,179 species, and the 

 aquarium 5,169 specimens of 199 species. 

 Animals acquired during the year cost $25,000. 

 The most notable was a female gorilla brought 

 from Africa by an expedition directed by Mr. 

 E. L. Garner. 



The department of public health of the 

 American Museum of Natural History is at 

 present engaged in the preparation of a spe- 

 cial exhibit of military hygiene and sanita- 

 tion, dealing with the health of armies, the 

 hygiene of the individual soldier and the gen- 

 eral problems of camp sanitation. A number 

 of new exhibits illustrative of insect-borne 

 diseases were added to the department's dis- 

 play during 1914, the most important single 

 exhibit being a model of the flea (carrier of 

 bubonic plague) 1,728,000 times natural size, 

 prepared by Mr. Ignaz Matausch. The his- 

 tory of the bubonic plague in the past is shown 

 by reproductions of a number of early paint- 

 ings and by a series of maps illustrating the 

 geographic spread of disease during its his- 

 toric epidemics. A series of photographs of 

 four American army surgeons who dis- 

 covered the mosquito transmission of yellow 

 fever, has been hung near the entrance of the 

 hall. 



UNIVEBSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The alumni of Stevens Institute of Tech- 

 nology were told at their annual dinner in the 

 Hotel Astor on January 23 that their ten-day 

 campaign to raise $1,360,000 had yielded 

 $1,164,269, and that an extension of time had 

 been granted in which the remainder might 

 be collected. Dr. Alexander 0. Humphreys, 

 president of the institute, made the confident 

 prediction that the whole amount would be 

 raised by the end of this week. 



