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sists of eleven hundred species of invertebrates 

 represented by four thousand specimens which 

 were collected from some fifty localities and 

 fourteen geological horizons in the upper and 

 lower Cretaceous beds of northwest Germany. 

 The phyla and sub-phyla represented are the 

 foraminifera, spongia, hydrozoa, anthozoa, 

 eehinoidea, annelida, brachiopoda, gastropoda, 

 pelecypoda and cephalopoda. Among the 

 pelecypoda and cephalopoda are to be found 

 the type specimens of Wolleman in his work 

 on the Cretaceous of Misburg and ISTettlingen. 

 The most valuable portion of the collection is 

 the large number of types of siliceous sponges 

 from the Mucronaten and Quadraten Senonian 

 strata. 



The free lecture course of the Ottawa Field 

 Naturalists' Club opened on November 23, with 

 exhibits and addresses by members, in the 

 Normal School Assembly Hall. The remainder 

 of the program is as follows: 



December 8. — "The New Zealand Peripatus — 

 the most Ancient and Wonderful of Living Ani- 

 mals," by Professor E. E. Prince, Dominion com- 

 missioner of fisheries, Ottawa. 



January 12. — ' ' The Eoyal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew, " by Professor E. B. Thomson, Botanical 

 Laboratory, University of Toronto. 



January 26. — ' ' The Indians of the West Coast, ' ' 

 by Dr. Edward Sapir, department of anthropol- 

 ogy, Geological Survey, Ottawa. 



February 9. — "Fossils," by Mr. L. D. Burling, 

 Geological Survey, Ottawa. 



February 23.— "Milk," by Mr. J. H. Grisdale, 

 Director Experimental Farm, Ottawa. 



March 9. — "Some Interesting Canadian Birds," 

 by Dr. M. Y. Williams, Geological Survey, Ottawa. 



March 23. — Annual meeting and presidential ad- 

 dress : ' ' The Habits of Insects in Relation to 

 their Control," by Mr. Arthur Gibson, entomolog- 

 ical branch. Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. 



The first four meetings are at the Normal 

 School and the last four in cooperation with 

 the Carnegie Library in its Assembly Hall. 



Mr. Henry S. Wellcome, founder of the 

 Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research, in 

 London, has announced that the bureau will 

 provide the sum of £2,000 to be distributed in 

 the form of prizes for the best plans and de- 

 signs of a body for, and improvements in, field 



motor-ambulances. The competing designs> 

 which may be from citizens of any nation, 

 must be received by the commission not later 

 than June 30. Details may be obtained from 

 the secretary of the Ambulance Construction 

 Commission, 10 Henrietta Street, Cavendish 

 Square, London, W. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the New York state hospital 

 commission which is charged with the super- 

 vision and control of the state hospitals for the 

 insane is planning a campaign of prevention. 

 During the past year 6,061 patients were re- 

 ceived at the state hospitals, of whom about 

 one quarter owed their breakdown to causes 

 largely under their control. The plans of the 

 commission comprise a series of short illus- 

 trated talks on mental hygiene to be delivered 

 in difl^erent parts of the state, showing to the 

 public the economic burden imposed on the 

 state through insanity; the causes and pre- 

 vention of insanity, and the problems of faulty 

 heredity and environment. The plan also in- 

 cludes the giving of assistance to individuals in 

 the form of advice as to how to obtain proper 

 medical treatment and advice as to the mainte- 

 nance of mental hygiene. The teaching and 

 pathological branch of the service will be 

 under the direction of Dr. August Hoch, New 

 York City. The lectures will be given under 

 the direction of the commission, with the ap- 

 proval of Health Commissioner Biggs. 



The spreading of rabies by infected coyotes 

 among cattle grazing in the national forests 

 has assumed a grave aspect, according to a 

 report received by the forest service from the 

 district forester in charge of the forests in 

 Washington and Oregon. Numerous town- 

 ships in eastern Oregon, it is reported, have 

 ordered that all dogs be muzzled, lest those 

 that have been bitten by rabid coyotes develop 

 hydrophobia and attack human beings or 

 domestic animals. Efforts are being made by 

 the state authorities of Oregon to stop the 

 spread of hydrophobia by this means and 

 officers of the forest service are cooperating in 

 attempts to kill off the coyotes. In one county 

 alone a loss of three hundred head of cattle is 

 charged to rabid coyotes. 



