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hoped that this entire collection, numbering' 

 some 10,000 slides, and the library which ac- 

 companies them, wiU ultimately be incor- 

 porated with the Museum of Oceanography and 

 Marine Biology, which it was the ambition of 

 the late Sir John Murray to found. Broadly, 

 his object was to form his collections of mate- 

 rial and soundings into a department of the 

 Natural History Museum in conjunction with 

 the H. B. Brady and W. B. Carpenter col- 

 lections, which are already there. The co- 

 ordination of the Brady, Carpenter, Murray, 

 Millett, Siddall, and Heron-Allen and Earland 

 collections would form a reference museum of 

 oceanic deposits and type specimens without 

 an equal in the world. 



The biological laboratory at Eairport is 

 Tegularly open but the mess and special ac- 

 •commodations for temporary investigators will 

 he available about June 15. There are oppor- 

 tunities and facilities for zoological and botan- 

 ical investigations as well as for chemical 

 ■studies relating to biological problems. Inves- 

 tigators desiring to occupy tables for any part 

 of the season may communicate with the Com- 

 missioner of Fisheries, Washington, D. C, or 

 the director of the station, Fairport, Iowa. 



Professoe Lawrence Martin, of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, is planning to conduct 

 a party for summer field work in Alaska, 

 stopping on the way at the Grand Canyon of 

 the Colorado, the fault lines near San Fran- 

 cisco, and the California exposition. The trip 

 is open to students from other universities and 

 to teachers of geography and geology. It wiU 

 start the middle of June or first of July and 

 be gone about two months. Most of the time 

 will be spent in camp along the fiords and in 

 studying the glaciers of southeastern Alaska, 

 including the Muir, Grand Pacific, Johns 

 Hopkins and other ice tongues in Glacier Bay 

 near the base of Mt. Fairweather (15,000 feet 

 high), and the Taku, ISTorris, Eagle, Herbert, 

 Mendenhall, Davidson, Denver, Sawyer, 

 Dawes, Baird, Patterson, Le Conte and the 

 Great Glacier of the Stikine. Examination of 

 faults and other structures in the sedimentary 

 rocks at the border of the coast range batho- 

 lith, especially in relation to the origin of the 



fiords. Visits to gold mines, placer deposits, 

 copper mines, marble quarries, gypsum mines, 

 salmon canneries, native villages with totem 

 poles, etc. Possible ascent of Mt. Edgecumbe, 

 a dormant volcano near Sitka. Trip over Ca^ 

 nadian Coast Eange on White Pass and Yukon 

 Railway. Students without previous training 

 may work for credit in elementary geology 

 and physical geography, while advanced stu- 

 dents can take up special problems in physiog- 

 raphy, structural geology, stratigraphy and 

 glacial phenomena. 



In connection with the 109th annual meet- 

 ing of the Medical Society of the State of 

 New York, in Buffalo, this week, a program of 

 public lectures was arranged as follows: 



Monday evening, April 26, "Public Health." 

 Professor O.-E. A. Winslow, director, division of 

 publicity and education. New York State Depart- 

 ment of Health. Subject: "The New York State 

 Department of Health and its Work." Illustrated. 

 Dr. Charles J. Hastings, medical officer of health, 

 Toronto, Ont. Subject: "What are We Doing to 

 Improve our Eace?" Dr. Praneis E. Pronczak 

 will preside. 



Tuesday afternoon, April 27, "Child Saving." 

 Julia C. Lathrop, chief of children's bureau, U. S. 

 Department of Labor, Washington, D. 0. Sub- 

 ject: "Why the Children's Bureau Studies Infant 

 Mortality. ' ' Dr. Angenette Parry, New York 

 City, president, Women's Medical Society of New 

 York State, will introduce the speaker. The ladies' 

 committee cordially invite all women to meet Miss 

 Lathrop in the Eeeeption Eoom of the Armory at 

 five. 



Tuesday evening, April 27, "Child Welfare." 

 Dr. J. W. Sohereschewsky, surgeon, Public Health 

 ■Service, Washington, D. C. Subject: "The Ee- 

 latiou of Heat to the Summer Mortality of In- 

 fants. ' ' Illustrated. 



Wednesday afternoon, April 28, "Mentality of 

 the ChUd." Henry H. Goddard, Ph.D., director, 

 department of research. The Training School, 

 Vineland, N. J. Subject: "The subnormal Child: 

 Who is He and what must be Done for Himt" 

 niustrated. 



Wednesday evening, April 28, "Safety Pirst. " 

 Dr. Thomas Darlington, American Iron & Steel 

 Institute, New York. Subject: "Welfare Work m 

 Industry." Illustrated. 



Thursday afternoon, April 29, "Prevention of 

 Blindness." Edward M. VanCleve, managing di- 



