DECEMBER 22, 1899.] 
Andres Street. It will contain“extensive ex- 
hibits of the mineral, agricultural and manu- 
facturing products of Mexico. 
Tue fourth annual meeting of the New York 
State Science Teachers’ Association will be held 
at Syracuse, N. Y., on December 28th and 29th. 
A varied and interesting program is promised. 
The address by the President Professor LeRoy 
©. Cooley, of Vassar College, will be given on 
Thursday evening. The subject for discussion 
for the first morning is the sequence of the sci- 
ences in the secondary school curriculum, 
opened by Principal T. B. Stowell of the Pots- 
dam Normal School. On Thursday afternoon 
sub-committees will report on the teaching of 
zoology and of chemistry in the secondary 
schools. On Friday morning the subjects to be 
taken up are ‘Earth Science in the Secondary 
Schools,’ by W. H. Snyder, Worcester Acad- 
emy; ‘College Entrance Requirements in Sci- 
ence,’ Dean W. H. Crashaw, Colgate Univer- 
sity ; and ‘The Training of Science Teachers 
for the Secondary Schools,’ Professor Edward 
L. Nichols, Cornell University. On Friday 
afternoon the equipment of laboratories and 
the management of laboratory classes will be 
discussed with separate sections for the biolog- 
ical, physical and earth sciences. Several com- 
mittees will report at the final session on Friday 
afternoon. 
THE Physics Club of New York, which is 
composed of teachers of physics in the secondary 
schools of the city, held its fifth meeting at the 
physical laboratory of Columbia University on 
Dec. 16th. 
Natural Science gives the following particu- 
larsin regard to Mr. E. R. Waite’s trawling and 
dredging cruise under the control of Mr. F. Far- 
nell. The cruise, or rather series of four cruises, 
lasted from February 18th to April 9th. The 
coast-line covered extended from Jervis Bay to 
the Manning River, and except for a trip to 
Lord Howe Island, the greatest distance from 
land was 25 miles. The depth at which the 
trawl was lowered ranged between 10 and 90 
fathoms. The fishes were the chief objects of 
study ; about 100 species, represented by 365 
specimens were collected, and Mr. Waite’s pre- 
liminary ‘Scientific Report on the Fishes’ was 
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published last year as an appendix to Mr. Far- 
nell’s ‘Report upon Trawling Operations.’ 
Several species are new to the colony, while a 
a few are new to science. The entire scientific 
collections have been deposited in the Museum, 
and the results will be published as a Museum 
Memoir, towards the expense of which £400 was 
voted. On the last cruise to Lord Howe Island 
heavy weather was encountered, and the pas- 
sage occupied seventy hours instead of the 
usual thirty-six. Mr. Waite and Mr. Ethdridge, 
who also was on this trip, were left on the 
island for eleven days, since the Thetis was 
blown to sea in the gale. They collected here 
some additional very interesting remains of 
Meiolania platyceps, the peculiar extinct che- 
lonian, which is also found in Patagonia. Also 
by the help of Mrs. T. Nicholls they obtained 
an additional collection of shells. A large 
number of sponges, anemones, corals, gorgonias, 
echinoderms, crustaceans and polyzoa were 
collected during the cruise. The number of 
species was very great, and included many new 
or hitherto unrecorded from the coast of New 
South Wales. 
Tue British Medical Journal states that at a 
meeting of the delegates ‘degli ordini medici’ 
attending from all parts of Italy, held on Octo- 
ber 24th, under the presidency of Professor Du- 
rante, it was resolved to send a deputation to 
the Prime Minister. (General Pelloux) to ask 
him to bring in a bill withdrawing the right to 
practice, even among their countrymen, from 
all foreign medical men (not holding Italian 
degrees), whose own country did not grant 
Italian graduates reciprocal rights of practice. 
General Pelloux informed a deputation next 
day that he would introduce such a bill imme- 
diately on the opening of the Italian Parlia- 
ment, which has been summoned to meet on 
November 14th. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
Mrs. J. H. CHapin has endowed the chair 
of mineralogy and geology at St. Lawrence 
University, Canton, N. Y., with $30,000. This 
chair was occupied at the time of his death by 
the late Dr. J. S. Chapin. 
Ex-Mayor CHESTER WARD KINSLEY, of 
