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$50,000 to Lewiston, Me., for a public library 
on condition that the city will provide a site 
and $5,000 annually for its support. 
THE Detroit Branch of the Archeological 
Institute of America, held its annual meeting 
in January. During the past year 64 new mem- 
bers were admitted ‘and the fund contributed 
to the Institute reached $1,042. The New York 
and Boston branches are now the only ones 
surpassing the Detroit branch in membership 
and activity. The committee, appointed to 
take steps for an archeological survey of Mich- 
igan, was increased to five, with instructions to 
work for the passage, at the present session of 
the Legislature, of a bill appropriating $2,500 
annually for investigating the antiquities of 
Michigan. 
Tue Turin Academy of Sciences will award, 
at the end of the year, its Bressa prize, of the 
value of nearly $2,000, for the most important 
investigation or invention made during the past 
four years. 
THE Rontgen Society, London, offers as a gift 
from its president, Dr. J. Macintyre, a gold 
medal to be awarded to the maker of the best 
X-ray tubes. They must be forwarded to 20 
Hanover Square, London, so that they arrive 
not later than May Ist of the present year. 
SomE of the specimens in the Virchow collec- 
tion in the Pathological Museum of the Univer 
sity of Berlin were destroyed by a fire on Jan- 
uary 16th. 
In the House of Representatives, on Febru- 
ary 1st, Mr. Southard, of Ohio, chairman of 
the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Meas- 
ures, asked unanimous consent to consider a 
bill to establish a national standardizing bureau. 
After some discussion it was agreed that the 
bill should be made a continuing order after 
the disposal of the bill to promote efficiency of 
the revenue cutter service. 
TuE New York State Medical Society, meet- 
ing at Albany, has passed the following resolu- 
tion : 
Whereas, Believing that the citizens of the State 
of New York, and liberal-minded men everywhere, 
are to be congratulated upon the establishment of 
the Pathological Institute of the New York State 
Hospitals, an institution founded for the investiga- 
SCIENCE. 
[N.S. Von. XIII. No. 319. 
tion of the problems connected with insanity and 
related diseases and unique in the annals of medi- 
cine for the greatness of its opportunities, a.d most 
strongly recommending that the work of investiga- 
tion for which the Institute was founded be sus- 
tained along its present lines of organization and 
principles of research ; ~ 
Therefore be it resolved, That we, the members of 
the Medical Society of the State of New York, 
respectfully request his Excellency the Governor 
to sustain the Pathological Institute of the New 
York State Hospitals; that we beg him to give 
his support to its growth and development; to 
protect it against further difficulties, and that we 
submit to his attention protests against the sub- 
version of the work of the Pathological Institute 
along the lines laid out by the director, the work 
being upheld by a wide movement of the medical 
profession and prominent scientific men of this coun- 
try and of Europe. ; 
THE Forest, Fish and Game Commission bill — 
introduced into the New York Legislature to 
carry out the Governor’s recommendation, and 
abolishing the Fish and Game Commission, and 
turning its powers over to the Forest Preserve 
Board, was reported favorably in the Senate, 
amended so as to abolish the Forest Preserve 
Board, and substitute for the present Forest, 
Fish and Game Commission, a commission of 
three similar to the proposed new Prison Com- 
mission. One member of the commission will 
receive a salary which has been fixed at $5,000. 
The other two will be selected from among the 
‘constitutional State officers, one of whom, it is 
agreed, will be Lieut.-Govy. Woodruff. 
At the monthly general meeting of the Zoo- 
logical Society of London on January 18th, it was 
stated that there had been 211 additions made 
to the society’s menagerie during the month of 
December, amongst which special attention 
was directed to seven specimens of Verreaux’s 
guinea fowl (Guttera edouardi), presented by 
J. F. Walker, of Bulawayo; and to a valuable 
series of Indian birds lately presented to the 
society by Mr. E. W. Harper, F.Z.S., of Cal- 
cutta, consisting of examples of 20 species all 
new to the Society’s collection. It was further 
stated that during the past month 20,931 persons 
had visited the Society’s gardens, showing an in- 
crease of 6,605 as compared with the corre- 
sponding period of 1899. 
