FEBRUARY 22, 1901.] 
properties of iron and its alloys, with a view 
specially to the determination of the conditions 
for low hysteresis and non-agency ; the testing 
of steam gauges, indicator springs and the 
like, for which a mercury pressure gauge will 
be provided ; standard screw-gauges; electrical 
standards, and optical, thermometric and pho- 
tographic tests, 
WE learn from the London Times that, by his 
will, Mr. Philip Crowley, F.L.S., F.Z.S., of 
Croydon, who died on December 20th last, and 
whose collections of birds’ eggs and of exotic 
butterflies are among the largest known to 
exist, bequeathed to the Trustees of the British 
Museum, from his natural history collections, 
whether of eges or insects or other objects, all 
up to four species, and of eggs, if in clutches, 
four clutches, and if there should be more than 
four specimens in his collection to allow them 
to take half the extra, and should any species 
be useful or interesting by reason of variety or 
locality to allow them to take the whole serie§ 
if they should think fit so to do—his idea being 
that what was really useful and wanted they 
might have, but that they should not take 
simple duplicates. 
PENNSYLVANIA is a good second to New York 
in the forestry movement. Already it has se- 
cured 150,000 acres for its State forestry reser- 
vations. It will probably have 500,000 acres 
before the year ends, and looks forward to the 
acquisition of 1,500,000 or 2,000,000 acres. Its 
State College is now preparing to begin teaching 
practical forestry, and a bill has just passed the 
second reading in the House of Representatives 
which provides for the creation of a State De- 
partment of Forestry which shall be of equal 
importance with any other department of the 
Government. For years a campaign of educa- 
tion has been conducted in that State on very 
liberal lines, and itis largely to this that the 
popularity of forestry in Pennsylvania is due. 
SANITARY science has scored two points of 
advantage during the month of January in two 
decisions of the New York Supreme Court, 
which make the pollution of streams by munic- 
ipal corporations and private concerns action- 
able. Judge Houghton in General Term has 
granted an injunction! against the city of 
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Gloversvill for discharging its sewage into th 
Cayadutta creek, a tributary of Mohawk river. 
The Appellate Division has also affirmed the 
decision of Judge Stover in General Term, 
granting an indemnity against the Geo. West 
Paper Co., of Ballston, N. Y., for the pollution 
of the Kayaderosseras creek, a tributary of the 
Hudson Both suits were brought by 
private riparian owners, the former in spite 
of a bill passed by the New York Legislature of 
1900, giving the city of Gloversvill the right of 
disposal now denied it by the Court. 
river. 
A LAW has recently been passed which per- 
mits the French Government to forbid the 
manufacture and sale of absinthe and certain 
other fabricated articles of drink, recognized 
and declared to be dangerous by the Academy 
of Medicine. The Chamber has now voted to 
request the Academy to indicate those drinks 
which contain substances dangerous to the pub- 
lic health, so that their manufacture and sale 
may be prohibited. 
THE Right Honorable R. W. Hanbury 
M.P., President of the Board of Agriculture, 
has appointed a committee for the purpose of 
conducting experimental investigations with 
regard to the communicability of glanders under 
certain conditions, and as to the arresting and 
curative powers, if any, of mallein when re- 
peatedly administered. The committee will con- 
sist of Mr. A. C. Cope, chief veterinary officer 
of the Board of Agriculture (chairman) ; Pro- 
fessor J. McFadyean, principal of the Royal 
Veterinary College; Mr. William Hunting, one 
of the veterinary inspectors of the London 
County Council; Mr. J. McIntosh McCall, 
assistant;veterinary officer of the Board of Ag- 
riculture; Mr. H. A. Berry, of the Board of 
Agriculture, will act as the secretary to the 
committee. 
BEFORE the Pan-American Medical Congress, 
which met recently at Havana, the board 
which has been engaged in the investigation of 
yellow fever, consisting of Drs. Reed, Carroll 
and Agramonte, made a report. According to 
despatches to the daily papers, it was stated 
that two of the main conclusions were that the 
specific cause of the disease is unknown, and that 
it can be carried only by mosquitoes. Conse 
