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the bill abolishing the Forest, Fish and Game 
Commission and the Forestry Preserve Board 
as now constituted—consolidating their de- 
partments and placing them under the charge 
of a State Forest, Fish and Game Commis- 
sioner. 
THE following bill regulating the practice of 
medicine has been favorably reported in the 
New York Assembly by the Committee on Pub- 
lic Health : 
Any person shall be regarded as practicing med- 
icine who shall for remuneration, charge, fee, gift, 
bonus or reward, directly or indirectly profess to 
heal, or who shall give treatment to any other per- 
son by the use of any means or method whatever, 
whether with or without the use of any medicine, 
drug, instrument, or other appliance, for the relief or 
cure of any wound, fracture, or bodily injury, infirm- 
ity, physical or mental, or other defects or diseases. 
This article is not to apply to any person giving 
treatment to another under the direction or upon the 
prescription of a physician, duly licensed by the laws 
of this State. Neither is it to prohibit the manufac- 
ture, sale, or use of patent medicines where no diag- 
nosis is made by the maker or seller ; or of the giving 
temporary relief in an emergency by a registered 
pharmacist or any person, or the domestic administra- 
tion of family remedies ; or any person in charge of or 
employed in any gymnasium from giving suggestions 
or advice as to form or methods of exercise, or any 
optician engaged in adapting glasses to the sight, or 
any rights of chiropodists under existing laws, or the 
manufacture or construction of optical instruments. 
THE subjects of the Walker prizes in Natural 
History awarded by the Boston Society of Nat- 
ural History areas follows: For 1901 : ‘Mono- 
graph on any problem connected with, or any 
group belonging to, the North American fauna 
or flora’; for 1902: (1) ‘Nuclear fusions in 
plants’; (2) ‘The fate of specific areas of the 
germ of chordates, as determined by local de- 
struction’; (3) ‘The reactions of organisms to 
solutions, considered from the standpoint of the 
chemical theory of dissociation.’ Further par- 
ticulars may be obtained from Mr. C. L. Batch- 
elder, secretary of the Society. 
PROFESSOR WILLIAM TRELEASE, director of 
the Missouri Botanical Garden, has sent out an 
announcement calling attention to the oppor- 
tunities offered by the Garden for original re- 
search. It calls attention to the fact that in 
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establishing and endowing the Garden, its 
founder, Henry Shaw, desired not only to afford 
the general public pleasure and information 
concerning decorative plants and their best use, 
and to provide for beginners the means of ob- 
taining good training in botany and horticulture, 
but also to provide facilities for advanced re- 
search in botany and cognate sciences. Persons 
who wish to make use of these are invited to 
correspond with the director, outlining with as 
much detail as possible the work they desire to 
do atthe Garden, and giving timely notice so 
that provision may be made for the study of 
special subjects. 
Dr. B. E. FERNOy, director of the New York 
State College of Forestry, announces that the 
spring courses for the junior and senior year 
students in the College Forest, at Axton, will 
begin on April 16th and continue until June 
13th. In addition to the practical forestry work 
in silviculture, forest mensuration, surveying, 
exploitation and forest regulation under the 
direction of Professers Roth and Gifford, the 
practical instruction in timber estimating, given ~ 
last year by Mr. Cyrus P. Whitney, will be 
repeated. A course of daily lectures on Fish 
Culture and Game Preservation, beginning 
April 29th, and lasting two weeks, with labora- 
tory work and field excursions, will be given by 
Professor Barton W. Evermann, ichthyologist 
of the U.S. Fish Commission. This course will 
be open to visitors, as far as accommodations 
may be found by them in Axton or in the 
neighborhood. 
WE have received the announcement of the 
twelfth season of the Biological Laboratory of 
the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences at 
Coldspring Harbor, L. I. The laboratory will 
be open for regular work from July 1st to Au- 
gust 24th, but investigators may make ar- 
rangements for a longer residence. A com- 
plete series of courses is offered by the Board of 
Instruction which is as follows: 
Professor C. B. Davenport, Ph.D., The University 
of Chicago, Director of the Laboratory ; D. S. John- 
son, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, in charge of 
Cryptogamic Botany ; Professor Henry S. Pratt, 
Ph. D., Haverford College, in charge of Comparative 
Anatomy ; Professor Nelson F. Davis, Se.M., Buck- 
nell University, in charge of Bacteriology ; Mrs. Ger- 
