MARcH 29, 1901.] 
(1806-1871); Sir William Rowan Hamilton 
(1805-1865) ; George Boole (1815-1864) ; Arthur 
Cayley (1821-1895) ; William Kingdon Clifford 
(1845-1879). Those interested are invited to 
attend. Tickets of admission can be secured 
by addressing Professor C. L. Thornburg at the 
University. 
THE Newberry Research Fund from the in- 
come of funds raised by the Scientific Alliance, 
New York, has been increased by an addition 
of $50 by a gift of a friend of the Alliance. 
The award this year will amount to $100 by 
action of the Council of the Academy and will 
be made in geology or paleontology. Applica- 
tion should be sent immediately to Professor 
Henry F. Osborn, Columbia University, New 
York City. 
Tue following gentlemen have undertaken 
to be responsible for the indexing of the litera- 
ture of Great Britain and Ireland for the Inter- 
national Catalogue of Scientific Literature in 
the subjects named: Anatomy—Professor G. D. 
Thane, University College, London; General 
Biology—Professor E. A. Minchin, University 
College, London; Physiology (including Phar- 
macology)—Dr. W. A. Osborne, Physiological 
Laboratory, University College, London, or to 
Professor W. D. Halliburton, King’s College, 
London; Experimental Pathology—Dr. T. G. 
Brodie, Examination Hall, Victoria Embank- 
ment, London, W. ©. ; Bacteriology—Mr. S. G. 
Shattock, St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, 
London, S. E.; Experimental Psychology—Dr. W. 
H. R. Rivers, St. John’s College, Cambridge. 
THE International Association of Academies 
will hold a meeting in Paris on April 16th. 
Tue fifth Triennial International Congress of 
Physiologists will be held at Turin from Sep- 
tember 17th to 23rd in Professor Mosso’s lab- 
oratory. There will be an exhibition of appa- 
ratus from September 14th to 23rd. Americans 
proposing to attend the Congress can address 
Professor F. S. Lee, Columbia University, New 
York City. 
THE triennial convention of weather bureau 
officials will be held at Milwaukee, Wis., on 
August 27th to 29th. 
A CIVIL SERVICE examination will be held on 
April 23d and 24th for the positions of geologist 
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and assistant geologist in the Geological Survey 
for occasional service at a salary from $3 to $5 
per diem. 
ONE of the amendments to the Sundry Civil 
Appropriation Bill, passed by the fifty-sixth 
Congress, appropriated $35,000 for the erection 
of a laboratory for the investigation of infectious 
and contagious diseases and matters pertaining 
to the public health, under the direction of the 
surgeon-general. Five acres of land, on which 
is situated the Naval Museum of Hygiene, have 
been set apart for the building. 
THE California Legislature has appropriated 
$100,000 for the State Board of Health to be 
used for the suppression of the plague. The 
Legislature has also passed a most extraordinary 
bill making it a felony to publish, by writing or 
printing, that Asiatic cholera or bubonic plague 
exists within the State unless the fact has been 
determined by the State Board of Health and 
entered upon its minutes. The San Francisco 
papers have apparently been only too ready to 
suppress information in regard to the plague in 
that City, and the passage of a bill of this char- 
acter at the present time seems almost incredible. 
It has for a long time been known in med- 
ical circles that there have been cases of plague 
in the Chinese quarters in San Francisco, but 
the State authorities have denied their exist- 
ence and have attempted to suppress any in- 
formation in regard to the epidemic. It ap- 
pears that Secretary Gage appointed some time 
since, in spite of the protest of the Governor of 
California, a commission to investigate the mat- 
ter. This commission, consisting of Professor 
F. G. Novy, of the University of Michigan, 
Professor Simon Flexner, of the University of 
Pennsylvania and Professor L. F. Barker, of 
the University of Chicago, has made a thorough 
investigation and has presented a report which 
for the present has not been made public. In 
the meanwhile the Governor of California has 
sent a commission to Washington to protest 
against Federal interference, and has recom- 
mended a local investigation. It appears that 
the epidemic in San Francisco is but slight, but 
it will naturally be exaggerated by attempts to 
deny its existence for commercial reasons. 
GOVERNOR YVORHEES, of New Jersey, has 
