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from 200 to 300 in which elephantiasis is 
alleged not to exist, while there are other is- 
lands, equally small in population, where al- 
most every individual is affected. 
THE Princeton Alumni Weekly states that 
another geological expedition to the far West is 
projected for next summer, for the purpose of 
adding to the very valuable collections already 
in ‘the university museums, a large part of 
which have been gathered by this means during 
the last twenty-five years. Ten or a dozen 
upper classmen are expected to compose the 
party, besides Dr. M. S. Farr, ’92, the new 
curator of vertebrate paleontology, who will be 
in command, since Professor W. B. Scott, ’77, 
who has led so many of these expeditions, ex- 
pects to be in South America next summer. 
Southern Montana will be the principal field of 
exploration, though, after two months of re- 
search, the party will have a pleasure trip of 
two or three weeks in the Yellowstone National 
Park. Dr. Farr expects to go out to Montana 
about the middle of May to make the arrange- 
ments, the other members of the party follow- 
ing after commencement. 
THE American Physical Society will hold its 
next meeting in New York City, on April 27th. 
The program committee is Professors J. S. 
Ames, M. J. Pupin and Ernest Merritt. 
THE Secretary of the National Educational 
Association, Mr. Erwin Shepard, has sent out 
a notice stating that the arrangements for the 
fortieth annual convention at Detroit next July 
are progressing satisfactorily. The hotels have 
agreed not to advance their rates and accom- 
modations for ten thousand teachers are being 
secured in private houses. The official pro- 
gram will be issued on May Ist. 
THE eighteenth annual meeting of the Amer- 
ican Climatological Association will be held at 
Niagara Falls on May 30th and 31st and June 
1st. The program includes a special discussion 
on the home treatment of tuberculosis. 
THE Congrés des Sociétés Savantes held last 
week its annual conference at Nancy. Various 
geological and archeological explorations have 
been arranged to follow the Congress. 
THE inaugural meeting of a society for the 
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study of psychology by experimental methods 
was held in London on April 16th. 
THe Anatomical Society of Great Britain 
and Ireland will hold its summer meeting at 
Leeds on July 5th and 6th. 
THE spring meeting of the Iron and Steel 
Institute of Great Britain will be held on Wed- 
nesday and Thursday, May 8th and 9th, at the 
Institution of Civil Engineers, London. The 
retiring president, Sir William Roberts-Austen, 
will introduce the president-elect, Mr. William 
Whitwell, who will deliver an inaugural address. 
The Bessemer Gold Medal for 1901 will be pre- 
sented to Mr. J. E. Stead. The autumn meet- 
ing of the Institute will be held in Glasgow on 
September 3d and following days. 
THE U.S. Fish Commission will make an elab- 
orate exhibit at the Buffalo Exposition, and this 
is now being arranged by Mr. W. de C. Ravenel, 
assistant in charge of the division of Fish Cul- 
ture. There are to be fifty tanks containing 
fresh and salt water fishes shown as nearly as 
possible in their natural surroundings. Hatch- 
eries will be in operation throughout the entire 
summer. There will also be a full exhibit of 
methods of fishing and of the products of fish- 
eries, including the secondary products, such 
as oil, shells, skins, ete. 
WE learn from the British Medical Journal 
that the Institute of Tropical Medicine estab- 
lished by the Senate of Hamburg, with the 
support of the German Empire, will shortly be 
in working order. It is housed in the Old Sea- 
men’s Hospital, Hamburg. The director of 
the Institute is Dr. Nocht, formerly port med- 
ical officer of Hamburg. He did admirable 
service to Hamburg in the cholera epidemic of 
1892. He was formerly a surgeon in the Ger- 
man army, and afterwards worked under Pro- 
fessor Koch in the Institute of Hygiene at 
Berlin. Dr. Nocht has made original researches 
on the parasitology of malaria. He will have 
as his assistant in his new office Dr. Ollwig, 
who accompanied Professor Koch in his tropical 
expedition. 
A MUSEUM of ethnology has been established 
at the University at Breslau, through the efforts 
of Dr. Thilénius, professor of anthropology and 
ethnolog®. 
