JUNE 7, 1901.] 
retary to a scientific or technical bureau and 
include the handling of the general correspond- 
ence of the Bureau and the editing of bulletins 
and reports. The occupant of this position will 
also act as purchasing agent and have charge of 
the official records, apparatus and equipment, 
and will be executive officer of the Bureau. 
The examination will consist of the subjects 
mentioned below which will be weighted as fol- 
lows: 
1. Stenography and typewriting.............-.......+. 20 
2. Editing and proofreading (practical tests)....... 10 
3. Education and training.............cscsscesseseeeeeees 20 
4, General experience in editorial and executive 
OF bUSINESS CAPACILIES.............2cceceeeeeee cess eens 50 
The test in typewriting will comprise practical 
work in tabulating and copying and spacing. 
Some knowledge of stenography will be re- 
quired. Applicants for this position should 
possess a knowledge of elementary physics, 
chemistry and mathematics, such as prescribed 
in the general science course of any college or 
technical school. No person will be examined 
who has not had a liberal college education or 
its equivalent. From the eligibles resulting 
from this examination it is expected that cer- 
tification will be made to the position of secre- 
tary of the National Bureau of Standards, 
Treasury Department, at a salary of $2,000 per 
annum. 
A CIVIL service examination will be held on 
July 2d and 3d to fill the position of photog- 
rapher in the Division of Forestry, U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture, with a salary of $1,200. 
The examination ison photographic methods, 
and does not require a knowledge of botany or 
of forestry. 
Tue American Academy of Medicine and 
the American Medical Association are meeting 
at St. Paul during the present week. 
THE American Forestry Association will hold 
its meeting in affiliation with the American 
Association at Denver on August 27, 28 and 
29° 
THE Royal Geographical Society held its an- 
niversary meeting on May 20. Sir Clements 
Markham, the president, in his address, laid 
special stress on the British Antarctic Expedi- 
tion. He said that toward sending a special 
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ship in November, 1902, the sum of £5,500 had 
been subscribed toward the £15,000 required. 
The medals were conferred in accordance with 
{he announcements we have already made, Dr. 
A. Donaldson Smith being present to receive 
the patron’s medal. It was announced that the 
total number of fellows is 3,997, and the income 
last year was over £10,000. 
THE British Institution of Mechanical Engi- 
neers held its annual conversazione on May 
17. The annual meeting of the institution 
will be held at Barrow in Furness during the 
last week in July. 
Owing to an accident connected with the 
apparatus for adjusting the propeller, the steam- 
ship Discovery, of the British National Antarctic 
Expedition has been unable to leave Dundee for 
London at the time expected. 
ProFEssor H. H. GiIcGLioxi, of the Royal 
Zoological Museum, Florence, writes to Nature 
that on April 13th the second annual meeting 
of the Zoological Union of Italy concluded its 
work at Naples. This Union was formed at 
Pavia last year and in the following September 
it held its first general meeting at Bologna, 
which proved to be quite a success as to the 
work performed and the large attendance. It 
became evident that the Union, the scope of 
which, is to collect the scattered forces of stu- 
dents of zoology and to prepare the way 
for the foundation of a zoological journal 
worthy of Italian science, has responded to a 
wish generally felt in Italy. The Union now 
counts amongst its members nearly all the 
Italian professors of zoology and anatomy and 
many other students of those sciences. The 
meeting at Naples was even more numerous 
than that at Bologna, and many interesting 
communications were read. Bologna greeted 
the assembled zoologists with the memories of 
its old masters—Aldrovandi, Malpighi, Ales- 
sandrina and others; at Naples they were féted 
by that great center of zoological investigations, 
the Zoological Station, whose steam-launch, 
which bears the glorious name of Johannes Miil- 
ler, gave the visitors practical examples of pe- 
lagic trawling and dredging, as the war steamer 
Ercole bore them to Capri. Rome has been 
chosen for the third Congress, in 1902, ‘when,’ 
remarks Professor Giglioli, ‘we shall be proud 
