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the medical faculty at Berlin for the essays in 

 competition for the royal prize is : ' Compara- 

 tive Research on the Histogenesis of the Heart 

 Musculature.' The subject for the city prize 

 essay is : ' Research on the Normal and the 

 Pathologic Anatomy of the Appendix.' 



Foreign journals state that the Australian 

 government has issued a proclamation pro- 

 hibiting the importation of the microbe of 

 hsemorrhagic septicaemia, by which it was pro- 

 posed to destroy the rabbit pest, except upon 

 the condition that the packages containing the 

 microbes be handed unopened to the state bac- 

 teriologist of New South Wales, and retained 

 by him unused until the minister gives per- 

 mission to use them. Under the Noxious 

 Microbes Act of 1900 of New South Wales it 

 will also be necessary for the state govern- 

 ment to pass a regulation sanctioning experi- 

 ments before anything can be done in the way 

 of rabbit extermination. In the meantime 

 only laboratory experiments will be carried on. 



A ROYAL commission has been appointed " to 

 inquire into the existing system of manage- 

 ment of the lights, buoys and beacons on the 

 coast of the United Kingdom by the three 

 general lighthouse authorities, and as to the 

 constitution and working of these authorities, 

 and to report what changes, if any, are desir- 

 able in the present arrangements." 



The American Institute of Social Service 

 will hold in New York City, in January next, 

 an exposition of devices for safeguarding the 

 lives and limbs of working men and women, 

 and for preventing accidents under the ordi- 

 nary conditions of life and labor to which the 

 general public is exposed. The interest of 

 manufacturers generally is solicited, as well 

 as that of organizations whose special func- 

 tion is to improve the conditions of labor, 

 and a widespread response is looked for to 

 this request for representation in the nature 

 of photographs, descriptive drawings, models, 

 and, as far as possible, the devices themselves 

 in actual operation. Following are sorae of 

 the groups of exhibits: Section 1. Models, 

 photographs and drawings of scaffolding, as 



well as the personal equipment of workers in 

 building trades. 2. Protective devices for 

 boilers, water gauges, signal apparatus, boiler 

 and pipe valves; also protective devices for 

 electrical machinery and acetylene apparatus. 



3. Protective devices for motors and power 

 transmitters, devices for turning on power and 

 shutting it off, belt connection, couplings, etc. 



4. Fire protection and the prevention of ex- 

 plosives. 5. First aid to the injured. 6. 

 Mining and quarrying; devices in use on 

 stone-crushing machinery, etc. Storing of 

 explosives. 7. Metal industry; safety devices 

 for metal-working machinery. 8. Textile in- 

 dustry: safety devices for looms, carding, etc. 

 9. Leather and paper industry: safety devices 

 for paper cutting, stamping and molding 

 machinery. 10. Safety appliances for ele- 

 vators and hoisting apparatus models. 11. 

 Food products: safety appliances for knead- 

 ing machines, rollers and cutters. 12. Per- 

 sonal equipment of workingmen: protective 

 spectacles, respirators, suits, etc. 13. Work- 

 ingmen's dwellings. 14 and 15. Housing: 

 models, plans, photographs. 16. Ventilation. 

 17. Models, photographs and plans of toilets, 

 dressing and living rooms, baths, etc. 18. 

 Cooking: demonstration in heating food; 

 models, plans, photographs. 19. Other social 

 betterment institutions; reports of labor de- 

 partments, industrial arbitration courts. 20. 

 Agricultural machinery: safety appliances on 

 same, demonstrated by models and views. 21. 

 Lumber industry: safety devices for band and 

 circular saws, planing machinery, etc., demon- 

 strated by models. 22. Models, photographs 

 and plans of workingmen's industrial better- 

 ment institutions of all kinds. Requests for 

 information regarding space should be made 

 to Dr. William H. Tolman, director, 287 

 Fourth Avenue, New York. 



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The new buildings of the Harvard Medical 

 School will be formally dedicated on Sep- 

 tember 25 and 26. On Tuesday afternoon 

 exercises will be held at the niew site, with 



