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There has been added to the Agassiz Mu- 

 seum, Harvard University, a valuable collec- 

 tion of Hav?aiian fishes, representing 140 spe- 

 cies, presented by Sherman F. Denton, of the 

 Bureau of Fisheries. 



Mr. J. Ogden Armour has offered to give 

 $5,000 annually, through the International 

 Live Stock Exposition, for scholarships to be 

 competed for by the state agricultural colleges 

 at the live stock exhibitions. 



The Middlemore prize of the British Med- 

 ical Association will be awarded in 1907 for 

 an essay on Ophthalmia Neonatorum. 



The twenty-fourth annual congress of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union will convene 

 in Washington, D. C, on Monday, November 

 12, at 8 P.M. The evening session will be de- 

 voted to the election of officers and the trans- 

 action of other routine business. The meet- 

 ings open to the public and devoted to the 

 reading and discussion of scientific papers will 

 be held in the lecture hall of the United States 

 National Museum, beginning on Tuesday, 

 November 13, at 11 a.m., and continuing for 

 three days. 



At the recent Stuttgart meeting of Ger- 

 man Men of Science and Physicians a So- 

 ciety of German Neurologists was organized. 



The German Astronomical Society met this 

 year at Jena, on September 11 and the fol- 

 lowing days, with an attendance of more than 

 sixty members. The meeting next year will 

 be in Vienna. 



The Experiment Station Record states that 

 the eighth International Congress of Agri- 

 culture will be held at Vienna, Austria, May 

 21-25, 1907. The previous congresses were 

 held at Paris, 1889; The Hague, 1891; Brus- 

 sels, 1895; Budapest, 1896; Lausanne, 1898; 

 Paris, 1900 and Eome, 1903. A pamphlet has 

 been issued giving the organization, regula- 

 tions and program of the forthcoming con- 

 gress. This contains the subjects for dis- 

 cussion of each of the eleven sections in which 

 the congress is to be divided. All reports 

 intended for the congress should be sent to the 

 executive conunittee before December 1, 1906. 

 Persons desirous of becoming members should 

 notify the executive committee and pay the 



membership fee of 20 kronen ($4) before 

 March 31, 1907. The secretary of the execu- 

 tive committee is Professor Josef Hausler, 

 Vienna, Austria, I. Schauflergasse 6. 



The French Geographical Society has or- 

 ganized a mission to West Africa to study 

 the sleeping sickness in the French Congo. 

 A central laboratory will be established in 

 Brazzeville. The sum of $40,000 has been 

 collected for this work. 



The magnetic survey yacht Galilee of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington returned 

 to San Diego, California, on October 20, 

 having successfully concluded under the com- 

 mand of Mr. W. J. Peters since March 2 a 

 cruise of 20,000 miles, embracing San Diego, 

 Fanning Island, Samoan Islands, Fiji Islands, 

 Marshall Islands, Guam, Yokohama and re- 

 turn to San Diego. The accident to the 

 Galilee at Yokohama, already noted in this 

 journal, proved not to be as seriovis as at first 

 appeared, so that the vessel was able to leave 

 Yokohama on September 6, the trip to San 

 Diego having been made in forty-four days, 

 or at an average rate of about 115 miles a 

 day. Mr. Peters' assistants were Messrs. J. 

 P. Ault and J. C. Pearson, magnetic observers, 

 and Dr. H. E. Martyn, surgeon and recorder. 

 The sailing master as in the cruise of 1905 

 was Captain J. T. Hayes. The two cruises 

 of 1905 and 1906 of this vessel have already 

 furnished sufficient data for the revision of 

 the present magnetic charts of the North Pa- 

 cific Ocean. In order to obtain some results 

 as soon as possible in the other oceans, it is 

 now proposed to send the vessel shortly on the 

 following cruise: San Diego, Valparaiso, Rio 

 Janeiro, Washington, D. C, and from thence 

 return to the Pacific Ocean by way of Cape 

 of Good Hope and the Philippines. 



The University of Colorado had two parties 

 in the field during the past summer, engaged 

 in the study of the geology and natural his- 

 tory of parts of the state. One, in charge of 

 Mr. Junius Henderson, the director of the 

 museum, traveled northeastward from Boulder 

 by wagon, covering a distance of about 400 

 miles. The country visited is the dry plain 

 region of northeastern Colorado. Valuable 



