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SCIENCE. 



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with Yale TJniversity. At a recent meeting it 

 was voted that the academy was willing to 

 enter into an agreement with Yale. The gist 

 ot the proposed agreement is that the univer- 

 sity will pay to the academy the sum of $1,500 

 annually toward defraying the expenses of 

 publishing the ' Transactions,' which will here- 

 after be issued under the title of 'Publica- 

 tions of Yale University.' The academy, on 

 its part, will endeavor to increase its member- 

 ship, and agrees to give adequate representa- 

 tion on its board of officers to the various de- 

 partments of study in the university that may 

 wish to avail themselves of the opportunity to 

 publish scientific and literary papers. 



The American Public Health Association 

 at its thirty-fourth annual meeting held this 

 month in Mexico City, passed the following 

 resolutions : 



Whereas, A correct registration of births, mar- 

 riages and deaths is necessary to indicate not 

 only the natural increase of population, but also 

 the measure of the health conditions and the 

 effectiveness of sanitary operations in any 

 country. 



Whereas, With the increase in numbers, 

 wealth and age of the populations of the several 

 states and provinces, the necessity for evidence 

 of births, marriages and deaths in cases of wills, 

 pensions, insurance, crimes, etc., becomes daily of 

 increasing urgency. 



Whereas, Comparisons of the health conditions 

 of different coimtries and districts and climates 

 is only possible through the existence and study 

 of such records. 



Whereas, International comity and treaty 

 stipulations not infrequently involve agreements 

 touching the transmission of records relating to 

 the births, marriages or deaths of individuals 

 traveling or residing in foreign countries; and 



Whereas, Such registration is imperfect or 

 wholly wanting in some of the states of the 

 countries registered in this Association, therefore, 

 be it 



Resolved, That ..ae secretary of this association 

 be instructed to transmit a copy of this resolution 

 to the governors and boards of health of such 

 states and provinces urging the desirability of 

 effective legislation on this subject. 



Whereas, The American Public Health Asso- 

 ciation is of the opinion, and has heretofore so 

 expressed itself, that public health matters con- 

 fronting the four countries embraced in this asso- 

 ciation can only be adequately administered by 

 extending the powers and duties of their several 

 chief executive and administrative health officers, 

 and 



Whereas, This association believes that such 

 questions can only be satisfactorily dealt with by 



the establishment of a national department of 

 health with a cabinet minister at its head in each 

 country. 



Therefore, this association, with a view to 

 prosecute so desirable an end creates a committee 

 consisting of three members from each of the 

 four countries represented in the association and 

 to be nominated by the president, the first-named 

 member for each coimtry to be chairman of that 

 subcommittee and the chairman of the subcom- 

 mittee of the Tjnited States to be its general 

 chairman. This committee shall formulate what 

 in the opinion of the Association should be the 

 extent of the work, powers and duties of a na- 

 tional department of health and the subcommittee 

 of any of the four countries shall take any steps 

 deemed practicable by it to carry out the purpose 

 of this resolution, and to this end be empowered 

 to enlarge its committee as it may deem proper. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Columbia Univebsity and Barnard College 

 will receive $10,000 each under the will of 

 Mrs. Annie P. Burgess. Dr. Daniel M. Bur- 

 gess, her husband, will receive a life interest 

 in the residuary estate, which will ultimately 

 be divided into three equal parts, one of which 

 will go to Columbia University, one to Bar- 

 nard College, and the third to Hamilton 

 College. 



Plans have been drawn for the new bio- 

 logical and geological building of Amherst 

 College, made possible by a $75,000 gift from 

 Mr. Andrew Carnegie, and an equivalent 

 amount raised by alumni and friends. 



A class in general chemistry has been 

 opened for women at Evening High School 

 No. 73, on East Forty-sixth Street, between 

 Second and Third Avenues, New York City. 

 The class, which is conducted by Miss Rose 

 Levy, is open every week-day evening except 

 Friday and Saturday, from 7:30 to 9:30 

 o'clock, and is free to all who have had a 

 public school education. 



Mr. a. G. Tansley, M.A., of Trinity Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, assistant professor of botany 

 at University College, London, and editor of 

 the New Fhytologist, has been appointed lec- 

 turer in botany in succession to Mr. A. C. 

 Seward, who has succeeded the late Professor 

 Marshall Ward in the chair of botany. 



