January 17, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Messrs C. P. Bowditch, F. W. Putnam and 

 Franz Boas. 



Dr. J. B. Mattison^ of Brooklyn, has offered 

 a prize of $400 for the best paper on the sub- 

 ject: 'Does the Habitual Subdermic Use of 

 Morphine cause Organic Disease? If so, 

 What V The contest will be open for two years 

 from December 1, 1901, to any physician in 

 any language. 



The Senate Committee on Commerce has 

 reported a bill creating a department of com- 

 merce. It makes the secretary of commerce a 

 member of the Cabinet and transfers to the 

 new department the following bureaus: Life 

 Saving Service, Lighthouse Board, Light- 

 house Service, Marine Hospital Service, 

 Steamboat Inspection Service, Bureau of 

 Navigation and United States Shipping Com- 

 missioners, Bureau of Immigration, Bureau of 

 Statistics, the United States Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, the Commission of Rail- 

 roads, the Census Office, the Patent Office, the 

 Department of Labor, Commission of Fish 

 and Fisheries and the Bureau of Foreign Com- 

 merce of the State Department. A Bureau of 

 Manufactures and a Bureau of Mines and 

 Mining are to be established in the new de- 

 partment. 



The Association for Promotion of Scientific 

 Eesearch by "Women announces that applica- 

 tions should be received before March 1 for 

 the American Woman's Table at the Zoological 

 Station at Naples and for the Investigators' 

 Table at the Marine Biological Laboratory at 

 Wood's Holl. Further information may be 

 obtained from the secretary, Miss Cornelia M. 

 Clapp, Mount Hadley College, Mass. 



The thirty-sixth annual winter course of 

 Sheffield Lectures in the Sheffield Scientific 

 School of Tale University has been announced. 

 The following are the subjects and lec- 

 turers : 



January 17 — 'The Future of South Africa': 

 Mr. John Hats Hammond. 



January 24 — ' The Mosquito Story ' : Dr. L. O. 

 Howard. 



January 31 — 'Animal Intelligence': Professor 

 L. B. Mendel. 



February 7 — ' Engineering Feats in Bridge Con- 

 struction': Frank W. Skinner, C.E. 



February 14 — ' Through the First Antarctic 

 Night': Dr. F. A. Cook. 



February 21 — 'The Life History of a Lake': 

 Professor H. E. Gregory. 



February 28 — ' The Water Resources of the 

 Country, and their Importance to the Commu- 

 nity': Mr. F. H. Newell. 



March 7 — ' The Wild Bird at Arm's Length ; 

 new methods in the Study and Photography of 

 Birds ' : Professor F. H. Herrick. 



March 14 — ■' Some Eeoent Doings in Astron- 

 omy ' : Dr. F. L. Chase. 



March 21 — ' Niagara Falls, in Relation to So- 

 cial and Economic Problems ' : Professor W. H. 

 Brewer. 



The Harben Lectures of the Royal Institute 

 of Public Health were given in King's College, 

 London, on January 13, 14 and 15, by Dr. Mas 

 Gruber, professor of hygiene, and director of 

 the hygienic institute in the University of 

 Vienna. The subject of the lectures was the 

 'Anti-bodies of the Blood.' 



In the new Budget for the German Im- 

 perial Home Office, a sum of 12,000 Marks is 

 allocated for the institution of researches on 

 protozoa and one of 150,000 Marks for the 

 prosecution of researches on tuberculosis and 

 the means of preventing its spread. 



A COMMITTEE has been appointed to con- 

 sider the question of making the museum at 

 Cardiff a national museum for Wales. 



At a recent meeting of the Archeological 

 Section of the Wisconsin Natural History So- 

 ciety, a committee was appointed to investi- 

 gate the feasibility of preserving a small 

 group of three dome-shaped mounds located 

 in the city of Wankesha. 



The British Medical Journal states that 

 according to a custom, which is doubtless less 

 out of place in Spain than it would be else- 

 where, the Royal Academy of Medicine of 

 Madi'id recently attended in a body a solemn 

 mass for the repose of the souls of deceased 

 members, of Spanish physicians and surgeons 

 whose work had reflected luster on their coun- 

 try, and of benefactors of the Academy. 



Over 200 persons have already enrolled for 

 membership in the proposed American Elec- 

 tro-Chemical Society. The first meeting for 

 definite organization and reading of papers 



