Apeil 25, 1902.] 



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the Zoological Station at Naples and for pro- 

 moting scientific research by women offers a 

 prize of one thousand dollars for the best 

 thesis, written by a woman, on a scientific sub- 

 ject presented before December 31, 1902. A 

 second prize of one thousand dollars is now 

 announced by the same association. The 

 theses offered in competition are to embody 

 new observations and conclusions based on in- 

 dependent laboratory research in biological, 

 chemical or physical science, and are to be in 

 the hands of the chairman of the prize com- 

 mittee, Mrs. Ellen H. Kichards, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass., before 

 December 31, 1904. 



We regret to learn that the Mayor of San 

 Francisco has removed the Board of Health of 

 that city on the alleged ground that their 

 report of the presence of the bubonic plague in 

 that city was incorrect. 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 Congress of the Association of French and 

 Foreign Anatomists opened at Montpellier on 

 March 24, under the presidency of M. Saba- 

 tier, dean of the faculty of science. About 

 sixty delegates from various parts of France 

 and from Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Italy 

 and Germany took part in the proceedings. A 

 number of interesting papers were read. The 

 principal feature of the Congress seemed to be 

 a desire to establish a closer union between 

 anatomy and physiology, between the study of 

 the structure of an organ and its function. 



Aebangements have been made for a nature 

 study exhibition to be held at the gardens of 

 the Royal Botanic Society, London, on July 

 23 and following days. It will be open to 

 colleges and schools of every grade, and the 

 exhibits will include all that bears upon nature 

 study. Various technical institutions and 

 other ediicational authorities have arranged to 

 defray the cost of the conveyance to exhibits 

 from their respective areqs, and preliminary 

 exhibitions for the purpose of selecting the best 

 material to send are being organized. 



The valuable medical library of the late Pro- 

 fessor von Ziemssen, containing twenty-five 

 thousand boods and pamphlets, has been pur- 

 chased by the Leipzig bookseller, Gustav Fock. 



It would be an advantage if the library could 

 be secured for an American institution. 



A DESPATCH to the New York Herald from 

 Montevideo says that news has been received 

 from the Swedish Antarctic expedition under 

 Dr. Otto Nordensjold. The expedition has 

 disembarked at Snow Hill, Louis Philippe 

 Land, accompanied by the surgeon. Dr. Eklof, 

 the Argentine Lieutenant Sobral and two 

 sailors, one of whom was a member of the 

 Duke of Abruzzi's Arctic expedition. From 

 Cape Horn Dr. Nordenskjold's vessel, the 

 Antarctic, tried to sail directly south, but it 

 encountered too many icebergs, and there was 

 danger of the ship being imprisoned in the ice 

 for a long time. Dr. Nordensjold then de- 

 cided to change his course. His expedition 

 will remain at Snow Hill until next summer. 



M. Adeien de Gerlache, the Belgian navi- 

 gator whose expedition to the south Antarctic 

 five years ago will be remembered, is contem- 

 plating another voyage on a more extensive 

 scale. M. de Gerlache hopes to leave one of 

 the French ports in September of next year, 

 when a vessel will be fitted out at the expense 

 of a French capitalist. 



The auxiliary barque-rigged yacht, Morn- 

 ing, which is now being fitted out under the 

 direction of Sir Clements E. Markham, presi- 

 dent of the Eoyal Geographical Society, for 

 the Antarctic Belief Expedition, will sail un- 

 der the flag of the Eoyal Corinthian Yatch 

 Club, and will lie off the club-house at Port 

 Victoria until ready to start. 



The New York Botanical Garden announces 

 the spring lectures for 1902, to be delivered in 

 the Lecture Hall of the Museum Building of 

 the Garden, Bronx Park, on Saturday after- 

 noons, at 4:30 o'clock, as follows: 



April 19, ' The Maples and other Early-flower- 

 ing Trees ' : Cornelius Van Brunt. 



April 26, 'Plant Life of the Sea': Dr. Mar- 

 shall A. Ho'WE. 



May 3, ' Botanical Features of Porto Rieo ' : 

 Professor L. M. Underwood. 



May 10, ' Some Examples of Botany in its Re- 

 lation to Geology ' : Dr. Arthur Hollick. 



May 17, ' Wild Flowers, the Necessity for their 

 Preservation ' : Mr. Cornelius Van Brunt. 



May 24, ' The Cottons ' : Dr. H. H. Rusbt. 



