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SCIENCE. 



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The agricultural appropriation bill, as in- 

 troduced in the House, carries an appropria- 

 tion of $5,115,570. Compared with the current 

 fiscal year the appropriations are as follows : 



Office of Secretary 

 Weather Bureau . . . 

 ABimal Industry. . . 

 Plant Industry .... 



Forestry 



Chemistry 



Soils 



Entomology 



Biology 



Accounts 



Publications 



Experiment stations 

 Silk investigations. 



Increase. 



$2,020 



103,440 



93,150 



105,100 



97,428 



3V,400 



59,820 



21,000 



12,800 



5,200 



30,800 



3,000 



10,000 



Total increase 581,150 



The appropriations in recent years have been 

 as follows : 



For 1897-98 the appropriation was $3,182,902. 



For 1898-99 it was $3,509,202, an increase of 

 $326,300. 



For 1899-1900 it was $3,726,022, an increase of 

 $216,820. 



For 1900-1901 it was $4,023,500, an increase of 

 $297,478. 



For 1901-2 it was $4,582,420, an increase of 

 $558,920. 



Eighty-three thousand acres of forest land 

 have been purchased by the State Forestry 

 Commission in Central Pennsylvania. 



The 73d anniversary meeting of the Zoolog- 

 ical Society, of London, was held on April 29. 

 The report of the council for the past year was 

 read by Mr. P. L. Sclater, secretary. It stated 

 that the number of fellows on December 31 

 last was 3,338, an increase of 88 on the corre- 

 sponding period of the previous year and show- 

 ing a larger nmnber of fellows on the Society's 

 books than in any year since 1879. The income 

 of the Society during the past year has been 

 £29,350, showing an increase of £577 over that 

 of the previous year. The ordinary expendi- 

 ture for 1901 had amounted to £27,526, being 

 £1,187 more than the ordinary expenditure of 



1900. The extraordinary expenditure paid in 



1901, amounting to £4,530, had been devoted 

 entirely to new buildings and works. The 

 balance carried forward on December 31 last 



was £1,121. The number of animals living in 

 the Society's gardens on December 31 last was 

 2,922, of which 789 were mammals, 1,575 birds, 

 and 558 reptiles and batrachians. Amongst the 

 additions made during the past year ten mam- 

 mals, 58 birds, 21 reptiles, three batrachians, 

 and two fishes were registered as new to the 

 collection. The Earl of Crawford, Mr. E. Du 

 Cane Godman, Dr. A. Giinther, Sir Harry 

 Johnston, and Mr. E. Lort Phillips were 

 elected into the council in the place of the re- 

 tiring members. The Duke of Bedford was 

 reelected president, Mr. Charles Drummond 

 treasurer, and Mr. Sclater secretary of the 

 Society for the ensuing year. 



A physiographic Conference will meet at 

 the State Normal School, Westfield, Mass., 

 Saturday morning. May 17, at ten o'clock. 

 The subject to be discussed at the forenoon 

 session will be 'Laboratory Work on Features 

 of the Land for High and Normal Schools.' 

 The discussion will be opened by Professor 

 Richard E. Dodge, of the Teachers College, 

 Columbia University, Miss Mary L Piatt, of 

 the Brookline High School, and Mr. William 

 H. Snyder, of the Worcester Academy. In the 

 afternoon. Professor William Morris Davis, of 

 Harvard University, will conduct the members 

 of the conference over the Westfield terraces. 



Professor Frederick Starr, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, has issued a series of type por- 

 traits of South Mexican Indians. The series 

 includes sixty platinum photographs, which 

 represent thirty subjects, front and profile 

 views being given of each. Twenty-three men 

 and seven women make up the series. There 

 is one man from each of the tribes that Pro- 

 fessor Starr has visited. The portraits are 

 simple heads, and are of actual size of life. 

 Only fifty sets, are to be issued. 



According to cablegrams to the daily papers. 

 Professor Behring has published a book in Ber- 

 lin proving that the bacilli of human and 

 bovine tuberculosis are identical, the seeming 

 differences between them resulting from the 

 capacity of the bacilli to accommodate them- 

 selves to the organism in which they live. 

 The writer says he has successfully infected 

 cattle with virus from human beings, produ- 



