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aid Ross to laroceed to Ismailia next Septem- 

 ber, to start an organized campaign against 

 malaria, in consequence of an urgent request 

 from the president of the Suez Canal Com- 

 pany that the Liverpool School of Tropical 

 Medicine assist in a concerted effort to cope 

 with the prevalence of malaria. 



The Bisset Hawkins gold medal of the Royal 

 College of Physicians of London, conferred 

 triennually for advancing sanitai-y science, has 

 been awarded to Dr. W. H. Power, F.R.S., 

 principal medical oificer to the local govern- 

 ment board. 



Professor A. W. Evans, of Yale University, 

 and Mr. Percy Wilson, of the New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden, have returned from a tour of 

 exploration of the mountains of Porto Rico 

 carried out under the auspices of the New 

 York Botanical Garden. A large quantity of 

 valuable material, including living and pre- 

 served specimens, was secured. 



Mr. William C. Mills, curator and libra- 

 rian of the Ohio State Archeological Society, 

 is at present directing field explorations near 

 Chillicothe, Ohio. The party has completed 

 the exploration of the noted Baum village site 

 and is now exploring the Gairdner mound, 

 which is situated near the Cedar Banlv Works. 

 Many skeletons are being found and they are 

 close together. Bone implements and orna- 

 ments are also numerous. 



Dr. Frederick H. Baetjer, assistant resi- 

 dent physician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, 

 has been sent to Europe by that institution to 

 study for one year the x-ray treatment of can- 

 cer. 



Lieutenant Richard Strong, of the Army 

 Medical Corps, is studying the cholera bacillus 

 in the laboratories established by the Bureaii 

 of Insular Affairs in the Philippines. 



Dr. T. O. Jaggar, of Harvard University, 

 who has recently returned from investigating 

 " the volcanic eriiptions at Martiniqvie and St. 

 Vincent, has given a lecture on the subject at 

 Harvard University. 



Dr. J. F. Newsom, professor of mining in 

 Stanford University, goes to Europe in Sep- 

 tember and will return to his university work 



in January next. He expects to visit the prin- 

 cipal mining districts and mining schools of 

 Great Britain and the continent during his ab- 

 sence. 



Dr. Frederick Bedell, assistant professor 

 of physics in Cornell University, returns early 

 in September after a Sabbatical year in Eu- 

 rope. 



George F. Sever, adjunct professor of elec- 

 trical engineering at Columbia University, 

 has been appointed a consulting electrical 

 engineer in the New York City Department 

 of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. 



Professor D. J. Cunningham, F.R.S., will 

 give before the Anthropological Institute of 

 Great Britain and Ireland the third annual 

 Huxley memorial lecture on October 21, his 

 subject being ' Right-Handedness and Left- 

 Brainedness.' 



Dr. David Ferrier, F.R.S., will deliver the 

 Harveian oration before the College of Physi- 

 cians, London, on October 18. The Bradshaw 

 lecture will be delivered in November by Dr. 

 C. J. Cullingworth. Dr. A. S. F. Griinbaum 

 has been appointed Goulstonian lecturer and 

 Dr. T. R. Glynn Lumleian lecturer for 1903, 

 and Dr. J. R. Bradford the Croonian lecturer 

 for 1904. 



Those interested in hydrotherapeutics are 

 asked to contribute toward a monument to 

 Priessnitz, the father of hydrotherapy, to be 

 erected at Vienna. Contributions can be sent 

 to Professor Chrobak. 



Charles W. M. Black, assistant professor 

 of mathematics in the University of Oregon, 

 has died in La Grange, Oregon, of consump- 

 tion. He was on his way to Colorado, where 

 he hoped his health would be benefited. 



The death is also announced of Dr. Cesare 

 TarufE, professor of pathological anatomy at 

 Bologna. 



It is announced that Professor Joseph See- 

 gen proposes to offer a prize under the auspices 

 of the mathematical and natural science class 

 of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, in Vien- 

 na, for th best answer to the following ques- 

 tion, 'Is any part of the nitrogen of the albu- 

 minates which have undergone metabolism in 



