October 10, 1902.J 



SCIENCE. 



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November 22, ' The Fishes of Mexico — A Study 

 in Geographical Distribution,' Dr. S. E. Meek, 

 Assistant Curator, Department of Zoology, Field 

 Columbian Museum. 



November 29, ' The Navaho,' Mr. C. L. Owen, 

 Assistant Curator, Division of Archeology, Field 

 Columbian Museum. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that an Institute of Colonial Medicine has 

 recently been established in Paris, which is 

 open to foreign as well as to French medical 

 practitioners. Courses of theoretical instruc- 

 tion and laboratory demonstrations will be 

 given in the laboratories of the faculty of 

 medicine, while clinical teaching will be given 

 in the Hopital d'Auteuil. The scheme of in- 

 struction comprises a course on bacteriological 

 and hfematological technique given by Pro- 

 fessor Chantemesse ; one on parasitology by 

 Professor Blanchard; one on tropical surgery 

 by Professor Le Dentu; one on tropical oph- 

 thalmology by Professor de Lapersonne; one 

 on tropical pathology and hygiene by Pro- 

 fessor Wurtz; and one on tropical skin dis- 

 eases by Dr. Jeanselme. The director of the 

 institute is Professor Brouardel; the dean. 

 Professor Debove. 



It is stated in Nature that the following 

 rewards are offered by the government of 

 South Australia for the discovery and work- 

 ing within the state of a deposit or deposits 

 of marketable mineral manure — 500L if found 

 on crown lands; 250 L if found on freehold 

 lands. It is stipulated (1) that the deposit is 

 easily accessible and within a reasonable dis- 

 tance of a railway or seaport, and not within 

 twenty-five miles of any discovery on account 

 of which any bonus has been paid; (2) that 

 the deposit is suiEciently abinidant and is 

 available at a price which .will allow of it 

 being remuneratively iised for agricultural 

 purposes ; (3) that the product is of a good 

 marketable quality, averaging not less than 

 40 per cent, of phosphate of lime. In the 

 event of a phosphate of a lower average com- 

 position being discovered, it may be recom- 

 mended that a portion of the reward be paid. 

 Applications must reach the Minister for Agri- 

 culture, Adelaide, not later than December 

 31. 



The rapid progress which the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey is making in the topographic 

 survey of New York, conducted in coopera- 

 tion with the state, is indicated by a recent 

 report of this work by Mr. H. M. Wilson, 

 geographer in charge for the Geological Sur- 

 vey, to the Hon. E. A. Bond, state engineer 

 and surveyor. Eight parties were in the field, 

 engaged in the mapping of twenty difl'erent 

 sections or ' quadrangles.' Among the sec- 

 tions mapped in whole or in part were the 

 Hobart, Kingston, Gilboa, Orwell, Boonville, 

 Carthage, and Highmarket ciuadrangles, 

 .which were mapped under the supervision of 

 Topographer J. H. Jennings, with E. G. Ham- 

 ilton as chief assistant. Other quadrangles in 

 which topographic work was carried on were 

 the Nineveh, Greene, Richmond, Copake, and 

 Bainbridge, also the Wayland, Bethany, and 

 Chautauqua, the work being in charge, re- 

 spectively, of E. G. Hamilton, W. E. Harper, 

 C. C. Bassett, A. IT. Bumstead, A. C. Eoberts, 

 and Gilbert Young. On Long Island the 

 Setaulset quadrangle was partially completed 

 by G. H. Guerdrum, topographer, assisted by 

 G. S. Smith, topographer, and in the Adiron- 

 dacks work was done on the St. Regis, Saranac 

 Lake, and Long Lake quadrangles under 

 George H. Guerdrum and G. S. Smith, topog- 

 rai^hers, and W. R. Harper, T. F. Slaughter, 

 and J. M. Whitman, Jr., assistant topog- 

 raphers. The total result of the work of these 

 parties was the mapping of 452 square miles 

 and the running of 395 miles of spirit levels 

 and 460 miles of road traverse. In addition 

 to the above topographic work, three parties 

 under Professor A. H. Thompson, geographer, 

 and Messrs. E. L. McNair and Oscar Jones, 

 topographers, were engaged in primary trian- 

 gulation and traverse; they occupied eight 

 stations, erected sigiials, and ran 63 miles of 

 primary traverse. Topographic maps em- 

 bodying the results of this and subsequent 

 work of the season will be prepared during 

 the coming fall and made available as soon 

 as possible. 



M. DE FoNviELLE informs Nature that M. 

 Camille Pelletan, Minister of the French Ma- 

 rine and of the Colonies, has placed the Epee, 

 a torpedo destroyer, 306 tons, 62 men, at the 



