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tinguished representatives from Europe, South 

 America, Mexico and the United States.- We 

 hope to publish shortly a full account of the 

 proceedings. 



The International Congress on Tuberculosis 

 opened in Berlin on October 23 with about 

 one hundred delegates in attendance. Pro- 

 fessor Brouardel, of Paris, was chosen chair- 

 man. The press despatch quoted by us last 

 week that Dr. W. H. Welch was one of the 

 American delegates may have been correct as 

 far as the appointment is concerned, but Dr. 

 Welch has returned to Baltimore after deliver- 

 ing the Huxley lecture at London. 



The seventh International Congress of 

 Agriculture will be held at Home in the spring 

 of 1903. It will be divided into ten sections. 

 (1) Rural economy, agrarian and land credit, 

 cooperation, insurance, international commer- 

 cial relations. (2) Agronomy (application of 

 science to agriculture, amelioration of agricul- 

 ture and pasturing). (3) Agricultural in- 

 struction (schools, colleges, agricultural ex- 

 periment stations, etc.). (4) Economy of 

 farm animals and related industries (bees, 

 birds, silkworms, etc.). (5) Rural engineering 

 (construction, hydraulics, etc.). (6) Special 

 culture and related industries (fecula, oil, 

 sugar, fruit, vegetables, flowers, essences, etc.). 

 (7) Vegetable pathology, destruction of para- 

 sites, protection of useful animals (interna- 

 tional measures). (8) Forests (preservation, 

 replanting, etc.). (9) Water and pisiculture. 

 (10) Wine growing and making. This special 

 section will be considered as a continuation 

 of the International Congress of Wine Grow- 

 ers inaugurated in Paris in 1900. 



. The collection of the birds of Holland, 

 formed by Baron Snouckaert van Schauburg 

 and mounted by Tar Meer, the celebrated 

 Dutch taxidermist, has been purchased by the 

 Carnegie Museum. It numbers about eight 

 hundred specimens and contains nearly all the 

 species of Western Europe. Each species is 

 represented by both sexes in adult plumage, 

 and in many instances by the young also. 

 There are over three hundred species found in 

 the collection. The collection of the lepidop- 

 tera of Western Pennsylvania made by Mr. 



Henry Engel, of Pittsburgh, has also been 

 purchased by the museum. It contains nearly 

 twelve thousand specimens, representing ap- 

 proximately two thousand species. The speci- 

 mens are in beautiful condition. 



It is announced that the entomological col- 

 lection of the late John- Ackhurst, of Brook- 

 lyn, containing some 50,000 specimens, has 

 been purchased for the zoological department 

 of the University of Chicago. 



Miss Maey H. Tatnall has presented the 

 herbarium of her father, the late Edward Tat- 

 nall, to Colorado College. 



Me. John Morley has given the library of 

 the late Lord Acton to Cambridge University. 

 It will be remembered that this valuable his- 

 torical library of some 70;000 volumes was 

 purchased some time ago by Andrew Carnegie 

 from Lord Actori, .who was allowed to retain 

 it until his death. Upon Lord Acton's death 

 Mr. Carnegie gave the library unconditionally 

 to Mr. Morley. 



The expeditions sent by the Carnegie Mu- 

 seum to the fossil fields of the west report 

 unusual success during the past summer and 

 fall. Mr. W. H. Utterbach has succeeded in 

 recovering in Wyoming a nearly complete 

 skeleton of diplodocus in beautiful condition, 

 as such things go. The bones are free from 

 crushing and the matrix is of such a character 

 as to enable them to be easily freed from their 

 surroundings. Mr. O. A. Peterous and Mr. 

 C. W. Gilmore were very successful in their 

 labors in western Nebraska and eastern Wyo- 

 ming, where they made considerable collec- 

 tions of mammalian remains. Mr. Earl Doug- 

 las in Montana has had excellent success. 

 Some four or five weeks ago he reported that 

 he had already taken up fifty-eight skulls, ac- 

 companied by more or less complete skeletons, 

 representing the peculiar fauna of the deposits 

 in which he has been working. Mr. C. W. 

 Gilmore, who has been working in the Preeze- 

 out mountains of Wyoming, has collected a 

 large quantity of material representing the 

 carnivorous dinosaurs, hitherto lacking in the 

 collections at the Carnegie Institute. 



Mr. H. J. Eustace sends notice from the 

 New York Agricultural Experiment Station 



