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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVI. No. 654 



CINDER CONE NATIONAL MONUMENT 



The President of the United States has is- 

 sued a proclamation as follows : 



" "Whereas, the elevation in the State of 

 California, within the Lassen Peak National 

 Forest, known as ' Cinder Cone,' and the ad- 

 jacent area embracing a lava field and Snag 

 Lake and Lake Bidwell, comprising chiefly 

 public lands, are of great scientific interest, as 

 illustrations of volcanic activity which are of 

 special importance in tracing the history of 

 the volcanic phenomena of that vicinity; 



" And whereas, it is provided by section two 

 of the act of congress, approved June eighth, 

 nineteen hundred and sis, entitled, ' An act 

 for the preservation of American antiquities,' 

 ' That the President of the United States is 

 hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare 

 by public proclamation historic landmarks, 

 historic and prehistoric structures, and other 

 objects of historic or scientific interest that 

 are situated upon the lands owned or con- 

 trolled by the government of the United States 

 to be national monuments, and may reserve as 

 a part thereof parcels of land, the limits of 

 which in all cases shall be confined to the 

 smallest area compatible with the proper care 

 and management of the objects to be pro- 

 tected ' ; 



"Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 

 President of the United States of America, 

 by virtue of the power in me vested by section 

 two of the aforesaid act of congress, do pro- 

 claim that there are hereby reserved from 

 appropriation and use of all kinds under all 

 of the public land laws, subject to all prior 

 valid adverse claims, and set apart as a na- 

 tional i^onument, aU the tracts of land, in the 

 State of California, shown as the Cinder Cone 

 National Monument on the diagram forming 

 a part hereof. 



" The reservation made by this proclama- 

 tion is not intended to prevent the use of the 

 lands for forest purposes under the proclama- 

 tion establishing the Lassen Peak National 

 Forest, but so far as the two reservations are 

 consistent they are equally effective. In all 

 respects in which they may be inconsistent the 



national monument hereby established shall be 

 the dominant reservation. 



" Warning is hereby given to all unauthor- 

 ized persons not to appropriate, injure or de- 

 stroy any feature of this national monument 

 or to locate or settle upon any of the lands 

 reserved by this proclamation." 



AN INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON 

 SLEEPING SICKNESS 



At the invitation of the Colonial Office, 

 Reuter's Agency reports, an important con- 

 ference of the various African colonies and 

 protectorates interested has been summoned 

 to discuss concerted international measures 

 for dealing with the terrible scourge of sleep- 

 ing sickness, a disease which has decimated 

 the natives in large areas of the Congo Free 

 State, has proved fatal in the case of 200,000 

 natives in Uganda, has invaded French Congo 

 and the Portuguese possessions, has appeared 

 in the Sudan, and is now threatening German 

 East Africa, Rhodesia and British Central 

 Africa. 



This conference met at the Foreign Ofiice 

 for the first time at the end of June, gov- 

 ernment delegates being present from Ger- 

 many, Congo Free State, France, Great 

 Britain, Portugal and the Sudan. 



The delegates are as follows : 



Germany — Herr von Jacobs, of the Imperial 

 Colonial Office, Dr. Ehrlich and Dr. Fulleborn. 



Congo Free State — Colonel Lantonnais, vice-gov- 

 ernor general. Commandant Tonneau, M. Rutten 

 and Dr. van Campenliout. 



France — Dr. Kermorgant, Dr. Paul Gouzion, 

 Professor Blanchard and Dr. Laveran. 



Great Britain — Lord Fitzmaurice, who has been 

 elected president. Sir W. Foster, Mr. A. W. 

 Clarke (Foreign Office), Mr. H. J. Read (Colonial 

 Office) and Sir Patrick Manson. 



Portugal — Dr. Correa Pinto. 



Sudan — Colonel Hunter and Dr. Balfour, of the 

 Gordon College, Khartum. 



The work before the conference includes the 

 question of the holding of regular conferences, 

 the establishment of a central bureau of in- 

 formation, and the assignment of definite 

 points for investigation to particular countries 

 or individuals. 



