July 12, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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In the ease of Uganda, Mr. Hesketh Bell, 

 his Majesty's Commissioner for the Protector- 

 ate, has prepared a scheme for dealing with 

 the scourge in his Protectorate. The main 

 features of the scheme are the deportation of 

 the population from the infected lake shore 

 and the segregation of the sick in a number 

 of large camps, where they can be treated by 

 atoxyl or other drugs which give hope for 

 success. 



TBE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF 

 ACADEMIES 

 The International Association of Acade- 

 mies, which met at Vienna at the end of 

 May, will hold its next meeting three years 

 hence in Home, under the auspices of the 

 Academia dei Lincei. We learn from the 

 London Times that among the decisions taken 

 was a resolution to codify the rules of pro- 

 cedure of the association. The issue of a 

 complete and authentic edition of the works 

 of Leibnitz was agreed upon, both the mathe- 

 matical and the philosophical departments of 

 the association recognizing its desirability. 

 Progress less marked was made in regard to 

 the interchange on loan of manuscripts be- 

 tween libraries, but the question was fully dis- 

 cussed and a small international committee 

 chosen to deal with it pending the next meet- 

 ing. 



Some advance was also made in regard to 

 the publication of the projected standard edi- 

 tion of the Mahabharata, while progress was 

 reported in the preparation of the Encyclo- 

 psedia of Islam, of which Professor de Goeje, 

 of Leyden, laid before the meeting the first 

 section in three languages — English, French 

 and German. General satisfaction was ex- 

 pressed by the delegates at Mr. John Morley's 

 action in granting, on behalf of the India 

 OfSce, £200 a year for the next ten years as a 

 contribution towards the cost of the work. 

 The Belgian government has announced its 

 intention of subsidizing the scheme for an in- 

 ternational bibliography of historical and 

 philosophical subjects, and it is hoped that 

 support will also be forthcoming from Eng- 

 land and America. The proposal that the 



association should choose an international 

 auxiliary language, such as Esperanto, for use 

 in the communications between members was 

 negatived by 12 votes to 8. France and Eng- 

 land voted with the majority. Austria ac- 

 cepted the principle of an auxiliary language, 

 but would have opposed the choice of Esper- 

 anto, on the ground that it is not a scientific 

 medium of communication. 



ADDRESS ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEDI- 

 CATION OF THE LINNJSAN BRIDGE'^ 



The recognition of the work of famous men 

 is one of the happiest duties of mankind. It 

 stimulates our endeavors and encourages us to 

 make efforts which we would probably not 

 make without their examples before us. 



To-day we do homage to a distinguished 

 man of science, and the unanimity with which 

 the scientific societies and institutions of the 

 City of New York join in this tribute is in 

 itself evidence of the value which is placed 

 upon his contributions to natural history. 



Science has made great progress during the 

 two centuries which have elapsed , since the 

 birth of Linnseus. Theories have in large 

 part given place to ascertained facts or have 

 been replaced by other theories based on more 

 accurate knowledge of natural objects and 

 of natural phenomena. The contributions of 

 science to the welfare, comfort, and happi- 

 ness of mankind have made present human 

 life widely diilerent from that of two hundred 

 years ago, and this amelioration of our condi- 

 tion, and the more general diffusion of knowl- 

 edge has been accompanied by a vast improve- 

 ment in morality. 



The ceremonies of to-day are worthy of 

 the great nattiralist whose birth they com- 

 memorate. Societies and institutions all over 

 the world join with us in honoring him, and 

 are represented here by delegates or have 

 transmitted documents expressing their ap- 

 preciation of his life and labors. The public 

 natural science institutions of New York have 

 come to take leading parts in the subjects 



' Delivered at the dedication to Linnoeus of the 

 Pelham Parkway Bridge over the Bronx River, 

 by Nathaniel Lord Britton, President of the New 

 York Academy of Sciences, May 23, 1907. 



