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ology. The congress was tinder the auspices 

 of the German Anatomische Gesellschaft, 

 forming its twenty-first annual meeting. 

 Four vice-presidents were elected, who will 

 preside in turn at the annual meetings — Wal- 

 deyer, of Berlin; Ebner, of Vienna; Stohr, 

 of Wiirzburg, and Nicolas, of Nancy. Stohr 

 is Kolliker's successor at Wiirzburg, where his 

 assistants are Sehultze, Sobotta and Sommer. 

 They have at their disposal the remarkably 

 well-equipped Institute of Anatomy with its 

 unusual collections of specimens and works 

 on anatomy, the Wiirzburg faculty having 

 made rather a specialty of anatomy under 

 KoUiker's leadership. The Presse Medicate 

 for May 22 has a good report of the congress." 



The Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commis- 

 sion has set apart the days from September 

 18 to 26, 1909, as the time for the observances 

 in honor of the three hundredth anniversary 

 of the discovery of the Hudson by Henry 

 Hudson and the one hundredth anniversary 

 of Eobert Fulton's first practical application 

 of steam to navigation. The exercises will 

 include the dedication of the Eobert Fulton 

 memorial Watergate in Riverside Park and 

 various parks and memorials which it is hoped 

 will be erected along the river. 



The literature concerning the alcohol and 

 drug problems has grown to such extent in 

 pamphlets, books, papers and studies of every 

 description that it is impossible to keep in 

 touch with everything written on the subject. 

 Hence a society has been formed in Boston, 

 Mass., and incorporated by the laws of the 

 state, called The Scientific Temperance Fed- 

 eration. This society is a bureau for the col- 

 lection' of every pamphlet, book and paper 

 relating to any possible phase of this question. 

 These are to be put on file and tabulated so 

 as to be available for students and writers. 

 A trained specialist will he in charge to furnish 

 abstracts and data, or copies of the papers on 

 file. The society will charge a small member- 

 ship fee and will be endowed so that its work 

 will be permanent. Already a nucleus has 

 been made and the work begun. Dr. Crothers, 

 of Hartford, Conn., is chairman of the board 



of directors. Miss C. F. Stoddard, 23 Trull 

 St., Boston, Mass., is the secretary, to whom 

 all inquiries should be addressed. 



We learn from Nature that an exhibition 

 of engineering models, optical, electrical and 

 scientific instruments, technical education ap- 

 pliances, and tools, is to be held at the Royal 

 Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, West- 

 minster, S. W., on October 22-26. In addi- 

 tion to exhibits by leading makers, there will 

 be a loan collection of experimental and ex- 

 hibition models and apparatus, and also lec- 

 tures and demonstrations in various branches 

 of applied science. 



The annual conversazione of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society was held on June 14 at the 

 National History Museum, South Kensington. 

 Sir George Goldie, Miss Goldie and several 

 members of the council received the guests, 

 who numbered nearly 1,200. The okapi re- 

 cently obtained by Major Powell-Cotton from 

 the Ituri Forest, Equatorial Africa, was on 

 view, together with a special exhibition of 

 specimens, manuscripts and objects relating 

 to LinnsBus, arranged in celebration of the 

 bicentenary of Linnseus's birth. 



Dr. G. E. Mansfield, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, with a party of students expected to reach 

 Bozeman, Montana, on July 2, where they 

 will outfit with wagons and camp equipment 

 and start for the mountains, visiting first the 

 geological section of the Bridger Range, then 

 the intervening Cretaceous section to the base 

 of the Crazy Mountains, where they will join 

 Professor Wolff) who, assisted by Mr. H. E. 

 Merwin, assistant in mineralogy, is making 

 a revision of the geology of the mountains. 

 The two parties will spend three weeks in a 

 joint study of the eruptive rocks of the range, 

 and of the exposures in the canons of dikes, 

 sills and stocks ; the summer school party then 

 returning to Bozeman and disbanding. Dr. 

 Mansfield returning to the smaller party to 

 study the extinct glaciation of the range. 



The annual meeting of the Naples Table 

 Association for Promoting Laboratory Re- 

 search by Women held its annual meeting 

 April twentieth, at Mount Holyoke College, by 

 invitation of Miss Woolley on behalf of the 



