Decembeb 27, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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April 18 — " Some Preventable Diseases of the 

 Skin," by Dr. Charles J. White. 



April 19— "The Relation of Animal Life to 

 Human Diseases," by Dr. Theobald Smith. 



April 25—" The Cocaine Evil," by Dr. Charles 

 Harrington. 



April 26—" Tumors," by Dr. William T. Coun- 

 cilman. 



Professor Erasmjjs Haworth, professor of 

 geology in the University of Kansas, was 

 elected president of the Kansas Academy of 

 Sciences at its annual meeting held at Em- 

 poria on November 29 and 30. The academy 

 will meet next year at Topeka. 



Professor Arthur W. Goodspeed, professor 

 of physics in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 is giving a series of lectures on scientific sub- 

 jects in middle western cities. 



Professor John Craig, professor of horti- 

 culture at Cornell University, has been granted 

 a leave of absence, and will spend several 

 months in Europe. 



The Yale Alumni Weekly states that the 

 senior class of the Forest School this year, as 

 in the past four years, will spend the spring- 

 term in practical field work on a large tract 

 of forest land. The classes of 1904 and 1905 

 were at Milford, Pa.; the class of 1906 was at 

 Waterville, N. H., on the land of the Inter- 

 national Paper Company, and last year the 

 seniors spent three months in the Ozark 

 Mountains near Grandin, Mo., on the J. B. 

 White Lumber Company tract. The forest 

 map and estimates which the class of 1907 

 made for this company proved so valuable that 

 this year several lumber companies have ap- 

 plied to Professor Graves to have the senior 

 class come and camp on their land. From 

 among these offers the tract of the Caul Lujoi- 

 ber Company in Coosa County, central Ala- 

 bama, has been chosen as the location of the 

 camp for the spring of 1908. This region is 

 midway between the coastal plains and the 

 mountains, in a rolling country where the 

 forests of long-leaf pine and many other trees 

 make a delightful field for forestry work. The 

 students wiU live in a camp located at an 

 elevation of about 800 feet above the sea, 25 

 miles from Hollins, Ala., and near a spur of 



the logging railroad. The work will be sim- 

 ilar to that done last spring, including the 

 making of a topographic map of the whole 

 tract and estimating and describing all the 

 stands of timber. There will also be abundant 

 opportunity to study in detail methods of log- 

 ging and railroad construction, and an inter- 

 esting part of the work will be to devise a 

 practical plan by which the tract can be man- 

 aged with financial profit in such a way that 

 reproduction of the most valuable species of 

 trees can be secured, the young timber pro- 

 tected from fire, and a future yield attained. 

 Part of the term will be spent in the mill and 

 lumber yards at the town of Hollins, Ala., 

 where the senior foresters will be instructed 

 in saw-mill operations, grading and handling 

 lumber and office management. 



The London Times notes that till within 

 the last few years the African elephant was 

 represented in British museums by very few 

 specimens of small size. Of these the most 

 noted was perhaps that sent home to Saffron 

 Walden in the thirties of the nineteenth cen- 

 tury by John Dunn, and mounted in ama- 

 teur fashion by local naturalists. This was 

 brought up to the Great Exhibition of 1851, 

 and used to display the magnificent howdah 

 and trappings presented to Queen Victoria by 

 some Indian princes. Recently, however, 

 matters have changed for the better. In ful- 

 filment of a commission, Mr. Rowland Ward 

 obtained and mounted the very fine Rhodesian 

 animal, standing nearly 11 feet 6 inches high, 

 and without doubt the largest museum speci- 

 men in existence, for the British Museum 

 (Natural History), where it forms the most 

 striking object in the Great Hall. The same 

 naturalist has just forwarded to the Royal 

 Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, an equally fine 

 specimen, a little under that measurement, 

 the tape giving 11 feet 3 inches, and it has 

 already proved a great attraction, the attend- 

 ance having increased considerably since it 

 has been on view. Both these elephants were 

 obtained by Englishmen expressly for museum 

 purposes. With regard to the question of 

 height it may be noted that both exceed that 

 of the famous Jumbo, and probably approach 



