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of ankylostomiasis in the island. The in- 

 vestigation is to be conducted by Captain 

 Ashford, of the Military Hospital. 



Commander Thomas Aethue Hull, a recog- 

 nized authority on nautical surveying and 

 navigation, at one time superintendent of 

 charts in the British hydrographic department, 

 died on March 25 in his seventy-fifth year. 

 The death is also announced of Professor 

 Emile Laurent, the Belgian botanist. 



Ground has been broken at Cold Spring 

 Harbor, Long Island, for the new building 

 to be erected for the station of esperimental 

 evolution of the Carnegie Institution, of 

 which Professor Chas. B. Davenport is the 

 director. The structure will be 65 x 35 feet, 

 of brick covered with stucco, two and one half 

 stories high. It will take about two months 

 to complete the building. It will be located 

 in a field a short distance north of the state 

 fish hatchery buildings, and about an equal 

 distance south of the laboratory of the Brook- 

 lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



The decision of the American Society of 

 Civil Engineers not to join the other engineer- 

 ing organizations in accepting Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie's offer of a new building on Thirty- 

 ninth and Fortieth Streets, New York, has 

 been followed by the announcement that the 

 society had completed a real estate purchase 

 which will make possible the enlarging of its 

 clubhouse on Fifty-seventh Street to twice its 

 present size. The society has bought the lot 

 on the south side of Fifty-seventh Street, 140 

 feet east of Broadway, immediately adjoining 

 its building on the west. Plans will be pre- 

 pared immediately for extending the structure 

 over this lot, which has a frontage of 25 feet 

 and a depth of 114 feet. The exterior of the 

 new addition will be made to conform with 

 the present building. 



The Peary Arctic Club has been incor- 

 porated. The incorporators state they desire 

 to associate themselves together to promote 

 and maintain explorations in the Polar Sea, 

 headed by Lieutenant Peary, and to provide 

 funds for the same. 



The subject for the Sedgwick prize essay, 

 at Cambridge University, for the year 1906 is 

 ' The characters, geographical distribution. 



sources and mode of transport of the boulders 

 of the Cambridge district.' The essays must 

 be sent in to the Eegistrary on or before Oc- 

 tober 1, 1905. The prize is open to all gradu- 

 ates of the University of Cambridge who shall 

 have resided sixty days during the twelve 

 months preceding the day on or before which 

 the essays must be sent in. 



To inaugurate the opening of the Simplon 

 Tunnel an exposition will be held at Milan 

 from April to November, 1905. Special prizes 

 will be given for air navigation. It is to be 

 international, except for the fine arts, which 

 will be exclusively national. 



It is announced that an association of 

 English manufacturers has chartered the 

 steamer Lake Megantic, belonging to the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway Line, for a trip 

 around the world with an exhibition of British 

 goods and manufactures. She will leave Lon- 

 don April 27 and be fitted out with samples 

 of goods manufactured by the best British in- 

 dustrial firms. She will make her first call at 

 Halifax, and from here go to St. John's, New- 

 foundland, and afterwards to Canadian ports. 

 From Canada the exhibition will sail to the 

 West India Islands, thence to South Africa, 

 and thence to Bombay via Mauritius. From 

 Bombay, Colombo, Madras, Calcutta and Ran- 

 goon will be visited; then, sailing by Penang 

 through the Straits of Malacca, touching 

 Singapore, the exhibition will visit Hongkong, 

 Shanghai, Nagasaki and Yokohama, sailing 

 thence to Australia and New Zealand. Home- 

 ward, the vessel will call at Buenos Ayres, 

 Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro and West Africa. 



We learn from the London Times that the 

 International Marine Association, of which 

 the president is M. Charles Roixx, has issued 

 the program of its fourth congress, which is 

 to be held in Lisbon from May 22 to May 28. 

 Among the topics which are to be discussed 

 under the general head of oceanography and 

 hydrography are bathymetric charts and the 

 latest cruise of the Prince of Monaco's yacht. 

 The question of North Atlantic weather fore- 

 casts will be considered, as also the various 

 conventions for the unification of all matters 

 connected with navigation on the high seas 

 and the treatment of vessels in foreign ports. 



