May 27, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The proposal has been made to erect in 

 Albany, N. Y., an institution, to cost $1,250,- 

 000. It is intended for a home for the Albany 

 Institute and Historical and Art Society, as 

 well as the research center of the newly organ- 

 ized society of engineers of eastern New York. 



The sixth International Zoological Congress 

 will, as has already been announced, be held 

 at Berne from August -14 to 19. The con- 

 gress will be invited to hold its next session 

 in the United. States. 



In connection with the mathematical con- 

 gress which wiU be held at Heidelberg from 

 August 8 to 13, there will be an exhibition of 

 the mathematical literature of the past ten 

 years, to which mathematicians are invited to 

 contribute. Further information may be ob- 

 tained from Dr. A. Gutzmer, University of 

 Jena. 



We take from the Medical News the follow- 

 ing facts in regard to the program of the 

 American Medical Association which meets 

 at Atlantic City from June 7 to 10. On 

 Tuesday evening, beside the Oration on Medi- 

 cine, the title of which is ' The Importance of 

 Pathologic Anatomy in Clinical Medicine,' by 

 Dr. George Dock, Ann Arbor, Mich., there will 

 be a symposium on research work in the 

 United States. Dr. J. S. Billings, New York, 

 will give an accoimt of the work being done 

 by the Carnegie Institution; Dr. L. Emmett 

 Holt, New York, will speak of the Rockefeller 

 Institute; Dr. Frank Billings, Chicago, of the 

 Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases; 

 Dr. Harold C. Ernst, Boston, concerning the 

 research work at Harvard, and Dr. Alfred 

 Stengel concerning the William Pepper Clin- 

 ical Laboratory. On Wednesday evening Dr. 

 W. J. Mayo, Eoehester, Minn., will deliver the 

 Oration on Surgery, entitled ' The Association 

 of Surgical Diseases in the Upper Abdomen.' 

 This will be followed by a symposium on ' The 

 Mutual Eolation and Duties of the Govern- 

 ment Medical Services and the Medical Pro- 

 fession.' Dr. Victor C. Vaughan will talk on 

 the subject ' What Can the Medical Depart- 

 ments of the Army, of the Navy, and of the 

 Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service 

 do for Medical Science?' Surgeon-Major 



William C. Borden, U. S. Army, will speak on 

 ' What Can the Medical Profession do for the 

 Army?' Surgeon 0. F. Stokes, U. S. Navy, 

 will speak for the Navy, and Surgeon-General 

 Walter Wyman will speak for the Public 

 Health and Marine-Hospital Service. On 

 Thursday evening the oration on State Medi- 

 cine will be delivered by Dr. Herman M. 

 Biggs, New York City, on ' Preventive Medi- 

 cine; its Achievements, Scope and Possibil- 

 ities.' Following this wiU be a symposium in 

 which Dr. William H. Welch, Baltimore, will 

 speak in ' The Bureau of Animal Industry; 

 its Service to Medical Science ' ; Dr. D. E. 

 Salmon, Washington, D. C, on ' The Service 

 of the Medical Profession to the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry,' and Dr. H. W. Wiley, 

 Washington, D. C, on ' The Bureau of Chem- 

 istry and Medical Science.' These evening 

 meetings will be held on Young's Pier, so 

 there will be ample room for the large num- 

 ber that will certainly attend them. 



According to Mr. George Otis Smith, of 

 the United States Geological Survey, who is 

 the author of a geologic folio on the Mount 

 Stuart (Washington) quadrangle, there is 

 likely to be an increase in the future in the 

 gold production of that area. Mining opera- 

 tions in that field have heretofore been in the 

 hands of people with limited capital, but dur- 

 ing the last five years the claims of the small 

 operators have been purchased by large com- 

 panies, and it is probable that the mines will 

 now be worked more steadily and more eco- 

 nomically. The three principal gold-mining 

 districts of central Washington are in this 

 quadrangle. The Peshastin placers were dis- 

 covered in 1860 and have been worked inter- 

 mittently ever since. The Swank placers have 

 been worked rather more steadily since their 

 discovery in 1868. Gold-bearing veins were 

 first located in the Peshastin district in 1873, 

 and in the Swank district in 1881. Copper 

 and silver occur with the gold in some of the 

 veins of the Negro Creek district. Many of 

 the ores are essentially copper ores, but 

 whether the bodies are extensive enough to 

 warrant their development has not yet been 

 determined. Nickel is also a metal frequently 



