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equivalence of the various forms of sexual 

 psychopathies and criminality, to be intro- 

 duced by Professor C. Lombroso; (5) criminal 

 anthropology in police organization, to be in- 

 troduced by Professor Ottolenghi; (6) the 

 psychological value of evidence, to be intro- 

 duced by Dr. Brusa; (7) prophylaxis and 

 treatment of crime, to be introduced by Dr. 

 Ferri; (8) establishments for the perpetual 

 detention of criminals declared to be irre- 

 sponsible on account of mental defect, to be 

 introduced by Professor Garofalo. 



The New Haven correspondent of the N. Y. 

 Evening Post states that a collection of Cen- 

 tral American antiquities, the value of vphich 

 was not suspected, has just been brought to 

 light in the Peabody Museum and, when ar- 

 ranged, will be put on exhibition in the an- 

 thropological department. Beginning as early 

 as 1860, A. De Zeltner, French consul at 

 Panama, and Mr. J. E. McNeil, for many 

 years a resident of Panama, collected in that 

 province antiquities of the Chiriqui Indians, 

 who ranked next in culture to the Aztecs and 

 to the Peruvians under the Incas. The col- 

 lections, chiefly secured from prehistoric 

 graves, were brought down from the interior 

 on horses, but, as the result shows, with only 

 slight breakages. The late Professor O. C. 

 Marsh bought the collections from time to 

 time, and down to the year 1879, storing the 

 boxes away in a remote part of the museum 

 building, where they have remained unopened 

 for twenty-six years. 



Mr. Chaeles S. Spang, formerly of Pitts- 

 burg, who recently died in Paris, where he 

 spent the latter half of his long life, before 

 his death requested his heirs to turn over to 

 the Carnegie Museum his collection of 

 Etruscan pottery and Egyptian antiquities. 

 In accordance with his wish these collections 

 have come into the custody of the museum. 

 The collections were made nearly fifty years 

 ago by a gentleman whom Mr. Spang employed 

 to make excavations, and the specimens are 

 remarkably fine and such as could not well be 

 obtained to-day. 



Dr. Zambaco Pacha has devoted the sum of 

 10,000 francs towards the organization of a 



medical congress to be held every three years 

 at Athens. 



The liabilities of the Royal Botanical So- 

 ciety of London now exceed £30,000. It is 

 proposed to increase the dues from two to 

 three guineas. 



An Association of Municipal Engineers, 

 Architects and Hygienists of France, Bel- 

 gium and Switzerland held its first meeting 

 in Paris from November 22 to 25. 



The New York Academy of Medicine an- 

 nounces that the Edward N. Gibbs memorial 

 prize, of the value of $1,000, will be awarded 

 to the author of the best essay on ' The Etiol- 

 ogy, Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of 

 the Kidney.' Essays must be received on or 

 before January 1, 1907, by the recording sec- 

 retary at 17 West Forty-third Street, New 

 York City. 



The Senckenburg Natural History Society 

 at Frankfort offers a prize of 1,000 Marks for 

 a research on the paleontology of the region ■ 

 about Coblentz and Ems. 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 trustees of the Pilkington Cancer Research 

 Fund are about to appoint a graduate in 

 medicine, or other qualified person, to carry 

 out a research into the cause, prevention and 

 cure of cancer, under the supeiwision of the 

 professors of general pathology and of sys- 

 tematic surgery in the Victoria University of 

 Manchester (Professor Lorrain Smith and 

 Professor G. A. Wright). The appointment 

 will be for one year, but may be renewed for 

 a further period of one or two years, and the 

 holder of the post will receive an income of 

 £300 per annum with a grant for laboratory 

 expetises. 



According to Nature an archeological mu- 

 seum, which will devote special attention to 

 Indo-Chinese matters, has been established by 

 the French governraent at Pnompenh. The 

 museum will be under the scientific control of 

 the Ecole frangaise d'Extreme-Orient, the 

 chief of the archeological department of which 

 school will act as director of the new museum. 



According to the statistics collected by Mr. 

 Waldemar Lindgren for the U. S. Geological 



