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section — chaii-man. Dr. Edward E. Baldwin, 

 Saranac Lake, N". Y.; secretary, Dr. Hugh M. 

 Kinghorn, Saranac Lake, JST. Y. Section on 

 surgical tuberculosis — chairman, Dr. W. W. 

 Keen, Philadelphia, Pa. ; secretary. Dr. Robert 

 G. LeConte, Philadelphia, Pa. Section on 

 tuberculosis in children — chairman. Dr. W. P. 

 Northrup, JSTew York; secretary, Dr„ Roland 

 G. Freeman, New York. 



The lectures on tuberculosis at the tubercu- 

 losis exposition, to be held in Philadelphia 

 from January 23 to Febniary 3, will be deliv- 

 ered by the following: January 23, Dr. Lawr- 

 ence F. Flick, ' The Sociological Importance 

 of Tuberculosis ' ; January 24, Dr. Leonard 

 Pearson, ' State Control of Tuberculosis ' ; 

 January 25, Dr. Charles Dudley, Altoona, 

 ' The Railroad in Tuberculosis ' ; January 26, 

 Dr. William B. Stanton, ' Tuberculosis in the 

 School ' ; January 27, Dr. Howard S. Anders, 

 ' Tuberculosis in the Store ' ; January 29, Dr. 

 Henry R. M. Landis, ' Tuberculosis in the 

 Workman'; January 30, Dr. Samuel McC. 

 Hamill, ' Tuberculosis in Children ' ; January 

 31, Dr. Thomas Darlington, New York City, 

 and Dr. W. M. Late Coplin, ' Municipal Con- 

 trol ' ; February 1, Dr. Charles J. Hatfield, 

 ' Address to Medical Students and Nurses ' ; 

 February 2, Drs. James C. Wilson and John 

 H. Musser, ' Address to Physicians,' and Feb- 

 ruary 3, Dr. M. P. Ravenel, ' Hospitals, Sana- 

 toria and Dispensaries.' Demonstrations on 

 pathology will be given from 2 to 6 p.m. daily. 



Me. E. H. Plumacher, the American consul 

 at Maracaibo, has written the following letter 

 to the assistant secretary of state, under date 

 of December 3. 



I should have reported sooner to you about the 

 different convulsions of mother earth in this 

 consular district during the month of November. 

 Excuse circumstances; I was not in a condition 

 to report upon such small affairs, as I had enough 

 to do to save my reputation. We had since the 

 tenth of November two slight ones here but heavy 

 felt in the Andes states. Then we had three 

 sharp convulsions of little duration coming from 

 the southeast. 



The days were cloudy and no wind but it was 

 very hot. In day time those shakings are taken 

 rather cooly, but when in night time such freaks 

 of nature occur and you hear the rafters creak 



and the tiles on your roof move and your bed 

 shakes it is not exactly pleasant. We had them 

 but. without much damage. The damage came 

 from an unexpected quarter. It began td rain 

 from 5 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. in such a style that it 

 seems as if tons of water were thrown upon the 

 country. I marked five and a half inches before 

 10 o'clock A.M. All our houses were floated, no 

 tile roof after the shaking could stand such a 

 flood. I intended to go to the city anyhow at 

 8:30 in the morning on horse-back to see to the 

 condition of the consular office in town, but it 

 was impossible; a stream of water six feet high 

 with the rapidity of lightning came down the 

 streets and I knew that was more than horse 

 could cross. There was no communication in 

 town that day, but next day I was at six o'clock 

 in the morning at the ofBce only to find three 

 inches of water in all the rooms, not come by 

 flooding but by leaking roofs; not much damage 

 was done in the office; we can with little expense 

 put everything in first class order. The damage 

 done to property by the water is great. For 

 ten years we had no rain sufficient to serve for 

 the agriculture, not speaking of the suffering 

 people, but now it came down in such an abun- 

 dance that the poor people can drink once more, 

 sweet fresh rain water. The cisterns are full, 

 everybody can now hope for a good crop and 

 there is water enough for the cattle in the plains 

 and plenty food for them in a short time. 



The Scottish Geographical Journal gives 

 the following details in regard to the plans 

 of the Mylius Erichsen expedition: The in- 

 •tention is to make a start about the middle 

 of June, 1906, on board the Denmark, the 

 party consisting of twenty-one persons, among 

 whom will be a zoologist, a painter, a doctor, 

 a botanist and a biologist. Seventy sledge- 

 dogs and some motor boats are to be taken. 

 The vessel is to be steered for the east coast 

 of Greenland, and it is hoped that a harbor 

 may be found in lat. 70°. From this harbor 

 an expedition consisting of twelve men with 

 sledges and dogs will start in March, 1907, 

 for the extreme north, where its members 

 hope to map part of the unknown coast of 

 eastern Greenland. This party is expected to 

 return in July, 1907, and if conditions are 

 favorable it is contemplated that another 

 party may be sent into the interior, or may 

 even attempt to cross the country from east 

 to west in a high latitude, say along the 70th 



