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they may choose. The association reserves 

 the right to withhold the award of the prize, 

 if the theses presented are not, in the judg- 

 ment of this board, of adequate merit to de- 

 serve the award. The board of examiners are : 

 Dr. William H. Howell, Johns Hopkins Med- 

 ical School; Dr. Theodore W. Eichards, Har- 

 vard University, and Dr. Albert A. Michelson, 

 Univei-sity of Chicago. The first prize was 

 awarded to Florence Sabin, B.S. Smith, '93, 

 M.D. Johns Hopkins University, '00, for a 

 thesis on " The Origin of the Lymphatic Sys- 

 tem." The second prize was awarded to 

 Nettie M. Stevens, B.A., M.A., Leland Stan- 

 ford University, '99, '00, Ph.D. Bryn Mawr, 

 '03, for a thesis on " A Study of the Germ 

 Cells of Aphis rosea and of Aphis mnotherm." 

 The third prize offered was not awarded. 



The German Kant Society offers prizes of 

 1,000 and 600 Marks for essays on " What are 

 the Real Advances made by Metaphysics in 

 Germany since the Time of Hegel and Her- 

 bart." 



The president of the German Colonial So- 

 ciety, Duke Johann Albrecht zn Mecklenburg, 

 announces that a prize of 6,000 Marks will be 

 awarded for a means by which cattle can be 

 protected against the bites of the tsetse flies 

 while they are being taken through infected 

 regions. 



The president of the British Local Govern- 

 ment Board has authorized for the current 

 year the following researches, in addition to 

 those already announced, under the grant 

 voted by' parliament in aid of scientific in- 

 vestigations concerning the causes and proc- 

 esses of disease: (1) Further studies by Drs. 

 Andrewes and Horder as to methods of in- 

 hibiting in the animal body the activities of 

 infection by certain cocci; (2) a study of the 

 various forms of pneumonia, especially in 

 children, by Mr. Foulerton; (3) a study of 

 acid-fast bacilli in butter by Dr. Nabarro; 

 (4) an investigation of the injurious, gases 

 evolved during artificial illumination by Dr. 

 J. Wade. 



On the occasion of the meeting of the gen- 

 eral board of the National Physical Labora- 

 tory, on March 20, a number of gentlemen 



traveled to Bushy-hoiise, at the invitation of 

 Lord Eayleigh, the chairman, to view the 

 laboratories. The whole of the premises were 

 thrown open to their inspection, and the vari- 

 ous appliances and the uses to which they are 

 being put were explained to them by Dr. 

 Glazebrook, the director, and other members 

 of the staff. 



Eeutee's Agency states that the second 

 International Sleeping Sickness Conference 

 has terminated without being able to agree on 

 the draft convention before it. The French 

 and Italian plenipotentiaries declared them- 

 selves unable to accept a proposal, made at 

 the last conference in June and then unan- 

 imously recommended, for the establishment 

 of a central bureau in London, and they pro- 

 posed that the work connected with sleeping 

 sickness should be taken over by the hygienic 

 bureau, which a conference held in Rome in 

 November last as a sequel to the Paris con- 

 ference of 1903 has proposed should be estab- 

 lished in Paris. This proposal the German 

 plenipotentiaries declined to accept, and they 

 strongly support the British plan for the es- 

 tablishment of a bureau in London. The 

 French plenipotentiaries were also unable to 

 agree to other parts of the draft convention, 

 and, although the majority of the powers rep- 

 resented supported these proposals, it was 

 found useless to proceed further in the ab- 

 sence of unanimity. 



According to an article in the London 

 Times, arrangements are now well advanced 

 for the Ninth International Geographical 

 Congress, which is to be held at Geneva dur- 

 ing the coming summer, from July 27 to 

 August 6. The congress meets only at inter- 

 vals of four or five years, and, as the last 

 place of assembly was in the United States, 

 it is nine years since the geographers of the 

 world came together in Europe — at Berlin in 

 1899. The last occasion on which the con- 

 gress met in Switzerland was at Berne in 

 1891. That Geneva should this year be the 

 place of meeting is peculiarly fitting, the 

 Geneva Geographical Society having been 

 founded just half a century ago. The repre- 

 sentative character of the congress is already 



