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lectured before the Chemical Society of 

 Washington and Lee University on January 

 13, his subject being " Some of the less Ob- 

 vious Advantages of Chemical Study." Dr. 

 J. W. Mallet, of the University of Virginia, 

 is to lecture before the society on Febru- 

 ary 17. 



Professor George T. Moore recently gave 

 a series of lectures before the Washington 

 University Association on " What goes on in 

 the Ground." 



With a greatly increased equipment the 

 new laboratory of St. Luke's Hospital, New 

 York, has recently been opened. Some 

 changes have been made also in the personnel 

 of the laboratory staff, which now includes 

 Dr. Francis C. Wood, director; Dr. Karl M. 

 Vogel, clinical pathologist; Dr. J. Gardner 

 Hopkins, bacteriologist; Dr. William H. Wog- 

 lom, pathologist; Dr. George C. Freeborn, as- 

 sistant in pathology, and Dr. N. B. Foster and 

 Dr. H. O. Mosenthal, assistants in chemistry. 



The New York Zoological Park has received 

 from Mr. E. B. Bronson, from Quito, Ecuador, 

 a fine specimen of the Spectacled Bear 

 (Ursus ornatus), captured in the Andes of 

 Ecuador. Excepting the ^luropus, of eastern 

 Tibet, this is the rarest bear species either 

 alive in zoological gardens or in museums. 

 The specimen is temporarily exhibited in one 

 of the large cages of the small mammal 

 house, where it will remain until the new 

 series of bear dens now under contract and in 

 the course of erection is completed, which will 

 be about June first. 



Twenty-three cases of zoological material 

 representing several hundred skins of birds 

 and mammals have been received by the 

 American Museum of Natural History as the 

 first shipment of specimens from the Stefans- 

 son- Anderson Arctic Expedition. 



At the last meeting of the Oregon Acad- 

 emy of Sciences a number of new members 

 were elected. The subject of the evening was 

 " The Single Tax," by C. H. Chapman, one of 

 the editors of the Oregonian. The meeting was 

 held early in the evening preceded by a dinner 

 which was attended by about sixty-five per- 



sons. It was decided to use this plan for a 

 part of the monthly meetings this year com- 

 bining social and scientific features. 



A GERMAN edition of " Light Waves and 

 their Uses," by Professor Albert A. Michel- 

 son, head of the department of physics of the 

 University of Chicago, has just been issued 

 by the publishing house of Johann Am- 

 brosius Barth in Leipzig. The translation 

 was made by Dr. Max Ikle. The lectures- 

 which constitute the book were originally de- 

 livered by Professor Michelson in the Lowell 

 Institute in 1899. The translator has added 

 a bibliography of writings bearing on this 

 subject published since 1880. 



We learn from Nature that the Agenda 

 Club, which was formally inaugurated by a 

 banquet recently, proposes to organize effort, 

 knowledge and influence for the purpose of 

 getting things done which need doing for the 

 benefit of the community. The movement first 

 acquired publicity through " An Open Letter 

 to English Gentlemen " in the Hibhert Jour- 

 nal. This letter, and the club itself, appeal 

 frankly to the idealism and the goodwill of 

 the best men; but an equally essential char- 

 acteristic of the club is to organize the 

 altruism of its members with at least as much 

 efficiency as that of the most successful mod- 

 ern business. The club expressly enunciates 

 its need of guidance by scientific men in de- 

 termining the agenda to be undertaken and 

 in many details of its work. It is a coordi- 

 nating society, and not one that overlaps the 

 work of other bodies devoted to special pur- 

 poses. Among other methods to be employed 

 is that of the most extensive publicity. It 

 contemplates the encouragement of research, 

 especially in social science, and its scheme in- 

 cludes groups of associates, among which are 

 mentioned engineering, literature, medicine 

 and science. 



The Berlin correspondent of the Journal of 

 the American Medical Association writes that 

 on October 26 the Berliner medizinische 

 Gesellschaft celebrated its semi-centennial. 

 The memorial meeting was of peculiar impor- 

 tance, as this society is not only the largest 

 medical association in Berlin, but also one of 



