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SCIENCE 



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ciety of Chicago on the " Mesa Verde Na- 

 tional Park." It was a geographic study of 

 the home of the cliff dwellers. 



A RECENT meeting of the New York Acad- 

 emy of Medicine was devoted to addresses 

 com m emorative of the life and work of Dr. 

 Edward G. Janeway. Dr. Francis Delafield 

 spoke of him as the " Physician " ; Dr. Wil- 

 liam H. Welch as the "Pathologist"; Dr. 

 Abraham Jacobi as the " Consultant," and Dr. 

 Joseph D. Bryant as the " Colleague and 

 Friend." 



At the coming meeting of the Medical and 

 Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, portraits 

 will be presented of the late Dr. Francis Don- 

 aldson by Dr. William H. Welch and of Dr. 

 Charles M. Ellis, Elkton, by Dr. Lewellys F. 

 Barker. 



English journals announce the death of Mr. 

 Charles du Bois Larbalestier, a leading au- 

 thority on lichens, to whom the last edition of 

 Leighton's " Lichen Flora " was dedicated ; 

 and of Mr. J. S. Slater, for many years prin- 

 cipal of the Civil Engineering College, Sibpur, 

 near Calcutta. 



The United States Civil Service Commis- 

 sion announces an examination to fill four 

 vacancies in the position of forest pathologist 

 in the office of Investigations in Forest Pa- 

 thology, Bureau of Plant Industry, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, at a salary of $1,800 to 

 $2,400 per annxim. It is expected that the per- 

 sons appointed to these positions will be as- 

 signed for the greater part of the time to 

 duty outside Washington, in charge of branch 

 offices. Applicants will be required to show 

 that they have had a broad scientific training, 

 as well as considerable successful experience 

 in technical or executive capacities. It is also 

 desirable that they have training in plant _ 

 pathology and botany equivalent to , that re- 

 quired for the Ph.D. degree. The examination 

 is open only to men, and competitors are not 

 required to appear at any place for examina- 

 tion. 



Beginning on July 5 and continuing during 

 the months of July and August, the facilities 

 of the Seed Laboratory of the Bureau of Plant 



Industry, TJ. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C, will be available, as far as 

 space permits to any one wishing to become 

 familiar with the practical methods of seed 

 testing. There will be an opportunity to ob- 

 serve the laboratory methods of testing for 

 germination and mechanical purity, including 

 the recognition of crop seeds and the com- 

 moner weed seeds. 



The British Medical Journal states that 

 the first meeting of the International Com- 

 mittee of the seventeenth International Med- 

 ical Congress would be held in London on April 

 21 and 22. The president of the committee is 

 Dr. Pavy; the general secretary, Dr. Burger, 

 of Amsterdam, and the members are Pro- 

 fessors Waldeyer and Posner, representing 

 Germany; Genaro Sisto, Argentina; von 

 Eiselsberg, Austria; Dejace, Belgium; Eous- 

 seff, Bulgaria; Eovsing, Denmark; Euffer, 

 Egypt; Eecasens, Spain; Musser, United 

 States; Blondel, France; Kalliontzis, Greece; 

 Koloman Miiller, Hungary; Maragliano, 

 Italy; Kitasato, Japan; Fonck, Luxemburg; 

 Uchermann, Norway ; Pel, the Netherlands ; de 

 Mattos, Portugal; von Ott, Eussia; Subbotic, 

 Servia; Henschel, Sweden; Cerenville, Switz- 

 erland. In addition to these, the following are 

 members of the committee : Dr. von Grosz, of 

 Budapest, as general secretary of the previous 

 congress; Sir Thomas Barlow and Dr. W. P. 

 Herringham, of London, as president and gen- 

 eral secretary respectively of the forthcoming 

 congress, and Dr. Lucas-Championniere, of 

 Paris, as president of the International Med- 

 ical Press Association. The committee will 

 have brought before it for approval the reso- 

 lutions passed by sections of the sixteenth 

 congress. It will also consider the date of the 

 eighteenth congress, arrange the number and 

 nature of the sections, and discuss a general 

 regulation as to the organization of the con- 

 gress and its position in regard to interna- 

 tional specialist and national congresses. In 

 this connection the general secretary of the 

 committee, Professor Burger, will present a 

 report on a series of proposals made by Pro- 

 fessors Waldeyer and Posner. We understand 

 that a proposition will be made to the com- 



