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The Paris correspondent of the Journal of 

 tlie American Medical Association reports 

 that the Societe frangaise d'eugenique, will 

 organize, at the beginning of the school year, 

 a series of lecture courses in eugenics at the 

 Ecole des hautes etudes sociales. M. Edmond 

 Perier, director of the Museum d'histoire 

 natureUe, will show the relations which exist 

 between eugenics and biology; Dr. Apert, 

 physician at the Andral Hospital, will discuss 

 the questions of heredity related to those of 

 eugenics ; Dr. Papillault, professor of sociology 

 at the Ecole d' anthropologic, wiU show how, 

 thanks to eugenics, a well-defined selection 

 may be made; Dr. Pinard, former professor of 

 clinical obstetrics at the Faculte de medecine 

 de Paris, will study eugenics and child-culture ; 

 Dr. "Weiss, professor at the Faculte de mede- 

 cine de Paris, will discuss eugenics in its rela- 

 tion to physical culture; Dr. Sehreiber, head 

 of the clinic affiliated with the Faculte de 

 medecine de Paris, will show how one ought 

 to understand eugenics from the point of view 

 of marriage; Dr. Eoussy, director of scien- 

 tific research at the Ecole des hautes etudes, 

 will study eugenics and the perfecting of the 

 human race. 



The TJ. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey has 

 published " Eesults of Observations made at 

 the Magnetic Observatory near Tucson, Ariz., 

 iu 1911 and 1912." This publication contains 

 hourly values of the magnetic declination, hori- 

 zontal intensity and vertical intensity for the 

 two years, based on the continuous photo- 

 graphic record of the magnetograph. It fur- 

 nishes the means of correcting field magnetic 

 observations for the effect of the diurnal varia- 

 tion and magnetic storms, and adds to the data 

 available for a study of the causes of these and 

 other fluctuations to which the earth's magnet- 

 ism is subject. It contains also a table giving 

 the times at which earthquakes were recorded 

 by the seismograph at the observatory. This 

 publication is the second one of the Tucson 

 series, the work of that observatory having 

 been started in November, 1909, and may be 

 obtained free of charge by addressing the Divi- 

 sion of Publications, Department of Commerce. 

 Similar series of publications are available for 



the other magnetic observatories of the Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey as follows: Cheltenham, 

 Md., 1901-1912; Baldwin, Kans., 1901-1909; 

 Honolulu, T. H., 1902-1912; Sitka, Alaska, 

 1902-1912; Vieques, Porto Eico, 1903-1912. 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 annual general meeting of the Lister Institute 

 of Preventive Medicine was held at the insti- 

 tute, Chelsea Gardens, on May 13. Sir John 

 Eose Bradford, who last year succeeded Sir 

 Henry Eoscoe in the chairmanship of the gov- 

 erning body, presided. The report pointed out 

 that the institute had borne a share in several 

 collective inquiries of importance. Dr. Led- 

 ingham had continued to supervise the bac- 

 teriological examination of material from cases 

 diagnosed as typhoid fever or suspected ty- 

 phoid, and had drawn up a report — published 

 in the annual report of the medical officer to 

 the local government board — on the work done 

 by him in conjunction with Dr. Theodore 

 Thomson, of the local government board, in 

 making bacteriological examinations of ty- 

 phoid convalescents at intervals for several 

 months after discharge from the hospitals of 

 the metropolitan asylums board. An extensive 

 inquiry into the bacteriological and chemical 

 purity of dried milk, creams and foreign pas- 

 teurized milks had been undertaken for the 

 local government board by the bacteriological 

 and biochemical departments of the institute, 

 and over 3,000 samples of milk had been ex- 

 amined for tubercle bacilli for the London 

 county council and a large number for the 

 health departments of various boroughs. The 

 report also contained a reference to the eighth 

 report of the investigations into plague, car- 

 ried out under the auspices of the advisory 

 committee, consisting of representatives of the 

 institute, the India Office, and the Eoyal So- 

 ciety. Inquiries during the year had been 

 proceeding both in India and at the institute's 

 special isolated laboratories at Elstree. It is 

 added that by arrangement with the metropol- 

 itan asylums board the research pathologist of 

 that authority. Dr. Mair, has accommodation 

 at the institute. The accounts for the year 

 ending December 31, 1913, show an excess of 

 income over expenditure of £750 at Chelsea, 



