September 11, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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osteopathy has been discovered to be a cure 

 for all acute infectious diseases." 



It is stated in Nature that at least two Eng- 

 lish expeditions to observe the total solar 

 eclipse of August 2, reached their destinations 

 and observed the eclipse under most favorable 

 weather conditions. The two parties were the 

 observers from the Royal Observatory, Green- 

 wich, consisting of Messrs. Jones and David- 

 son, and the expedition sent out by the joint 

 permanent eclipse committee of the Royal and 

 Royal Astronomical Societies, composed of 

 Fathers Cortie and O'Connor and Messrs. 

 Atkinson and Gibbs. The Greenwich party, 

 stationed at Minsk (Russia), observed the 

 eclipse under good conditions in a clear 

 sky, and photographs of both the corona and 

 chromosphere were secured. It is stated that 

 the form of the corona was of the intermedi- 

 ate type, i. e., of the square type, there being 

 no larger equatorial streamers or streamers in 

 the regions of the solar poles. The corona is 

 also stated to have been very bright. The 

 party under Father Cortie, S.J., took up their 

 position at Hernoesand in Sweden, and his 

 telegram to the Royal Astronomical Society 

 says, "Weather perfect. All operations suc- 

 cessful. Intermediate corona." 



There will be examinations on October 19 

 for admission to the grade of assistant surgeon 

 in the United States Public Health Service. 

 Candidates must be between 23 and 32 years 

 of age, graduates of a reputable medical col- 

 lege, and of good moral standing. The exami- 

 nations are: 1, physical; 2, oral; 3, written; 4 

 clinical. Successful candidates will be num- 

 bered according to their attainments on exami- 

 nation, and commissioned in the same order. 

 Assistant surgeons receive $2,000; passed as- 

 sistant surgeons, $2,400; surgeons, $3,000; 

 senior surgeons, $3,500, and assistant surgeon 

 generals, $4,000 a year. For invitation to ap- 

 pear before the board of examiners, application 

 should be made to the " Surgeon General, Pub- 

 lic Service, "Washington, D. C." 



A BRIEF report by Edgar T. Wherry describ- 

 ing a deposit of carnotite near Mauch Chunk, 

 Pa., is published as Bulletin 580-11 of the 

 United States Geological Survey. Carnotite is 



one of the radium-bearing metals and this de- 

 posit is believed to have been formed by pre- 

 cipitation from the ground water and can now 

 be seen in process of formation where water 

 trickles out through cracks in the rocks. The 

 deposit is of interest, but the present knowl- 

 edge regarding it is insufficient to warrant any 

 statement as to its workability. So far as is 

 now known the total area covered by the car- 

 notite-bearing lenses is very small, the observed 

 outcrops being confined to a strip but a few 

 hundred feet in extent. 



The Berlin correspondent of the Journal of 

 the American Medical Association reports that 

 more than a year ago, under German initiative, 

 an international health office was established 

 in Jerusalem under the direction of Miihlens, 

 the scientific assistant in the Hamburg Insti- 

 tute for Marine and Tropical Diseases. Ac- 

 cording to a recently published article of 

 Nocht, director of the Institute for Marine 

 and Tropical Diseases, the support of the in- 

 stitute at Jerusalem at present is shared in 

 common by the German Committee for the 

 Campaign against Malaria in Jerusalem; by 

 Nathan Strauss of New York, and by the 

 Society of Jewish Physicians and Scientists 

 for Sanitary Interests in Palestine. The Ger- 

 man committee supports the general depart- 

 ment for combating malaria, and its chairman 

 is at the same time the director of the insti- 

 tute. Nathan Strauss supports the hygienic 

 and bacteriologic department of which the 

 heads are Drs. Briinn and Goldberg. The 

 Society of Jewish Physicians and Scientists 

 has taken over the department for protection 

 against rabies, originated by a German com- 

 mittee, the director of which is Dr. Behan. 

 An accessory department for the prevention 

 of eye diseases (director, Dr. Feigenbaum) 

 has b^n added. 



The British War Office has issued to offi- 

 cers of the royal army medical corps the fol- 

 lowing memorandum on antityphoid inocula- 

 tions : 



1. There is no need to remind officers of 

 the Royal Army Medical Corps of the disas- 

 trous effects of typhoid in recent campaigns. 



2. It can hardly be hoped that improved 



