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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XL. No. 1036 



Kennedy Duncan, founder of the system of 

 industrial researeli in Pittsburgh, was a Ca- 

 nadian and a graduate of the University of 

 Toronto. The Dominion of Canada Eoyal 

 Co mmi ssion on Industrial Research visited 

 Pittsburgh about a year ago to study the in- 

 stitute. The report of the commission indi- 

 cated that work such as that done by the Mel- 

 lon Institute was as urgently needed in Can- 

 ada as in the United States. 



The surgeon general of the army announces 

 that preliminary examinations for appoint- 

 ment of first lieutenants in the Army Medical 

 Corps will be held on January 11, 1915, at 

 points to be hereafter designated. Full infor- 

 mation concerning these examinations can be 

 procured upon application to the " Surgeon 

 General, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C." 

 The essential requirements to secure an invi- 

 tation are that the applicant shall be a citizen 

 of the United States, shall be between 22 and 

 30 years of age, a graduate of a medical 

 school legally authorized to confer the degree 

 of doctor of medicine, shall be of good moral 

 character and habits, and shall have had at 

 least one year's hospital training as an in- 

 terne, after graduation. The examinations 

 will be held simultaneously throughout the 

 country at points where boards can be con- 

 vened. Due consideration will be given to lo- 

 calities from which applications are received, 

 in order to lessen the traveling expenses of 

 applicants as much as possible. In order to 

 perfect all necessary arrangements for the ex- 

 aminations, applications must be completed 

 and in possession of the adjutant general at 

 least three weeks before the date of examina- 

 tion. Early attention is therefore enjoined 

 upon all intending applicants. There are at 

 present twenty vacancies in the medical corps 

 of the army. 



A VALUABLE collection of ethnological speci- 

 mens has just been received by the University 

 of Pennsylvania Museum from Dr. William C. 

 Farabee, who is at the head of the university's 

 Amazon expedition. The specimens were col- 

 lected in the southern part of British Guiana 

 among the Carib and Arowak Indians and 

 other hitherto unknown tribes. They include 



clothing for men and women, made from the 

 feathers of the Macaw and other birds of rich 

 plumage, paintings of religious ceremonials, 

 on sticks, beadwork, bows and arrows, spears, 

 ha m mocks and domestic utensils. 



Miss Sue Watson, of Pittsburgh, artist of 

 the department of anatomy in the School of 

 Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, has been 

 appointed by Governor John K. Tener, to 

 make four panels, which will stand above the 

 main entrance of the Pennsylvania State 

 Building at the Pan-Pacific Exposition. This 

 is the second award that Miss Watson has re- 

 ceived for public work of this kind, the first 

 one having been the award for decorative work 

 on the new Schenley Theater. 



The Eoyal Photographic Society has, as we 

 learn from Nature, opened to the public a 

 house exhibition of photographs by Mr. Lewis 

 Balfour, " Bird Life on the Bass Rock." There 

 are upwards of one hundred of these pictures 

 showing the various sea birds and incidents 

 in their lives. 



A MOVEMENT has been set on foot in Holland 

 for a resumption of scientific exploration in 

 the Dutch East Indies, in the region between 

 Celebes and New Guinea, particularly in the 

 island of Ceram. At the end of last year the 

 matter was referred by the president of the 

 Royal Netherlands Geographical Society to the 

 Expedition Committee, which, after fully con- 

 sidering the question!, reported to the Council 

 of the Society in March, 1914. The committee, 

 which included various gentlemen who have 

 taken part in previous scientific research in 

 that region, enjoyed the cooperation of other 

 experts, and from a study of all existing in- 

 formation, drew up a statement on the present 

 state of our knowledge of the part of the 

 Archipelago between Celebes and New Guinea, 

 which is considered to offer an important field 

 for further research. This statement, together 

 with the report of the committee, is taken by 

 the Geographical Journal from the May num- 

 ber of the Tijdschrift of the Netherlands 

 Geographical Society. As regards the large 

 island of Ceram, it is pointed out that existing 

 knowledge of its topography is scanty, and, for 

 the interior of the eastern part, practically nil. 



