No-raiMBEE 20, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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the war. They are Heinrich Hermelink, pro- 

 fessor of church history at Kiel; Ernst Heid- 

 rich, professor of art and history at Strass- 

 burg; Ernst Stadler, professor of German 

 philology at Strassburg, and Professor 

 Erincke, the head of the Hanover-Muenden 

 Forestry Academy. Dr. Julius Liebmann, as- 

 sistant in the Babelsberg Observatory, has 

 also been killed in the war. 



The Swedish-English Antarctic expedition, 

 headed by Dr. Otto Nordenskjold, will start in 

 September, 1915, and proceed to Graham Land. 

 The expedition will include twelve members. 

 The Swedish government has granted half the 

 expenses, while the other half wiU be sub- 

 scribed in England. This latter money has 

 nearly all been guaranteed. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that Surgeon Rudolph H. von 

 Ezdorf, U. S. Public Health Service, has com- 

 pleted a malarial survey of Virginia, and re- 

 ports that he has located breeding places of 

 the malarial mosquito and has taken steps 

 toward its eradication. The next step of 

 the work is the determination of how many 

 people are carrying malaria in their blood, 

 while the third part of the work is educational. 

 The State Board of Health proposes to do a 

 considerable amount of educational and eradi- 

 catory work during the year. 



Students in engineering schools are of- 

 fered an opportunity to compete for $1,000 in 

 prizes for essays on highway construction 

 offered by the Barber Asphalt Paving Com- 

 pany. 



Associate Professor J. Paul Goode, of the 

 department of geography at the University of 

 Chicago, has in preparation a series of maps 

 for colleges and schools, one of them being a 

 large wall map of South America. In the ma- 

 king of the last-named map, all available oiS- 

 cial source maps were used, and all the special 

 maps of recent exploration. But in a great 

 area between the Madeira and Tapajos rivers 

 it was necessary to put the legend "unex- 

 plored," until the results of Colonel Eoose- 

 vent's expedition down the " River of Doubt " 

 were published. This map of South America- 



with the location of the new river approved by 

 Colonel Roosevelt, is one of a series of eight- 

 een wall maps for use in colleges and schools 

 upon which Professor Goode has been at work 

 for some years and which is now nearing com- 

 pletion. There is a map of each continent, of 

 the United States, of the world on Mercator's 

 projection, and the world in hemispheres. 

 Each of these is presented as a physical map 

 and also as a political map. 



After a period of several years' inactivity 

 the Naturalist Field Club, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, is being reorganized by Dr. 

 Colton, of the zoological department. Officers 

 elected for the ensuing year are: President, 

 R. Holroyd; First Vice-president, Miss Len- 

 senig; Second Vice-president, S. Harberg; 

 Third Vice-president, A. Kolb; Fourth Vice- 

 president, Miss Richardson; Secretary, Miss 

 Jerdine; Treasurer, C. Keeley. The club was 

 organized with the special object of studying 

 natural history in the field. This was done by 

 taking field trips from time to time to dif- 

 ferent sections of the surrounding country. 

 Observations of birds, flowers, insects, trees 

 and geological formations were made. It is 

 planned to follow out the same plans in the 

 future, the only difference of the reorganized 

 club being in its officers. Formerly members 

 of the faculty held all positions, but in the fu- 

 ture the affairs of the club will be in the 

 hands of students. A room in the zoological 

 laboratory will be reserved for the club, and 

 a dark room for the purpose of developing 

 photographs has been arranged. 



The quarterly return of the Registrar- 

 General dealing with the births and deaths in 

 the second quarter of the year, and with the 

 marriages during the three months ending 

 March last, is abstracted in the British Medical 

 Journal. The annual marriage-rate during 

 that period was equal to 11.1 per 1,000 of the 

 population, and was 0.1 per 1,000 less than the 

 mean rate in the corresponding quarters of the 

 ten preceding years. The 226,013 births regis- 

 tered in England and Wales last quarter were 

 equal to an annual rate of 24.3 per 1,000 of the 

 population, estimated at 3Y,302,983 persona in 



