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April 22 — Dr. K. F. Meyer, "Tropical Hygiene 

 and Sanitation — Summary of the Present-day 

 Achievements. ' ' 



Professor Gross, editor of the Archiv fur 

 Kriminal-Anthropologie und Eriminalistih, 

 tas died in Graz at the age of sixty-seven 

 years. 



Nature quotes from the Journal of the Insti- 

 tution of Electrical Engineers for December 

 ■ 15, 1915, a report of a presentation of original 

 Faraday papers made to the institution by Mr. 

 D. J. Blaikley, whose wife is a niece of Fara- 

 day's. Her sister. Miss Jane Barnard, lived 

 for several years with Faraday and his wife as 

 a daughter of the house. She died in 1911, 

 and left these books and papers to Mr. Blaikley 

 to dispose of under certain conditions. They 

 include Faraday's journal of the continental 

 voyage which he undertook, at the age of 

 twenty-two, as an assistant to Sir Hujnphry 

 Davy — the voyage which. Professor Silvanus 

 Thompson said, in proposing the vote of 

 thanks to Mr. Blaikley, " transformed Faraday 

 from being little more than a bookbinder's 

 apprentice and laboratory assistant of a great 

 chemist, into a man who could speak and 

 think and work scientifically." 



A course of twelve lectures by the members 

 of the New York State Museum staS is being 

 given in the Education Building, Albany, as 

 follows : 



February 4. ' ' The State Museum : How to Use 

 It." John M. Clarke. 



February 11. "Diamonds." H. P. Whitlock. 

 February 18. "The Forests of New York 

 State." Homer D. House. 



February 25. "Lake Albany — Our Present 

 Abode." David H. Newland. 



March 3. "Man and Insects." E. P. Felt. 

 March 10. "How Minerals are Formed." H. 

 P. "Whitlock. 



March 17. "Mastodons and Elephants of New 

 York." Rudolf Euedemann. 



March 24. "The Empire State of Indian 

 Days. ' ' Arthur 0. Parker. 



March 31. "Harmonics and Cross Purposes in 

 the Insect World." F. T. Hartman. 



April 7. "Earthquakes of New York." David 

 H. Newland. 



April 14. ' ' Nature Monuments. ' ' John M. 

 Clarke. 



April 21. "Life of the Ancient Seas." Eudolf 

 Euedemann. 



At the Chemists' Club, N"ew York City, on 

 February 11, a symposium on " Electrochem- 

 ical War Supplies " was arranged by the 

 New York Section of the American Electro- 

 chemical Society jointly with the New York 

 Sections of the American Chemical Society 

 and the Society of Chemical Industry. Chlo- 

 rine, hydrogen and many other electrochem- 

 ical products which were a drug on the market 

 before the war have become valuable. New 

 electrochemical industries like that of metallic 

 magnesimn have been started. This whole 

 electrochemical development is of the utmost 

 importance to every chemist and engineer, and 

 to the American nation at large. The speakers 

 were : Lawrence Addicks, "Electrochemical War 

 Supplies"; W. S. Landis, "Air Saltpeter"; 

 E. D. Ardrey (TJ. S. Navy), "Hydrogen for 

 Military Purposes " ; Albert H. Hooker, " New 

 War Products " ; William M. Grosvenor, 

 "Magnesium"; G. Ornstein, "Liquid Chlo- 

 rine"; Geo. W. Sargent, "Electric Steel"; 

 W. E. Ingalls, " Electrolytic Zinc." Dr. L. H. 

 Baekeland, Dr. J. W. Eichards, Mr. W. L. 

 Saunders, Mr. E. A. Sperry, Mr. B. B. Thayer, 

 and other engineers consented to be present 

 and express their views. 



The Society of American Foresters, at its 

 annual meeting, held in Washington, on Janu- 

 ary 22, adopted a resolution endorsing the 

 present federal migratory bird laws. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the demonstration train of 

 the State Board of Health started on its initial 

 trip, January 10. The train consists of three 

 Pullman cars, the first of which is used as an 

 office with sleeping and dining accommodation 

 for the demonstrators. The second contains 

 the dynamo, sleeping quarters for the train 

 crew, and various models such as the illustra- 

 tion of the Imhoff tank sewage disposal sys- 

 tem ; contamination of water in driven or open 

 wells from polluted or service water; a mod- 

 ern dairy; proper feeding and clothing of 

 babies; open-air treatment of tuberculosis and 

 other similar questions of public health. In the 

 third car are displayed thirty-six panel posters 



