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who know best what this has been feel that 

 the collection must be kept to be utilized as 

 long as it will serve its purpose. 



It was only in the last months of Pro- 

 fessor Whitman's life that facilities for ex- 

 periments and observation on a much larger 

 scale were secured through the efforts of 

 friends who put at his service the piece of 

 ground adjoining his residence. He at once 

 had built a large number of new cages; and 

 delighted with the prospect of the enlarged 

 opportunities declared that his real work he 

 was just about to begin and that " five years 

 will show." 



For these reasons and because Professor 

 Whitman's work became more illuminating 

 as he went on, his family and friends feel 

 that the opportunities so untimely left should 

 be extended to others who wish them. Quar- 

 ters are also given in the residence alongside 

 the nearly one thousand birds, and Dr. 

 Riddle, now at work with them, will cooperate 

 with the work of others, or assist, or direct, 

 as needed. 



The library, which is one of the largest and 

 most complete of biological libraries, is held 

 open for constant use. The volumes are very 

 extensively marked; pencil notes often bring- 

 ing together from all quarters the various 

 facts bearing on the subject under discussion. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The divisions of vertebrate and inverte- 

 brate paleontology and paleobotany in the 

 U. S. National Museum have been combined 

 into a new division of paleontology, with 

 Dr. R. S. Bassler as curator in charge, Mr. J. 

 W. Gidley as assistant curator of fossil mam- 

 mals and Mr. Charles W. Gilmore, as assistant 

 curator of fossil reptiles. 



The presidents of the sections of the fif- 

 teenth International Congress on Hygiene and 

 Demography to be held in Washington from 

 September 23 to 28, 1912, are: (1) Hygiene 

 microbiography and parasitology. Professor 

 Theobald Smith; (2) Dietetic hygiene. Hy- 

 gienic physiology, Professor R. H. Chitten- 

 den; (3) Hygiene of infancy and childhood 

 and school hygiene. Dr. A. Jacobi ; (4) Indus- 



trial and occupational hygiene. Dr. G. M. 

 Kober; (5) Control of infectious diseases. Dr. 

 Hermann Biggs; (6) State and municipal 

 hygiene. Dr. Frank F. Westbrook; (7) Hy- 

 giene of trafiic and transportation, Dr. W. 

 Wyman; (8) Military, naval and tropical 

 hygiene, Dr. H. G. Beyer; (9) Demography, 

 Professor Walter J. Willcox. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 as foreign members Dr. Zaboudski, of St. 

 Petersburg, in the section of mechanics, and 

 Professor Perrincito, of Turin, in the section 

 of agriculture. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that in recognition of Sir Patrick Manson's 

 initiative in directing attention to the im- 

 portance of the study of tropical medicine and 

 of his work in that field of science, an inter- 

 national committee has been formed for the 

 purpose of presenting him with a gold medal 

 bearing his effigy. The medal is to be de- 

 signed by Dr. Paul Richer, of Paris, who is 

 eminent both as an artist and as a physician. 



The annual meeting of the Society of 

 Chemical Industry was held in July at Shef- 

 field, under the presidency of Mr. Walter F. 

 Reid. Dr. Rudolf Messel, of London, was 

 elected president for the ensuing year. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that a meeting of the 

 members of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical 

 Association, Philadelphia Association of Re- 

 tail Druggists, Philadelphia Branch of the 

 American Pharmaceutical Association and its 

 scientific section, Philadelphia Branch of the 

 American Chemical Society, Philadelphia 

 College of Pharmacy, etc., was held in Phila- 

 delphia on July 17 at which strong and vigor- 

 ous protests were made against the suggested 

 removal of Dr. Wiley; a preamble and resolu- 

 tions were adopted and sent to President Taft, 

 endorsing and commending Dr. Wiley's work 

 and deploring any movement which would 

 either cause Dr. Wiley to resign at this time 

 or would tend to hamper him in his efforts to 

 make the Food and Drugs Act effective, and 

 thus practically render it a dead letter. 



Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, head curator of 

 the department of biology, U. S. National 



