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by Dr. Lortliioir, president of the Belgian 

 Surgical Society. The congress and the ex- 

 hibition of fractures and surgical appliances 

 will be opened at 9.30 on Tuesday morning, 

 and immediately afterwards a discussion on 

 pancreatitis will be opened by M. Michel. 

 The afternoon session will be devoted to the 

 discussion of the treatment of that disease, 

 opened by MM. Korte and Giordano. In the 

 evening the president of the International 

 Society (Professor Lucas-Championniere) 

 will hold a reception. Wednesday will be de- 

 voted to the surgery of the thorax, the intro- 

 ductory addresses being given by MM. Garre, 

 Gaudier, Girard, Lenormand and Ferguson. 

 Thursday morning will be given up to demon- 

 strations of fractures, and the afternoon to 

 the discussion of pulmonary abscess and gan- 

 grene and bronchiectasis, introduced by MM. 

 Van Stoekum and Sauerbruch. Subjects for 

 discussion on Friday are the surgical treat- 

 ment of pulmonary tuberculosis and acute 

 and chronic colitis. There will be a banquet 

 on Thursday evening, and a gala performance 

 at the Theater Eoyal on Friday evening. 



The Harpswell Laboratory was open during 

 the season just closed from June 15 to Sep- 

 tember 11. During this time the following 

 investigators carried on work there : 



George A. Bates, professor of histology. Tufts 

 Medical School, Boston. 



Violet Dandridge, artist, U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, Washington. 



Eeuben J. Eriekson, student, Knox College, 

 Galesburg, 111. 



0. McLean Praser, assistant, University of 

 Iowa, Iowa City. 



Abram T. Kerr, professor of anatomy, Cornell 

 University, Ithaca. 



Agnes E. Kerr, Ithaca. 



Duncan S. Johnson, professor of botany, Johns 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore. 



J. S. Kingsley, professor of zoology. Tufts Col- 

 lege, Tufts College, Mass. 



Margaret Eeed Lewis, Baltimore. 



Warren H. Lewis, assistant professor of anat- 

 omy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 



Herbert V. Neal, professor of zoology, Knox 

 College, Galesburg. 



Mary J. Eathbun, curator of invertebrates, U. 

 S. National Museum, Washington. 



Marian L. Shorey, professor of zoology, Mil- 

 waukee-Downer College, Milwaukee. 



Leonard W. Williams, instructor in comparative 

 anatomy. Harvard Medical School, Boston. 



The Scottish Geographical Magazine quotes 

 the excursions to be made from October 23 to 

 November 1, after the holding of the Interna- 

 tional Geographical Congress in Rome. Of 

 these the first or northern excursion is to the 

 lower valley of the Po and the Fore Alps. 

 The starting-point is Ferrara, where the delta 

 of the Po will be examined and a steamer 

 journey on the river undertaken from Pontel- 

 agurasco to Mantua. Verona will then be 

 visited, and the lakes of Garda and Iseo. The 

 valley of the Serio will be traversed, special 

 attention being paid to the development of 

 industries here, and the use of water power. 

 From Bergamo the lakes of Como and Mag- 

 giore will be crossed, thence the party will 

 descend to Milan, where various scientific and 

 industrial undertakings will be visited. On 

 the way to Turin tha town of Novara will be 

 examined. The total expenses of this excur- 

 sion will not exceed 380 Italian lire, and the 

 objects of study will be physical and economic 

 geography. Participants will be presented 

 with a monograph of the delta of the river Po, 

 with maps, especially prepared by Professor 

 Mario Barrata, of the University of Pavia. 

 The second excursion is to Naples, Palermo 

 and the coasts of eastern Sicily and Calabria, 

 and will be devoted to physical geography and 

 vulcanology. The party is to meet at Naples, 

 where a day will be devoted to the sights of 

 the neighborhood, a choice having to be made 

 between the three following: Vesuvius and 

 Pompeii, the Phlegrean Fields or Capri. On 

 the twenty-fourth of October the party will 

 start by steamer for Palermo, traveling next 

 day to Catania, where Mount Etna can be 

 ascended or a tour made round its circumfer- 

 ence. Thence the ruins of Messina and Reg- 

 gio and the rebuilding of these towns will be 

 examined. From Reggio excursions will be 

 taken to the neighboring coastline to inspect 

 the effects of the earthquake, and a return will 



