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turer on geology at Cambridge, died on No- 

 vember 14, at tbe age of sixty years. 



Among the New York State Civil service 

 examinations on December 9 is one for bac- 

 teriologist of tbe Port of New York at a salary 

 of $1,200. 



The annual meeting of tbe Society of 

 American Bacteriologists will be beld in 

 Washington, D. C, December 27, 28 and 29, 

 1911. Tbe headquarters will be at the New 

 Ebbitt and the sessions at the Cosmos Club. 

 A six o'clock dinner will be given at the Cos- 

 mos Club on December 28. The president's 

 address, by Professor F. P. Gorham, consid- 

 ering " Biochemical Problems in Bacteriol- 

 ogy," will follow the dinner. The report of 

 the Committee on Microbiological Teaching 

 and Education will be presented after the 

 president's address by the chairman, S. C. 

 Prescott. The whole field will then be open 

 for discussion. Some of the session programs 

 are already in the hands of the secretary. 

 Any one wishing to present a paper should 

 write one of the individuals named below who 

 has in charge the general topic under which 

 the subject may fall: Systematic Bacteriology, 

 Professor C. E. A. Winslow, College of the 

 City of New York, New York; Physiologic 

 Bacteriology (including antibodies). Dr. John 



F. Anderson, director of the Hygienic Lab- 

 oratory, 25th and E Streets N. W., "Washing- 

 ton, D. C. ; Soil Bacteriology, Professor Jacob 



G. Lipman, director of the Experiment Sta- 

 tions, New Brunswick, N. J.; Dairy Bacter- 

 iology, Professor E. G. Hastings, College of 

 Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, Madi- 

 son, Wis.; Plant Pathologic Bacteriology, 

 Professor F. L. Stevens, North Carolina Agri- 

 cultural College, West Ealeigh, N. C. ; Human 

 arid Animal Pathologic Bacteriology, Dr. M. 

 Dorset, chief of the Biochemic Division, 

 Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, 

 D. C. 



As already announced, the eighteenth Inter- 

 national Congress of Americanists will be held 

 in London May 27 to June 1, 1912. Members 

 who desire to inspect Dr. W. Allen Sturge's 

 magnificent collection of stone implements in 



his museum at Icklingham Hall, Suffolk, 

 should communicate with Miss A. Breton, 

 Eoyal Antlu-opological Institute, 50 Great Eus- 

 sell Street, London, W. C. A visit can be made 

 in the day from London; Dr. Sturge will ar- 

 range for conveyance from the station. 



The installation of the work of the Venice 

 Marine Biological Station of the University of 

 Southern California occurred on November 10. 

 Addresses were delivered by President Bovard, 

 Mr. Abbot Kinney, Professor Ulrey, Dean 

 Healy and Professor Edwards. Through the 

 generous cooperation of the Abbot Kinney 

 Company the station has a biological reserva- 

 tion consisting of the Venice pier and break- 

 water and of one and one half miles of canals. 

 The protected breakwater will be used by Pro- 

 fessor Edwards for his work under the Cali- 

 fornia Fish and Game Commission on the 

 colonization of the various species of abalones 

 and other forms and for experiments in pearl 

 production. The canals, with water having 

 75 per cent, of the salinity of the contributing 

 sea, will be devoted to acclimatization cultures. 

 A motor sloop, the Anton Dohrn, has been 

 completed for work in the neighboring region, 

 including the islands off the coast of Southern 

 California. 



We learn from Nature that the council of 

 the Eoyal Institute of Public Health has ac- 

 cepted an invitation from the chief burgo- 

 master of Berlin to hold the congress next year 

 in that city on July 25-28. The congress will 

 include the following sections and presidents: 

 state medicine. Sir T. Clifford Allbutt, K.C.B., 

 F.E.S.; bacteriology and comparative pathol- 

 ogy. Professor G. Sims Woodhead ; child study 

 and school hygiene. Sir James Crichton- 

 Browne, F.E.S. ; military, colonial and naval. 

 Major Sir Eonald Eoss, K.C.B., F.E.S. ; and 

 municipal engineering, architecture and town 

 planning, Mr. P. C. Cowan. Facilities will be 

 afforded for visiting the various public health 

 and educational institutions in Berlin in con- 

 nection with the Imperial Board of Health, the 

 municipality and the university. 



It is reported in Nature that in connection 

 with the two hundredth anniversary of the 



