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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXIV. No. 



The surgeon general of the army announces 

 that preliminary examinations for the appoint- 

 ment of first lieutenants in the Army Medical 

 Corps will he held on January 15, 1912, at 

 points to he hereafter designated. lull in- 

 formation concerning these examinations can 

 be procured upon application to the " Surgeon 

 General, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C." 

 The essential requirements to securing an 

 invitation are that the applicant shall be a 

 citizen of the United States, shall be between 

 22 and 30 years of age, a graduate of a med- 

 ical school legally authorized to confer the 

 degree of doctor of medicine, shall be of good 

 moral character and habits, and shall have had 

 at least one year's hospital training as an 

 interne, after graduation. The examinations 

 will be held concurrently throughout the coun- 

 try at points where boards can be convened. 

 Due consideration will be given to localities 

 from which applications are received, in order 

 to lessen the traveling expenses of applicants 

 as much as possible. The examination in 

 subjects of general education (mathematics, 

 geography, history, general literature and 

 Latin) may be omitted in the case of appli- 

 cants holding diplomas from reputable literary 

 or scientific colleges, normal schools or high 

 schools, or graduates of medical schools which 

 require an entrance examination satisfactory 

 to the faculty of the Army Medical School. 

 In order to perfect all necessary arrangements 

 for the examination, applications must be com- 

 plete and in possession of the adjutant general 

 at least three weeks before the date of exam- 

 ination. There are at present sixty-four 

 vacancies in the Medical Corps of the Army. 



A SET of 214 enlarged photographs, illustra- 

 ting plant societies, habit-, flower- and fruit- 

 characters of trees and other higher plants, as 

 well as habit and structural characters of some 

 of the larger algffi and fungi, has been installed 

 in the systematic museum of the New York 

 Botanical Garden. The photographs, which 

 are 11 X 14 inches in size, are mounted in 

 glazed frames, 43 of them bearing four each 

 of the bromide enlargements and seven bearing 

 six each. The frames are fastened to the walls 

 of the museum on the second floor and, so far 



as practicable, have been placed near the cases 

 containing representatives of the species illus- 

 trated. The enlargements have been made 

 chiefly from 4X5 negatives obtained by vari- 

 ous garden expeditions to Florida, the Ba- 

 hamas, Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Porto 

 Eico and Panama. 



The Polish National Alliance of the United 

 States of North America has presented to the 

 National Museum an extensive and interesting 

 series of coins of the kingdom of Poland issued 

 during its day of independence. The collec- 

 tion has been placed on exhibition in the west 

 hall of the old building of the National Mu- 

 seum. The series comprises 312 pieces of 

 money, most of which are silver, ranging in 

 size from our old silver three-cent piece to the 

 present-day silver dollar. The series begins 

 as far back as 1386 and covers a period of 449 

 years. 



The Harvard University Gazette records 

 among the activities of the Peabody Museum 

 that during the summer Dr. Alfred M. Tozzer 

 and Mr. Clarence L. Hay made a trip to Mex- 

 ico. Mr. Hay purchased a valuable collection 

 which he has given to the museum. Dr. 

 Charles Peabody represented the museum at 

 the Prehistoric Congress of France, held at 

 Nimes in August, 1911, and presented a paper 

 on " The Archeology of the Delaware Valley," 

 with special reference to the work of Mr. 

 Ernest Volk. While in Europe Dr. Peabody 

 visited several prehistoric sites, and collected, 

 with the assistance of his European colleagues, 

 representative specimens from the eocene, 

 pseudo-eolithic site of Clermont-de-l'Oise; 

 the eolithic industries of Salinelles (Gard) ; 

 the industries, neolithic and others, near Or- 

 pierre (Hautes Alpes) ; the Lake Dweller sta- 

 tions of the Saut de la Pucelle and of La 

 Gresine, Lac du Bourget (Savoir). The re- 

 search in relation to the antiquity of man in 

 America was continued in the Delaware Valley 

 by Mr. Ernest Volk, and a report by Mr. Volk 

 on the twenty-two years of research in this 

 region has been published by the museum. 

 Dr. George P. Howe conducted an expedition 

 to Yucatan and has prepared a report on the 



