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Survey, Washington, D. C, at a salary ranging 

 from $1,500 to $1,800 a year. The appointee 

 to this position should have such a knovcledge 

 of English, printing, and book-makin-g, ele- 

 mentary geology, and geologic nomenclature 

 as will fit him to criticize and correct, accepta- 

 bly to their authors, the manuscripts of the 

 survey's reports ; to prepare them for printing ; 

 to carry along the work of proof-reading 

 through all its stages, and to prepare satis- 

 factory indexes to the reports. 



The Vienna Society for the Investigation 

 and Prevention of Cancer has established a 

 laboratory for experimental work on the sub- 

 ject, mainly in the domain of chemistry and 

 chemical therapeutics. It is to be amalga- 

 mated with the Spiegler Institute, which has 

 been in existence nine years. Professor S. 

 Praenkel has been appointed director. 



Details of the allocation by the Mansion 

 House committee of the Scott Fund are given 

 in Nature. The allocation falls under the 

 three main headings of provision for the rela- 

 tives of those lost (or, in one instance, inca- 

 pacitated), for the publication of the scien- 

 tific results and for memorials. The provi- 

 sion for the relatives includes £8,500 each for 

 Lady Scott and Mrs. Wilson, £6,000 for Mrs. 

 Scott and her daughters, £4,500 for Mrs. 

 Bowers and her daughters and £3,500 in trust 

 for the child Peter Scott, with smaller sums 

 for Evans's family and to meet need in other 

 two cases. One of the honorary secretaries of 

 the Eoyal Geographical Society, Capt. H. G. 

 Lyons, P.R.S., undertakes the editorship of 

 the scientific results of the expedition, and 

 representatives of that body and of the Eoyal 

 Society, with Surgeon Atkinson, will control 

 the work. A total sum of £17,500 provides, 

 besides the cost of publication, for the services 

 of three biologists, three geologists, two phys- 

 icists, other specialists and a draughtsman, 

 and the figure of £800 is earmarked for the 

 production of charts and maps. For memo- 

 rials, a tablet in St. Paul's Cathedral and a 

 group of statuary in Hyde Park facing the 

 Eoyal Geographical Society's house are pro- 



posed. A contribution to a memorial to 

 Gates is being raised by his regiment as a 

 special expression of regard for the memory 

 of one whose relatives need no assistance from 

 the fund. The published results of the ex- 

 pedition will not form its only scientific me- 

 morial; the establishment of a trust fund of 

 some £10,000 for the endowment of future 

 polar research will preserve the memory of the 

 expedition, and would, in the belief of the 

 committee, have commended itself greatly to 

 its leader. 



The United States Bureau of Mines is 

 about to investigate the conditions under 

 which a miner works, believing that the un- 

 sanitary conditions which exist in some of the 

 mines as well as in some of the mining towns 

 are a factor in the death rate among the men. 

 It is intimated that these conditions not only 

 unnecessarily cause the death of miners 

 through disease, but they are often responsible 

 for accidents which might not have happened 

 if the miners were in perfect health. The 

 bureau has organized what is known as the 

 Mine Sanitation Section, in charge of J. H. 

 White, engineer. The bureau hopes to bring 

 about progress by appealing to the miner, the 

 manager and the owner, showing that all three 

 can assist, and how all three can be benefited 

 by good sanitary conditions. It will reach 

 the miner by means of illustrated lectures, 

 moving picture exhibits and pictorial circu- 

 lars. These will show how sickness and suf- 

 fering are spread by careless habits, and will 

 drive home the importance of personal and 

 household cleanliness. The bureau will assist 

 the managers by pointing out glaring sanitary 

 menaces, and showing methods and costs of 

 abatement. It will describe in bulletins com- 

 mon unsanitary practises and show the evils 

 which follow in their wake. It wiU submit 

 sanitary rules and regulations and show the 

 best methods for their enforcement. 



At the Minneapolis meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association the committee on 

 awards, of which Professor W. T. Councilman 



