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this winter is 60 Park St. For the present he 

 has given up scientific research in order to 

 complete his " Records and Recollections of 

 the Civil War," based upon his daily letters, 

 which were all preserved. 



Professor W. M. Davis, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, lectured on " The Lessons of the Colorado 

 Canyon," at Denison University, October 6 ; at 

 Ohio Wesleyan University, October 7 ; at Ohio 

 State University, October 8; at State Normal 

 College, Ypsilanti, October 10, and at the Uni- 

 versity of Rochester, October 13. He also 

 spoke on " Glacial Erosion in Montana " at 

 Ohio Wesleyan ; on " The Bearing of Physi- 

 ography on the Theories of Coral Reefs," at 

 Columbus, and on " Experiences of an Ex- 

 change Professor at Berlin and Paris," at 

 Ypsilanti. 



" The Physical Basis and Determination of 

 Sex " was the subject of an illustrated address 

 given on October 18 by Associate Professor H. 

 H. Newman, of the department of zoology of 

 the University of Chicago, at Fullerton Hall, 

 Art Institute of Chicago, under the auspices 

 of the Field Museum of Natural History. 



Dr. Hideyo Noguchi gave a demonstration 

 at a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine, 

 London, on October 13, of the results of his 

 recent investigations, most of them carried out 

 at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re- 

 search, of which he is an associate. He showed 

 pure cultures of various pathogenic and sapro- 

 phytic spirochetes, demonstrated the presence 

 of Treponema pallidum in the brain in cases 

 of general paralysis, and showed experimental 

 general paralysis in rabbits. He also gave a 

 demonstration of his recent cultural studies of 

 the virus of rabies. 



Mr. Clayton D. Mell, of the U. S. Forest 

 Service, sailed on October 16 from New York 

 for British Guiana to inspect greenheart 

 timber to be used in the construction of docks 

 and other marine works for the Panama Canal. 



Mr. R. a. Rowley, assistant professor of 

 geology in the University of the Philippines, 

 has recently returned from an expedition to 

 the northern part of the Island of Palawan, 



and is engaged in working up a suite of rocks 

 from that little known region. 



It is stated in Nature that Major Barrett- 

 Hamilton, accompanied by Mr. Stammwitz, 

 one of the taxidermists on the staff of the 

 British Museum (Nat. His.), has sailed in a 

 whaler for South Georgia, on a mission from 

 the Colonial Office, to report on the whaling 

 stations leased by the British government to a 

 Norwegian firm. 



A BRANCH laboratory of the United States 

 Bureau of Mines has been established in Morse 

 HaU, Cornell University, in connection with 

 the department of chemistry. Investigations 

 will be made of problems related to the manu- 

 facture of brass and other alloys of copper by 

 Dr. H. W. Gillett and Dr. J. M. Lohr under 

 the direction of Dr. Charles Lathrop Parsons, 

 chief mineral chemist of the Bureau of Mines, 

 and Professor Bancroft. 



The sixty-seventh anniversary of Ether Day 

 was celebrated at the Massachusetts General 

 Hospital, Boston, on October 16, when the 

 principal address was delivered by Dr. Milton 

 J. Rosenau. 



We learn from Nature that at the recent 

 International Congress of Pharmacy held at 

 the Hague, a proposal to form an international 

 pharmacopceial bureau was discussed, and a 

 commission was appointed to consider the 

 question, and to submit to the International 

 Pharmaceutical Federation at an early date a 

 scheme for the establishment of such a bureau. 

 The commission is composed of seven mem- 

 bers, representing, respectively. Great Britain, 

 the United States, Germany, France, Holland, 

 Belgium and Switzerland; most of the mem- 

 bers are associated with the revision of their 

 national pharmacopoeias, the English repre- 

 sentative being Professor H. G. Greenish, 

 joint editor of the " British Pharmacopceia," 

 and the American, Professor J. P. Remington, 

 editor of the " United States Pharmacopoeia." 

 Among the duties of such a bureau as that 

 proposed would be the collection and examina- 

 tion of all literature relating to pharmacopoeial 

 revision and the experimental investigation of 

 new drugs and preparations, and no doubt the 



