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L. H. Brittain. Afternoon — Subject, ' ' Industrial 

 Hygiene. ' ' Chairman, Surgeon-General Charles 

 Francis Stokes, tJ. S. N. "Occupational Dis- 

 eases, ' ' presented by Dr. Alice Hamilton, of Hull 

 House, Chicago ; ' ' Factory Lighting, " by G. H. 

 Stickney; "Ventilation," by Dr. D. C. Grahara- 

 Eogers ; ' ' Dental Hygiene, ' ' by Dr. Homer C. 

 Brown. 



December 12, morning — Subject, "Employer and 

 Employee. ' ' Chairman, George B. Cortelyou. 

 ' ' Employer, Employee, and the Public, " " What 

 Accident Prevention means to the Worker's Fam- 

 ily." Afternoon — Subject, "The Coming Genera- 

 tion. ' ' Chairman, William B. Wilson, United 

 States Secretary of Labor. ' ' Teaching a Child to 

 Avoid Danger, ' ' presented by Dr. Gustave Strau- 

 benmuUer, associate superintendent of New York 

 city schools ; ' ' Changing Conditions in Municipali- 

 ties, ' ' by Henry Bruere, director of the Bureau of 

 Municipal Eeseareh. 



The second annual meeting of the Associa- 

 tion of Alumni Secretaries was held in Chi- 

 cago on November 21 and 22 with E. B. John- 

 son, secretary of the Alumni Association of 

 the University of Minnesota, as president and 

 Wilfred B. Shaw, secretary of the Alumni 

 Association of the University of Michigan, as 

 secretary. Representatives were present from 

 some fifty universities and colleges. Many 

 subjects were discussed concerned with alumni 

 associations and the relations of alumni to 

 their institutions. The next meeting will be 

 held at Columbia and Tale universities in 

 November, 1914. 



The proceedings of the eighteenth session 

 of the International Congress of American- 

 ists, held in London, May 27-June 1, 1912, 

 are now ready, and will be sent to members 

 immediately. Changes of address should be 

 reported at once to the secretary, 50 Great 

 Russell St., London, W. C. The work con- 

 tains 566 pages of text, 50 plates, 236 illustra- 

 tions iii the text and 88 pages of preliminary 

 matter, including an account of the meetings 

 and a number of subjects of importance for 

 the ethnography and archeology of the Amer- 

 icas. 



An animal reserve is to be established in 

 Tunisia for the wild animals which are being 

 rapidly exterminated there. For this purpose 



a mountainous stretch of 4,000 acres, with an 

 adjoining marsh of 5,000 acres, has been se- 

 cured near Bizerta and ofFers peculiarly ad- 

 vantageous conditions. There are already 

 inhabiting this virgin district wild boar, 

 hyenas, jackals, foxes, lynx, civet cat, porcu- 

 pines, eagles, vultures, etc., besides many kinds 

 of waterfowl, including a number of migra- 

 tory species. The object is to isolate, so far 

 as possible, this area, and reintroduce those' 

 species of animals which, through the spread 

 of European civilization, has either been ex- 

 terminated or driven beyond the frontier. 



An achievement of more than usual impor- 

 tance has been the crossing of the continent 

 of Greenland at its widest section, which has 

 been accomplished by the Danish expedition 

 under Koch and Wegener last July. It will 

 be remembered that Captain Koch commanded 

 a division of the Danish expedition to north- 

 east Greenland in 1906-8 and was in charge 

 of the party which carried the exploration of 

 the coast to the extreme northwest where a 

 cairn left by Commander Peary was found 

 and the eastern surveys thus connected with 

 the western. A valuable report by Koch and 

 Wegener upon the scientific results and espe- 

 cially the glaciers of that district has recently 

 appeared and is a model of thorough and 

 painstaking scholarship. The expedition for- 

 the crossing of Greenland was landed upon 

 the ice of the northeast coast in July, 1912,' 

 and after an unsuccessful attempt to reach 

 Queen Louise Land, Captain Koch decided tO' 

 winter upon the inland ice. During a sledge 

 expedition to Queen Louise Land at the end' 

 of October, the leader had the misfortune to 

 break his leg through falling into a crevasse,, 

 and was in consequence laid up for three 

 months. During the winter the temperature 

 was generally fifty degrees below the freezing 

 point and only in March could sledge work be 

 resumed. On April 20, 1913, the expedition! 

 started to cross the continent with five sledges 

 and five horses. During the first forty days 

 the weather was extremely bad. On July 11 

 the last horse but one had to be killed, but on 

 the next day the land of the west coast was- 

 sighted. Food now having given out and the- 



