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occasion an address on " New Paths of Phys- 

 ical Eesearch." 



Professoe J. Chester Bradley, of Cornell 

 University, addressed the New York Entomo- 

 logical Society on December 2 on " Collecting 

 Insects in the Okefenoke Swamp." Professor 

 Bradley was one of several Cornell zoologists 

 who began a biological reconnoissance of the 

 Okefenoke Swamp in southeastern Georgia 

 in the summer of 1912. He again visited the 

 swamp during the past summer, and in com- 

 pany with Dr. J. G. Needham will return for 

 a short stay next month. A preliminary ac- 

 count of the features of the swamp in connec- 

 tion with a report on the ornithology of the 

 expedition was published by Dr. A. H. Wright 

 and Mr. F. H. Harper in the Auh for October, 

 1913. 



Professor H. C. Jones, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, delivered an illustrated lec- 

 ture on " Eadium and Its Properties " Tues- 

 day evening, December 2, before the Natural 

 History Society of Harrisburg, Pa. 



Mrs. Christine Ladd-Franklin held a con- 

 ference on Color-Vision on December 6 at the 

 Brooklyn Academy of Music. 



An interesting program is already assured 

 in connection with Section E, Geology and 

 Geography, of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, at the approach- 

 ing meeting in Atlanta. The mineral re- 

 sources of the south will be fully presented by 

 means of papers, maps and mineral exhibits 

 by the geologists of the southern states. The 

 program also includes papers of general geo- 

 logical interest. The titles and abstracts of 

 papers to be read before Section E should be 

 sent at once to Professor George F. Kay, 

 Iowa City, Iowa. 



The power schooner Alary Sachs, one of the 

 boats of Mr. Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian 

 Arctic exploring expedition, has been wrecked 

 in the ice off the Arctic coast of Alaska. The 

 ice crushed the schooner and all the provisions 

 and scientific instruments were lost. The 

 Mary Sachs was purchased at Nome by Mr. 

 Stefansson for use of the southern party of the 

 Canadian expedition, which also has the power 



schooner Alasha. Dr. E. M. Anderson, com- 

 manding the southern party, is aboard the 

 Alasha, and Mr. Kenneth Chipman, the geolo- 

 gist, was placed in command of the Mary 

 Sachs. The last previous report received 

 from the expedition was carried by messenger 

 to Circle City, Alaska, arriving there Novem- 

 ber 10. The messenger reported the Mary 

 Sachs and the Alaska ice-bound at CoUinson 

 Point, Alaska, one hundred miles west of the 

 international boundary. The Mary Sachs was 

 a gasoline schooner of 350 tons gross register. 

 She carried a crew of three men. The south- 

 ern party was to have made a scientific explora- 

 tion of Victoria Land and Banks Land, while 

 Mr. Stefansson on the Karluk explored the 

 unmapped region in Beauford Sea. 



The American National Eed Cross an- 

 nounces the receipt of gifts of $100,000 each 

 from Mr. Jacob H. Schiff and Mr. James A. 

 Scrymser, and of $2,000 from Mrs. Whitelaw 

 Reid. The gift from Mr. Scrymser is to be 

 added to the fund for the purchase of land in 

 Washington on which the government is to 

 erect a building for the Red Cross as a me- 

 morial to the women of the Civil War. Con- 

 gress has already appropriated the sum of 

 $400,000 to cover the cost of constructing the 

 building, and the Red Cross has offered to 

 raise the $300,000 necessary for the purchase 

 of the land. 



Closer union between the state board of 

 health and Ohio State University and its de- 

 partments of instruction is contemplated in 

 the proposal to move the state laboratories to 

 the university campus. A detention hospital 

 for the wards of the state will also be built 

 there and public health conserved by univer- 

 sity service. The proposition was endorsed at 

 a recent meeting by the board of administra- 

 tion, the state university trustees and Gover- 

 nor Cox. It is believed that the plan will 

 reduce the expense of operating the state 

 board of health laboratories, afford practical 

 work for students in the preparation of serums 

 and the making of experiments, and enlarge 

 the efficiency of the state in its relation to 

 public health. Governor Cox also endorses 



