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THE exhibition now open at Brussels contains 
a feature of interest to anthropologists. Two 
hundred natives of the Congo tribes have been 
brought from Africa and are exhibited in a 
replica of a Congolese village. The greater 
number are Batatelas, but other tribes are rep- 
resented, including two of the forest dwarfs de- 
scribed by Stanley. 
THE first number of the Zoological Bulletin, 
edited by Professors C. O. Whitman and W. 
M. Wheeler, of the University of Chicago, has 
now been published by Ginn & Co. The title 
page gives the names of seventy-three Ameri- 
can students of the zoological sciences who 
have given their cooperation. This number 
contains articles by Edward Phelps Allis, Jr., 
on ‘The Morphology of the Petrosal Bone and 
of the Sphenoidal Region of the Skull of Amia 
Calva;’ by Charles W. Hargitt on ‘Recent 
Experiments on Regeneration ;’ by Charles 
Lawrence Bristol on ‘The Metamerism of 
Nephelis,’ and by G. Baur ‘On the Question of 
Intercalation of Vertebre.’ The number ex- 
tends to fifty-three pages and it is expected to 
publish at least six numbers of this size yearly. 
The Bulletin has the same form and size of page 
as the Journal of Morphology, and will apparently 
differ from that journal only in that the articles 
will be as a rule shorter and not illustrated. 
A QUARTERLY botanical journal, entitled 
Bollettino del Reale Orto Botanico di Palermo, 
will hereafter be published, under the editor- 
ship of Professor Borzi. 
Henry Horr & Co. announce for early pub- 
lication ‘The Elements of Comparative Zool- 
ogy,’ by Professor J. Sterling Kingsley, of 
Tufts College ; ‘Laboratory Directions in Gen- 
eral Biology,’ by Harriet Randolph, instructor 
in Bryn Mawr College ; an ‘Outline Introduc- 
tory to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason,’ by Pro- 
fessor R. M. Wenley, of the University of Mich- 
igan, and a new and much enlarged edition of 
Hall and Bergen’s ‘ Text-Book of Physics.’ 
WE are glad to note the full reports in the 
American daily press of the recent meeting of 
the British Association at Toronto, even though 
some of these papers did not mention the meet- 
ing at Detroit. We hope that all the papers 
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will remember next year that there is an Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement of 
Science. 
THE fourth International Scientific Congress 
of Catholics opened its sessions at Freiburg, 
Switzerland, on the 15th of August. Mer. 
Dernaz, Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva, was 
the president of honor, and Baron Hertling, 
professor of philosophy in the University of 
Munich, was made president of the Congress. 
The Congress met in ten sections, and there 
were 500 members in attendance. 
THE Engineering News Publishing Company 
have republished three articles on the floods of 
the Mississippi River contributed to the journal 
in the course of the past two years by Mr. Wil- 
liam Starling, Chief Engineer of the Lower 
Yazoo Levee District. The articles describe the 
levees of the Mississippi river and the floods, 
especially that of 1897, and should prove useful 
in disseminating knowledge of the cause of the 
floods and the proper means to be used in com- 
batting their ravages. 
THE Electrical World reports a paper by M. 
Pierard describing an application of the phono- 
graph in Spain. It appears that the telephone 
is there used in place of the telegraph, and it 
was found that the speed of transmission was 
greally limited by the operators at the receiy- 
ing end, who could not transcribe the messages 
sufficiently rapidly; at present the receiving 
operator repeats the message into a phono- 
graph, from which it is then transcribed ; this 
repetition is also heard at the transmitting end 
and therefore serves as a control for the cor- 
rectness of the received message; the speed is 
86 words per minute, which means double this 
amount if the return message is included. It 
is thought that this is the first time the phono- 
graph has been put to this use. 
A British Parliamentary paper has been 
issued given a report of the efforts to check the 
locusts inCyprus during the past year. The 
High Commissioner, Sir W. J. Sendall, states 
that the system of purchasing eggs and living 
locusts, which has now been pursued for four 
years, has appreciably diminished the number 
of locusts. 
THE first quarterly report, says the New 
