OcTOBER 1, 1897. ] 
hour.”” * * * ‘This performance, I believe, 
has not been equaled in the history of railway 
service, either in this country or abroad. It is 
one of which the management is proud, and is 
accredited to the track, the equipment, and, es- 
pecially, to the skill with which you performed 
the task entrusted to you.’’ The distance was 
fifty-five and a-half miles, and the train con- 
sisted of five or six cars. It was always delayed 
by its connections at starting, and always came 
in ahead of schedule time ; the total thus being 
brought four minutes under schedule time. 
The thanks of the railway officials are tendered 
Mr. Fahl. 
THE Congrés Olympique recently held at 
Havre has passed resolutions summarized in 
the British Medical Journal as follows: Every 
three months parents are to be informed of the 
physical development of their children being 
educated in schools and colleges. That hy- 
giene, physical training and athletic sports 
should be introduced in all schools, lycées and 
colleges. In all schools, colleges and lycées a 
service of hydrotherapy should be in working 
order. That a diploma for gymnastics be 
created, requiring a practical and oral ex- 
amination. 
THE Eleventh International Congress of Ori- 
entalists has held a successful meeting in Paris, 
many important archeological papers having 
been presented and plans having been made for 
further explorations in the Hast. 
THE Council of the Society of Arts have ap- 
pointed the following Committee to investigate 
the causes of the deterioration of paper : Major- 
General Sir Owen Tudor Burne, G.C.1L.E., K. 
C.S.1I., Chairman of the Council; Sir William 
Anderson, K.C.B., F.R.S.; Mr. Michael Car- 
teighe; Mr. C. F. Cross; Sir John Evans, K.C. 
B., F.R.S.; Dr. Richard Garnett, C.B.; Dr. 
Hugo Miller, F.R.S.; Dr. J. W. Russell, F.R. 
S.; Mr. W. L. Thomas; Professor J. M. 
Thomson, F.R.S.; Mr. Henry R. Tedder; 
Dr. Quirin Wirtz; Sir Henry Trueman 
Wood, Secretary. Nature states that, in the 
course of a circular letter which has been sent 
to those who are interested in the preservation 
of paper, it is pointed out that many books of 
an important character are now printed upon 
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paper of a very perishable nature, so that there 
is considerable risk of the deterioration and 
even destruction of such books within a limited 
space of time. This is believed to be especially 
true of books which are in constant use for 
purposes of reference, and are therefore liable 
to much handling. 
ACCORDING to the New York Tribune the 
most interesting work now going on at the 
Weather Bureau is the preparation of an ex- 
hibit of this Bureau for the Paris exhibition in 
1900. Professor Moore is taking a deep inter- 
est in the matter, and, as planned, it will be one 
of the largest and most complete expositions 
of this character ever made. A feature of the 
exhibit will be a daily weather chart of the 
United States. A code has been adopted by 
which the conditions of the weather in all parts 
of the United States will be transmitted by 
telegraph to Paris. From the material thus 
obtained maps will be constructed on the order 
of those now in general use, Professor Moore, 
with five or six of his subordinates, will repre- 
sent the Weather Bureau at the exposition, 
and nothing is being left undone to make a 
showing worthy of the United States Bureau, 
which is acknowledged by scientific authori- 
ties to be the finest in the world. 
LIEUTENANT PEARY, on arriving at Philadel- 
phia, is reported to have said that in addition 
to securing the meteorite he laid the plans for 
next year’s expedition, and when he leaves 
again, which will be about the end of next July, 
it will be to remain in the Arctic regions until he 
reach the Pole or lose his life in the attempt, 
even if it take five years to accomplish this ob-' 
ject. Next summer he will take his vessel up to 
Sherard Osborne Fjord and make that place 
his base of supplies. On the last trip he made 
arrangements with the Arctic Highlanders, a 
tribe of Hsquimaux consisting of 230 men, 
women and children, known as the most 
northerly tribe of human beings on the earth, 
to spend this coming winter in obtaining bear, 
seal and deer skins for clothing and in securing 
all the walrus meat they can for dog food. He 
has singled out eight young men of the tribe, 
with their wives, canoes, dogs, sledges and 
tents, to accompany him to Sherard Osborne 
