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ings of the various sections take place in Trinity 

 College ; the Health Exhibition is held in the 

 buildings of the Royal University, and a banquet 

 in the Eoyal College of Surgeons. There are 

 four sections — Preventive Medicine and Vital 

 Statistics, Chemistry and Meteorology, Engi- 

 neering and Building Construction, and Muni- 

 cipal and Parliamentary. In addition, there is 

 a conference of army medical oflBcers on Enteric 

 Fever in the Army, and by medical officers of 

 health on the Hovising of the Poor and the Pre- 

 vention of Tuberculosis. Among the general 

 subjects discussed in the various sections are: 

 The Treatment of Infectious Diseases in Gen- 

 eral Hospitals, the Increase of Lunacy in Ire- 

 laud, the Management of the Sick in Workhouse 

 Hospitals, Pollution of Rivers and Treatment 

 of Sewage, and Designing and Construction of 

 Hospitals. 



It is announced that the steamship Valdivia, 

 with the German deep-sea expedition will leave 

 Hamburg immediately. 



Me. W. C. Andkews, whose expedition to 

 Christmas Island was reported sometime since, is 

 now returning, having made a careful study of 

 the geology of the island and exhaustive col- 

 lections of its animals and plants. 



Feaes are entertained in regard to the steam- 

 ship Belgiea which sailed for the Antarctic 

 regions last year. 



Professor Salisbury, of the University of 

 Chicago, has taken a party of ten students on a 

 geological expedition to the Yellowstone Park. 

 The London Times reports that the govern- 

 ment of the Independent State has just sanc- 

 tioned an important measure for the advance- 

 ment of scientific knowledge on the Congo. 

 The despatch last spring of the expedition under 

 Lieutenant Lemaire was a commencement in 

 this direction, but, whereas his explorations 

 will be chiefly in the Tanganyika region, the 

 new measure will apply to the whole of the 

 State. Twenty posts which are to form the 

 centers of observation, and also the bases for 

 the collection of flora, fauna and mineralogical 

 specimens, have been decided upon, and are 

 now being carefully organized under the super- 

 vision of the proper officers at Brussels. As 

 soon as the posts are in working order a pub- 



lication will be issued at Brussels for the pur- 

 pose of recording the results of these experi- 

 ments. It will be issued every six weeks, 

 under the title of ' Scientific Annals.' 



Me. Ak;ees-DouC4LAS stated recently in the 

 British House of Commons that the Director of 

 Kew Gardens had informed him in April last 

 that volume 4 of the Flora of Tropical Africa 

 was in an advanced state of preparation, but 

 very little of it appears to be yet in type. Two 

 other volumes, Nos. 7 and 5, are being printed 

 first. The third and last part of volume 7 is 

 nearly ready. There have been certain diffi- 

 culties as to the printing of volume 5, but the 

 publishers have now declared themselves ready 

 to proceed with it. 



We learn from Literature that Mr. G. Boulger, 

 professor of botany and geology at the City of 

 London College, in addition to his work for the 

 'Dictionary of National Biography,' in which 

 the Tradescants have occupied him a good deal 

 of late, has been engaged in seeing through the 

 press a new and rewritten edition of the Rev. 

 C. A. Johns' 'Flowers of the Field.' Professor 

 Boulger is also at work upon a new book, a 

 manual on 'Wood' for Mr. Edward Arnold's 

 'Practical Science Series,' and, in conjunction 

 with Mr. James Britten, he is publishing in The 

 Journal of Botany, for subsequent issue in sep- 

 arate form, a supplement to their ' Biographical 

 Index of British and Irish Botanists.' 



Messes. D. C. Heath & Co. announce a 

 book on 'American Indians' by Professor 

 Frederick Starr, of the University of Chicago. 



The following regulations have been an- 

 nounced in regard to workers in the Lancashire 

 Sea-Fisheries Hatchery and Laboratory at Piel, 

 Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire : (1) Biolo- 

 gists and students desiring to work at the Piel 

 Hatchery should apply to the honorary Director 

 (Professor Herdman), who, if there is room, will 

 allot them work places in the Laboratory in the 

 order of application. (2) In the absence of the 

 Director, the Resident Assistant (Mr. Andrew 

 Scott), will determine which places in the Lab- 

 oratory workers are to occupy, and to what ex- 

 tent the instruments in the Laboratory (micro- 

 scopes, microtomes, etc.) and the boats and 

 collecting apparatus may be used by workers. 



