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Wall streets, where the men will be housed and 

 cared for during the period of the investiga- 

 tion, doubtless for about nine months. 



In this study there are no special theories 

 involved and no special systems of dietetics, 

 but the object especially aimed at is to ascer- 

 tain experimentally whether physiological 

 economy in diet cannot be practiced with dis- 

 tinct betterment to the body and without loss 

 of strength and vigor. There is apparently no 

 question that people ordinarily consume much 

 more food than there is any real necessity for, 

 and that this excess of food is in the long 

 run detrimental to health and defeats the very 

 objects aimed at. It is with a view to gather 

 as many facts as possible on this subject that 

 the study in question is undertaken. 



This investigation is merely a continuation, 

 on a larger scale, of earlier observations made 

 in the Sheffield Laboratory of the Sheffield 

 Scientific School last year, and referred to in 

 an article in the Popular Science Monthly by 

 Professor Chittenden, and bears directly upon 

 the question of a possible physiological econ- 

 omy in nutrition. 



THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



On the first of last July the United States 

 Commission of Fish and Fisheries, until then 

 an independent bureau not attached to any 

 government department, became a part of the 

 new Department of Commerce and Labor. 



With the transfer the name was changed. 

 The ' United States Commission of Fish 

 and Fisheries ' is now a thing of the past, so 

 far as the name is concerned, and it will here- 

 after be known as the ' Bureau of Fisheries,' — 

 a title certainly much shorter and more usable 

 than the old. Many of us loved the title under 

 ■which this branch of our government gained 

 and still maintains an honored name among 

 biologists, fish-culturists and anglers through- 

 out the world, cumbersome and unwieldy as 

 that title was ; but we welcome the more simple 

 name and have no doubt but that the ' Bureau 

 of Fisheries ' will soon become equally hon- 

 ored and well known. 



The principal positions in the Bureau of 



Fisheries and the men who fill them are as 

 follows : 



Commissioner, Hon. Geo. M. Bowers. 



Deputy Commissioner, Dr. H. M. Smith. 



Assistant in Charge of Scientific Inquiry and 

 Ichthyologist, Dr. Barton Warren Evermann. 



Assistant in Charge of Fish Culture, Jlr. .John 

 ^V. Titeomb. 



Assistant in Charge of Statistics and Methods 

 of the Fisheries, Mr. A. B. Alexander. 



Chief Clerk, Mr. Irving H. Dunlap. 



Disbursing Officer, Mr. W. P. Titeomb. 



Engineer and Architect, Mr. Hector von Bayer. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS- 

 Sir William Ramsay, the eminent British 

 chemist, and M. Henri Poincare, the eminent 

 inathematical physicist, have been elected cor- 

 responding members of the Vienna Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Professor M. Allen Stare, M.D., LL.D., of 

 the Medical Department of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, of New York, has been elected a corre- 

 sponding member of the Neurological Society 

 of the United Kingdom, London. Dr. Weir 

 Mitchell is the only other American member. 



The International Geological Congress 

 awarded its Spendiarow prize to Professor W. 

 C. Brogger of Christiania. 



Professor C. S. Sherrington, of the Uni- 

 versity of Liverpool, gave the address at the 

 opening of the new medical buildings of the 

 University of Toronto, which have been fully 

 described in Science. Professor Sherrington 

 will visit some of the medical centers of the 

 United States before returning to England. 



Professor Theodore Willum Eich.^rds, 

 having recovered from his illness, has been 

 made chairman of the Division of Chemistry 

 in Harvard University, in place of Professor 

 Charles Loring Jackson. Professor Jackson 

 retains the Erving professorship and all his 

 other work in research and instruction, re- 

 signing the chairmanship alone. 



Dr. W. W. Campbell, director of the Lick 

 Observatory, was expected to lecture this week 

 at Wellesley College, on ' The Motions of the 

 Solar System through Space.' 



