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of a good petrographer and an experienced 

 paleontologist. Inquiries maj' be addressed 

 to Mr. McCaskey at Fort Sheridan, 111. 



There will be a civil service examination on 

 November 11, to fill the position of assistant 

 in soil management. Bureau of Soils, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, at an annual salary of 

 $1,000 to $1,400 a year. 



A MEETING was held at Tacoma, Washing- 

 ton, on October 7, to protest against the gov- 

 ernment's policy of increasing the reserves in 

 the northwest. The meeting was addressed 

 by Mr. Gifiord Pinchot, chief of the Bureau of 

 Forestry, who promised that no unnecessary 

 restrictions should be placed on opening the 

 forest reserves to agriculture or to the proper 

 cutting of timber. 



The Iowa Anthropological Association has 

 been organized with headquarters at Iowa 

 City. Duren J. H. Ward, Ph.D., is the secre- 

 tary. An anthropological survey of the state 

 is already under way. 



At the last annual meeting of the American 

 Electro-Therapeutic Association, held at At- 

 lantic City, N. J., on September 22, 23 and 

 24, 1903, the following officers were elected: 

 President, Alonso David Eockwell, A.M., M.D., 

 New York, N. Y. ; First Vice-President, Willis 

 Parsons Spring, A.B., M.D., Minneapolis, 

 Minn.; Second Vice-President, William 

 Winslow Eaton, A.M., M.D., Danvers, Mass.; 

 Treasurer, Eichard Joseph Nunn, M.D., Sa- 

 vannah, Ga.; Secretary, Clarence Edward 

 Skinner, M.D., LL.D., New Haven, Conn. 

 The next annual meeting will be held at St. 

 Louis, Mo., on September 13, 14, 15 and 16, 

 1904. 



A SOCIETY for the study of tropical medicine 

 has been organized at Philadelphia, with Dr. 

 Thomas H. Fenton as president, and Dr. 

 Joseph McFarland as secretary. 



An International Sanitary Congress for 

 the Adoption of Means of Defense against 

 Cholera and the Plague opened at Paris on 

 October 10. Representatives of twenty-fivo 

 powers were present, including Surgeon An- 

 derson, United States Navy, medical inspector 

 of the United States European station; Col. 



Oorgas, formerly chief sanitary officer of the 

 United States at Havana, and Dr. Giddings, 

 representing the United States. 



An International Congress of Ophthalmol- 

 ogy will be held at Lucerne, Switzerland, in 

 September, 1904. 



At the conclusion of the meeting of the 

 Iron and Steel Lietitute at Barrow-in-Furness, 

 Mr. Charles Kirchhoff tendered on behalf oi 

 the American members of the institute an in- 

 vitation to hold its next annual meeting in 

 New York. The invitation, which was en- 

 dorsed by the American Institute of Mining 

 Engineers and other important bodies, was 

 accepted on behalf of the institute by Mr. 

 Andrew Carnegie. It is now proposed that the 

 autumn meeting shall take place in New 

 York on October 24, 25 and 26 next year. 

 After the meeting there will be an excursion 

 to Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburg, Cleve- 

 land, Niagara Falls, Buffalo and the St. Louis 

 Exposition, returning to New York on Novem- 

 ber 10. The institute had a similar trip in 

 1890. 



An International Congress of School Hy- 

 giene will be held at Nuremberg, Germany, 

 on April 4—9, 1904. All persons interested in 

 this subject are eligible to membership, after 

 approval by the local committee. There will 

 be ten sections, as follows: (1) Hygiene of 

 the school building and its appointments. (2) 

 Hygiene of boarding schools. (3) Methods 

 of hygienic research. (4) Hygiene of the 

 mental education. (5) Hygienic instructions 

 for masters and pupils. (6) Bodily training 

 of pupils. (Y) Illness, minor ailments, and 

 medical attendance in schools. (8) Children 

 of weak intellect, and schools for their benefit ; 

 courses for stutterers, for the blind, deaf and 

 dumb ; schools for cripples. (9) Hygiene of 

 the scholars after school hours, holiday 

 camps and organization of evening instruc- 

 tion in school-hygiene for parents. (10) Hy- 

 giene of the teachers. The American mem- 

 bers of the committee are President Nicholas 

 Murray Butler of Columbia University, Pro- 

 fessor W. T. Porter of the Harvard Medical 

 School, and Professor John A. Bergstrom of 

 the University of Indiana. 



