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the Chartered Company, who will place their 

 railways at their disposal, and, among other 

 things, take them by special train to the Zam- 

 besi, where they will stay at the new hotel 

 to be erected near Victoria Falls. Probably 

 the guests will leave England in a special 

 steamer. 



The second International Congress of 

 Mathematicians will be held at Heidelberg 

 in 1904. 



The Association for Promotion of Scien- 

 tific Eesearch by Women announces that ap- 

 plications should be received before March 1 

 for the American Women's Table at the 

 Zoological Station at Naples. Application 

 blanks for the use of candidates, items re- 

 lating to the expense of living at Naples, and 

 full information as to the advantages for re- 

 search at the station may be obtained from 

 the secretary. Miss Cornelia M. Clapp, Mount 

 Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. 



The House of Representatives has passed 

 the pure food bill introduced by Mr. Hep- 

 burn; it provides "for preventing the adul- 

 teration, misbranding, and imitation of foods, 

 beverages, candies, drugs and condiments be- 

 tween the States and in the District of Co- 

 lumbia and the Territories, and for regulating 

 inter-State traffic therein." It directs the 

 Secretary of Agriculture to organize the chem- 

 ical division of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture into a Bureau of Chemistry, which shall 

 be charged with the inspection of food and 

 drug products, and shall from tirae to time 

 analyze samples of foods and drugs offered for 

 sale. Traffic in adulterated or misbranded 

 goods is prohibited under penalty of a fine 

 not exceeding $200 for the first offense, and 

 for each subsequent offense a fine not exceed- 

 ing $300 or imprisonment not exceeding one 

 year or both. 



At a meeting of the Zoological Society of 

 London on November 18 Dr. Forsyth Major 

 read a paper on the specimens of the Okapi 

 that had recently arrived in Brussels from the 

 Congo Free State. The author stated that 

 these specimens, whilst presenting the same 

 specific characters as the specimens formerly 

 received by the Congo State authorities. 



showed conclusively that the male was alone 

 provided with horns, and that the mode of 

 their development was the same as in the 

 Giraffe. The Okapi seemed to be a more 

 generalized member of the Giraffidse than the 

 Giraffe, sharing not a few features of alliance 

 with the Upper Miocene Palceotragus {Samo- 

 therium). In several characters it was in- 

 termediate between the Giraffe and the fossil 

 forms; but, apart from these, some features 

 were pointed out in which it appeared to be 

 even more primitive than its fossil relatives. 

 These last characters went some way to 

 support the assumption that Africa was the 

 original home of the Giraffidae. 



The London Times states that the official 

 decision of Germany to take part in the Uni- 

 versal Exposition to be held in St. Louis in 

 1904 has long been assured. The delay in 

 making the announcement has been due wholly 

 to the exigencies of the domestic situation, 

 and to the depression in business prevailing 

 during the past two years. In fact, after the 

 visit of Prince Henry to St. Louis, the tender 

 by the Emperor of a statue of Frederick the 

 Great to the city of Washington, and the 

 changed attitude towards the Monroe doctrine, 

 recently apparent, participation on large lines 

 was certain. These have been an earnest of 

 the emperor's desire to please and conciliate 

 the Americans upon both the diplomatic and 

 personal sides. High politics has, however, 

 been only one of the influences behind this 

 decision. The principal idea has been that of 

 broadening the demand for German wares, 

 with the result that there is general concur- 

 rence in the opinion both as to the necessity 

 and the helpfulness which come from the most 

 perfect and varied displays at all the great 

 exhibitions. Even that at Paris in 1900 was 

 striking, following, though it did, the failure 

 to exhibit there at all in 1889. The great 

 Krupp firm, which has so distinctly been built 

 up to its present massive proportions by the 

 policy inaugurated at the Great Exhibition 

 of 1851 and since maintained without inter- 

 ruption, has really been the one potent ex- 

 ample. At the Chicago Exhibition of 1893 

 Germany expended about $800,000 upon its 



