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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVII. No. 434. 



The board of aldermen of New York City 

 have voted $75,000 for the New York Zoolog- 

 ical Society for the erection of a new ostrich 

 house and for quarters for the mammals. 



At the session of the legislature of the 

 state of New Jersey, which has just ended, 

 provision was made to carry out the law 

 parsed the year previously, which authorized 

 an investigation into the habits of the mos- 

 quitoes infesting the state, and experiments 

 looking towards their destruction. An appro- 

 priation of nine thousand dollars was made, 

 of which five thousand is available during the 

 current season and four thousand during the 

 season of 1904. The investigation is placed 

 in charge of the State Experiment Station, 

 and Professor John B. Smith has been ap- 

 pointed to make it. Active field work is al- 

 ready in progress and much has been learned 

 concerning the early habits of some of the 

 species infesting marsh lands. It is intended 

 to devote most of the time during the present 

 year to the coastal areas and to the outskirts 

 of the larger cities. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has offered Cleve- 

 land $250,000 for the establishment of seven 

 branch libraries, providing the city gives the 

 sites and an annual appropriation of $25,000 

 a year. The library board has accepted the 

 offer. 



Two research studentships, of the value of 

 £150 a year each — one in physics and one in 

 biology — ^will be awarded this year by the 

 Royal Society. Applications are to be made 

 by June 1 to the assistant secretary of the 

 Eoyal Society, Burlington House, London, W. 



The Danish parliament has appropriated 

 $1,000,000 for new buildings for the Medical 

 School and Hospital of the University of 

 Copenhagen. 



Eeuter's Agency is informed that Dr. T. 

 Eubin, of TJpsala, the leader of the scientific 

 expedition which has been despatched to 

 Africa by the British South Africa Company, 

 has left England. He was accompanied by 

 Dr. Stoehr, the medical ofiicer. After con- 

 ferring with Sir David Gill, the astronomer- 

 royal at Cape Town, Dr. Rubin and the other 

 members of the expedition, who will join him 



in South Africa, will leave for Chinde en 

 route for Fort Jameson. He will then confer 

 with the administrator of Northeast Rho- 

 desia, and at once proceed to the work of the 

 geodetic survey. 



Four members of the German Antarctic 

 expedition, which left Germany in August, 

 1901, have arrived at Sydney, N. S. W., from 

 Kerguelen Island, where during eighteen 

 months this detached party, under the leader- 

 ship of Dr. Werth, pursued its investigations. 



The marine laboratory of the Zoological 

 Department of the University of California 

 which has been located at San Pedro, Cali- 

 fornia, during the past two years, will be 

 moved to San Diego for the next year. The 

 investigations carried on during the coming 

 year by the laboratory will be chiefly on the 

 plankton of San Diego Bay and the adjacent 

 waters. Funds for carrying on the work of 

 the station are furnished by the chamber of 

 commerce of San Diego. 



A NEW botanical and horticultural labora- 

 tory which has been established by the Royal 

 Botanic Society in connection with its school 

 in Regent's Park was opened on April 1. The 

 building, which has been fitted up, will ac- 

 commodate about thirty students. 



We learn from the London Times that the 

 program of the annual meeting of the Iron and 

 Steel Institute of Great Britain (to be held at 

 Westminster on May 1 and 8) promises to be 

 more than usually interesting. Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie's inaugural address will deal with the 

 great organizations of capital and labor in 

 the world, and particularly with reference to 

 American industrial problems. Mr. Carnegie 

 will also present Sir James Kitson, M.P., with 

 the Bessemer gold medal for his services to 

 the iron and steel industries of Great Britain. 

 The work of the research scholars endowed 

 by Mr. Carnegie will also be submitted. The 

 following papers will be read: Mr. Talbot, of 

 Leeds, will give the results obtained by 

 making steel from a 200-ton furnace by a 

 continuous process; Mr. Keller, of Paris, will 

 describe the successful manufacture of steel 

 in the electric furnace; and C von Schwarz, 

 of Liege, will show how blast furnace slag 



