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vent secondary infection, and thus far there 

 have been no cases from such infection. 



There is no epidemic, no panic, and no 

 ' infected ' district. The chief lesson lies in 

 the need of closer inspection of the habits and 

 methods of dairymen and gardeners vs^ho come 

 from the south of Europe. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The following fifteen candidates have been 

 selected by the council of the Eoyal Society 

 to be recommended for election into the so- 

 ciety: Dr. William Maddock Bayliss, Pro- 

 fessor Thomas William Bridge, Dr. Sydney 

 Monckton Copeman, Mr. Horace Darwin, Mr. 

 William Philip Hiern, Mr. Henry Eeginald 

 Arnulph Mallock, Professor David Orme Mas- 

 son, Mr. Arthur George Perkin, Professor 

 Ernest Rutherford, Professor Ralph Allen 

 Sampson, Mr. John Edward Stead, Mr. Au- 

 brey Strahan, Professor Johnson Symington, 

 Professor John S. Townsend and Mr. Alfred 

 North Whitehead. 



M. DE FoRCEAND has been elected a corres- 

 ponding member of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences in the section of chemistry, in the 

 I'oom of the late M. Reboul. 



The contest of the election for the post of 

 secretary to the Zoological Society of Lon- 

 don has ended in an undoubted victory for 

 the supporters of Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, 

 who have occasionally been spoken of as the 

 ' reform party.' The poll was unprecedent- 

 edly large and the numbers were: Mitchell, 

 530; Sclater, 336. Whatever views one may 

 hold as to the respective merits of the candi- 

 dates, it is at least satisfactory that the ques- 

 tion has been settled in so definite a manner, 

 as this will conduce to much greater stability 

 in the future conduct of the society's affairs, 

 and the storms that have raged over the con- 

 test are likely to calm down all the sooner. 



Professor L. M. Underwood, of Columbia 

 University, is still in Jamaica. He will visit 

 Dominica and other islands of the Windward 

 group, after which he will go to Europe to 

 study ferns in English and continental botan- 

 ical gardens and museums. 



Dr. J. Playpair McMurrich, professor of 

 anatomy at the University of Michigan, has 

 accepted a commission from the Royal Acad- 

 emy of Prussia and the government of Hol- 

 land to examine and identify certain species 

 of animal life. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick, assistant curator of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, has received 

 leave of absence for four months, with the ob- 

 ject of investigating the fossil plants of 

 Alaska in order to determine certain geolog- 

 ical horizons through the aid of paleobotany. 



Harlan I. Smith, of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, has gone to North 

 Yakima, Washington, where he has begun 

 work on the archeology of the Columbia Val- 

 ley in continuance of his general archeological 

 reconnoissance of the northwest. 



Forest B. H. Brown, a member of the 

 senior class in the University of Michigan, 

 has been appointed to conduct an investiga- 

 tion under the direction of the Michigan 

 state geological survey of the plant societies 

 of Monroe and Washtenaw counties, Mich- 

 igan, with reference to their historical suc- 

 cession and their relation to water supply. 



Dr. George S. Fullerton, professor of phi- 

 losophy in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 has gone to Germany and will spend the sum- 

 mer at Munich. 



We learn from The British Medical Journal 

 that Mr. A. G. E. Foulerton has resigned the 

 position of director of the Cancer Research 

 I^aboratories, a position which he has held for 

 the last three years. The weekly board of 

 the hospital has decided on the appointment of 

 a director who will be required to devote the 

 whole of his time to the work of the Cancer 

 Research Laboratories. Mr. Foulerton will 

 continue his service to the hospital as direct- 

 or of the Clinical and Bacteriological Labo- 

 ratories. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie presided at the an- 

 nual dinner of the British Iron and Steel In- 

 stitute on May 8. Addresses were made by 

 Mr. Balfour, the Duke of Devonshire, Sir 

 Henry Campbell Bannerman and others. 



The following have been nominated as vice- 

 presidents of the Royal Institution, London, 



