May 29, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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marine life has been provided. Board may 

 be procured near the laboratory for $18.00 

 per month. Collectors and investigators are 

 especially invited. For further particulars 

 apply to Professor H. A. Morgan, Louisiana 

 State University, Baton Eouge, La. 



We learn from the Geographical Journal 

 that an association for the advancement of 

 scientific research in the Adriatic has been 

 founded in Vienna. At the inaugural meet- 

 ing, which was held in the university on 

 March 24, the proceedings were opened by the 

 Eector of the University of Vienna, Hofrath 

 Gussenbauer, and after a speech by the presi- 

 dent of the new association. Count Vetter von 

 der Lilie, Professor Berthold Hatschek de- 

 livered an address on ' Marine Research.' The 

 work of the association, which will cooperate 

 with the Government biological station at 

 Trieste, will in the first instance consist in 

 establishing and maintaining a marine aqua- 

 rium at Trieste, and in fitting out a suitable 

 steam-vessel for the scientific exploration of 

 the northern part of the Adriatic. 



The London Times states that a report has 

 been received by the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine from the Senegambia ex- 

 pedition. Dr. Dutton and Dr. Todd, writing 

 from McCarthy Island in the Gambia, state 

 ■definitely that trypanosomiasis is prevalent 

 over the whole of the British colony of the 

 Gambia. They have now completed the ex- 

 amination of over 1,000 natives. They have 

 also discovered that trypanosomiasis is ex- 

 tremely common among all the horses there, 

 and is chiefly responsible for the great mortal- 

 ity "in those animals. Dr. Dutton and Dr. 

 Todd have now left the Gambia to continue 

 their researches into the disease in the French 

 Senegal settlement, which adjoins that of the 

 British. 



Foreign journals state that the Viceroy of 

 India will devote the donation of £20,000 from 

 Mr. Henry Phipps to two objects, a laboratory 

 for agricultural research, to be called the 

 Phipps Laboratory, which will probably be 

 situated at Dehra Dun, and the provision of 

 a second ' Pasteur institute in the south of 

 India similar to that at Kasauli. The dona- 



tion will be devoted to the requisite build- 

 ings, while the site will in both cases be pro- 

 vided by government, which will also in the 

 first case contribute to and in the second 

 undertake the cost of maintaining the insti- 

 tution. 



SiE J. Wolfe Barry, chairman of the en- 

 gineering standards committee, writes to the 

 London Times, pointing out that the lists of 

 rolled sections recently issued deal only with 

 the sections used in ships, bridges, general 

 building construction and underframes of 

 railway rolling stock. These cover but a 

 small portion of the work which is being 

 carried out by the committee. In addition 

 to the above subjects, the following subcom- 

 mittees are at work on equally important 

 matters and will shortly report to the main 

 committee. (1) Three committees on rails 

 and tires engaged in drawing up a series of 

 standard railway and tramway rails for use 

 in this country and the colonies. (2) Four 

 committees on the standardization of loco- 

 motives, which question, in so far as it relates 

 to Indian locomotives, has been officially re- 

 ferred to the Engineering Standards Commit- 

 tee by the government of India. (3) Four 

 committees on the question of the standard- 

 ization of electrical plant. The standardiza- 

 tion of pipe flanges will also before long be 

 taken in hand, in cooperation with the Insti- 

 tution of Mechanical Engineers. Another 

 sphere of the committee's operations (only as 

 yet commenced) will be the issuing of stand- 

 ard specifications and standard tests for ma- 

 terials. 



We learn from the Geographical Journal 

 that at its annual meeting, the Eussian Geo- 

 graphical Society awarded its Constantine 

 gold medal to P. K. Kozloff for his last re- 

 searches and geodetieal measurements in 

 Tibet, his excellent maps, and most valuable 

 zoological and botanical collections. The 

 Count Liitke medal was awarded to N. M. 

 Knipovich, for his researches in the Arctic 

 Ocean, and to N. A. Sokoloff, for his geolog- 

 ical and geographical work. The large gold 

 medals of the section of ethnography were 

 awarded to Professor V. A. Zhukovsky, for 



