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University, will carry on some investigations in 

 the vicinity of Port Antonio, Jamaica, during 

 the ensuing season, and that he has agreed to 

 cooperate with the Commission in the examina- 

 tion of the island. In the arrangement of plans 

 for the work of the Commission provision will 

 he made for a repetition of a portion of the tour 

 of investigation during the coming winter, in 

 order to appreciate more fully the climatic pos- 

 sibilities of the more promising localities. The 

 Journal o/ Botany, in an article expressing cor- 

 dial approval of the undertaking, advocates one 

 of the Lesser Antilles as the site of the labora- 

 tory, urging that a site in Mexico would be a 

 hindrance to cooperation on the part of bota- 

 nists in Great Britain on account of the length 

 of the journey. 



The Friday evening meetings of the Royal 

 Institution of Great Britain were resumed on 

 April 30th, when Professor J. J. Thomson gave 

 a discourse on ' Cathode Rays. ' Succeeding 

 discourses will probably be given by Professor 

 Harold Dixon, the Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, 

 Professor H. Moissan, Mr. W. H. Preece, Mr. 

 William Crookes and others. The Tyndall lec- 

 tures for 1897 are being given by Dr. Tempest 

 Anderson, his subject being 'Volcanoes.' 



The Royal Society will hold the first of its 

 two annual conversaziones on the evening of 

 May 19th. 



The ninety-fifth anniversary of the founding 

 of the Zoological Station at Naples was cele- 

 brated on April 14th. Addresses were made by 

 Professor Todaro, representing the University 

 of Rome and the Accademia dei Lincei by Dr. 

 Eisig, of the Station ; by Professor Waldeyer, 

 representing the Berlin Academy of Sciences, 

 and by Professor His, of Leipzig. Professor 

 Dohrn was presented with the freedom of the 

 city of Naples and the Grand Cordon of the 

 Crown of Italy. After the German Ambassador 

 had made a few remarks Professor Dohrn himself 

 gave an account of the origin and progress of 

 the laboratory whose work has been such an 

 important factor in the progress of biological in- 

 vestigation. 



Several members of the British Royal Com- 

 mission on Tuberculosis, including Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell, M. P. (Chairman), Mr. Harcourt 



E. Clare, Mr. John Speir and Mr. T. M. 

 Legge (Secretary), accompanied by Professor 

 M'Fadyean, started on April 22d for Brussels, 

 Cologne, Berlin and Leipzig, in order to investi- 

 gate the methods adopted on the Continent for 

 dealing with tuberculosed meat. The Belgian 

 and German Governments have made arrange- 

 ments to aid the Commissioners in the investi- 

 gations. The Commissioners expect to return 

 about the end of the second week in May. 



Invitations have been sent for the sixty- 

 fifth annual meeting of the British Medical As- 

 sociation, to be held at Montreal. The program 

 is as follows: August 31st, 12 a. m. — Services 

 in the English Cathedral. 2:30 p. m. — Wind- 

 sor Hall, opening ceremonies and addresses of 

 welcome. 3 p. m. — Address by the President- 

 elect, T. G. Roddick, M.D., M.P. 4 p. m.— 

 Garden parties, excursions around the moun- 

 tain, etc. 9 p. m. — Soiree at Laval University. 

 September 1st, 1. p. m. — McGill University, 

 openings of sections (eleven in all). 3 p. m. — 

 Windsor Hall : Address in medicine, by Dr. 

 Wm. Osier. 4. p. m. — Excursion down the St. 

 Lawrence, etc. 9. p. m. — Sohmer Park, con- 

 versazione and dance. September 2d, 9:30 p. 

 m. — McGill University, sectional meetings. 

 1:30 p. m. — Lunch on the mountain. 3:30 p. 

 m. — Windsor hall, address in surgery, by Mr. 

 T. Mitchell Banks. 4:30 p. m. — Excursion 

 across the Island, etc. 7:45 p. m. — ^Annual 

 dinner of the Association, Windsor Hall. Sep- 

 tember 3d, 9:30 a. m. — McGill University, 

 sectional meetings. 3 p. m. — ^Windsor Hall, 

 address in public medicine by Herman M. Biggs 

 and concluding general meeting. 4:15 p. m. — 

 Excursion to St. Anne's and down the Lachine 

 Rapids. 9 p. m. — Soiree at McGill University. 

 September 4th. — Excursion to Ottawa, Quebec, 

 Kingston, St. Agathe, Lake Memphremagog, 

 etc. 



Cambridge University has made a slight 

 provision for the study of experimental psy- 

 chology, but the science is very inadequately 

 represented in Great Britain as compared with 

 Germany, the United States and France or even 

 with countries such as Russia, Switzerland, 

 Italy, Belgium and Denmark. We are glad to 

 learn that an eflTort is now being made to intro- 



