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leave foot Whitehall St., 1 : 30 p. m.; guide, 

 Mrs. Britton. Oct. 24, Eichmond Hill, L. I., 

 L. I. R. R.; leave foot East 34th St., 12 : 50 p. 

 m.; guide, Mr. McCallum. Oct. 31, Pelham- 

 ville, N. Y., N. H. and H. R. R., 1 : 30 p. m.; 

 guide, Mr. Ericson. 



The President and Secretary of the American 

 Physiological Society have sent out an announce- 

 ment calling attention to the fact that, at the 

 Baltimore meeting of the Society in 1894, it was 

 recommended that ' The Internal Secretion of 

 Glands ' be selected as a suitable subject for pub- 

 lic discussion by the Society at the next Medi- 

 cal Congress to be held in Washington in the 

 spring of 1897. At the meeting held in Phila- 

 delphia in 1895 it was voted that the President 

 of the Physiological Society be empowered to 

 communicate with the Association of American 

 Physicans regarding a joint public session of the 

 two Societies at the Medical Congress of 1897. 

 In accordance with these instructions communi- 

 cation was had with the Association of Ameri- 

 can Physicians, with the result that the latter 

 body has decided to join with our Society in a 

 public discussion of the above subject at the 

 Medical Congress of 1897. The details of this 

 joint session, so far as the Physiological Society 

 is concerned, are to be arranged by the Council 

 of the Society ; but members of the Society are 

 reminded of the importance of carrying out re- 

 search along the lines covered by the subject 

 chosen for discussion, and it is suggested that 

 the results might be reported on at the Decem- 

 l»er meeting. 



A MEETING of the Texas Academy of Sciences 

 was held on October 2d, at which the annual 

 address by the President of the Society, Dr. J. 

 Bruce Halsted, was given, the subject being 

 ' Life and Science in Russia. ' 



The American Institute of Electrical En- 

 gineers held its first meeting for the season on 

 September 30th. The President, Mr. Lewis 

 Duncan, made an address on 'The Present 

 Status of Power Transmission.' 



A COURSE of eight lectures, mainly upon 

 science and travel, has been arranged by the 

 Feld Columbian Museum for Saturday after- 

 noons in October and November. The lectures 

 are as follows: Oct. 3, 'Archaeological Explora- 



tions in Peru,' Dr. G. A. Dorsey, Assistant 

 Curator of Anthropology, Field Columbian 

 Museum. Oct. 10, 'A Trip to Popocatapetl 

 and Ixtaccihuatl,' Prof. O. C. Farrington, 

 Curator of Geology, Field Columbian Museum. 

 Oct. 17, 'San Domingo,' Mr. G. K. Cherrie, 

 Assistant Curator of Ornithology, Field Colum- 

 bian Museum. Oct. 24, ' Egypt and What We 

 Know of Her,' Dr. J. H, Breasted, Instructor 

 in Egyptology and Semitics, University of 

 Chicago. Oct. 31, ' The Petroleum Industry,' 

 Dr. D. T. Day, Chief of Division of Mineral 

 Resources, U. S. Geological Survey. Nov. 7, 

 'Alaska and its Inhabitants,' Prof. George 

 L. Collie, Beloit College, Wis. Nov. 14, 

 'The Economic Geology of the Sea,' Mr. H. 

 W. Nichols, Curator of Economic Geology, 

 Field Columbian Museum. Nov. 21, 'The 

 Physical Geography of New England,' Dr. H. 

 B. Kiimmel, Assistant Professor of Physiogra- 

 phy, Lewis Institute. 



The daily papers state that the great engi- 

 neering work of removing the obstruction in 

 the Danube known as the Iron Gates, between 

 Alt-Orsova, in Hungary, and Gladova, in Ser- 

 via, has been finally accomplished, and on Sep- 

 tember 11th the river was opened to navigation 

 with elaborate ceremonies by Emperor Francis 

 Joseph, accompanied by the Kings of Rumania 

 and Servia. The program included a proces- 

 sion of steamers through the Iron Gate. 



The Report of the Tenth Annual Meeting of 

 the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Physical Education contains a number of 

 papers on anthropometry. The Association, 

 through its Committee on Anthropometry and 

 Statistics, is doing a good work in systematizing 

 and improving the anthropometric methods ap- 

 plied in gymnasia. The following are the titles 

 of anthropometrical papers in the present vol- 

 ume : 'Anthropometry Individualized,' hj 

 David P. Lincoln, a plea for investigating the 

 laws of growth by studying the growth of indi- 

 viduals, rather than by the generalizing method, 

 'The Growth of Boys,' by Schuyler P. Moon, a 

 discussion of the proportions of the body during 

 the period of growth. Bowditch's ' Law of 

 Growth and What it Teaches,' by E. M. Hart- 

 well, in which attention is drawn to the correla- 



