October 14, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



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mobile, and the establiskment of a review of 

 agricultural mechanics. 



The exhibition of the Institute of Hygiene, 

 recently opened in London, differs, according 

 to the Times, from any exhibition previously 

 held. It is under the auspices of a medical 

 council and is controlled by medical experts. 

 The intrinsic value of every exhibit is inves- 

 tigated by an examining board. Exhibits only 

 of a high standard of merit are admitted. 

 Every product, article, or appliance passed by 

 the board is ' hall-marked ' as to its purity, 

 quality and excellence. Great care is exer- 

 cised in maintaining the standard of exhibits 

 — alike in the interest of the public health as 

 of the exhibitors. It is recognized that any 

 exhibit passed by the examining board may be 

 used and recommended by medical practition- 

 ers. A certificate is granted to exhibitors by 

 the institute, which constitutes a valuable 

 award of merit. The exhibition is intended — 

 (1) to supply medical men with practical in- 

 formation so as to enable them to keep abreast 

 of the times in regard to the value and prog- 

 ress made in the various manufactured prod- 

 ucts and articles which affect health; (2) to 

 supply matrons and nurses with useful knowl- 

 edge in regard to those products and appli- 

 ances required by invalids; (3) to supply the 

 general public, and especially that large and 

 increasing number who take an interest in 

 dietetics, clothing, appliances and articles 

 which are correlated with the health of the 

 person or the home, with authoritative infor- 

 mation as to their value and use. The exhibi- 

 tion is situated in Devonshire street, Harley 

 street, in the west end of London and in the 

 heart of the chief medical center of the coun- 

 try. Sample spaces only are allotted to ex- 

 hibitors, so as to enable a large number and 

 great variety of exhibits to be on view. The 

 exhibition is a permanent one — open daily 

 throughout the year, and is free to the public 

 as well as to the medical profession. 



The Experiment Station Record states that 

 the order establishing the soil and fertilizer 

 laboratory in the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, has been abro- 

 gated, and in lieu of this laboratory one to be 



known as the plant analysis laboratory has 

 been established. The laboratory is charged 

 with the examination of fertilizers and will 

 collaborate in this work with the referees of 

 the Association of Official Agricultural Chem- 

 ists, and with the investigation of the consti- 

 tution of plants. It is authorized to collab- 

 orate with the Bureau of Plant Industry in 

 the chemical investigation of problems in 

 which the two bureaus are mutually interested. 

 A leather and paper laboratory and a micro- 

 chemical laboratory have also been established 

 in this bureau. The latter is charged with 

 micro-chemical investigations relating to the 

 investigations of the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 and especially the examination of food pro- 

 ducts with respect to their composition and 

 adulteration. To the leather and paper labo- 

 ratory will be assigned analyses and investiga- 

 tions relating to tannins and tanning material, 

 all technical problems of a chemical nature 

 relating to the production of leather, chemical 

 and physical examinations of papers with ref- 

 erence to their fitness for use in this and other 

 departments, and problenis relating to the pro- 

 duction of paper with a view to promoting the 

 agricultural industries connected with the pro- 

 duction of the raw materials and to the im- 

 provement of the quality of papers made. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is said that Tale University will receive 

 by the will of Mr. Levi Clinton Veits the sum 

 of about $200,000. 



The veterinary department of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania has received an anony- 

 mous gift of $100,000. 



Columbia University has received a gift of 

 $16,250 from Mr. H. E. Garth for the estab- 

 lishment of a scholarship, and $10,000 from an 

 anonymous donor for the purchase of books. 



It is said that the University of Chicago 

 has received $250,000 for a building for the 

 divinity school. 



According to the Boston Transcript, the 

 Tale University Museum has received from 

 the Eoyal Museum of Decorative and Indus- 

 trial Arts at Brussels a large gift of antiqui- 

 ties collected in southern Spain. The collec- 



