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time. Eligibles are desired at this time to 

 fill a vacancy in the position of scientific aid 

 (male), with a knowledge of agricultural 

 statistics, in the Bureau of Statistics, at $480 

 per annum, and other similar vacancies as 

 they may occur. For the vacancy mentioned, 

 only such applications will be considered as 

 are filed with the commission at Washington 

 prior to the hour of closing business on No- 

 vember 30, 1904. Applicants must be gradu- 

 ates of colleges in courses of study tending 

 to qualify them for the scientific work of the 

 Department of Agriculture. They are not 

 assembled for this examination, but must sub- 

 mit all the required material with their appli- 

 cations. 



The New York Historical Society has re- 

 ceived a gift of about $200,000 toward its 

 new building to be erected on Central Park 

 West between Seventy-sixth and Seventy- 

 seventh Street. 



The French government proposes to estab- 

 lish a museum of industrial hygiene. 



Mr. Seddon, the premier of New Zealand, 

 has introduced a bill to prevent tlie further 

 exportation of Maori antiquities from that 

 colony. The penalty is fixed at £100. 



Mylius Ericksen's expedition, after two 

 years and a half exploration of Greenland, 

 returned on November 6 to Copenhagen. It 

 is said that valuable ethnological records have 

 been collected, the explorers having lived with 

 the natives, studying their language and cus- 

 toms. 



The College of Physicians of Philadelphia 

 announces that the next award of the Alvar- 

 enga prize, amounting to about one hundred 

 and eighty dollars, will be made on July 14, 

 1905. Essays may be on any subject in medi- 

 cine, but can not have been published. They 

 must be received by the secretary of the col- 

 lege. Dr. Thomas E. Neilson, on or before 

 May 1, 1905. 



The South African Philosophical Society 

 has asked for a charter under the name of 

 the Eoyal Society of South Africa. 



The National Association of State Uni- 

 versity Presidents met last week at Des 

 Moines, la. 



The twenty-second congress of the Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union will convene in 

 Cambridge, Mass., on Monday, November 28, 

 at 8 P.M. The evening session will be de- 

 voted to the election of officers and the trans- 

 action of other routine business. The meet- 

 ings, open to the public and devoted to the 

 reading and discussion of scientific papers, 

 will be held in the Nash lecture-room, Univer- 

 sity Museum, Oxford St., beginning on Tues- 

 day, November 29, and continuing for three 

 days. Information regarding the congress 

 can be had by addressing the secretary, Mr. 

 John H. Sage, Portland, Conn. 



The fourth Pan-American Medical Con- 

 gress will meet in Panama during the first 

 week in January. According to the New 

 York Medical- Record, the Panama govern- 

 ment has appropriated $25,000 for the scien- 

 tific sessions and the entertainments. The 

 afternoons will be devoted to the scientific 

 sessions and the mornings and evenings to 

 trips and social functions. So far as can be 

 learned, the program in Panama will be a 

 reception on the first day by President 

 Amador, and the formal opening session of 

 the congress the same evening. On the sec- 

 ond day, an excursion to the canal in the 

 morning, meeting of the various sections in 

 the afternoon, and a banquet in the evening. 

 On the third day, an excursion down the bay 

 to Taboga Island, where a Panama breakfast 

 will be served, scientific sessions in the after- 

 noon, and a ball in the evening. On the 

 fourth day, an excursion to the U. S. army 

 barra-cks in the morning, section meetings in 

 the afternoon, and the formal closing session 

 in the evening. On the fifth day, an excursion 

 to the plantation of the United Pruit Com- 

 pany; and on the afternoon of this day, those 

 who intend going to Cuba by way of Jamaica 

 to attend the meeting of the Public Health 

 Association, will sail for Kingston, while 

 those who intend going by way of Vera Cruz, 

 or returning home by way of New Orleans or 

 New York, will remain until the following 

 Tuesday. 



The School of Demonstration in Plant and 

 Animal Breeding conducted at St. Louis un- 



