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[N. S. Vol. XX. No. 522. 



Friday, February 10. — Dr. B. H. Warren, Com- 

 missioner of the Dairy and Food Division of the 

 Department of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa., 

 ' The Adulteration of Food Commodities and 

 Pennsylvania's Method of Suppressing the Grow- 

 ing Evil.' 



Friday, February 17. — ^Mr. W. N. Jennings, 

 Philadelphia, ' Snap-Shots in Florida and Cuba.' 



The executive board of the association for 

 Maintaining the American Women's Table 

 at the Zoological Station at Naples and for 

 promoting Scientific Research by Women 

 wishes to call attention to the opportunities 

 for research in zoology, botany and physiology 

 provided by the foundation of this table. 

 Each appointee of the association vyho has 

 occupied the table for at least three consec- 

 utive months, may receive the title of Scholar 

 of the Association, if, in the judgment of the 

 executive board, she is entitled to this dis- 

 tinction. The appointments are made by the 

 executive board vifitli the cooperation of a 

 board of advisers, to vrhom work presented as 

 evidence of research may be submitted. The 

 members of the present board of advisers are 

 Professor Ethan A. Andrews, of Johns Hop- 

 kins University, Professor E. IT. Chittenden, 

 of Yale University, and Dr. W. T. Porter, of 

 the Harvard Medical School. The year of 

 the association begins in April, and all appli- 

 cations for the year 1905 should be sent to 

 the secretary on or before March 1, 1905. 

 Application blanks and detailed information 

 in regard to the advantages at Naples for re- 

 search and collection of material will be fur- 

 nished by the secretary, Mrs. A. D. Mead, 283 

 Wayland Ave., Providence, E. I. 



Nature says : " The sale of Chartley Park, 

 Staffordshire, the hereditary seat of Lord 

 Ferrers, involves also a change of ownership 

 of the remnant of the celebrated herd of white 

 cattle which have been kept there for the 

 last 700 years. It is much to be regretted 

 that the cattle could not have gone with the 

 park, and have been maintained there by the 

 new owner; but as this is not to be, it is to 

 be hoped that they will be given a safe home 

 elsewhere, where they will flourish and in- 

 crease. It was long considered that the herds 

 of wild cattle in various British parks were 

 direct descendants of the wild aurochs, but it 



is now generally admitted (largely owing to 

 the writings of Mr. Lydekker) that they are 

 derived from domesticated albino breeds nearly 

 allied to the Pembroke and other black Welsh 

 strains, some of which show a marked tend- 

 ency to _ albinism. This view, as pointed out 

 by a writer in the Times of November 29, is 

 strongly supported by the fact that the Chart- 

 ley cattle frequently produce black calves. 

 The theory advocated by a later writer in the 

 same journal that the British park cattle are 

 the descendants of a white sacrificial breed 

 introduced by the Romans rests upon no solid 

 basis. The Chartley cattle, believed to be re- 

 duced to nine head, are to be captured by the 

 purchaser — no easy task." 



The British Medical Journal states that 

 the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is 

 about to dispatch an expedition to study yellow 

 fever at the Brazilian town of Manaos, the 

 capital of the Amazonas province of the Re- 

 public. It is situated at the point where the 

 Rio Negro enters the river Amazon. Manoas 

 is a great center for the rubber trade. The 

 members of the expedition are Dr. Wolferton 

 Thomas (Canada) and Dr. Anton Brienl 

 (Prague). The same school is sending an 

 expedition, consisting of Professor Boyce, 

 F.R.S., Dr. Evans, and Dr. Clarke, to Sierra 

 Leone and the Gambia, and another, consist- 

 ing of Colonel Giles, I.M.S., and Dr. Mac- 

 Connell (Canada), to the Gold Coast, Logas 

 and Nigeria. The members of the several ex- 

 peditions were introduced by Sir Alfred Jones, 

 the president of the school, to the Colonial 

 Secretary on December Y. Mr. Lyttelton said 

 that no service could be more acceptable and 

 honorable than that directed to making more 

 safe and useful tropical regions to which 

 Englishmen went to do the work of the 

 Empire. 



Nature states that the Danish Commission 

 for the Study of the Sea, which is charged 

 with carrying out the Danish portion of the 

 cooperative international investigations, has 

 issued the first memoirs of its report, which is 

 published under the title ' Meddelelser f ra 

 Kommissionen for Havunders^gelser." The 

 report, which is to be written in English or 

 German, and is issued in quarto form, uni- 



