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' Forests and Forestry in the United States.' (A 

 brief sketch of forest conditions in the United States, 

 and history of the movement to establish forest man- 

 agement. ) 



The following table, originally published in 

 the Baltimore Sim, gives the maximum temper- 

 atures during the months of July in several 

 diflferent cities : 



On or about September 1, 1901, the Bird 

 Club of Princeton University will publish its 

 first Bulletin, edited by Mr. Wm. E. D. Scott, 

 curator of ornithology, Princeton University. 

 It will contain an annotated list of the birds of 

 Princeton and vicinity, by William Arthur 

 Babson, B.S., 1901. This list is the result of 

 four years of scientific observation and study of 

 the birds of Princeton. The Bulletin will con- 

 tain about seventy or eighty pages, will be 

 plainly bound in paper and will be sold for one 

 dollar. 



The Regents of the University of Colorado 

 have ordered the publication of an annual to 

 be called the ' University of Colorado Studies.' 

 It will contain papers from the various schools 

 and departments — the result of experiment and 

 investigation during the year. The first num- 

 ber will be issued soon. 



The council of the Institution of Electrical 

 Engineers arranged a fortnight's visit of the 

 members to Germany, where the leading in- 

 stallations and establishments connected with 

 the science and pi-actise of electricity were in- 

 spected. The party was divided into three sec- 

 tions, the first of which visited Berlin only, 

 whilst the second visited Berlin and Dresden, 

 and the third Nliremburg, Frankfurt-on-Maine, 

 etc., in addition to the foregoing j)laces. 



The work of the new anti-toxine laboratory of 

 the N, Y. Department of Health, the establish- 

 ment of which was provided for by the late Leg- 

 islature, has begun. The scientific part of the 

 work will be done in a part of the Bender Lab- 

 oratory Building, Albany. Dr. H. D. Pease, of 

 the Shefiield Scientific School, has been ap- 

 pointed director. An animal house is to be 

 fitted up near the laboratory so as to secure the 

 most perfect hygienic conditions attainable for 

 such purposes. It will bouse about fifteen 

 horses for the manufacture of serum. The lab- 

 oratory will supply state institutions with diph- 

 theria and other anti-toxines. 



Surgeon General Wyman, of the marine 

 hospital service, has sent to the supervising 

 architect of the treasury a request that plans 

 be prepared for a laboratory for the marine hos- 

 pital service. Congress, by the act approved 

 March 3, 1901, appropriated $35,000 for the 

 buildings. A two-story main building and an 

 animal house will be erected. The basement 

 of the main building will contain heating ap- 

 paratus, storage room for fuel, incinerator and 

 store rooms ; the first story will have one office 

 room, library, quai'ters for attendant, rooms for 

 the study of rabies, special investigating room, 

 disinfecting room of 1,000 cubic feet and a room 

 for micro-photography, with a dark room. The 

 second story will have two special laboratory 

 rooms, one office, animal room and two labora- 

 tory rooms of large dimensions. The animal 



