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the Association offers the following prizes, to be 

 called the Fred. P. Pullar Memorial Prizes, pro- 

 vided by Sir John Murray, the honorary presi- 

 dent of the Association, in memory of the late 

 Fred P. Pullar, who was associated with him 

 in the Bathymetrical Survey of the Scottish 

 Fresh Water Lochs, who took much interest in 

 the Millport Marine Station, and who lost his 

 life in the unfortunate ice accident on Airthrey 

 Loch, Bridge of Allan, on the 15th of February, 

 1901. 



1. A prize of £50 for a paper on ' The Seasonable 

 Distribution and Development in the Pelagic Algse 

 in the Waters of the Clyde Sea Area. ' 



2. A prize of £50 for a paper on ' The Eeproduc- 

 tion, Development and Distribution of the Clyde Sea 

 Area of the Genera Nyctiphanes and Boreophausia.' 



3. A prize of £50 for a paper on ' The Formation 

 and Distribution of Glauconite in tlie deposits of the 

 Clyde Sea Area and the adjacent seas of Scotland.' 

 These prizes are open to investigators from any 

 part of the world who conduct observations in 

 the several subjects at the Millport Marine Sta- 

 tion, and who produce, at any time before 

 January 1, 1905, papers which, in the opinion 

 of a committee of three scientific men, to be 

 nominated by the committee of the Association 

 and by Sir John Murray, shall be deemed of 

 sufficient value to merit publication. Those 

 proposing to work for any one of these prizes 

 should make known their intention to the sec- 

 retary of the Association in order that the 

 necessary arrangements may be made. 



At the last session of Congress the medical 

 corps of the Army was increased from 192 to 

 321, and examinations for appointments as as- 

 sistant surgeons in the U. S. Army will be re- 

 sumed in Washington on September 2. The 

 salary is $1,600 per year, gradually increasing 

 until after twenty years it amounts to $2,500 

 and may be more if promotion to the position 

 of lieutenant-colonel follows. The medical 

 officers of the Army are also allowed free quar- 

 ters, traveling expenses, instruments, books, 

 etc. Candidates must have had a year's hos- 

 pital experience or two years of private prac- 

 tice and must not be more than twenty-nine 

 years of age. Details in regard to the exami- 

 nation can be obtained from the Surgeon-Gen- 

 eral's office, Washington. 



The United States Civil Service Commission 

 announces that the examination which was an- 

 nounced to he held on September 3 for the 

 position of computer in the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey has been cancelled, for the reason that 

 the position for which the examination w'as to 

 have been held has been filled by the transfer 

 of a person already in the classified service. 



The organizing committee of the fourteenth 

 International Medical Congi'ess, which meets 

 at Madrid next April, held a meeting on June 

 11, at which plans were discussed and promises 

 of support given on behalf of the government 

 and the municipality. The work of the Con- 

 gress is to be divided into sixteen sections, as 

 follow^s : (1) Anatomy (anthropology, compara- 

 tive anatomy, embryology, descriptive anatomy, 

 normal histology and feratology) ; (2) physiol- 

 ogy, biological physics and chemistry ; (3) 

 general pathology, pathological anatomy and 

 bacteriology ; (4) therapeutics, pharmacology, 

 and materia medica ; (5) internal pathology ; 

 (6) neuropathology, mental diseases and 

 criminal anthropology ; (7) pediatry ; (8) der- 

 matology and syphilography ; (9) surgery and 

 surgical operations ; (10) ophthalmology ; (11) 

 otology, rhinology and laryngology ; (12) odon- 

 tology ; (13) obstetrics and gynaecology ; (14) 

 military and naval medicine and hygiene ; (15) 

 epidemiology and technical sanitary science ; 

 (16) forensic medicine. 



The foreign trade of the United States dur- 

 ing the fiscal year ended June 30 aggregated 

 in value $2,310,413,077, being an increase of 

 $65,988,811 compared with that of the previous 

 year. Of this total the exports comprised 

 $1,487,656,544, exceeding those of the previous 

 year by $97,173,462, and the imports aggre- 

 gated $822,756,533, being $27,184,651 less than 

 those for the fiscal year 1900. The balance of 

 trade in favor of the United States for that 

 period reached a total of $664,900,011, being 

 an increase of $120,359,113 over the balance for 

 the previous year. Under the new relations 

 with Hawaii and Porto Rico the commerce with 

 those islands is no longer included in the regu- 

 lar statement of the foreign commerce of the 

 United States. Had they been so included, as 

 has been the case in former years, the total 

 exports would have exceeded $1,500,000,000, 



