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ing all back numbers, index and Beihefte, of the 

 present publishers, Gebrueder Gotthelft, of 

 Cassel. The journal is to be registered and a 

 limited company formed in Holland. Shares 

 will be sold to cover the purchase. Beginning 

 with January, 1902, it will be published by E. 

 J. Brill, of Leyden, with Dr. Uhlworm as 

 editor and Dr. Kohl as assistant. Annual 

 subscribers are to have equal rights with the 

 stockholders in conducting the business. The 

 Society elected Professor Karl Goebel of Mu- 

 nich, president, Professor F. O. Bower, of 

 Glasgow, vice-president and Dr. J. P. Lotsy, 

 Tjebodas, Java, secretary. The next meeting 

 is to be held in Vienna, three years hence. 

 Switzerland and France were most largely rep- 

 resented among the delegates present. The 

 United States were represented by Professor J. 

 C. Arthur, Dr. D. S. Johnson, Dr. F. E. Lloyd, 

 Mr. W. Murrill and Dr. H. von Schrenk as dele- 

 gates. The delegates were very hospitably re- 

 ceived in Geneva, and a banquet was given in 

 their honor. After the meeting some of the dele- 

 gates, under the direction of Professor Chodat, 

 of Geneva, made an excursion among the 

 Swiss Alps. 



According to a cablegram to the daily papers 

 the most important question of the meeting of 

 the Zoological Congress came up on August 

 14, in the Committee on Nomenclature. Two 

 propositions were presented. The French dele- 

 gation proposed to make the existing nomen- 

 clature conform with the classic Latin, gram- 

 matically and etymologically. The American 

 delegates proposed to make no changes, except 

 in the case of obvious typographical errors. The 

 Germans made a compromise proposition, which 

 did not find favor. After a warm discussion 

 the French proposition was accepted, the Swiss 

 delegates giving the deciding Vote for the pro- 

 posal. The Dutch delegates and part of the 

 German delegation voted with the Americans. 

 The British delegates voted with France. 



The French Surgical Congress will hold its 

 fourteenth annual meeting in Paris on October 

 21 and following days. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that an Egyptian Medical Congress is to be 

 held under the patronage of the Khedive at 



Cairo from December 10 to 14, 1902, under 

 the presidency of Dr. Abbate Pacha. The 

 honorary presidents are Dr. Ibrahim Pacha 

 Hassan, Dr. Pinching, and Dr. Ruflfer. The 

 general secretary is Dr. VoronofF. The work 

 of the Congress will be divided among three 

 sections, as follows : (1) Medical Sciences, pre- 

 sided over by Dr. Comanos Pacha ; (2) Surgi- 

 cal Sciences, presided over by Dr. H. Milton ; 

 and (3) Ophthalmology, presided over by 

 Dr. Mohammed Bey Eloui. The program of 

 the Congress will include discussions on affec- 

 tions especially rife in Egypt, such as bilharzia," 

 ankylostomiasis, bilious fever, abscess of the 

 liver, etc. Special attention will be given to 

 questions relative to the epidemics which for 

 some years past have regularly visited Egypt, 

 and the prophylactic measures to be taken 

 against them.' The following papers among 

 others have been promised : ' Alcoholism and 

 its Increase in Egypt,' by Dr. de Becker ; ' The 

 Frequency of Hydrocele in Egypt and its 

 Treatment,' by Dr. Colloridi ; ' Myxcedema in 

 Egypt,' by Dr. Brossard ; 'Plague,' by Dr. 

 Gotschlich ; and 'Tuberculosis in Egypt,' by 

 Drs. Ibrahim Pacha Hassan, Eid. and Sand- 

 with. 



The twelfth annual general meeting of the 

 Institution of Mining Engineers will be held at 

 Glasgow on September 3-6, under the presidency 

 of Sir W. T. Lewis, Bart. 



Following the Congress on Petroleum, held 

 in Paris in 1900, a second congress will be held 

 in Paris in 1902. A permanent committee has 

 been formed in Paris under the presidency of 

 M, Ed. Lippmann, the secretary of the congress, 

 and M. Dvorkovitz has recently established in 

 Londoii an institute for the scientific study of 

 petroleum. 



A MEETING of the Board of Visitors of the 

 National Bureau of Standards was called in 

 Washington, for August 23d, for the purpose of 

 passing on proposed sites for the laboratory of 

 the bureau. It will be remembered that thS 

 five members of the Board of Visitors were ap- 

 pointed by Secretary Gage, and are as follows : 

 Dr. H. S. Pritchett, president of the Massachu- 

 setts School of Technology ; Dr. Ira Remsen, 

 president of the Johns Hopkins University; Dr- 



