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65 years. He was for many years editor of the 

 Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner. 



We regret to learn that Mr. Joseph S. Cros- 

 well, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology and instructor in shop work 

 and drawing at the Missouri School of Mines, 

 as a result of emotional insanity, shot and 

 killed Miss M. Powell, after which he com- 

 mitted suicide. 



The death is announced of Major-General 

 Alfred Wilkes Drayson, who was for many 

 years professor of astronomy at Woolwich, 

 England. 



Dr. Max Reess, formerly professor of bot- 

 any in the University at Erlangen, died on 

 September 15, aged fifty-six years. 



The Board of Directors of the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Research held a meeting in 

 New York City on October 12. It was decided 

 to award nineteen fellowships, the holders of 

 which will work in established laboratories. 



The Medical Society of the State of Pennsyl- 

 vania met at Philadelphia on September 24, 25 

 and 26, under the presidency of Dr. Thomas D. 

 Davis, of Pittsburg. Dr. F. P. Ball, of Lock 

 Haven, was elected president for next year, and 

 the meeting will be at Allentown. 



The New York State Medical Association 

 will meet in New York City, beginning on Oc- 

 tober 22. 



We learn from the New York Medical Record 

 til at a conference of sanitary oflScers of the 

 state of New York will be held at Albany on 

 October 24 and 25. It will commence with an 

 evening session on the twenty -fourth, which 

 will be held in the Assembly Chamber of the 

 Capitol, and it is expected that the meeting 

 will be addressed by Governor Odell. The 

 next day there will be a morning and afternoon 

 session, and the conference will close with a 

 banquet in the evening at the hotel Ten Eyck. 

 The object of this gathering is to aflPord an 

 opportunity for meeting and making the per- 

 sonal acquaintance of the local and the central 

 health authorities, and in a personal confer- 

 ence to present, by addresses and discussions, 

 subjects and matters which are of practical and 

 immediate interest to boards of health and 

 their executive officers. 



The Christmas Island Phosphate Company 

 has given £1,000 to the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine for a scientific expedition to 

 investigate beri-beri, and has also given free 

 transportation to the members of the expedi- 

 tion who left Cardiff on October 4. Sir John 

 Murray and the Colonial Office have each con- 

 tributed £100 in aid of the expedition. 



Reuter's Agency reports that the Antarctic 

 steamship. Discovery, on its way to Cape Town 

 landed a party at South Trinidad, which re- 

 mained six hours on the island. Messrs. Scott, 

 Murray and Kdttlitz ascended over 1,000 feet, 

 obtaining some interesting natural history col- 

 lections. Some new specimens of seaweed 

 were obtained by towing a net while sailing, 

 and were named after the Discovery and Mr. 

 Scott. 



Word has been received by Professor Osborn 

 of the discovery of the entire side of the shell 

 of a fossil Glyptodon by an expedition from the 

 American Museum of Natural History In Texas. 

 This animal looks more like a turtle than a 

 mammal, the body being encased in a dome- 

 shaped shell of bone, ornamented with an 

 elaborate mosaic pattern. It has hitherto been 

 known in this country by only two teeth and a 

 few pieces of the shell, recorded by Professors 

 Cope and Leidy in Texas and Florida in 1888 

 and 1889. The great shell found by the Ameri- 

 can Museum is four feet long, accompanied by 

 the heavily armored tail, all' beautifully sculp- 

 tured and in perfect preservation. It is not a 

 true Glyptodon, but more like the species 

 Hoplophorus described by Lund from the bone 

 caverns of Brazil. This specimen has been 

 shipped to the Museum. It was found by one 

 of the expeditions sent out especially for fossil 

 horses. 



The Peabody Museum of Harvard University 

 has secured several large stone sculptures or 

 old Mexican idols, stone faces, stone beads, 

 etc., which were collected about forty years 

 ago by a resident of Mexico. 



The London correspondent of the New York 

 Evening Post cables that a second consignment 

 containing the later collections made by Sir 

 Harry Johnston in East Africa has been re- 

 ceived at the Natural History Museum. It in- 



