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the Study of Animal Physiology and Pa- 

 thology,' by Dr. D. S. Lamb, and ' Photography 

 as an Aid in Medicine and Surgery,' by Dr. W. 

 C. Borden, U. S. A. These will be illustrated 

 by lantern slides. At the succeeding meetings) 

 to be announced later, the following topics will 

 be presented : ' Photography in the Study of 

 Animals ; in Geographic Research and Survey ; 

 Geology, Paleontology, Astronomy, Physics, 

 Physical and Criminal Anthropology, Eth- 

 nology, Archaeology, Literature and History.' 



The School of Pedagogy, New York Uni" 

 versity, has announced a special course of lec- 

 tures on Education, to be given on Monday 

 evenings in March, as follows : March 5th, 

 ' Physical and Mental Growth of Children be- 

 tween the Ages of Six and Twelve Years,' Pro- 

 fessor Edward B. Shaw ; March 12th, ' Educa- 

 tion as a Scientific Pursuit,' Professor Edward 

 Franklin Buchner ; March 19th, ' A Funda- 

 mental Principle of Mental Development,' Pro- 

 fessor Charles H. Judd ; March 26th, ' Ethics 

 as determining the End of Education,' Profes- 

 sor Samuel Weir. 



The Society of German Men of Science and 

 Physicians will meet at Aachen from the 17th 

 to 21st of September of the present year. 



The New York Academy of Sciences will 

 hold its annual meeting on Monday evening, 

 February 26th. The program includes reports 

 of officers for past year : Election of officers, 

 honorary members, corresponding members and 

 fellows ; followed by the Presidential Address, 

 by President Henry F. Osborn, entitled ' The 

 Geographical and Faunal Relations of North 

 America, Asia, and Europe during the Tertiary 

 Period.' 



The third annual meeting of the National 

 Pure Food and Drug Congress will be held in 

 Washington on March 7th and following days. 

 The meeting is regarded as of special impor- 

 tance as it may increase interest in the Na- 

 tional Pure Food and Drug Bill now before 

 Congress. 



An International Congress of Ethnographical 

 Science will be held at Paris from the 26th of 

 August to the 1st of September of the present 

 year. There will be seven sections as follows : 

 general ethnology, sociology, psychology re- 



ligions, linguistics, sciences and arts and de- 

 scriptive ethnology. The president is M. 

 Maurice Block and the general secretary is M. 

 Georges Raynaud, rue Mouffetard 82, Paris. 



The fifth annual mid-winter meeting of the 

 Vermont Botanical Club was held at the Uni- 

 versity of Vermont, January 26th and 27th. 

 The officers of the club were reelected : Presi- 

 dent, Ezra Brainerd; vice-president, C. G. 

 Pringle ; secretary and treasurer, L. R. Jones. 



A BILL has been introduced into the Assem- 

 bly of the State of New York, providing for a 

 biological station with the objects noted in the 

 last issue of this Journal. The management of 

 the institution is under a board of control, con- 

 sisting of the New York state fish culturist ; 

 the president of the board of the commission 

 of fisheries, game and forest of the state of New 

 York ; the president of the New York state 

 fish, game and forest league ; the chief of the 

 bureau of nature study of the college of agri- 

 culture of Cornell University ; and the director 

 of the New York state college of forestry, thus 

 making the board of control to consist of five 

 members. The sum of $10,000 annually is ap- 

 propriated for the expenses of the station. 



An account was quoted from the London 

 Times in last week's issue of Science of the 

 work done by Italian students in investigating 

 malaria. Dr. Ronald Ross claims that he was 

 done an injustice, as he had anticipated the 

 Italian investigators in following out the life 

 history of the Hsemamcebidse (the group of para- 

 sites of which the human varieties cause ma- 

 larial fever) in mosquitoes. 



A VERY valuable machine for cutting minerals, 

 called a petrotome, invented by Professor Wil- 

 liam B. Dwight, of Vassar College, has recently 

 been made accessible for general scientific and 

 commercial uses. Dr. A. E. Foot, of Phila- 

 delphia, is to have a large collection of minerals 

 at the Paris Exposition and will exhibit a petro- 

 tome in action, to illustrate the best scientific 

 method of cutting rocks and precious stones. 

 Half a dozen large transparent sections have 

 been made by Professor Dwight to be sent to 

 Paris with the machine. One of these is a fossil 

 solidified trunk of a tree. It is seven and a- 

 half inches in diameter and is cut so thin 



