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physician in the State Hospitals and lastitu- 

 tions, with a salary of $600-8900 and mainte- 

 nance. 



We learn from the Annals of the Deaf that at 

 the public session of the French Academy held 

 ISTovember 24, 1890, Mi-. Ferdinand Brunetiere 

 announced that the Montyon prize of $400 had 

 been awarded for that year to Mrs. Marie Ger- 

 maine, in religion Sister Sainte-Marguerite of the 

 Daughters of Wisdom, for the successful edu- 

 cation of two deaf-blind girls, Marthe Obrecht, 

 who lost sight and hearing at the age of four, 

 and Marie Heurtin, who was deaf-blind from 

 birth. Both these girls had been taught to 

 read, write, speak, and work. 



The Council of the Eoyal College of Surgeons 

 of England has appointed aCommittee to adjudi- 

 cate on the Walker Prize. This prize, which is 

 open to investigators of all nationalities, is 

 given for the best work in advancing the 

 knowledge and therapeutics of cancer during 

 the past five years ending December 31, 1900, 

 and amounts to the sum of £100. 



Mk. George Eastman, of Rochester, N. Y., 

 has given §200,000 to the Mechanics Institute 

 of that city. The money will be used to en- 

 large the present building. 



The Baroness von Hirsch-Gerenth, who died 

 recently, has bequeathed 50,000 francs for the 

 establishment of a physiological and patholog- 

 ical laboratory on the Congo. Leopoldsville, 

 the terminus of the Congo railway, has been 

 chosen as the place where the laboratory is to 

 be established. 



It is proposed to introduce a bill into Con- 

 gress appropriating $250,000 for the establish- 

 ment at Paris, of an American Institute for the 

 study of the fine arts. The plan has been pre- 

 sented to President McKinley by Ambassador 

 Chambon and Senator Depew, and is said to 

 have the approval of the Secretary of State. If 

 the Govei'nment were to support institutes for 

 applied science in foreign countries they would 

 doubtless more than repay their cost. 



The late Governor J. G. Smith has left $10,- 

 000 for a library at St. Albans, Vt. 



The second malarial expedition, promoted 

 by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 



left Liverpool on March 21st in the steamship 

 Olenda for Old Calabar and South Nigeria. The 

 object of the expedition is to study the cause, 

 spread and the treatment of malaria and trop- 

 ical diseases geuerallj\ The expedition consists 

 of Dr. H. E. Annett Elliott (Toronto) and Dr. 

 J. E. Dutton. Investigations and experiments 

 will be made in accordance with the mosquito 

 theory of Major Ross. In encouragement of 

 the expedition the Colonial Secretary wrote 

 expressing his appreciation of its objects, and 

 said that he would do all in his power to secure 

 the assistance of government officials in the 

 West African settlements. 



A CAELEGEAM has been received from Well- 

 ington, New Zealand, stating that the Southern 

 Cross reached that city on April 1st. The Ex- 

 pedition, fitted out by Sir George Newnes and 

 headed by Mr. C. E. Borchgrevink, sailed 

 from London in August, 1898, and left Hobart, 

 Tasmania, December 19, 1898. During the 

 latter part of February the members landed 

 from the Southern Cross, near Cape Adare, Vic- 

 toria Land, on the Antarctic Continent. Mr. 

 Borchgrevinck reports that he has found the 

 position of the southern Magnetic Pole. Mr. 

 N. Hansen, one of the zoologists of the expedi- 

 tion, died on the voyage. 



The London Times gives some further details 

 in regard to the Scottish- Antarctic expedition 

 about to be organized to work in conjunction 

 with the British and German Antarctic expe- 

 ditions. It fills up a gap in the Antarctic 

 regions, which neither the British expedition 

 at present being organized by the Royal and 

 Royal Geographical Societies of London nor the 

 German national Antarctic expedition intends 

 to explore. The Weddell sea quadrant, south 

 of the Atlantic Ocean, will be the sphere of the 

 Scottish expedition, while the British expedi- 

 tion will explore to the south of the Pacific 

 Ocean and the Germans to the south of the In- 

 dian Ocean. This Weddell sea route, it may 

 be mentioned, has been taken before by Wed- 

 dell, Bellingshausen, and Ross in sailing ships, 

 but has not yet been tried seriously with a 

 steamer. The leader will be Mr. William S. 

 Bruce, who visited the Antarctic regions in 

 1892 and 1893, and who has since made five 



