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the infectious diseases caused by in- 

 visible germs — the prospects of success 

 are brightening. But in contradistinc- 

 tion to the protozoan disorders the 

 ordinary or common bacterial diseases 

 (diseases due to the streptococcus and 

 staphylococcus, B. coli, typhoid and 

 dysentery, and above all tuberculosis) 

 will not be vanquished without a hard 

 struggle. Nevertheless, I look forward 

 with full confidence to this development 

 also, and, without being set down as an 

 optimist, will put forward the view 

 that in the next five years we shall have 

 advances of the highest importance to 

 record in this field of research. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 



We record with regret the death of 

 Dr. Tempest Anderson, of York, Eng- 

 land, known for his publications on 

 earthquakes and volcanoes, and of Dr. 

 Hermann Credner, professor of geol- 

 ogy at Leipzig, and director of the 

 Geological Survey of Saxony. 



Professor William Bateson, di- 

 rector of the John Innes Horticultural 

 Institute, has been elected president of 

 the British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science for the meeting 



to be held next year in Australia. — At 

 the meeting of the section of tropical 

 medicine and hygiene of the recent In- 

 ternational Medical Congress, Sir Pat- 

 rick Manson was presented with a gold 

 plaque. It bears his portrait and on 

 the other side an allegorical group rep- 

 resenting science triumphing over dis- 

 ease in a tropical landscape. — In honor 

 of Professor John Milne and to con- 

 tinue his work in seismology, it is pro- 

 posed to collect a fund for endowment. 

 His seismological observatory will prob- 

 ably be moved from the Isle of Wight 

 to Oxford. 



• The Permanent International Eugen- 

 ics Committee, which met in Paris on 

 August 4, decided to hold the next 

 International Congress in New York 

 during September, 1915. Major Leon- 

 ard Darwin presided, Mrs. Gotto acted 

 as secretary, and the following coun- 

 tries were represented: England (Dr. 

 Edgar Schuster), America (Dr. F. A. 

 Woods), France (M. Lucien March), 

 Germany (Professor A. Ploetz), Italy 

 (Professor C. Gini), Denmark (Dr. S. 

 Hansen), Norway (Dr. J. A. Mjoen). 



