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Museum of Natural History in Chicago, since the site for a new 

 building in Jackson Park has been accepted by the trustees. 

 Further, the plans for the new building in all their details have 

 been completed and approved, and the articles of specification for 

 the contracts also drawn up. This represents the results of six 

 years' work, and when the transfer is accomplished, the collec- 

 tions will have a permanent and safe home. The Museum has 

 been active, not only in extending its collections and developing its 

 exhibits, as detailed and illustrated in thisReport,but also in various 

 expeditions to distant points. There are here included the Meek 

 expedition to Panama and the Osgood expedition to Venezuela. 

 Further, Dr. B. Laufer, after an absence of three years in the far 

 East, has returned bringing upwards of 10,000 ethnological speci- 

 mens from Tibet and China ; this collection is now being installed, 

 and a Museum publication on jade, by Dr. Laufer, is promised. 

 A botanical expedition has also been under way, since last 

 August, in the northern tropics and the far East. 



It is also announced that a contribution of $250,000 has been 

 made by Mr. Norman W. Harris for the extension of the work of 

 the Museum into the public schools of Chicago. The total sum 

 expended in the year for the maintenance of the Museum amounted 

 to $150,000, to which must be added about $50,000 more for 

 cases, expeditions and collections. 



3. The Science Reports of the TohoTiu Imperial University, 

 Seridai, Japan. Vol. I, No. I ; pp. 1-66 with 8 plates. — The Uni- 

 versity at Sendai, Japan, has recently established a series of 

 Science Reports, of which No. 1 is now at hand. Professor 

 Hayashi, the librarian of the University, is head of the publica- 

 tion committee and communications in regard to the publications 

 should be sent to him. To the present number he contributes 

 two mathematical articles, and in addition there is a paper 

 (pp. 1-42), by Professor K. Honda on the thermo-magnetic 

 properties of the elements. This investigation has been extended 

 to 43 of the 81 elements, and the results are given in full, with 

 the aid of six plates. The oxidation of aniline III is discussed by 

 R. Majima, and a brief paper on the secondary undulations of 

 the Canadian tides, by K. Honda and W. Bell Dawson, closes 

 the number. 



4. Fourth Report of the Wellcome Tropical Research Labora- 

 tories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum; Andrew 

 Balfour, Director. Vol. B, General Science. Pp. 334, with 

 numerous maps, illustrations, and colored plates. Department 

 of Education, Sudan Government, Khartoum, 1911. — The March 

 issue of this Journal (p. 294) contained a notice of the medical 

 volume of this report. The companion volume on general sci- 

 ence contains some sixteen fully illustrated articles on a variety 

 of topics, written by members of the staff and other specialists. 

 The principal papers discuss the chemical analyses of soils and 

 products ; gum production ; insects injurious to man, animals, and 

 crops ; birds ; scorpions ; snakes ; protozoa ; gold mining ; tribal 

 customs ; and municipal engineering. w. r. c. 



Am. Jour. Sci.— Fourth Series, Vol. XXXIII, No. 198.— June, 1912. 

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