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The proceedings of the American Forest 

 Congress, held at Washington, D. C, January 

 2-6, under the auspices of the American For- 

 estry Association, will be issued in book form 

 on March 15. The volume will contain about 

 400 pages, and will be bound in cloth. It will 

 contain the complete addresses by President 

 Eoosevelt, Secretary Wilson and fifty other 

 speakers who were on the program, including 

 not only those prominent in state and national 

 forest work, but the leaders in the railroad, 

 lumbering, mining, grazing and irrigation in- 

 dustries. It will be published for the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association by the H. M. Suter 

 Publishing Company, Washington, D. C. 



The seventh Australasian Medical Congress 

 will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, from 

 September 4 to 9, 1905, under the presidency 

 of Dr. E. C. Stirling. 



The Massachusetts Zoological Society ac- 

 knowledges gifts amounting to $12,900 towards 

 the establishment of a zoological garden. 



A TELEGRAM has been received at the office 

 of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 

 in Edinburgh announcing the safe arrival at 

 Buenos Ajrres of Mr. K. C. Mossman, who was 

 left in charge of the meteorological station at 

 Scotia Bay, South Orkneys, last February. 

 Mr. Mossman has spent two continuous years 

 in the Antarctic regions. 



The Adams prize for 1904 has not been 

 awarded by Cambridge University. The sub- 

 ject for the prize for 1906, which is open to 

 the competition of all persons who have at any 

 time been admitted to a degree in the univer- 

 sity, is ' The inequalities in the moon's mo- 

 tion due to the direct action of the planets.' 

 The essays must be sent to the vice-chancellor 

 on or before December 16, 1906. The value 

 of the prize is about £225. 



The British Ornithologists' Club has started 

 an inqi;iry into the migration of birds. In- 

 formation will be gathered from the keepers 

 of lighthouses and lightships on the southern 

 and eastern coasts of England, and informa- 

 tion from observers in each county of Eng- 

 land and Wales. 



The New York State Commissioner of Agri- 

 cluture Weiting has submitted to the senate a 



report on the operation of the pure food law. 

 With the appropriation of $10,000, voted in 

 1904, the department has examined 780 sam- 

 ples of food and discovered 134 violations of 

 the statute, sixty-four of which have been re- 

 ferred to the attorney general for prosecution. 



Through the courtesy of the Ilydrographic 

 Office of the Navy Department, and more par- 

 ticularly of Captain H. M. Hodges, hydrog- 

 rapher, and Mr. George W. Littlehales, the 

 National Geographic Magazine, of Washing- 

 ton, D. C, publishes as a supplement to the 

 February number a chart of the world on 

 Mercator's projection, showing the submarine 

 cable lines and their connections and ocean 

 routes. Cable and telegraph lines are printed 

 in red and ocean routes in blue. The latest 

 cable lines are shown — as, for instance, the 

 Alaskan cables of the U. S. Signal Corps and 

 the wireless connection across Norton Sound. 

 The tables of distances printed on the bottom 

 of the chart will be found convenient. One 

 table tells at a glance the comparative dis- 

 tances of New York and Shanghai, or Yoko- 

 hama by the Panama, Suez and Cape of Good 

 Hope routes. Another table gives the dis- 

 tances of our Gulf ports from the Atlantic 

 end of the Panama Canal (Colon), and also 

 from each other. The chart can be detached 

 from the magazine and hung on the wall for 

 more convenient use. 



The British Medical Journal states that 

 Professors Czerny, Erb, Hegar, Baumler and 

 other distinguished representatives of medical 

 science have lately with sanction of the gov- 

 ernment of the Grand Duchy of Baden, formed 

 a committee at Karlsruhe with the object of 

 discovering means of effectively combating the 

 increase of cancer. On the proposal of Pro- 

 fessor Czerny, who is the chairman of the 

 committee, it has been decided to issue a circu- 

 lar to medical practitioners for the purpose 

 of collecting complete statistics as to cancer 

 cases occurring within the duchy. The cases 

 will then be fully investigated. Special at- 

 tention will be given to the question of the 

 possible connection of cancer with local causes, 

 its regional distribution, and the relative fre- 

 quency of its occvirrence among persons of 

 various occupations. On the basis of informa- 



