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members of the congress, to serve as a floating 

 hotel. 



We learn from The British Medical Journal 

 that the proceedings of the Pan-American 

 Medical Congress, held at Panama in January, 

 closed with a meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee at which the following resolutions, pro- 

 posed by Guatemala and seconded by Peru, 

 were carried: (1) That the next Pan-American 

 Medical Congress arrange (a) for an inter- 

 national American pharmacopoeia; (b) for an 

 international code of sanitation; (c) for an 

 international code on temperance; and (d) as 

 a sequel to the above, for the establishment of 

 sanatoriums for the treatment of alcoholism; 

 (e) for the formation of lectureships on medi- 

 cine in the required studies of jurisprudence. 

 (2) That there be formed at the next congress 

 a section on tropical diseases. (3) That there 

 be created Eed Cross Branches, both civil and 

 military. (4) Finally, it was resolved that 

 encouragement be given to those engaged in 

 the campaign against tuberculosis. 



Nature states that after an interval of two 

 years the fifth conference of West Indian 

 agriculturists was held at Port-of-Spain, 

 Trinidad, from January 4 to 13. It was at- 

 tended by official, scientific, commercial and 

 practical representatives from all parts. In 

 his presidential address. Sir Daniel Morris 

 gave an interesting survey of the great eco- 

 nomic change which is in progress. Taken in 

 the aggregate, sugar cultivation must still be 

 regarded as the backbone of the colonial in- 

 dustries, but in some of the islands it has 

 already become of comparatively little or no 

 importance. Trinidad is now a cacao-pro- 

 ducing island, its exports of this commodity 

 having risen to the value of a million sterling 

 per annum. Grenada's cacao exports are val- 

 ued at £250,000 and Jamaica's at £80,000. 

 Cotton growing, too, has been successfully re- 

 established in several islands, and remunera- 

 tive prices for the raw cotton are being ob- 

 tained from Lancashire merchants. The ex- 

 portations of fruit far exceed in value those 

 of the staple industry. The development of 

 the tobacco, rubber, sisal hemp, fish-curing, 

 and other industries also came under review, 

 and Sir Daniel dwelt upon the importance of 



agricultural shows and on the provision made 

 by his department for teaching elementary 

 science and the principles of agriculture in 

 the various colleges and elementary schools. 

 Xumerous papers were read and discussed. 

 Professor d' Albuquerque, Dr. Watts, Professor 

 Harrison and others supplying valuable in- 

 formation relating to sugar; Mr. Hart, Mr. 

 de Gannes and others, on cacao; Mr. Bovel, 

 Mr. Sands and others, on cotton; and so on. 

 For practical purposes visits were paid to sev- 

 eral cacao and sugar estates. Owing to its 

 more than usually representative character the 

 conference is declared to have been the most 

 successful of the series. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The New York Times states that Mr. Car- 

 negie since 1900 has given $2,000,000 for 

 libraries and $4,.500,000 for other building-s and 



endowments for colleges. The following is a 

 list of institutions to which the money has 

 been given: 



Pennsylvania State College $150,000 



Upper Iowa University 25,000 



Oklahoma University 30,000 



Iowa College 50,000 



Tuskegee Institute 20,000 



Beloit College 50,000 



Cornell College 50,000 



:\lt. Holyoke College 50.000 



Yankton College 15,000 



Talladega College 15,000 



N. C. State Normal and Industrial. . 18,868 



Lebanon Valley College 20,000 



Wilberforce University 15,000 



Bucknell University .30,000 



Berea College 30,000 



Agricultural and Meeh. College . . . 12,000 



Winthrop Normal and Ind. College. 30,000 



Washburn College 40.000 



Converse College 10.000 



Benedict College 6,000 



Park College 15,000 



Atlanta University 25.000 



Tufts College 100,000 



Lawrence University 50.000 



:Marietta College 40.000 



Oberlin College 125,000 



Fairmount College 40,000 



University of Maine 50,000 



Bethany College 20,000 



