whereas in the neighboring state of New Jersey it was $108,000 and for the United States some twenty-five million dollars. It is estimated that nearly 200,000 people visited the Adirondack region last year for recreation and health.
A report is made on chestnut groves and orchards, which is not, however, very favorable to this industry. It appears that orchards in Pennsylvania have not been very successful, though groves of chestnut trees on waste mountain land may yield profitable results. A few elk and moose have been placed in the reserves, and it is believed that these animals will thrive. Pheasants have been distributed as usual and a large number of fish fry with some adults. An account is given of the shell fish industry. A hygienic examination has been made showing that the beds in Long Island Sound are removed from any possible contamination by sewage or otherwise.
SCIENTIFIC ITEMS.
Professor Henry Barker Hill, director of the Chemical Laboratory of Harvard College, died on April 6, in his fifty-fourth year. We regret also to record the death of Rear-Admiral George E. Belknap, retired, who, in addition to eminent services in the navy, was in charge of important hydrographic work and was at one time superintendent of the Naval Observatory; of Dr. Julius Victor Carus, associate professor of comparative zoology at Leipzig; of Dr. Franz Studnicka, professor of mathematics at Prague; of Dr. Laborde, an eminent French physician; and of Professor J. G. Wiborgh, of the Stockholm School of Mines, an authority on the metallurgy of iron.
Dr. Robert Koch has been elected foreign associate of the Paris Academy j of Sciences, in succession to Rudolf Virchow. Dr. Koch received twenty-six votes, Dr. Alexander Agassiz eighteen votes, Dr. S. P. Langley six votes and Professor van der Waals, of Amsterdam, one vote.—The Institute of France has awarded to Dr. Emile Roux, the subdirector of the Pasteur Institute, the prize of $20,000, founded by M. Daniel Osiris, for the person that the institute considered the most worthy to be thus rewarded. Dr. Roux will give the money to the Pasteur Institute.—A committee has been formed in Paris with M. H. Moissan as chairman to strike a medal in honor of the late M. P. P. Dehérain, formerly professor of plant physiology in the University of Paris.—Mr. Joseph Larmor, fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge University, has been elected Lucasian professor of mathematics in succession to the late Sir George Gabriel Stokes.—The subject of the Silliman lectures to be given at Yale University by Professor J. J. Thomson, of Cambridge University, will be 'Present Development of Our Ideas of Electricity.' The lectures, eight in number, will begin May 14.
President Roosevelt has appointed the following as a commission to report to him on the organization, needs, and present condition of government work, with a view to including under the Department of Commerce. bureaus not assigned to that department by congress: Charles D. Walcott, Department of the Interior; Brigadier-General William Crozier, War Department; Rear-Admiral Francis T. Bowles, Navy Department; Gifford Pinchot, Department of Agriculture; James R. Garfield, Department of Commerce and Labor.—Recently the President asked the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries to have made a comprehensive and thorough investigation of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, and for this purpose Commissioner Bowers has appointed a special Alaska Salmon Commission consisting of the following: President David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, executive head; Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, ichthyologist of the U. S. Fish Commission;
