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of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, con- 

 tracted while investigating the disease 

 in Montana; of Dr. Humphrey Owen 

 Jones, F.R.S., the English chemist, who 

 with his wife was killed while ascend- 

 ing the Aiguille Rouge de Penteret, in 

 the Alps; of Mr. Robert Holford Mac- 

 dowall Bosanquet, F.R.S., known for 

 his researches in acoustics and mag- 

 netism, and of M. Lucien Levy, the 

 distinguished French mathematician. 



Dr. Wilhelm Wundt, professor of 

 philosophy in the University of Leip- 

 zig, one of the founders of modern 

 psychology, celebrated his eightieth 

 birthday on August 16, on which occa- 

 sion a "Wilhelm Wundt Stiftung," 

 amounting to 7,000 Marks, was pre- 

 sented to the university by his students 

 and friends. — In connection with the 

 visit to Dundee of the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, 

 the senate of the University of St. 



Andrews has conferred the degree of 

 LL.D., on sixteen foreign men of sci- 

 ence who attended the meetings of the 

 association. As a recognition of the 

 president of the association, Professor 

 E. A. Schafer, of Edinburgh Univer- 

 sity, they are largely physiologists. 

 The United States is represented by 

 Dr. S. J. Meltzer, of the Rockefeller 

 Institute of Medical Research. 



The movement for the enlargement 

 of the health activities of the United 

 States government has resulted in the 

 , passage of a law which enlarges the 

 functions of the Public Health and 

 Marine-Hospital Service and changes 

 the name to the "United States Public 

 Health Service." Under this law the 

 new Public Health Service is given 

 very wide authority to investigate the 

 ' ' diseases of man and conditions in- 

 fluencing the propagation and spread 

 thereof, including sanitation." 



