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Sir Williaji Oslee. 



were closed or running on half time as 

 at any other time for many years, and 

 owing to the present inactivity in the 

 industries which consume iron ores and 

 to the accumulation of considerable ore 

 stocks in the hands of the consumers, 

 the iron-mining companies are not ex- 

 pecting great activity in the early part 

 of 1915.- 



SIE WILLIAM OSLEE 



On the occasion of the celebration of 

 the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital last October a 

 crayon portrait of Sir William Osier 

 by Mr. Sargent, here reproduced, was 

 presented to the hospital through Pro- 

 fessor William S. Thayer, who spoke 

 as follows: 



