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Appointments. The vacancy in the Board of Consulting Scien- 

 tific Experts to the Secretary of Agriculture, caused by the death of 

 Prof. C. A. Herter, has been filled by the appointment of Prof. 

 Theobald Smith, of Harvard University. 



Dr. Thomas Addis will direct the work in clinical chemistry in 

 the Medical Department of Leland Stanford, Jr., University.' 



Dr. Robert E. Swain has been promoted to a professorship of 

 physiological chemistry at Leland Stanford, Jr., University. 



Dr. Adolph I. Ringer has been appointed instructor, and Dr. 

 William C. Rose, assistant instructor, in physiological chemistry at 

 the University of Pennsylvania. 



Dr. Henry L. Whittle has been appointed lecturer on physio- 

 logical chemistry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 

 Baltimore. 



Dr. Eli K. Marshall, Jr., has been appointed assistant in physio- 

 logical chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. 



Dr. E. C. Franklin, since 1903 professor of organic chemistry at 

 Stanford University, has been appointed professor of chemistry in 

 the hygienic laboratory of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital 

 Service. 



Dr. C. H. Neilson, professor of physiological chemistry in St. 

 Louis University School of Medicine, has been made professor of 

 medicine and director of the department. 



The title of Dr. Henry C. Sherman, professor of organic 

 analysis at Columbia University, has recently been changed to 

 Professor of food chemistry. 



Dr. William McKim Marriott has been appointed instructor 

 in biological chemistry in Washington University, St. Louis. 



Dr. Victor C. Myers has been appointed lecturer in pathological 

 chemistry, and Dr. Morris S. Eine instructor in pathological chem- 

 istry, at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. 



Lectures and Addresses. Prof. Svante Arrhenius spent 

 several weeks in America last spring, and during his visit he de- 

 livered important lectures at several Universities and before various 



