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At a meeting of the Philadelphia Alumni Society of the Medical 

 Department of the University of Pennsylvania, on November i8th, 

 Professor Taylor gave an account of how physiological chemistry 

 is taught and Professor Richards detailed the methods employed in 

 teaching pharmacology. 



Dr. E. A. Schäfer, professor of physiology at Edinburgh, has 

 been elected president of the British Association, for the meeting 

 to be held next year at Dundee. Professor Schäfer has been elected 

 a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Halle. The 

 University of St. Andrews has conferred its doctorate of laws upon 

 Dr. Schäfer and upon Sir J. J. Thompson, professor of physics at 

 Cambridge. 



The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, 

 Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, by the University of Vermont on 

 the occasion of the Installation of President G. P. Benton. 



Appointments. Prof. H. V. Arney, dean of the Cleveland 

 School of Pharmacy of Western Reserve University, has succeeded 

 Prof. Virgil Coblentz at the N. Y. College of Pharmacy. 



Dr. William H. Brown has been appointed plant physiologist at 

 the Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I. Dr. R. P. Hibbard, of the 

 Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, is his successor at the 

 Michigan Agricultural College. 



Dr. W. A. Cannon, of the Desert Laboratory, is acting director 

 of the Department of Botanical Research of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion during the absence of Dr. D. T. MacDougal, who is traveling 

 and studying desert conditions in Upper Egypt and portions of 

 the Soudan. 



E. P. Cathcart, M.D., D.Sc, Grieve lecturer in chemical physi- 

 ology at the University of Glasgow, has been appointed research 

 associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and is spend- 

 ing the present academic year in research on metabolism in the Car- 

 negie Nutrition Laboratory in Boston. 



Dr. M. T. Cook has resigned as plant pathologist in the Dela- 

 ware Agricultural Experiment Station to become professor of plant 

 pathology in Rutgers College and plant pathologist in the New 

 Jersey College Station. 



