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of cerium Oxalate by Drs. George Baehr and Harry Wessler under 

 Dr. Gies' direction made it evident that cerium Oxalate can have 

 little or no special use as a therapeutic agent. 



Dr. C. Stuart Gager delivered a lecture, at the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden on September 9, on the subject of " Plauts and People 

 of Pinar del Rio, Cuba." 



Drs. Ross A. Gortner and B. S. Oppenheimer were recently 

 elected to membership in the Society for Experimental Biology and 

 Medicine. 



Dr. F. M. Hanes spent the summer in Munich studying patho- 

 logical chemistry. 



Dr. Michael Heidelberger writes from Zürich that he is deriving 

 a great deal of benefit from research under Professor Wilstätter's 

 direction. " Professor Wilstätter's remarkable personality, his clear- 

 headed suggestions and his brilliant methods and conceptions are 

 truly inspiring." Before going to Zürich, Dr. Heidelberger in- 

 spected the chemical laboratories in many of the university towns 

 in Belgium, Holland, France and Germany, and enjoyed delightful 

 Interviews with Professor Franchimont in his magnificent labora- 

 tories for organic chemistry at Leyden and with Professor Anschütz 

 at Bonn. 



Dr. Alfred M. Hellman recently addressed a meeting of the 

 Anesthetists of New York City and vicinity on "The Anesthetic 

 Situation in New York." 



Dr. H. D. House, of the Biltmore Forest School, has done con- 

 siderable collecting the past season in Michigan and Oregon. Fleshy 

 fungi have been scarce, but a number of interesting woody forms 

 have been found and studied in relation to their hosts. Dr. House 

 remarks in a recent letter from Oregon that " except for Ganoderma 

 oregonense and Echinodontium tinctorimn, the woody fungi and 

 wood-destroying fungi do not appear to differ much from those in 

 the east, the same species being common." 



Prof. Wm. H. McCastline has been appointed a member of the 

 faculty of the new School of Practical Arts at Teachers College, 

 Columbia University. (See page 361.) 



