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teachers in Vienna. His pupils hold important positions all ovcr 

 Austria and Germany, and he is himself one of the chief personali- 

 ties of the Austrian board of health, which has become an important 

 international Organization through his perseverance. Forensic chem- 

 istry has been brought to such a high point by his endeavors that 

 this alone would suffice to make his name widely known in the 

 scientific world. 



Honorary degrees. At the University of Pennsylvania's cele- 

 bration of Washington's birthday, the doctorate of public hygiene 

 was conferred on Dr. A. C. Abbott. 



Among the recipients of honorary degrees, on the occasion of 

 the exercises commemorating the one hundred and twenty-fifth 

 anniversary of the establishment of the University of Pittsburgh, 

 were Drs. N. L. Britton, James Ewing, L. O. Howard and Edgar 

 F. Smith. 



Portrait presented. A portrait of Dr. James Tyson, emeritus 

 Professor of medicine, painted by Mr. Hugh H. Breckenridge, has 

 been presented to the University of Pennsylvania. 



Resignations. Dr. Henry A. Christian has resigned as dean 

 of Harvard Medical School, to take effect September i, 191 2, and 

 as physician-in-chief of the Carney Hospital, to take effect June i, 

 191 2. (See page 500.) 



Dr. Raym.ond A. Pearson has resigned the office of Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture of the State of New York. ( See page 492. ) 



Dr. Ira Remsen has tendered his resignation as president of 

 Johns Hopkins University. He will remain professor of chemistry. 



Dr. William Trelease has resigned the directorship of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden. (See page 492.) 



Dr. H. W. Wiley has resigned the position of Chief of the 

 Bureau of Chemistry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. (See 

 pages 391 and 505.) 



Appointments. Recent appointments to the research staff of 

 the Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute, Chicago, are Dr. Samuel 

 Amberg, of the department of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School, and Dr. Lydia M. DeWitt, formerly of the department of 

 anatomy at the University of Michigan, and more recently of the 

 health department of the city of St. Louis. 



