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elected to succeed Lord Lister in the Royal Society of Science, 

 Upsala. — Dr. E. Metchnikoff has been elected foreign associate of 

 the Academie des Sciences to succeed Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, 

 deceased. 



Portrait presented. Some of the associates and students of Dr. 

 Simon Flexner during the period from 1899 to 1904, when he was 

 Professor of pathology at the University of Pennsylvania, have 

 presented to the university a portrait showing Dr. Flexner in his 

 laboratory. The portrait was painted by Miss Adele Herter, of 

 New York City. 



Resignations and appointments. Retirements. Dr. Aristide 

 Frebault, professor of chemistry and toxicology, and Dr. Edouard 

 Maurel, professor of experimental pathology, have retired from the 

 Faculte de medecine of Toulouse. 



Prof. Armand Gautier has resigned the chair of medical chem- 

 istry in the University of Paris. 



Mr. J. W. Hill, instructor in chemistry at the University of 

 Montana, has resigned in order actively to develop distillation 

 processes in the use of waste in lumbering. The new industry will 

 be located at Bovill, Idaho. 



Dr. James W. Holland recently resigned as dean, and professor 

 of chemistry and toxicology, at the Jefferson Medical College. Dr. 

 Holland was unanimously reelected dean and appointed professor 

 emeritus of chemistry and toxicology. (See page 569.) 



Prof. Max Schottelius has resigned the chair of hygiene at Frei- 

 burg in Baden. 



Appointments. Dr. W. M. Bayliss, F.R.S., has recently been 

 appointed university professor of general physiology in University 

 College, London. 



Dr. Edward H. Bradford was elected dean of the Harvard Med- 

 ical School, vice Dr. Henry A. Christian, resigned (page 491). 



Dr. Charles A. Brautlecht, a graduate Student at Yale, has been 

 appointed instructor in chemistry and physics at Throop Polytechnic 

 Institute, Pasadena, Cal. 



